National Weather Service Confirms Tornadoes

{Charleston, West Virginia}...Andy Roche, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said Saturday a NWS survey team was able to confirm a twister in Mingo County north of Kermit. There was damage that classifies it as an EF-2 tornado with estimated maximum wind speeds of over 125 miles per hour. That tornado was 200-yards wide and one mile in length. A separate NWS survey team determined a tornado swept through East Lynn that straddled both Wayne and Lincoln Counties. Another strong storm hit Dunlow next to the Kentucky state line. It was an EF-3 in the scale rating. The estimated maximum wind speed was about 138 mph, and that tornado was also about 200 yards wide and traveled 27 miles. Roche says you don't often see super cells like the ones that made it into West Virginia Friday. The last time the state was hit with a EF-3 tornado was in June of 2010 in Belleville in Wood County.