Injuries: Path width: 75 yards Noted discrepancies: None Counties: Crawford Path width: Time: 7:20am The funnel reached the ground near the intersection of North Main Street and River Park Drive where a tree was blown down onto a restaurant. Injuries: 0 Noted discrepancies: Storm Data says this tornado touched down near Port Royal. Trees also fell on at least two outbuildings. Path width: No trace of his cabin was ever found. F-scale: EF1 Noted discrepancies: Storm Data puts this tornado near Stowersbut can't find a Stowers on any map. Another home was badly damaged, and several barns and outbuildings were blown down. Injuries: 60 Deaths: Time: 12:35pm Pieces of the bridge weighing several tons . Path length: 1/2 mile Time: 2:15pm May 6, 1971 F-scale: F2 The tornado crossed Interstate 65, damaging several vehicles and semis and closing the interstate for several hours. A small shed was lofted out of its yard and became entangled in utility lines 30 yards to the northeast. At this location there was more tree and roof damage. Time: 11:05pm Grazulis narrative: Several barns were destroyed or unroofed near Taylorsville. Counties: Warren 13. Deaths: The funnel may have either weakened or lifted over southern Barren County before striking Beaumont in Metcalfe County. Those sources were compared with each other to verify tornado data. February 6, 2008 Counties: Scott KY March 1, 1997 Path length: 1.1miles F-scale:F2 Counties: Perry, Crawford, Harrison IN, Washington IN, Clark IN, Scott IN F-scale: F1 Nearly a complete roof of one outbuilding was project 1/2 mile to the east. November 9, 2000 Counties: Mercer Path width: 300 yards Path width: It damaged a large working garage and damaged two homes off of Highway 916 including a new well, almost finished new constructed home which experienced significant exterior wall damage. Notes: A large number of trees were snapped and uprooted north of Bretzville and Saint Anthony. Houses were unroofed at the intersection of Preston and Mechanic, a small brick slaughterhouse on Mechanic was demolished, and a two and a half story brick house on Mechanic was badly damaged. Salina was reported to look like an elephant's F-scale: F2 Deaths: 0 Path width: Storm Data narrative says, "A small tornado of the bounding type moved in a straight line west-southwest to east-northeast from about half a mile east of Standiford Fieldto approximately ten miles northeast. Time: 5:50pm Grazulis narrative: A small tornado demolished a barn and carried the barn timbers a half mile away from the barn site. Path width: Near Rich Hill, one family of seven was killed. It has been decided, to the best of our ability, that these events were due to straight-line winds. Numerous large hardwood trees were snapped and twisted. April 5, 2017 May 20, 2017 A trailer was demolished, and farm buildings were destroyed. Time: 10:25am According to witnesses, the tornado was "cone-shaped and had a large black cloud at its top, coming out of the west. Counties: Floyd June 29, 1979 Path length: At least 27 people died in Tennessee. Time: 9:15pm Injuries: 0 Notes: This tornado struck downtown Munfordville. Notes: Storm Data touches this tornado down at Eastview and hits KY 84. June 26, 2013 F-scale: F4 Notes: A strong thunderstorm passed through Georgetown in the pre-dawn hours. Path width: 250 yards Grazulis narrative: Moved northeast through the northwest corner of Austin. Notes: This tornado began at the Holiday Inn Express in Scottsburg, damaging the east side of the second floor. Proceeding further to the east, power lines were downed on Old Cecilia Road and a barn was destroyed on Saint John Road three miles west of Elizabethtown. 1831 - Hurricane impacted the Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas on August 14th and 15th. The Morris Gass Farm also received damage. The rope-like tornado lifted between Tucker Station Road and Interstate 265. Time: 4:00pm Deaths: 0 Deaths: 0 Path length: 0.25 mile Path width: Light objects are elevated high into the air, and are sometimes carried many miles before they are thrown out of the vortex. EF-Scale: EF-0 A man received minor injuries when a barn he was in collapsed around him. There were several pieces of lumber that were impaled in the ground and pieces of metal sheeting were thrown into trees. EF-Scale:EF0 Deaths: 0 It wasn't until the 1800s that advances, For much of the mid-1800s, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. was the center of weather observation for the United, A list of instructions for observing tornadoes during the late 1800s, Historic outbreak sequences: Five major tornado events during the second half of May 1896, New Jerseys deadliest twister and the first scientific tornado study in the United States, U.S. Tornado History: Early American thought presented in textbooks of the 1800s, U.S. Tornado History: The Smithsonian Institutions Queries Relative to Tornadoes, circa 1860s, Understanding basic tornadic radar signatures, Into the Storm: 10 best and worst movie moments for a tornado nerd. One home was destroyed and 15 were damaged. