Louisville, KY

Weather Forecast Office

February 5-6, 2008 Allen County

Allen County

EF3 Tornado

Path length: 9 miles

Path width: 400 yards

Injuries: 4

Deaths: 4

Touchdown: 1:40am CST

Liftoff (in Monroe County): 1:53am CST

The tornado touched down a quarter mile north of the state line half a mile northwest of Hayesville. The tornado moved northeast and destroyed a mobile home one mile north of Hayesville. It also heavily damaged a nearby conventional home, destroyed an outbuilding, and overturned another nearby mobile home one-quarter mile to the north. Continuing to the northeast, the tornado widened to nearly a half mile across as it destroyed five mobile homes and three conventionally built homes, along with numerous large outbuildings along Tracy Lane and Tracy Road. Four residents were killed in three separate mobile homes in this area and four others were hurt. Several horses and farm animals were killed as well. The tornado continued northeast through heavily wooded country into Monroe County, where it dissipated near Fountain Run.

track map

Allen County Photos:

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The following photos were generously sent to us by Matt Pedigo of The Citizen-Times in Scottsville:

Landing in Blackhawk helicopters in the Allen County-Scottsville High School Parking lot, Governor Beshear (middle) talked with State Representative Rob Wilkey (left, D-22nd District).

The tornado-mauled landscape above is all that remains of the Stephens family's property. The blue car and the mangled van near the center of the photograph mark where the Stephens' two mobile homes used to sit.

This debris field is all that remains of the Dow homestead on Tracy Lane. Michael and Phyllis Joy Dow were killed in their home.

A mangled tree on Tracy Lane.

A doll lay in the rubble where Linda Stephens, 53, and her 2-year-old grandson, Hunter, were killed.

Jim Brown looks at the Shirley Ennis residence on Tracy Lane. Ennis was found alive in the wreckage.

Sheriff Sam Carter briefs Governor Beshear and other local officials.

A relative salvages what she can from the mobile home residence of Elaine Banks-Meadors in Amos.

Pat Mysinger examines a horse whose hindquarters had been impales by shrapnel. It was the only survivor among the Stephens family's horses.

The devastated home of Shirley Ennis, who was found clinging to life beneath the wreckage.

Amos resident Virginia Wilson went to a neighbor's home when she heard of the coming tornado shortly before her 100-year-old brick home was swept off its foundation and destroyed. Here her daughter, Beverly Burton, scavenges for possessions.