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NWS confirms 18 tornadoes last week; two in Calloway County

NWS confirms 18 tornadoes last week; two in Calloway County
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By National Weather Service
Apr. 08, 2025 | WESTERN KENTUCKY
By National Weather Service Apr. 08, 2025 | 05:52 AM | WESTERN KENTUCKY
In between monitoring the flooding across the region this week, the National Weather Service in Paducah has also been doing storm survey reports from the April 2-3 tornado activity. So far they have identified 18 tornado paths in Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas.

Among the latest confirmed were two twisters that traveled through Calloway County on successive nights.

The first began Wednesday in Weakley County, Tennessee, and traveled 17 miles. The EF-1 had peak winds of 100 miles per hour. 

It moved into rural Graves County where it destroyed an outbuilding and uprooted trees near the intersection of Highways 97 and 1270.

The tornado continued into rural Calloway County, where it damaged trees, outbuildings and irrigation systems. The tornado then moved into the south side of the city of Murray, where it lifted the roof off of an auto repair shop at Fourth Street and Sycamore before it ended.

The other tornado was an EF-0 with 85 mph winds. It had a 9-mile path that began Thursday on the east side of Murray along Highway 94, where it damaged the roof of a commercial building and a  church.

The tornado continued east through the Pottertown community, where it damaged outbuildings and uprooted trees. The tornado ended near the shoreline of Kentucky Lake in eastern Calloway County.

There were no injuries in either tornado.

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