KSP: Tornado Neared Schools, No Deaths Reported

Parents in Graves County may be breathing a sigh of relief, after a large tornado ripped through the county and came dangerously close to several schools there. Some may call it a miracle, but so far there have been no deaths associated with the large tornado that cut a wide path of damage Tuesday afternoon.

Kentucky State Police say they learned about the tornado near Mayfield at around 2:45 pm. KSP says preliminary investigations show that the storm developed in the western part of Graves County and began a path east across the county. The twister came near several schools just as busses were getting ready to take children home from school. Graves County Middle School, Graves County High School, the Graves County Board of Education and Central Elementary were all near the path of the storm, but none of those facilities received significant damage.

The tornado then traveled into the city of Mayfield, where it damaged several homes and businesses before continuing northeast through the county. The majority of the damage east of Mayfield was to trees and fields, but a few homes were demaged there as well.
  
KSP reports that ten people went to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, but no area fatalities have been reported from Tuesday's storm.