2021 Tornado
A cluster of 3 tornadoes, including an EF-3 tornado with estimated 120 mph wind speeds tore through Bowling Green, Ky., in the early hours of Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021.
Western Kentucky University commencement celebrations and activities were canceled Saturday in the wake of a tornado that tore through Bowling…
Teams with Warren County and Bowling Green Parks and Recreation were out surveying the damage to county and city property Saturday morning aft…
Warren County Coroner Kevin Kirby confirmed Saturday afternoon that there were at least 11 storm-related fatalities in Warren County after a t…
Volunteers and supplies streamed in Saturday afternoon at South Warren Middle and High School, where the American Red Cross set up a staging a…
Warren County Public Schools will be closed Monday and Tuesday as it works to support families confronting the swath of destruction wrought by…
Hoping to expedite recovery from what he called "the worst tornado event in Kentucky history," Gov. Andy Beshear announced Saturday afternoon …
MONDAY UPDATE: The tornado-related death toll in Warren County has risen to 15, including two infants, according to the Warren County Coroner'…
Destruction, damage and even death continued to be assessed on the morning after Saturday’s devastating tornado strike in Bowling Green as fir…
Volunteers showed up by the hundreds at South Warren Middle School on Sunday morning to help sort clothes and non-perishable foods and load bo…
Warren County Public Schools will not hold classes for the rest of the week, meaning the district will not return to its regular operation unt…
A total of 15 fatalities – including multiple members of two families – have been reported as a result of Saturday’s tornado cluster that tore…
Bowling Green Hot Rods relief pitchers bailed the minor league baseball team out of a few tough spots during a 2021 championship season.
Officials at The Medical Center at Bowling Green said the surge of patients after Saturday morning’s tornado has stabilized at the hospital.
Warren County residents and business owners struggling to rebuild their lives in the wake of a deadly tornado should first call their insuranc…
Several agencies continued their efforts Tuesday to search for and potentially rescue unaccounted-for residents in response to the tornado tha…
Businesses along the storm-ravaged U.S. 31-W By-Pass aren’t the only local employers dealing with the aftermath of Saturday’s devastating tornado.
A Bowling Green family that lost five family members – including two infant daughters – to a tornado that decimated their neighborhood and hom…
Even as he attempts to support federal disaster relief funding to help his home state in the wake of last weekend’s tornado strikes, U.S. Sen.…
With a variety of donations pouring into Bowling Green since Saturday’s tornado, the focus has now shifted to providing funding to the hardest…
The National Weather Service confirmed two separate tornadoes touched down in Bowling Green at nearly the same time early Saturday.
On Wednesday morning, David Holland held a Daisy Buffalo Bill BB gun – a souvenir from his childhood – that had been hanging in the office of …
A man who suffered a heart attack while cleaning up debris in the aftermath of the weekend storm that ravaged the area is the 16th storm-relat…
Five days into the search-and-rescue mission taken up in the immediate aftermath of the devastating tornadoes that tore through Bowling Green,…
Two men seen by police while allegedly taking a washing machine from a property damaged in last weekend’s tornadoes were arrested Wednesday.
Clark County Fire Department Capt. Robert Brock saw the devastation left behind in Bowling Green after Saturday’s tornadoes and knew he wanted…
They have come from all corners of the world, often fleeing difficult circumstances to settle in Bowling Green.
In the aftermath of devastating tornadoes that hit the region Saturday, numerous aid and recovery efforts are underway.
Authorities found the body of 13-year-old Nyssa Brown on Thursday morning, the 17th victim of the tornadoes that stormed through Warren County…
Though Cole Scott ended up outgrowing him, Cory Scott maintained an outsized influence on his younger brother throughout his life.
FEMA’s boots are on the ground, and they could be staying for a while as Warren County families try to recover from the damage of last weekend…
In Bowling Green on Thursday, Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman seemed almost at a loss for words as she pushed back tears to deliver her condolence…
Three tornadoes tore through the city in the early hours of Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, impacting approximately 1,000 homes and taking 17 lives. …
The Warren County Board of Education has approved a spending plan for $381,000 it raised for tornado victims, which will go toward funeral exp…
An Alabama-based company with more than 50 years of experience in disaster recovery will handle Warren County debris removal and other service…
In the first stops on his tour of storm damage in western Kentucky, U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell surveyed Bowling Green’s har…
Gov. Andy Beshear offered a message of hope to local tornado victims Saturday as he addressed fans gathered in Diddle Arena for a fiery showdo…
Dozens of homes were destroyed or severely damaged in Barren, Logan and Hart counties while the Logan County Coroner’s Office confirmed an 87-…
Bowling Green and Warren County residents left with a mess of debris to clean up after a band of tornadoes swept through the area should follo…
A disaster recovery center operated by the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management and FEMA opened Monday at the former Sears location in Gr…
Back in June, when Salvation Army worker Conchata Britt completed disaster response training, she had no idea she’d be putting it to the test …
Several hundred people joined together Monday night to grieve the lives of the 17 individuals who died in the tornadoes that tore through Warr…
After months of record-breaking highs in sales volume and record lows in inventory, the Bowling Green-area housing market seems to be cooling.…
People whose businesses sustained damage or who lost income as a result of the tornadoes may qualify for relief through the Small Business Adm…
Maybe as eye-catching as the sad sight of pulverized homes Tuesday was the incongruity of the brightly colored Whitdogs food truck, parked in …
Angie Gwathney scrambled to find her loved ones as the tornado barreled down on her home near Creekwood subdivision.
