Final report issued on 1995 tornado that damaged school in Jessamine County

The National Weather Service Louisville office says a tornado that hit Jessamine County on May 18, 1995, was stronger than initially thought. The office also says a second tornado hit that day.

The office announced the finding on Friday morning more than 20-years after the storm. This announcement came on the heels of another back in May, when the National Weather Service reclassified the storm that hit West Jessamine High School as an F2 tornado. The NWS team investigating the storm released its final report on Friday increasing the wind speeds of that tornado to 145-miles-per-hour on the Jessamine County tornado.

"We're using the F-scale, which is purely wind speed verses the EF-scale which is based on structural damage and wind speed. Also, trying to get video evidence, photos, talking to eyewitnesses, trying to confirm what they saw with the pictures or video I have," said John Gordon, Meteorologist with the National Weather Service Louisville. "So, this has been an interesting, challenging, kind of like a puzzle where you've lost a piece or two."

The team also found a second F2 tornado hit that day in 1995 near Salvisa in Mercer County.