LEXINGTON, Ky. — Searchers found the body of a missing 13-year-old girl killed in a tornado that hit Bowling Green early on Dec. 11.
Nyssa Brown was the final person in Bowling Green that had not been accounted for after the deadly storm.
Her mother, father, three siblings and grandmother also died in the tornado.
Statewide, the death toll from the tornadoes now stands at 76.
Ronnie Ward, spokesman for the Bowling Green Police Department, said searchers found Nyssa’s body in a dense briar thicket near the street where she lived, Moss Creek Avenue.
The street was in the area hit hardest by the tornado. Most of the people who died in the tornado lived on or near the street.
Nyssa was the 17th person who died as a result of tornadoes that hit Bowling Green and Warren County.
Of those, 16 were killed by the tornado or died as a result of injuries, and one man died after suffering a heart attack while cleaning up debris at his daughter’s house, according to county Coroner Kevin Kirby.
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