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Tue January 24, 2012
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The Commonwealth

Tornado Touches Down in West Kentucky

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Credit Hawkins Teague / Murray Ledger & Times
A roof on Murray Paris Road was damaged Sunday night by high winds during a severe thunderstorm. Debris from the roof were blown across the property, into trees and across the road onto another field.

The National Weather Service in Paducah has confirmed that an EF1 tornado touched down near Hazel in Calloway County Sunday night. NWS surveyors Rick Shanklin and Ken Ludington were on site Monday, and found that the tornado touched down at 11:03 p.m. Sunday at Hazel and traveled 5.6 miles to northeast of New Providence. Surveyors measured the average width of the tornado’s path to be 100 yards.