$100 million worth of Jeffersontown businesses significantly damaged by EF-3 tornado

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Experts say it’s a miracle the powerful EF-3 tornado that ripped through Jeffersontown last week didn’t strike a subdivision.

“There’s tremendous damage, but no one died. It’s amazing,” Meteorologist John Gordon, a WHAS11 special contributor and former head of the National Weather Service in Louisville, said. “If that had been in a subdivision, any subdivision in our area, it would not be good.”

Dozens of businesses in Jeffersontown’s critical industrial park did still get hit with the strongest tornado to strike Louisville since 1996…

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