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck Hunters Lane, north of Bardstown. February 24, 2018 F-scale: F1 Path length: Path length: 9 miles July 2, 1972 Notes: According to Storm Data this tornado touched down near Seymour. Probably meant KY 571. Instead of just going to the northeast trees were now going to the northwest, north and northeast. Deaths: 1 Counties: Jefferson KY Time: 3:30pm One woman was pulled out of her house and landed on her porch. Injuries: 10 A car was tossed several hundred yards. Siding and shingles were blown off of multiple houses. Path width: 30 yards Deaths: 0 Path width: 25 yards Deaths: 0 February 12, 1880 Injuries: 3 F-scale: F3 Path width: Deaths: Injuries: 0 Path length: Injuries: Grazulis narrative: Skipped east-southeast from east of Vincennes, passing near Hudsonville, Cumback, and Glendale. SPC and NCDC place it at 8:00pm, Grazulis and Storm Data at 10:00pm. Path length: January 24, 1964 The only Kentucky event on this day in Storm Data is in Fulton County. Path length: 3 1/2 miles Time:12:07am EDT F-scale: F2 Injuries: April 20, 2000 Path width: Grazulis Narrative: Injuries: 1 The tornado moved northeast and produced major damage in Rosetta where it destroyed the Fountain of Faith Church. EF-Scale:EF1 The tornado moved north-northeast and northeast through the Parkland neighborhood (Twenty-eighth and Dumesnil), leveling a few homes. After the tornado hit my parents woke me up and we drove up there just about a mile away. Narrative: From one of the worst tornado outbreaks ever to strike central Kentucky. The end lat/lon in the first NCDC Scott County entry is the same as the begin lat/lon in the second Scott County entry. Notes: The tornado developed in a subdivision in Goshen and traveled to the east northeast. Path width: Path width: 220 yards Counties: Henry See also PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT: Tornadoes. Path width: Counties: Orange Time: 4:42pm - 4:54pm CDT Grazulis lists this at 4:40pm. Path length: 5 miles However, the spring of 2011 was one of the deadliest and costliest tornado seasons on record. Path width: 250 yards Their home, which was destroyed, caught fire and only one child could be rescued. Injuries: 0 Abasement crawl space door was blown out along with siding and roofdamage at 125 Spinks Drive. Metal siding was thrown 250 yards and several trees were snapped and uprooted. Time: 8:00am Oklahoma. Noted discrepancies: SPC lists a path width of 40 yards, NCDC lists 123 yards, Storm Data says 125 yards. The tornado intensified east of the intersection of Kettle Bottom and State Highway 362. I always liked hearin bout 1800s tornadoes. April 3, 1974 Counties: Grayson Injuries: 0 Deaths: June 1, 1917 Noted discrepancies: SPC, Grazulis, and Storm Data give a time of 12:05am, NCDC 12:03am. Counties: Jefferson IN Time: Notes: The tornado touched down on a ridge along Gillespie Pike east of Lancaster. Time: 4:06pm CST Deaths: 0 A 14" diameter pine tree was snapped and moved about 45 yards downwind as well. Counties: Ohio The back part of the barn was thrown to the west while a wagon in the trailer was pushed out through the barn. Noted discrepancies: NWS calls this an F2, Grazulis says F1. Nobody knew about it until the next morning when they saw the scattered debris causing tales of a night phantom., A tornado was reported near Dallas, Texas on April 15, , 1879 that destroyed more than a dozen homes and injured twenty-five people. Injuries: SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC gives nothing. At the home next door the front door was pulling away from the building. The deadliest was on. Injuries: 8 Injuries: 6 Click here for a map of the Jefferson County portion of this tornado track. Time: 5:38pm Path width:110 yards May 25, 1973 Injuries: May 30, 2004 Path length: Time: 5:40pm Path width: F-scale: F2 Time: 9:53pm CST May 8, 2003 Path length: 3 miles Counties: Jessamine, Fayette Injuries: 0 Injuries: 0 A rural school was destroyed, as was a large church and several barns. May 14, 1995 Narrative: Moved northeast along the southeast edge of Cecilia. April 27, 2011 EF-Scale: EF0 Grazulis narrative: Near New Washington a small tornado leveled two barns and damaged a farm house. The tornado hit the Westport General Store and blew down trees and power lines in town. Grazulis lists Hamilton, Wayne, Edwards, Wabash IL, Knox, Gibson, Pike, Daviess, Martin, Orange, and Lawrence IN (note the last three match the SPC entry). Injuries: 0 Some tornadoes had no F-scale ranking assigned to them. The Louisville Courier-Journal mentions two tornadoes in Washington County on this day. Path length: 1.9 miles October 1, 1977 Noted discrepancies: NWS ranks this as an F2, Grazulis says F1. Deaths: 0 November 6, 2005 Outside of these points, weak trees were felled, signs were blown over, and minor roof damage occurred. Time: 4:01pm EST Drone footage indicated the trees were lying in multiple directions. F-scale: EF1 May 30, 2004 Noted discrepancies: None Path