LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As Kentuckians continue to pick up from the tornado that touched down Thursday, questions still remain.
Why did tornado sirens not go off in West Louisville, and why wasn't a warning issued?
An EF-1 tornado was confirmed in the Parkland neighborhood, but no tornado sirens sounded.
National Weather Service Meteorologist Ryan Sharpp walked us through the line of storms the NWS was tracking Thursday.
"It's not even strong enough, according to all of our training and all of our science, it's not considered strong enough to have produced a tornado. But it did," Sharpp said.
Sharpp pointed out the exact moment the tornado touched down on Woodlawn Avenue. The tornado activity was visible one frame and the next it was gone.
Sharpp said the tornado was on the ground for about a minute and tracked just half-a-mile.
"There is some hesitancy on our part to issue for all of these little circulations," he said. "If we issued a tornado warning for every single one of those, the public would just ignore any of our warnings. We have to try to focus on the more intense things that we see before we issue a tornado warning because we want the public to take those seriously."
Mayor Craig Greenberg explained to West Louisville residents Friday that the reason was simply because it happened so fast.
"The way our siren systems work, is that once the National Weather Service puts out a warning, that is when our siren system is triggered," Greenberg said. "Because this all happened so quickly and without warning, that does not happen often, but unfortunately that's what happened yesterday and that's why sirens did not go off."
Sharpp said once the NWS sends out a tornado warning, Jefferson County Metro Safe activates the sirens.
But because the NWS did not see the tornado activity because of how quick it was, no tornado warning was sent out.
No injuries have been reported.
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