Kentucky and surrounding states are waking up this morning to devastation.
Here locally, we had a warning as a storm that had put down a possible tornado to the immediate West moved through close to the path of Monday's tornadoes. There was apparently no major damage. The storm was only 2-3 miles north of here, and it was eerie how quiet it was here... thunder and very little wind... while the storm swept by just to the North at 60 miles an hour.

That same supercell wrecked havoc in the Western and Southern parts of the state. From that cell, a single tornado is currently believed to have been on the ground for nearly 230 miles and 2 hours. Starting in the NE tip of Arkansas, the storm moved through the boot-heel of Missouri and the NW tip of Tennessee before crossing into Kentucky and leaving a 200 mile long path. Mayfield was hit particularly hard as the tornado moved through residential and industrial areas. In particular, as the storm moved through an industrial park, it crushed a candle factory during a work shift. There were approx. 110 persons in the building at the time when it collapsed. There have been at least 50 fatalities in the Mayfield area.

There have been other reports of severe damage in Dawson Springs and Muhlenberg County from the same storm.

Later, a pair of possible tornadoes moved through Bowling Green. At least one person, a Western Kentucky University student who was set to graduate today, was killed in the Bowling Green area. The first storm moved through between one and two AM CST, and was soon followed by a second storm. The National Weather Service has estimated that one of the two storms was an EF2 tornado.

Rescue operations continue in Mayfield, Bowling Green, and other areas. The governor has stated this is the most devastating outbreak in state history, although I will note he is not old enough to remember the 1974 super outbreak.

There were other tornadoes in Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois, causing at least two deaths when a roof collapsed at an Amazon facility in Edwardsville, IL, just east of St. Louis, MO.

https://www.wlky.com/article/western-kentucky-tornado-mayfield-bowling-green-we ather-beshear/38490463

https://www.whas11.com/article/news/kentucky/kentucky-tornado-candle-factory-we ather/417-8e3fd031-01ed-438c-b92b-2d6bf976ef13

https://abcnews.go.com/US/50-dead-tornadoes-devastate-kentucky/story?id=8167280 1

https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/arkansas-missouri-kentucky-nightt ime-tornadoes/1060335

https://www.bgdailynews.com/news/bowling-green-grapples-with-aftermath-of-viole nt-overnight-storm-tornado/collection_5a021d8d-5984-5be8-bae1-15beeedba969.html

https://www.wsmv.com/news/nws-confirms-ef-2-tornado-moved-through-bowling-green /article_41aa7fb0-5a87-11ec-b687-4bed857ef32d.html

Links to local storm reports:

https://www.wxforecasting.com/local/NOAA_LSR.php?i=pah

https://www.wxforecasting.com/local/NOAA_LSR.php?i=lmk

https://www.wxforecasting.com/local/NOAA_LSR.php?i=meg

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On 11 Dec 2021 at 11:36a, Dumas Walker pondered and said...

Kentucky and surrounding states are waking up this morning to
devastation. Here locally, we had a warning as a storm that had put down

Thinking of everyone in the states who has been impacted by this. I heard on the news about a candle factory and a number of deaths there :(

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Kentucky and surrounding states are waking up this morning to devastation. Here locally, we had a warning as a storm that had put down

Thinking of everyone in the states who has been impacted by this. I heard on t
news about a candle factory and a number of deaths there :(

That was in Mayfield, Kentucky, a couple hundred miles to my southwest.
They are still assessing damage, but that tornado could set a US record for
the longest track on the ground (~ 227 miles), and a state record for the single deadliest tornado. :(

It disintegrated that factory, during their second shift, and destroyed the downtown area. It destroyed at least two more towns between here and there.

After that tornado finally spun down, that same storm may have briefly
spawned another weaker tornado less than half an hour to my west, before passing just a couple of miles north of where I live.


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