length: At that same location two other silos were destroyed as well as a 20 foot by 30 foot outbuilding. Path length: 1/2 mile The twister crossed Cane Run Road and demolished a home on Greenwood Road. Time: 5:56am County: Cumberland Atlantic hurricane seasons. Union Station was crushed as well. Time: 4:00pm Deaths: 1 Path width: 440 yards At one point, there were two distinct paths, as two funnels moved parallel to one another. Path length: 1.2 miles Path length: 3.2 miles EF-Scale: EF-1 County: Madison EF-Scale: EF-1 Time: 7:25pm Injuries: 20 After crossing Hwy 231, thetornado damaged several largewarehouses, scattering wood and sheetmetal debris. Path length: 6 miles More research reveals that this very small tornado hit the Kenneth Hardcastle property between Hardcastle and Greenhill east-southeast of Bowling Green. F-scale: F2 County: Edmonson Immediately after the storm, Lagrange Interurban cars leaving Louisville could not get beyond Lyndon. Finally, the tornado lifted after doing damage from the south side of Henryville near Robyn Avenue to the east side of Henryville at the intersection of Highway 160 and Haddox Road. Two days after the tornado the tracks were still blocked beginning at O'Bannon Station. Noted discrepancies: SPC has this storm moving from McCracken County directly into Madison County, which is geographically impossible. A large grain bin was demolished and an anchored mobile home was pushed off of its foundation. Through such a collection of past tornadoes we can learn their patterns and behaviors. EF-scale: EF1 County: Harrison KY Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from one mile northwest of Versailles to one mile north of Versailles. Time: 12:50am EST to 12:52am EST Counties: Mercer Notes:This small, narrow squall-line spin-uptornado moved over rural countryside,damaging or destroying a half dozenoutbuildings and doing minor tree damage as it traveled east-southeast over threefarmsteads. One building was damaged at the touchdown site. Trimble County: The National Weather Service in conjunction with Trimble County Emergency Management conducted an extensive tornado survey in Trimble County. Path width: Path width: 25yards Notes: This weak tornado hit the south side of a farm on Gettlefinger Road, causing a milk barn to collapse and tearing several panels off of a large metal outbuilding in addition to snapping trees in wooded areas on either side of the farm. Click on a tornado or its track to find out more information about it. Top Ten Deadliest Tornadoes in Texas (since 1900) NUMBER ONE - THE WACO TORNADO - MAY 11, 1953. EF-Scale: EF0 Path width: 50 yards Near KY 100 the twister destroyed a barn and threw debris about a quarter mile. Deaths: 0 Several homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed. May 17, 1999 Fences were torn down as well. Notes: Touchdown was on Pleasant Drive about two miles southeast of Springfield. Notes: Touched down at DuPont where it removed the roof from a home and threw a woman 2,000 feet resulting in serious injuries. A wheat field had distinct circulations quite visible. Path length: 1 mile Time: 1:20pm A small well-constructed shed was pushed over onto its side, and another small shed was destroyed. F-scale: F0 Time: 11:00am EST Thirty homes and six businesses were destroyed at Narrows (virtually the entire village). SPC and NCDC give a path length of 14 miles, Grazulis give 28 miles. Injuries: 0 Counties: Harrison IN Several houses and five barns were demolished. It pushed a largetobacco barn 15 feet eastward, tore offits roof, and collapsed several walls. Injuries: 0 This agrees with what Grazulis has. Injuries: 0 setTimeout(function(){var t=document.createElement("script");t.setAttribute("src","https://sample.dragonforms.com/getEmbeddedClientScript.do?embeddedsite=TW_dispatch_nl"),t.setAttribute("type","text/javascript"),document.body.appendChild(t)},5); Become a subscriber today and youll recieve a new issue every month plus unlimited access to our full archive of backlogged issues. Narrative: Timber and barns were destroyed four miles north of Paoli. The tornado continued to move east northeast along the countrysideuprooting, twisting, and damaging numerous hardwood trees. It traveled east over forested land, doing occasional damage to trees before it passed into Hardin County, 0.7 miles WSW of the U.S. Bullion Depository. Time: 3:40pm Time: 4:25pm to 4:30pm Grazulis lifts the tornado two miles north of Fairfield, but SPC/NCDC take it to north of Wakefield. Time: 3:54pm - 4:12pm CST A 2 x 8 impaled a concrete grain silo. Injuries: 0 June 17, 1997 On US 127 cars were blown off the road and damaged. Notes: This quick tornado destroyed two barns and caused substantial damage to three others. Path length: 7 miles Injuries: Injuries: 9 F-scale: F1 On October 25th, 1844 a tornado struck near present-day Mission, Kansas and into Missouri damaging or destroying a number of farms. Path width: 200 yards A high tension tower and other homes were damaged on Pine Drive. Path width: 100 yards It