Trisphee - Storms, Okay. Wait...Tornadoes?!

I live in Kentucky and we've had some really bad storms, tornado watches, and tornado warnings. Everyone keeps saying there's too many hills for a tornado here, but I don't know. On Wednesday there was a crazy bad storm while we were at school and we were all downstairs due to a tornado warning. Last week there wasn't a tornado, but a "straight wind" of 80 to 120 mph knocked over some semis and damaged a few buildings not far from here. They thought a tornado did it at first since it was at night and such. My power, and a lot of other people's, went out that night. They had the sirens sounding and I woke up like 10 minutes before my power went out.

I was curious so I looked up the biggest tornados that happened near where I lived. http://cincinnati.com/blogs/ourhisto...n-april-’74/

They happened in 1974, apparently it was a huge tornado outbreak, kidn of like the one now http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110427/...irmed_storms_1

Quote:

By the early afternoon, numerous supercells and clusters of thunderstorms developed and the outbreak began quickly, with storms developing in central Illinois and a secondary zone developing near the Appalachians across eastern Tennessee, central Alabama, and northern Georgia. The worst of the outbreak shifted towards the Ohio Valley between 4:30pm and 6:30pm EDT where it produced four of the six F5s over a span of just two hours when three powerful supercells traveled across the area—one in central and southern Ohio, a second one across southern Indiana and Ohio, and a third one in northern Kentucky.

So apparently in 1974 my area had F5 tornados. Well, I hope that doesn't repeat T_T