Tornado that ripped through southern Indiana, Kentucky upgraded to EF2

MADISON, Ind. (WDRB) — The tornado that swept through two southern Indiana counties and one Kentucky county was upgraded to an EF2 by the National Weather Service.

NWS officials believe the tornado started near Austin, Indiana, went through Madison and ended in Trimble County, Kentucky, while traveling more than 23 miles.

They also said the twister was 1,000 yards wide and had 130 mile per hour winds.

Downtown Madison is mostly clean now but the impact still lingers. There are cars sitting on the streets that were crushed by trees and some of those trees are sitting waiting to be cut up.

Alex Hitchcock and his family live in downtown Madison and also run Clear Creek Creations Bakery on Main Street.

"We heard some rumbling, my mom mentioned she heard a very faint train sound. They were like if you live on West Main Street, you have 120 seconds to get to your safe space, and we live on West Main Street so that was really freaky to hear that," Hitchcock said.

The tornado traveled across the Ohio River into Trimble County where you can find trees on top of homes still.

"Those long track tornadoes they're really scary and it's just to think about all that happening at once," Hitchcock said.

NWS officials told people even though the storm has passed it's still dangerous.

"Please be careful. There are lines everywhere, there's trees everywhere, and things aren't falling where they should have. In a tornado there's circulation and things end up in different weird places so please watch your step," NWS Meteorologist Mike Kochasic said.

There was a second tornado confirmed in Jackson County, Indiana. That one is classified as an EF1.

The NWS said Friday that a third tornado touched down in Carroll County, just east of Carrollton. But it's unknown right now how strong of a tornado it was.