FORT GAY, WV (LOOTPRESS) – The National Weather Service in Charleston has announced that a tornado touched down in Lawrence County, Kentucky, and stretched into Wayne County, WV during Monday’s storms.
The NWS says that an EF1 tornado touched down just east of Yatesville Lake in Kentucky, uprooting or snapping several large trees on Aspen Drive and on Birch Road.
Three houses were damaged by fallen trees on Birch Road with one home suffering extensive damage to an attached garage as a large tree fell on it.
The tornado then tracked eastward skipping along an almost six and half-mile track, crossing US 23 and the Big Sandy River just north of Louisa before continuing into West Virginia.
A roughly 400-yard-wide swath of rather extensive tree damage occurred on the west side of the Big Sandy River near a logging yard and two semi-trailers were overturned at that location.
The tornado then briefly lifted on the West Virginia side of the river before another area of tree damage was noted and a house was slightly damaged at the intersection of Route 52 and Fort Gay Road.
Some additional tree damage was noted further to the east up Fort Gay Road and this is estimated to be the end of the track.
