The confirmed tornadoes are in Anderson, Bourbon, Boyd, Jessamine, Jefferson and Nelson counties. The wind speeds of the tornadoes in Anderson, Bourbon and Nelson counties reached 95 miles per hour while the tornado in Jessamine County reached 110 miles per hour. The tornado in Jefferson County had wind speeds of 100 miles per hour.
Several roads in the area were also closed from fallen trees and downed power lines.
PowerOutage.us, another online tracker, reported approximately 5,300 people are without power in Fayette County as of 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, and 15,343 across Kentucky. More than 30,000 statewide were without power in the immediate aftermath of the storm.
Counties with outages reported throughout Tuesday included Fayette, Franklin, Anderson, Woodford, Jessamine, Mercer, Washington, Union, Montgomery, Carter, Elliott, Greenup, Boyd, Ballard, Powell, Menifee, Bath and Carlisle.
Here’s photos and video of damage taken by Herald-Leader staff photographers around Lexington and Central Kentucky and social media posts on the severe weather.
Barn on my father-in-law’s farm near Fayette-Scott County line was struck by lightning this morning. No one was hurt, but scary, scary stuff. pic.twitter.com/7zv7NCUxbe
A University of Kentucky student is knocked down by gusting wind and rain behind Patterson Office Tower in the first round of storms that swept through Central Kentucky this morning. Video provided by Daniel Portillo. pic.twitter.com/YVMQjhIZmn
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