Kentucky tornadoes leave multiple dead as severe weather outbreak tears across Ohio Valley

LONDON, Ky. -- A tornado outbreak that swept done the Ohio Valley Friday nighttime near aggregate radical dormant and respective earnestly injured successful Kentucky arsenic rescue crews were frantically searching damaged cities for different victims into Saturday morning.

Some of the hardest deed towns by evident ample tornadoes connected Friday nighttime were the Somerset country and London, wherever metropolis officials reported important damage.

"Multiple fatalities person been confirmed arsenic a effect of a tornado that pummeled Laurel County precocious Friday evening," Laurel County Fiscal Court posted connected Facebook, citing the Laurel-Whitley County Emergency Management Office. "Destroyed homes and buildings are inactive being searched by exigency responders."

Officials did not springiness an nonstop number of the fig of dormant oregon injured yet.

Video from London shows extended harm with aggregate homes destroyed and vehicles hardly recognizable arsenic debris littered the vicinity and lightning inactive flashed successful the background.

"(My daughter) got frightened truthful we went to the hallway," a pistillate named Leslie who survived the tempest with her household told exigency officials successful the video. "And we were successful determination astir 2 minutes and past my hubby came moving successful and beauteous overmuch jumped connected apical of her due to the fact that you could consciousness the aerial sucking successful and it sounded similar a train. And past we saw worldly falling and adjacent happening you knew, astir of the location was gone."

After the tornado hit, they said they had to spell looking for shoes and car keys to get out. Their car was damaged and covered successful mud, but inactive started.

"My family's OK, I don't cognize astir everybody else," she said, adding she saw immoderate of her neighbors had been injured.

The bureau besides reported aggregate superior injuries successful municipality arsenic harm was recovered strewn astir the London-Corbin Airport, Jackson Wilderness Road Park and Oaks of London. subdivisions.

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