Standing at the site of his parents’ home at 572 Moss Creek Avenue on Wednesday, Francisco Serrano surveyed the ruin that was once their Ameri…
As people struggle to rebuild their lives and businesses in the wake of deadly tornadoes that tore through the area earlier this month, relief…
The storm system that produced three confirmed tornadoes Dec. 11 in Warren County was one of the rarest the region has ever seen, the National…
Amid the tornado debris covering much of Warren County, more than 800 structures are also adorned with small red, yellow and green signs.
A push for donations from the Stuff the Bus Foundation after the Dec. 11 tornadoes devastated parts of Bowling Green has raised more than $200…
Greg Waltrip won’t soon forget the morning of Dec. 11, when he feared that the Dezign Tees business he co-owns might have been among the busin…
The volunteer headquarters for tornado relief will move from Western Kentucky University’s Center for Research and Development to the city’s d…
GO bg Transit is offering free rides to storm-affected Bowling Green residents.
Eighteen days removed from the tornado outbreak that brought mass destruction to Bowling Green and Warren County, Living Hope Baptist Church G…
Citing disruptions caused by the Dec. 11 tornado outbreak, Warren County Judge-Executive Mike Buchanon has issued an emergency order extending…
The new year brought a new round of severe weather to a storm-weary community, with Bowling Green again coming under threat of a tornado.
The new year brought a new round of severe weather to a storm-weary community, with Bowling Green again coming under threat of a tornado. Thre…
After seeing the devastation in Bowling Green after the Dec. 11 tornadoes, Greenwood High School sophomore Cayden Bailey decided to step up an…
Like most Bowling Green residents, Kirit Patel heard reports of tornado damage to homes and businesses along U.S. 31-W By-Pass during the earl…
Marty Eubanks is a two-time world champion martial artist. However, he is now in arguably the greatest fight of his life after the Dec. 11 tor…
Indira Ahmetovic may be a little fuzzy on the details of the early morning hours Dec. 11, but she will never forget what happened in the days …
T-shirts around town, photos on social media and citizens’ daily efforts since the Dec. 11 tornadoes ravaged Bowling Green have proudly procla…
Help from federal agencies for those affected by the recent tornadoes may be concentrated on owners of damaged or destroyed real estate, but t…
The Realtors Association of Southern Kentucky is providing another source of help for Bowling Green-area families who suffered losses in the D…
Food is still being provided, debris continues to be picked up and temporary shelter needs are being met. But for many Bowling Green-area fami…
The deadline for those impacted by recent tornadoes to register for FEMA assistance – Feb. 11 – is approaching.
As the weeks pass since Dec. 11, we learn more and more about the extent of the local damage and losses that resulted from the deadly and hist…
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is biding his time on taking a stance on President Joe Biden’s impending opportunity to appoint a U.S. Supre…
What City-County Planning Commission of Warren County Executive Director Ben Peterson called an informational meeting ended up being a call to…
Even in the best of times, dealing with government agencies can be a difficult process, and that endeavor has grown increasingly frustrating f…
As the WKU community wrapped up the fall 2021 semester, University Meteorologist Josh Durkee and the White Squirrel Weather team spent their f…
After moving her belongings into a Magnolia Street home Dec. 10 and spending that night at her previous residence, Natalie Pinerola returned t…
Winds had barely died down from the Dec. 11 tornadoes when Susan Oliver Lewis and her staff in the Warren County Property Valuation Administra…
Bowling Green resident Gentian Emini had spent more than nine months building a new home in the Creekwood subdivision and was preparing to mov…
Survivors of the deadly tornadoes that tore through Bowling Green last month are finding that obtaining relief to help recovery efforts can be…
Priceless photographs, historical documents and objects commemorating southcentral Kentucky’s African American heritage are among casualties o…
The response of Bowling Green Municipal Utilities workers and the utility crews that helped them after the Dec. 11 tornadoes in Bowling Green …
Important deadlines are approaching for city and county residents seeking debris removal following damage wrought by last month’s deadly tornadoes.
Bowling Green’s “urban forest” took a massive hit during the deadly Dec. 11 tornadoes that ripped through the city.
After visiting with residents put out of their homes by last month’s deadly tornadoes, first lady Jill Biden stopped Friday to comment about t…
Two deadlines for people who need assistance after being affected by the Dec. 11 tornadoes are drawing near.
The right to breed a mare to 2017 Horse of the Year and record-breaking freshman sire Gun Runner sold for $130,000 – all going to relief and r…
One month after a series of tornadoes struck Bowling Green and killed 17 people, Christ Episcopal Church held a Service of Lament and Remembra…
On the one-month anniversary of deadly tornadoes ripping through Bowling Green, debris cleanup continues as more volunteers are being sought t…
A major component of the recovery effort after three tornadoes ripped through Bowling Green on Dec. 11 is dealing with the tons of debris left…
Another jolt from Mother Nature didn’t carry the wallop of the first punch, but it certainly complicated the Bowling Green community’s efforts…
With little regard to the historical significance of anything created by nature or man, or more importantly human life, a tornado outbreak dro…
A long-standing restaurant building on U.S. 31-W By-Pass damaged by the Dec. 11 tornado may soon make way for a new commercial development.
Even as the BGStrong Disaster Recovery Center at the former Sears location in Greenwood Mall sat closed Thursday amid the winter storm, offici…
The Warren County Coroner’s Office worked its largest caseload to date last year, totaling 1,085 deaths, spurred in part by a doubling in over…
Bowling Green city commissioners took a first step Tuesday toward adding seasonal workers to deal with the aftermath of the Dec. 11 tornadoes.
