High winds, heavy rain and even two confirmed tornadoes, all part of severe weather blowing through the mountains. Perhaps the hardest hit area was at the Cumberland Falls State Resort Park in Whitley County where trees are down all over the park. The National Weather Service has confirmed an EF-1 tornado with winds just over 100mph touched down causing the damage.

It was about ten Sunday morning when more than 100 people staying in the Cumberland Falls State Park got a rude awakening and an adventure they'll never forget.

"It started raining really hard and my mom was like 'Go to the bathroom, go to the bathroom' and we all started crawling in there," said Susana Salazar.

The heavy wind was blowing several huge trees in these park cottages down to the ground.

"Everybody was so scared. We went out and saw the big tree and thought if it fell towards us, we would've been dead, so we're lucky God was with us," Salazar said.

But at least most of the more than 100 park visitors had sturdy structures to ride out the destructive winds, but some were camping out in tents.

"There was a huge one that fell right in front of our big tent. We had a little tent, a tree fell right behind that so it missed us. We're lucky not to be hurt," said Kevin Tolson.

The storm delayed many people's Mother's Day plans. One family was just trying to get through the park on Highway 90.

"Mother's Day and my dad's birthday, so we were trying to scoot over. We were waiting it out until they clear some of the debris," said Angel Baum.

Power and phone lines are down all over and crews are having to clear trees from roads and off many cars. Officials say considering the heavy damage, it could have been worse.

"It could've been a lot worse than it was. We were very fortunate there were no injuries or deaths from the damage," said Jerry Rains with the Kentucky Emergency Management.

Officials say the park is honoring guests who had reservations for Sunday night, but they're not allowing people on trails until they can clean up the mess.

Another part of Eastern Kentucky was hit by EF-1 tornado with winds near 100mph.

The tornado hit between 10:30 and 11 in Leslie County, uprooting trees and knocking down power lines. The storm moved rapidly across the county. One neighbor said, by the time she gathered her family together, the tornado was gone.

Most of the damage was isolated to a small area along Highway 1807. Those that were home during the storm say it was something they'd never seen before.

"It was like a train coming through and as quick as it hit, it was gone," said Kathy Jones.

Jones was home with her family when the storm hit.

"All of a sudden, the house started shaking, and it was real dark," Jones said.

"We found trees in the road, lines down and they were cutting them out as we came in," said Dan McDaniel.

Jones says they are lucky the storm missed their home, but she says power lines fell onto her house.

"Then I saw what I thought was a flash of lightning. What actually happened was that a power line pulled loose and the sparks flew from that," Jones said.

Around 2 o'clock, National Weather Service made a stop in Wooton to determine if it was an actual tornado that caused the damage.

Because of the storm, AEP officials were on the scene all afternoon working to restore power at least 300 hundred people.