Associated Press
PARIS, Tenn. — A tornado with wind gusts reaching 160 mph swept through a rural west Tennessee town late Monday night, killing a woman and injuring her husband and two sons.
Four others were injured and about 25 homes were damaged or destroyed and in Henry County, near the Kentucky border.
Barry Farmer, who was watching "Monday Night Football" when a tornado warning scrawled across the screen, and his wife scurried their two children to the basement of their Oakland home just before the wind ripped the second story off their house and carried it away.
The Farmers emerged from the basement to find their neighbor, Elizabeth Valentine Goforth, 32, dead in their backyard. The tornado also sucked her husband, Jerome Goforth, 37, and their 3-year-old son out of their home and tossed them into the Farmers backyard. Their 10-year-old son was lying next to the trailer.
The boys were hospitalized Tuesday in critical condition; the father was in serious condition, a hospital spokesman said.
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