[63][64] Beshear also announced the creation of a tornado relief fund and asked people to donate blood, as donated blood was running low throughout the pandemic. Mayfieldwas hit hard. . Cars were thrown, copious amounts of structural debris were strewn in all directions, countless trees were shredded and debarked, and only rubble remained in the hardest-hit neighborhoods. Weakening back to EF1 intensity, the tornado downed trees along Carter Ferry Road and Mud College Road. It downed power lines as it crossed KY 79 at EF0 strength, where it damaged a large boat storage facility and scattered debris 300 yards (270m) to the northeast, across the runway of a small airport. Chris Phillips/Maverick Media Group, LLC via Reuters. UPDATE: Tornado Warning extended to 3:15 PM Posted by Butler County Sheriff's Office on Monday, February 27, 2023 As of 3:08 p.m., wind gusts were closed at 51 mph at Lunken Airport and 46 mph at CVG. Devastated forecast at Hillman Ferry in Land Between the Lakes NRA. 5 people were injured in west Tennessee. Tornado devastation of Mayfield's central business district. A fire department building had its roof torn off, and large metal boat storage buildings were also destroyed. Time lapse of home reconstruction in Mayfield. widespread and severe damage in Stewart County was between Indian Branch and Morgan Branch, to the south of Bumpus Mills. In Kentucky, it struck Mayfield directly before moving northeast through Benton, Princeton and Beaver Dam before weakening in Breckinridge County. [42] Dozens of homes were destroyed along the southern and southeastern fringes of town, especially at the Princeton Golf and Country Club subdivision, where several houses were leveled or swept away. 66 damaged and 37 destroyed, Marshall County, KY: AFTER (right): Overview of damage in downtown Mayfield, Ky. on Dec. 11, 2021. . Structures damaged: 1000 (estimate) It was the deadliest and longest-tracked tornado in an outbreak that produced numerous strong tornadoes in several states; 57 fatalities were confirmed in the tornado. Aerial view of damage to the Cambridge Shores and Sherwood Shores communities on Kentucky Lake. It then intensified again as it approached and crossed the Marshall County line before moving through the northwestern and northern outskirts of Benton, damaging or destroying many homes, garages, and outbuildings, downing numerous trees and power lines, and flipping RV campers. (NWS Storm Survey). The most severe damage in Caldwell County occurred as the tornado passed just south of Princeton. On the evening of Friday, December 10, 2021, a potent storm system moving across the central United States resulted in widespread severe weather across the region, including a significant long track tornadoes. The University of Kentucky Research Center was destroyed, with metal roof trusses carried hundreds of yards from the structure and wrapped around trees. Three other tornadoes were reported in Kentucky overnight, though those storms are believed to have been smaller than the one that hit Mayfield. Despite the potential for a higher-end severe threat to materialize, forecasters expressed uncertainty regarding the extent of instability, degree of directional wind shear, and late timing of potential storms. [5], As an intense upper-level trough progressed across the High Plains, with robust instability and moisture return realized across the Mississippi Valley, the SPC expanded the enhanced risk and introduced a moderate risk area from northeastern Arkansas into southern Illinois on the morning of December 10. Unreal #kywx", "Kentucky tornado updates: Death toll now 76; another Mayfield candle factory worker dies", "We're out here at the UK Research Center in Princeton and this is the most intense tornado damage I've ever seen in my life", "Damage Survey of the Mayfield, KY Tornado: 10 December 2021", "Tornado Emergency For Dawson Springs and St. Charles", "Dawson Springs mother clutched her 2 kids in bed when the storm lifted her mattress into the air", "Photo from tornado-damaged home lands almost 130 miles away", "1.) One person perished near the western shore of Lake Barkley near Eddyville. Injuries: 25 In all, there were 15 fatalities, 200 injuries, and over 1500 damaged structures in Hopkins County. Structures destroyed: 12, Graves County, KY: The tornado tracked northeast over mostly open country before causing significant damage to several homes off of