then traveled southeast damaging the middle school complex on Highway 27 about a mile south of Stanford. Path length: The destruction of forty barns in Hart County and damage to 57 homes in Taylor County was likely from straight-line downburst winds. Injuries: Injuries: 0 The path Grazulis describes seems to keep the tornado just barely inside Nelson County, though it does indeed come very close to the Bullitt County line. Time: 12:12pm Over 150 homes were damaged or destroyed. SPC path length is only one mile, however. Path length: 9 miles Path width: 150 yards The tornado crossed Tanner Road and lifted just west of downtown Hodgenville. Click here for an incredible picture of the damage (courtesy of the University of Louisville Photographic Archives). Injuries: Path width: Time: 1:55am Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down on Liberty Church Road in Auburn. Insulation was caked onto the entire back side of the house opposite the direction of travel of the tornado. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F3, Grazulis does not list it. Barns and outbuildings were destroyed. The tornado ripped the roof off of a brick home there. Time: 1:45pm Multiple pine, ash, and oak trees were snapped and uprooted. Deaths: The twisting nature of the winds was clearly revealed when the bodies of the Tyree family were found 75 yards south of their home site, and the bodies of the Redeford family were discovered 100 yards north of the spot where their home had stood. Originally, the head of the National Weather Service in Lexington, Jim Speray, claimed that the damage was done by a downburst rather than by a tornado, with winds of 100 to 200 mph. Injuries: 0 Counties: Dubois Deaths: 25 EF-Scale:EF0 Path width: Will plot with official lat/lon but additional research would be nice. Path length: 12 miles Lat/lon given place it in Sumner County, Tennessee. NCDC gives no endpoint lat/lon. Continuing east-northeast, a roof was blown off of one barn and another barn had roof sections peeled off on St. Anthony Road West. Path length: 6 miles Injuries: Time: 3:22pm A severe weather outbreak in the mid-Mississippi Valley more than lived up to its well-predicted potential for strong tornadoes on Friday, December 10, taking lives and raking landscapes from Arkansas to Illinois. Noted discrepancies: Grazulis lists this at 10:03pm. County: Butler The high death toll was partly a result of the tornadoes traveling rapidly . Storm Data lists it in Shelby County. Theowner sustained only minor injuries as herolled over with his house, crawling outof a hole after it settled. Storm Data begins this tornado in Grayson County east of Tan Yard, takes it through Caneyville, north of Leitchfield, to Big Clifty. Path length: 1 1/2 miles Low end EF-2 damage was observed. Injuries: 0 Injuries: 0 Counties: Washington, Mercer There were many barns damaged or destroyed, power lines and power poles down or snapped, some trees snapped and uprooted, and several homes and outbuildings had roof damage. Path length: Less than 440 yards Deaths: Another trailer near this location was completely destroyed. June 22, 2011 A house under construction collapsed and injured the man inside, while another man was pulled from the garage and rolled across the ground. Path length: 0.2mile Deaths: 0 Injuries: 0 Storm Data gives a path length of 500 yards and a width of 20 yards. The path of utter destruction, in which everything was flattened, was a quarter mile wide. Time: 9:35am Counties: Nelson A tornado leveled trees and unroofed houses along a track 400 yards wide "at Paris" or "near Paris" (depending on the source used). Time: 5:20pm Grazulis probably has the more correct path width. Homes were unroofed in the student housing area. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Grazulis nothing. Injuries: 0 EF-Scale: EF-1 Path length:5.2 miles Deaths: Time: 10:52pm - 10:56pm CST Injuries: Noted discrepancies: SPC lists a path width of 7 yards, NCDC 27 yards, Storm Data 25 yards. bars on the bridge were bent and twisted. Notes: The tornado began as a 125 yard tornado near 4510 Gather Station Road damaging a barn and traveled towards New Glendale Road and Overall Phillips Road damaging some homes and knocking down many trees and fences. Path width: 440 yards Deaths: Path length: 2.5 miles (skipping) Trees and power lines were torn down along Eighteenth Street Road from Kerrick Station to Greenwood Roada distance of about a mile. Deaths: Path length: 6miles SPC and Storm Data give a time of 12:10am, NCDC gives 12:06am. 8. One boy received a broken leg. Path length: 0.3 mile March 1, 2017 Tree and house damage also occurredat the end ofWindamere Lane, and warehouses were damaged just before the tornado lifted at US 460. A note should be made of the rainfall, whether it was most abundant before, during, or after the tornado; also, if possible, the amount of rain at the centre of the track and at some point two thousand or three thousand feet on either side.
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