Deadliest storm in Kentucky’s HISTORY kills at least 94, with first identified victims including judge and little boy: Devastating pictures show survivors picking through remains of their homes as even Putin sends his condolences

  • Judge and a three-year-old boy are among the scores of victims in a historic tornado strike in Kentucky
  • Governor Andy Beshear has said that up to 100 people are feared dead in Kentucky alone, with 80 confirmed
  • Twister now believed to be the deadliest in Kentucky history with the longest track of any in the nation 
  • It shatters the prior record for deadliest tornado in Kentucky history, set in 1890 when a twister killed 76 
  • Twisters that spread destruction across six states on Friday night were powerful enough to derail freight train
  • Town of Mayfield in western Kentucky is the epicenter of the destruction with entire blocks decimated 
  • In a telegram on Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered ‘sincere condolences’ to Joe Biden

A judge and a three-year-old boy are among the scores of victims in a historic tornado strike in Kentucky that has left communities reeling with its devastating impact.

The confirmed death toll in Kentucky alone is now higher than any tornado in the state’s history at 80, with the multi-state toll standing at 94 and expected to rise as recovery efforts continue.

The twisters that spread death and destruction across six states on Friday night were powerful enough to send a family photo flying 150 miles and derail a freight train in western Kentucky, which bore the brunt of the horrific storm.

As the sun rose on Sunday morning, survivors picked through the rubble to salvage anything they could in near-freezing temperatures, still shell-shocked at the scope of death and devastation and many without electricity or running water.

Kentucky District Judge Brian Crick, a married father of three who served McLean and Muhlenberg counties, was among those killed in the storm, the commonwealth’s Supreme Court chief justice confirmed.

The epicenter of the destruction was the town of Mayfield, a town of about 10,000 people in the far western part of Kentucky, where the Bluegrass State borders Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee.