1 Killed and at Least 7 Are Injured in Tornado in Kentucky, Officials Say

One person was killed and at least seven others were injured when a tornado struck several houses in central Kentucky early on Friday morning, officials said.

Kevin Devine, the emergency management director in Washington County, said that the tornado had hit two or three houses and had caused severe damage to several other homes in a rural part of the county, which has about 12,250 residents. Photos posted by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office showed debris strewed across the ground and an overturned car.

There is no tornado siren in the area, Mr. Devine said, and the first call for help came in at about 7:10 a.m.

When search-and-rescue crews, firefighters, sheriff’s deputies and emergency medical workers responded, they found trees blocking the small, one-lane road into the area, he said.

After cutting a path for ambulances to get through, the crews found that one person had been killed and at least seven people had been injured, including two who drove themselves to the hospital, Mr. Devine said.