Boddie Road and Darnell Road. First responders at the scene of a nursing home damaged by severe weather in Monette, Arkansas, where several people were trapped inside, Dec. 11, 2021. Amazon said emergency safety training in case of tornadoes is given to new employees and repeated throughout the year. Those numbers "could rise significantly," he said Saturday afternoon. The lawsuit alleges that the factory had up to three and a half hours to let workers leave as safety precautions and did not, and the company showed a "flagrant indifference to the rights of workers" and violated the Kentucky occupational safety and health workplace standards, by refusing evacuations. Structures damaged: Unknown Fulton County, KY: The storm spawned one single. The Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale classifies tornadoes into the following categories: Tornado devastation in Mayfield on December 11, 2021. The tornado reached Hickman County at 9:06 p.m., where the tornado damaged 40 buildings, with at least 12 buildings completely destroyed. Andy Beshear has said. Cheney Orr / Reuters Filmed in August 2022 by Chris Conley/270 Drone Aerial Imagery. [57] It was rated high-end EF4, with an estimated peak wind speed of 190mph (310km/h). MAYFIELD, Ky. Three days after tornadoes tore a 200-mile wound through Kentucky, scores of people remained unaccounted for on Monday. Several homes had significant roof damage. (Chris Conley/270 Drones Aerial Imagery), Tornado devastation in Bremen on December 13, 2021. Dual polarization radar imagery showed that the tornado had lofted debris up to 30,000 feet (9,100m) into the air as it impacted the city. Tornado Watch Map, Forecast for Tennessee, Kentucky - Newsweek On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Despite a COVID-19 surge in Kentucky, Beshear said hospitals were in good shape. The governor declared a state of emergency and submitted a request for a federal emergency declaration. Updated: Powerful tornadoes cut path across Kentucky; at least 70 The first observed damage was in Newbern near Washington Street. [26][56] The last area of EF3-strength damage occurred along KY 69 and Utley Drive northeast of Hartford, where a poorly-anchored block-foundation home was swept away and completely destroyed, and other houses nearby sustained total loss of their roofs and exterior walls. Large metal silos were crumpled and heavily damaged at a granary, and the large Mayfield water tower was toppled and destroyed. As of 7:30 p.m. Saturday, more than 437,000 customers were without power across Tennessee, Michigan, Kentucky, Indiana and Arkansas. WFO Paducah Navigator South of Earlington, the tornado derailed a train, moving several rail cars several feet up an embankment next to the railroad tracks. The Paducah officealso saidan aerial assessment of damage appearedto show an "historic long track tornado" that was at least three-quarters of a mile wide in Kentucky as it went from southwest of Cayce in Fulton County to at least Beaver Dam in Ohio County. Trees in this area were debarked and denuded, cars were thrown, and mobile homes were obliterated. "We are strong, resilient people, and we will be there every step of the way.". [31][32][29][30] Allegedly, workers' jobs had been threatened if they left the factory between the first and second tornado warnings for the area a tornado warning had been issued earlier that evening at approximately 5:30p.m. CST and then again after the second tornado warning was issued after 9:00p.m. Another long-track EF-3 tornado with estimated peak winds of 160 mphstarted in Dyer County, TN, and traveled 122.7 miles through northwest Tennessee and into Christian and Todd Counties in western Kentucky. The tornado paralleled the OhioGrayson county line, and very briefly crossed a bend in the Rough River into Grayson County. The tornado clipped the Fort Donelson National Battlefield area of extreme southeastern Calloway County, Kentucky where it blew down several trees, then crossed the Tennessee River into the Snowfall [18][19], The SPC issued a record-setting 43 mesoscale discussions (MCD) throughout the course of the day (12 UTC December 10 to 12 UTC December 11), all of which were associated with the broader storm system: 38 of the MCDs issued were convective discussions relating to the severe thunderstorm activity, and five were non-convective discussions relating to heavy snow associated with the system