ALLENSVILLE, Ky. — As of Sunday evening, Dec. 10, the National Weather Service (NWS) survey team said there were two tornadoes in Kentucky this weekend, an EF-1 and an EF-2.
Crews with the National Weather Service believe the damage in Logan County, west of Bowling Green, supports an EF-2 tornado. A tornado in that category can have winds around 115 miles per hour.
Survey crews say they found EF-1 tornado damage in the Bowling Green area. The NWS said this will be a second tornado.
As the sun came up Sunday in Allensville, in Todd County and just north of the Tennessee state line, residents saw the community they once knew in pieces.
The storms came through around 3:30 p.m. Saturday while Dirk Reid and his wife were home. They took cover inside.
"A lot of rain and then flat-line winds took off part of the roof, [the] neighbors' roof, fence, a lot of trees; [it] just tore everything up," Reid said. "Matter of a few seconds and that was it."
Homes were missing roofs, trees were missing limbs and residents were missing electricity.
"We've got water in the house; [the] roof was leaking," Reid said. "No power; [the] power meter ripped off [the] side of the house. We'll have to have an electrician come out and do that."
No power means his wife can't get the support she needs. She needs it to operate her vacuum pump for her leg wounds that she has dealt with for years.
"I got a wife; I got to find out how to charge her vacuum pump," Reid said. "She's got wounds on her legs. I got to get that and find a place to charge it."
Crews spent Sunday cleaning up the mess the storm left behind.
"Oh, not good … it's trashed," said Reid.
The 66-year-old is from Louisiana, and he said he has been through many tornadoes before, but none of them came close to this one.
"We came through it OK," he said. "Dogs were scared, but they are alright."
Between the storm and his wife’s illness, Reid said he can’t afford to move anywhere else.
No fatalities were reported from the tornadoes in Kentucky.