It’s been just over a week since several severe storms and tornadoes raked through western Kentucky, and the National Weather Service has been hard at work surveying all the damage and documenting all the weather reports.
Meteorologist Justin Gibbs says they had thousands of damage reports to review over the region as a whole, many of them downed trees.
An EF-2 tornado did snake its way through Trigg and Christian Counties, before becoming a high-wind event that impacted Todd County.
Gibbs says May 26 was undoubtedly a major event, especially for those folks whose homes were damaged or destroyed—and they’ll continue to compile the data, so people can have more information about how to be better prepared for future events.
Gibbs says it was all hands on deck that day, and that’s how the National Weather Service in Paducah will continue to operate, to make sure the people of this region have a source that can rely on when the weather gets bad.