The typical tornado season in Kentucky is early March to late May.

So yesterday, severe weather with multiple confirmed tornadoes throughout the Commonwealth was a bit out of the ordinary.

Today we spoke with a meteorologist with the National Weather Service to understand a bit more why this weather event even happened and the damage it's caused in its wake.

We saw storms all across the Commonwealth from west to east, but it seems like the strongest damage was across central and eastern Kentucky, where we had widespread, straight-line wind damage, as well as a few spin up tornadoes this time of year.

You know, middle of July.

We're used to plenty of heat and humidity.

So the heat and humidity we had yesterday wasn't that out of the ordinary.

Now it was really, really humid yesterday.

We had, dew point values above 80 degrees, in parts of our area.

Which is I mean, that's high even for July.

Usually when you get above 75, that's a really high dew point.

So we had a lot of fuel for thunderstorms.

That's what those high dew points the humidity does, is it provides a lot of fuel for thunderstorms and on top of that, what made yesterday particularly potent for severe weather is we had a strong cold front coming down from the northwest.

And that's why today temperatures are much cooler.

We're still in the 70s.

And our dew points are lower.

We're in the 60s today, but because we had that cold front coming down, we had pretty strong wind energy aloft.

This is wind energy that we would normally see in the cool season.

December, January, February and March.

And you combine that with July humidity and heat.

And it was just kind of a perfect combination for thunderstorms to not only develop but sustain strength and, you know, create severe impacts as well.

We have a confirmed tornado in Grayson and Hart County.

That tornado, the preliminary rating is EF2.

On that tornado, we also have a tornado in northern Hardin County.

This is near Fort Knox.

That's an f one tornado.

We also have a preliminary tornado in northern Casey County.

Which goes just barely into, western Lincoln County.

That was also an f one tornado.

And in addition to that, we have the Owen County tornado, which we don't know the rating on, that that will be determined by the Wilmington, Ohio office.

We do know that that was a tornado because we've had several video reports.

So we're just waiting to hear the rating from, from the Wilmington office on that.

Usually we start to see a decrease in tornado activity after around Memorial Day.

Sometimes we can get tornado events into June.

And while we do see scattered tornadoes occur in the summertime, the level of the number of tornadoes like we saw yesterday.

And also the severity was rather unusual for July.