Officials said the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning to parts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia Friday after a severe storm hit remote areas in central Kentucky on Friday, killing one person and injured at least 14 people.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear wrote on social media that when a "totornado" hit Washington County, one person was killed and at least 14 people were injured.
Beshear said three adults and one child were still hospitalized, while another 10 were treated and released.
During an early press conference, Washington County Sheriff’s officials also said the area appeared to have been hit by a tornado.
Timothy Graves, who was executed by the Washington County judge, said two or three houses were destroyed and collapsed trees temporarily blocked the road.
"We are lucky that this is located in a remote area of the county," Graves said.
Beshear canceled plans to visit Pulasky and Laurel counties on Friday, which was hit by a tornado earlier this month. That storm Death in the state.
"This bad weather is unexpected and a system is still in the entire state," Beshear wrote. "We also hope to see today the East and Southeast are at risk of more severe weather.
The National Weather Service Office in Louisville, Kentucky said crew investigations conducted Friday in Washington County are following a path of injury that could enter neighbouring Mercer County. By noon, staffers had found "at least" EF1 on enhanced Fujita tornado damage in southwestern Washington County, the office said in a social media post.
Three of them were taken to the University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington. County Emergency Management Director Kevin Devine said the county did not expect bad weather on Friday morning.
In social media posts, the sheriff’s office requires people to stay home and allow emergency workers to work.
In Tennessee, multiple people were injured when bad weather hit the Philadelphia area of Loudon County, the county sheriff's office said in a social media post. The Weather Bureau Office in Morristown later initially confirmed in a social media post that the EF0 tornado hit near the borders of Loudon and Monroe Counties.
Also Friday, National Weather Service Surveyors said Thursday afternoon tornados near Atlanta had an estimated peak wind speed of 135 mph, with actor Tray Chaney's son nearly 300 feet from the second floor window of his home and seriously injured him.
The storm is rated EF2 and has damaged about twelve homes in a partition in Locust Grove, about 30 miles southeast of the city. Residents told the news media that they did not warn the distorted warning in advance, and meteorologists said it was a thunderstorm, which showed a weaker rotation. The tornado stayed on the ground for 5 minutes, 1.8 miles away.
Along a street, the tornado ripped off the siding and shingles and blew the windows. The Chaney home suffered the worst losses, except for an indoor closet on the first floor that is still hanging on the first floor, the house was destroyed.
Son Malachi Chaney was found in the nearby woods and was taken to the Atlanta Hospital. Tray Chaney is known for his role as "wire". Tray Chaney said he suffered bruises on the head. Shortly thereafter, Chaney said in a recorded video that he hoped he could trade with his son, who had just completed his freshmanship at Savannah State University.
"I wish he was the guy who was making videos, and I'm still in the ICU," Tray Chaney said.
This is the third tornado in northern Georgia this week, and on Sunday, the Weather Services confirmed three weaker twists in northwest Atlanta and three more tornados in western city Tuesday.
In addition to tornado warnings, the National Weather Service issued tornado observations to parts of North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia until Friday night.