Clinton County Disaster and Emergency Services Director Lucas Abner was at an area early Monday morning, surveying the damage that had occurred to several homes and agriculture related buildings in the Cumberland City Community along Ky. 558.

Abner said he had been at the same location on Sunday night after it was reported that the storm had caused damage to the buildings, and had returned early that morning to get a look at the situation in the daylight.

Abner also said he was waiting on the arrival of a local citizen with a drone that he was hoping to be able to fly over the area and get a “bird’s-eye” view of the damage and a better perspective of the distance debris had traveled during the storm.

Several buildings on the farm of Joey Brown, on Ky. 558, were completely destroyed in Sunday night’s storm, and several residences on the opposite side of the highway were also damaged, with many having porches removed from the structures and also showing roof damage.

Several large trees in the area had been completely uprooted and many had to be removed from area roads before traffic could move forward.

Officials reported that no injuries had been reported as a result of the storm.

At the site of the damage at the Joey Brown farm, among the destroyed buildings included a new pole barn structure that had been “over built” according to one farm employee on site.

He pointed out that the destruction of that building saw treated 6×6 square posts completely broken off at ground level, leaving the concrete encased base sections of the posts still in the ground.

The metal from the building could be seen strewn several hundred yards into a wooded hillside adjacent to the structures.

Just a few yards away, a newly constructed storage facility and RV park, where several recreational vehicles were situated in the open area of the facility, were untouched by the Sunday night storm.

In a nearby area a mile or so away, on the Cooksey farm, Steven Cooksey was on hand with some of his employees, assessing the damage to a large hay barn that had been hit hard by the storm.

Cooksey pointed out that most of the building was also scattered across the nearby countryside, and also pointed to several 55 gallon drums that had been stored along one wall of the structure, many of which were now scattered across the adjacent fields.

A stack of lids for those metal drums remained undisturbed next to the foundation portion of the now destroyed hay storage facility.

Several round bales of hay remained stacked inside the building’s still standing poles, but were now exposed to the weather.

Additional damage in the area was also reported on the Ray Marcum farm and other buildings were damaged along the nearby Hwy. 1009.

Metal, downed trees and other debris littered that area in the Walnut Grove Community, which was also hard hit by Sunday night’s storm.

Abner told the Clinton County News Monday morning that he was expected to view the scene again on Tuesday of this week, with representatives from the National Weather Service.

It was expected that the NWS visit would allow officials to make a determination as to whether Sunday’s event would be listed as involving a tornado, or rather strong straight-line winds.

Strong winds, and possibly a series of tornadoes, moved across an area of north central Clinton County Sunday night, destroying several structures and damaging many others. A large hay storage barn on the Steve Cooksey farm was stripped of its roof and siding, and debris scattered for several hundred yards. Below, Clinton County Emergency Services Director Lucas Abner surveys damage to a building on the Joey Brown farm on Hwy. 558 in the Cumberland City Community.

One of the structures that was heavily damaged in the Cumberland City Community when a storm moved through that area Sunday night, included this barn on the Joey Brown farm.

Clinton County Disaster Emergency Director Lucas Abner is shown photographing the path of debris from buildings that were destroyed on the Joey Brown farm in the Cumberland City Community. The Sunday night storm scattered debris for several hundred yards after damaging or destroying structures in several locations.

Several residences received damage along the path of storms that moved through Clinton County Sunday night, producing strong winds that damaged roofs and destroyed porches and decks, like at the home pictured above on Hwy. 558 in the Cumberland City Community.

Storm damage was also present in the Walnut Grove Community near the Clinton County / Wayne County boundary, where several buildings were damaged or destroyed. Above, a piece of roofing metal from a nearby farm is seen resting on a utility line after Sunday’s storm.

Metal roofing, siding, structural lumber and other debris is visible for as far as a person can see in several locations of north central Clinton County, after a storm moved through the area last Sunday night, destroying and damaging several buildings.