5 years ago today

The picture is an estimated track of the major supercells during that outbreak.

5 years ago today the Super Tuesday Outbreak strikes Western KY and surrounding areas. The most damage occurred from a single storm that tracked from NW TN across Calloway, Trigg, Christian, and into Muhlenberg Counties. The Muhlenberg county tracked through the heart of Muhlenberg County and produced an EF-3 tornado that killed 3 and caused 21 million dollars of damage to Greenville, Powderly, and Central City KY. This was part of a bigger tornado outbreak that also produced the Castalian Springs and Lafayette TN 
tornado that killed 23 people that destroyed and heavily damaged hundred's of structures.

Overview of the Jan 29-30th Severe Weather Outbreak

  This past Tuesday Night into Wednesday Morning a very potent squall line moved through the area.  This squall contained embedded bow echos and supercells, which produced widespread wind damage and tornadoes in the area.

- 4 tornadoes occurred in the area
- The first tornadoes in January history touched down in Christian and Muhlenberg County
- At least 14 tornadoes touched down in Middle TN
- The southern outskirts of Hopkinsville and the Penrod community in far Southern Muhlenberg Community were hit hardest
- No fatalities in Western KY
- 1 wind fatality in Middle TN
- Temps were at 70 degrees across the area at night in January before the line moved through
- This was a low instability(300-500CAPE) and high shear event
- The largest January tornado outbreak in the region(KY/TN)

One of these rotating bow echos produced an EF-2 and EF-1 Tornado in Christian County and produced an EF-2 tornado in Penrod in far southern Muhlenberg County.  Damaging winds up to 110MPH also occurred in Christian, Todd, and Southern Muhlenberg County as well.

The highlighted storm in this picture was the storm that produced significant damage in the Coble TN area(Hickman County TN).