that concurrently fell throughout much of the Upper Midwest. The most A house along KY 339 had its roof torn off, and many trees and power poles were downed in this area. In addition to Edwardsville, two EF-3 tornadoes were confirmed in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and near Defiance, Missouri, according to the National Weather Service. One such stormwhich formed from the initial mid-afternoon activity near Arkadelphia, Arkansasmatured into a long-lived supercell as it progressed in an unstable, deeply moist, and highly sheared environment;[10] this cell ultimately persisted for longer than 550 miles (890km) over several hours from eastern Arkansas to northeastern Kentucky, producing two large and intense tornadoes along its track, among eleven tornadoes in total. Over 3,778 residences, 183 commercial properties, and 103 other buildings were either damaged or totally destroyed, including the county courthouse and the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory. Another person remains missing in Lake County, he said. With a confirmed death toll of 57, it was the deadliest single tornado in the United States since the Joplin, Missouri tornado on May 22, 2011, ten years earlier. [11] One of the first tornadoes associated with the storm, an EF0, touched down in western Poinsett County (near Weiner) around 6:40p.m. CST; about fifteen minutes later, storm spotters reported a large tornado near Greenfield, prompting a PDS tornado warning for portions of Poinsett, Craighead and Mississippi counties (including areas to the south of Jonesboro). [28], The National Weather Service issued a tornado emergency for Mayfield at 9:26p.m. CST (03:26 UTC) as the now-massive wedge tornado approached the town from the southwest. 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At 3:00p.m. CST (21:00UTC), the SPC issued a tornado watch across the highest risk area (encompassing central and eastern Arkansas, west Tennessee, northwestern Mississippi, southeastern Missouri, and southern portions of Illinois and Indiana), the first of eleven issued over subsequent hours over the middle Mississippi Valley. ), 12 dic (EFE).- Pasadas 24 horas desde que un poderoso tornado asol la pequea localidad estadounidense de Mayfield, en Kentucky, el rescate contina en lo que era una . Land Between the Lakes area of Stewart County and did massive tree damage to heavily wooded areas uprooting thousands of trees along its path. A neighborhood near the Princeton Golf and Country Club was hit at 10:18 p.m., and several structures experienced EF-4 tornado damage. Seventy-sixpeople have been confirmed dead, Kentucky Gov. Complete destruction of homes on Bethlehem Cemetery Road in Bremen. Storm and Precipitation Reports Click to enlarge. Five large chicken houses were destroyed, and hundreds of large hardwood trees were snapped and uprooted along a quarter-mile wide swath along this section of the path. Tornadoes were also confirmed on the ground in Mayfield, Kentucky, at about 9:30 p.m. local time and in Princeton, Kentucky, just after 10 p.m. Observed Precipitation, RADAR [43] Trees were stripped of their limbs and partially debarked in and around Princeton, barns and farm buildings were obliterated, livestock was killed, and cycloidal markings were left in fields outside of town. Local tornado survivor celebrates newly renovated home in Mayfield Injuries 11 (including 3 critically) More than 12,300 Louisville Gas & Electric customers were without power as of 8:30 p.m., according to LG&E's power map. Several outbuildings and mobile homes were also obliterated in the Cayce area. ", During a press briefing Saturday, Biden said this was likely "one of the largest tornado outbreaks in our history. [4] The following day, the SPC discussed higher certainty in a corridor of organized severe thunderstorm potential stretching from southeastern Arkansas northeast into southern Indiana, upgrading that region to an enhanced risk. Damage in this area was rated EF2 to low-end EF3.