The work continues to for the National Weather Service in Paducah, who are working to accurately rate the tornadoes that touched down in the region on Sunday.
One of those tornadoes made its track through Christian County for 19 miles Sunday morning, and it has been determined to be an EF-2 with 115 mile per hour winds that caused numerous power outages and damage. Survey teams also found damage consistent with an EF-1 in Trigg County along the same path, with winds of approximately 95 miles per hour.
Another tornado touched down about five miles southeast of Canton, and was rated an EF-1 with top winds of 95 miles per hour.
Damage in southeast Muhlenberg County was consistent with an EF-1, with wind speeds of up to 110 miles per hour, with an extremely chaotic damage path that tracked southeast of Greenville and to the county line. Southwest Graves County had EF-1 damage at 100 mph in a tornado along a five-mile track. Straight line winds at 70-80 mph then continued east into Mayfield.
The tornado that began just north of Eddyville and travelled into Caldwell County and eventually in Hopkins County—just north of Dawson Springs and south of the Charleston community—remains rated at a high-end EF-3, with estimated peak winds of 160 miles per hour.
Forty-six buildings were either destroyed or sustained major damage along the path with another 52 structures sustaining damage. Five people were killed by the storms in Kentucky.