Planning for impending severe weather

WARREN COUNTY, Ky. – First, having a plan in place just in case is the best course of action.

Have sneakers ready, a weather radio or another way to receive alerts about imminent severe weather. Identify where in your home is the best place to hide, such as a basement or a bathroom or closet in the interior of your home.

Gov. Andy Beshear says this storm system is nothing to take lightly and should be taken extremely seriously.

“People need a weather radio. If you don’t have one, go out and buy one, something that can wake you up and then watch your local news, watch the weather. And then after that, know that in the next three or four days, you cannot and should not drive through standing water. We lost a bunch of people in February because of that. We want everybody to be safe. This is real. We hope it misses us. We hope it doesn’t come to fruition, but it’s a really scary forecast that we need to take seriously,” Beshear said.

However, if you feel like your home is not safe enough to withstand a tornado, Warren County Parks and Rec has tornado shelters around the county. While the space might be tight, the parks and rec department says they’ll fit as many people as they can into the shelters.

“If and when inclement weather does arrive on property, we’re going to try to get as many people in as we can safely. And it’s just kind of one by one footprint for the duration of that ten, 15, 20 minutes while the storm kind of passes,” Warren County Parks and Rec director Chris Kummer said.

There are shelters located at Ed Spear Park in Smiths Grove, Basil Griffin Park, Phil Moore Park and a few other locations around the county.

For the full list of storm shelters in the area, click here.