[26]. [8] Though this activity lacked much vigor at its onset due to a strong capping inversion,[9] the convective cells began to show organization as they progressed eastward. Thetornado initially produced EF-1 damage but while progressing northeast, it continued to strengthen to EF3 as it approached Dresden, TN. Injuries: 5 Video: Kentucky tornado devastation captured by drone | CNN [55] Some weakening occurred, but significant damage continued after the tornado exited Bremen and crossed US 431, where some homes and mobile homes were damaged or destroyed, and hundreds of large trees were snapped and denuded. (NOAA/NASA), Before and after satellite imagery of the Cambridge Shores community on Kentucky Lake in Marshall County. All four tornadoes touched down in Western Kentucky. We hope for a miracle', "Was the tornado that hit Mayfield an EF5? Structures destroyed or uninhabitable:356, Lyon County, KY: CST. Some outbuildings were also damaged or destroyed in this area. "[73] On December 17, it was reported that multiple workers at the candle factory filed a lawsuit against Mayfield Consumer Products in state court, seeking compensation and punitive damages. ", "We're going to get through this together and the federal government is not going to walk away," Biden said. [45] 14 people were killed in the Dawson Springs area, and many others were injured. More significant damage Continuing into northern Muhlenberg County, yet another tornado emergency was issued for the community of Bremen as the tornado approached from the southwest. Injuries: 54 [1] Clymer declares State of Emergency in McCracken County following brief One tornado potentially was on the ground for 227 miles, Beshear said, devastating towns like Mayfield and Princeton late Friday. "I say to all the victims, you're in our prayers.". The storm traveled over 220 miles from Arkansas into Kentucky. An American Legion post and a car wash were flattened, while a church and a medical clinic sustained major damage. Satellite CURRENT HAZARDS The worst of the damage occurred near the Dawson Springs park, where several homes were completely destroyed, including a few low rise apartment buildings. A violent, long-track tornado entered Fulton County in western Kentucky from Obion County in northwest Tennessee shortly before 9:00 p.m. CST. EF3 damage continued past this point as homes and metal truss towers were destroyed. A potent storm system moved across the central United States on December 10-11, 2021 resulting in widespread severe weather. A house had roof damage and windows were blown out. Activity Planner, CLIMATE AND PAST WEATHER 12:01am CST #SPC_Watch WW 2 TORNADO AR KY MO TN 010555Z - 011300Z, #arwx #kywx #mowx #tnwx, https://t.co . [28] As the tornado entered Mayfield, it regained EF4 intensity, and numerous homes were damaged or destroyed along Cardinal Road, some of which were leveled or swept from their foundations. Continuing northeast, the tornado entered Dawson Springs in far eastern Hopkins County at 10:32 p.m. Also, the fast forward speed of the tornado had little dwell time of strong winds over a building and thus, the damage likely would have been more severe if the tornado were slower.[59], The Western Kentucky tornado killed 57 people and resulted in between 508 and 533 injuries (according to figures from the National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky). The tornado then crossed KY 54, where the last area of EF2 damage occurred, as a frail home was destroyed and left with only a few walls standing, and large trees were snapped, one of which fell on and destroyed a car. Beshear has activated the National Guard, with 181 guardsmen deployed for search and rescue and recovery operations. . No deaths or injuries. In this instance, however, this is a "debris spike" due to a massive tornado lofting large objects high into the air. Please try another search. Injuries: 5 Live updates: Deadly tornadoes slam through six states One of the most devastated sites is the southwestern Kentucky city of Mayfield, where a tornado hit the Mayfield Consumer Products. MAYFIELD, Ky., Dec 11 (Reuters) - At least 100 people were feared dead in Kentucky after a swarm of tornadoes tore a 200-mile path through the U.S. Midwest and South, demolishing homes,. The tornado then crossed into Todd County where mostly tree damage and damage to farm/outbuildings were observed. From there the tornado progressed over U.S. Highway 68, where power lines were destroyed along with collapsed metal truss towers, before arriving at the Cambridge Shores community on the western shore of Kentucky Lake at 9:57 p.m. One person died here, and the tornado produced EF-4 damage, including several homes with all the walls collapsed, large sections of roofs torn off, and uprooted hardwood trees. 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