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...Cold air funnels will be possible...

Cold air funnels are expected today. These cold air funnels are
developing underneath a few showers that are moving across the
area. Underneath these showers...spinning columns of air that look
like tornadoes may continue to develop. These funnels usually are
very brief and rarely touch the ground. If these funnels do touch
down...they most likely will not cause damage to life or
property.

Cold air funnels are due to very cool air aloft...warm moist air
near the ground...and are usually in association with a strong
area of low pressure in the upper levels of the atmosphere. Due to
little or no wind shear...they are usually weak and very brief.

Body camera footage released showing moment infants rescued from bathtub thrown by tornado

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UPDATE: December 21, 2021

The Hopkins County Sheriff's Department has released body camera footage from the night the tornado hit Kentucky. The video sows deputies Trent Arnold and Troy Blue, along with two other individuals, Timmy Vannoy and Michael Crook, as they rescued two infants from a bathtub thrown by the twister. 

ORIGINAL STORY

(CNN) -- Grandmother Clara Lutz watches her 15-month-old and 3-month-old grandchildren each weekend she can. On Friday night when a tornado was just miles from her home in Kentucky, she did everything she could to protect them. 

She got them in the bathtub with blankets, pillows and a bible. 

"I felt the rumbling, I felt the shaking of the house. Next thing I knew, the tub had lifted and it was out of my hands. I couldn't hold on, I just -- Oh my God.," said Lutz.

The tub ripped out of the floor, with the two babies inside. With the darkness from the tornado, Lutz feared they were gone. 

"I was looking everywhere to see where the tub may be, I had no clue at all where these babies was. All I could say was Lord, please bring my babies back to me safely. Please, I beg thee."

Her entire house was stripped down to the foundation.

In the chaos, the water tank from the tub hit her in the back of the head. Still, she went outside and searched for anyone who could help. And in her yard, the bathtub upside down on the grass. 

Sheriff's deputies found it and underneath, the babies. 

"The sheriff came down, I got in the sheriff's car down at the end of my driveway. They opened up the door and brought me Kaden, my 15-month-old. And they brought me my three-month-old, baby Dallas. They brought him to me. He had a big old goose egg on the back of his head, we didn't know what was wrong."

What was wrong was Dallas' brain was bleeding. He was taken to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, but before he even arrived, she says the bleeding stopped. 

Lutz credits God for saving the lives of her grandchildren that night.Â