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Beshear announced during the briefing that the death toll has remained at 19, and that he hoped that number doesn't increase.
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WLKY on MSN19 killed in long, powerful tornado that hit southern Kentucky; search for survivors continuesAn apparent powerful tornado tore through Russell, Pulaski and Laurel County in Kentucky late Friday night, leaving a trail of destruction and killing several.
One of the biggest concerns that we have is that you’re in this debris in high winds and it becomes a projectile, and it injures or kills somebody.”
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The agency’s office in Jackson, Kentucky, had begun closing nightly as deep cuts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency began hitting. But the weather service kept staffers on overtime Friday night to stay on top of the deadly storms, which killed nearly 20 people in the Jackson office’s forecast area.
Despite nearly everything but them being taken away in the storms, the former pastor says his unique sense of optimism is what keeps him going.
The preliminary data showed high end EF3 damage, with low end EF4 indicators, mainly in the Sunshine Hills area of London, officials with the NWS said. Previous Coverage: Good Que
Forecasters warned Monday that more tornados and storms were possible in the central U.S. as people from Texas to Kentucky cleaned up from severe weather that has killed more than two dozen people in four days.