National Weather Service officials believe that one of the two twisters that touched down in the Graysville-New Harmony community of Bledsoe County had winds of about 180 mph, making it an EF4.
Although officials still are collecting data, “I do believe there was another separate tornado in Bledsoe County,” said David Hotz, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Morristown, Tenn.
The tornadoes killed four in the area known as Pitts Gap at the top of Brayton Mountain.
The update from the weather service agrees with the assessment made last week by Regional Volunteer Fire Department Capt. Justin Jackson.
Just hours after the storms, Jackson took a flight over the storm path and described what he thought were side-by-side tracks of two twisters. He said the twin paths appeared to have crossed or collided along New Harmony Road as they spun north from Pitts Gap toward state Highway 30.