EF2 Tornado Confirmed In Kentucky

• {Hodgenville, Kentucky}...The National Weather Service has determined an EF2 tornado packing winds of 125 miles per hour touched down in Kentucky Wednesday morning. LaRue County Judge-Executive Tommy Turner says at least 20 houses were destroyed or severely damaged in the small city of Hodgenville 55 miles southwest of Louisville. State Police said several buildings in the nearby city of Elizabethtown were also destroyed. Officials in West Liberty reported several buildings damaged. Morgan County Judge Executive Tim Conley said county officials received reports of a funnel cloud a few miles west of West Liberty. Conley said the western part of the county suffered extensive damage from high winds. In Russell County, which encompasses most of Lake Cumberland, the emergency dispatch center confirmed that a tornado touched down in the Webb's Crossroads area in the northern part of the county at mid-afternoon. Dispatchers received reports of power lines down and several structures damaged. Tornado watches and warnings continued to march eastward across Kentucky from a storm system blamed for several deaths in Missouri and Illinois.