An EF1 twister hit Louisville’s West Finish throughout a spherical of storms Thursday afternoon, the Nationwide Climate Service decided.
“After reviews of injury we despatched a survey crew out to west Louisville alongside Woodland Ave. between Catapla St. and Cypress St. Preliminary data is an EF1 twister with winds of 95 mph round twenty eighth St. and Woodland,” the NWS stated in a press release posted to its account on X, previously Twitter, shortly earlier than 6 p.m.
Massive timber and energy strains had been down within the Woodland Avenue space, and a few homes had been broken.
Following the mid-afternoon storm, about 5,200 customers were without power in Jefferson County, LG&E reported.
By 8 p.m., that quantity had been decreased to about 1,500.
An EF1 twister is taken into account a “average” tornado on the size utilized by the NWS, with wind speeds between 86 and 110 mph.
At about 8:30 p.m. Thursday, the NWS stated survey crews in Harrison County, Indiana, decided an EF0 twister with winds reaching 80 mph trailed for a mile, beginning at Indiana Route 135 between Sky Aire Street and Indiana Route 335 and ending round Tee Street north of Corydon and southwest of Crandall.
Corydon and Crandall are 20-25 miles west of downtown Louisville.
This text initially appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Tornado hit West End of Louisville, National Weather Service reports
