By Bruce Schreiner Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)
Powerful spring-like storms lashed portions of Kentucky with fierce winds Tuesday, uprooting trees and yanking down power lines that clogged roads and left thousands without electricity.
Two tractor-trailers overturned on a Louisville-area highway during the storm, and one of the drivers told authorities that high winds caused the accident.
The fast-moving storm triggered a series of tornado warnings ahead of an expected sharp drop in temperatures from the balmy 60s in the morning to the more seasonal 20s by Tues- day night.
The Louisville area appeared to be among the hardest hit, though storm warnings stretched into south-central Kentucky.
The National Weather Service was assessing “strong evidence” of a tornado touchdown in a section of eastern Jefferson County, said hydrologist Mike Callahan. Television aerial footage in that area showed a path of damage including downed trees that…
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