Many pioneer farms Path width: 100 yards
There was significant tree damage east of Main Street near Pedigo Street, Trees were facing multiple directions and there was mud spatter on the backside of homes and vehicles along Short Street to Monroe Drive. The tornado then dipped to earth again on the west side of the University of Louisville campus, breaking out many windows in a large residence hall and nearby building, and damaging several vehicles parked nearby. Counties: Breckinridge
A car was blown off the road, over a fence, and into a field. July20, 2018
Just east of I-65 a house trailer was lifted and deposited 100 feet away. Injuries:
The tornado traveled to the northeast and damaged homes on Kurtz Drive and at the intersection of Thornhill Drive and Gaines Road. Time: 1:22pm CST
F-scale: F1
Time: 11:06am EST
Injuries: 0
Path width:
STARLA POINTER , Yamhill Valley News-Register. F-scale: F2
On April 14-15, 1886, a destructive tornado outbreak affected portions of the Midwestern and Southern United States. Deaths: 0
Injuries: 2
Shingle damage occurred to a home in this location. He was medically airlifted to Louisville. Deaths: 3
Path length: 9 miles
Path length: 10 miles
Counties: Harrison IN
Path length:
SPC, Storm Data, and NCDC give a time of 7:00pm, Grazulis give 7:25pm. Injuries: 0
Time: 11:54pm EST to 12:05am EST
Fifteen homes were destroyed Path width: 200 yards
Notes: Numerous pine and cedar trees were uprooted or snapped and a few outbuildings were damaged. Counties: Logan
Path length: 60 miles (probably a family of tornadoes)
Path length:
The woman was badly cut by glass, and her husband was caught between fireplace bricks and a collapsed wall. For residents of Rochester, August 21, 1883, began with oppressive heat and ominous stillness. Light objects are elevated high into the air, and are sometimes carried many miles before they are thrown out of the vortex. Counties: Clark, IN
Injuries:
It damaged a row of trees behind a home and removed some flashing on the home. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Tornado winds during a thunderstorm were responsible for the crash of a jetliner that killed 17 people Tuesday, the Dutch Transport Ministry said today. Damage totalled $2.5 million (1890 dollars) in Jefferson County, with another half a million dollars with F2 intensity damage in Jeffersonville INalong with 20 injuries.
Path width: 150 yards
The tornado weakened to an EF-1 at 871 Palmyra Rd. Path width:
It then tracked across rural Monroe County, uprooting and snapping large trees. Notes: The tornado first touched down about 0.8 miles southwest of Stanford. Notes: Tornado touched down on the northwest side of Danville. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck Valley Station. SPC and NCDC give a time of 6:00pm, Storm Data gives 5:00pm, Grazulis says 6:30pm. The tornado snapped the upper reaches of several tree trunks near its initial point near several homes -- leavingdebris in a circular pattern -- thenskipped eastward, causing other minor tree damage before crossing Nolin Lake northeast of the Moutardier Marina. Trees were blown down in the steep valleys as well as on the hilltops. It moved to the east-southeast, passing just north of Smiths Grove, west of Hays, and dissipating at Beckton west of Glasgow. Counties: Dubois
A large metal barn with cinder block walls was destroyed. May 6, 1984
Time: 9:30pm CDT
Near Manassas Drive a trampoline was thrown 60 yards and a large sycamore tree was uprooted next to an air conditioner that was thrown to the north. Time: 4:00pm
Time: 11:55am
Hail up to 2 inches in diameter fell with the storm. October 7, 2014
April 15, 1994
Time: Midnight
One tornado near Debris from the barn and home were scattered in a narrow path through row crops up to a third of a mile to the northeast, where a resident witnessed large sheets of roofing and siding fall into a hay field on the north side of Lewellen Road. Path length: 13 miles (skipping)
Death toll may have been as high as 17. Path width: 150 yards
Time: 9:45am
Between April and June 2011 tornadoes killed more than 580 people and caused over $21 billion dollars in economic damages. May 26, 1989
Time: 5:45pm
Path length:
Notes: This tornado touched down in the 3900 block of Elizabeth-New Middletown Road. Path width: 800 yards
They rushed her to T J Samson Community Hospital in Glasgow but, she died in Tee's arms about half a mile from the hospital. Deaths:
The last evidence of a tornado was at a house on Point Pleasant Road where the tornado blew in a garage door. Notes: This tornado touched down near Cecilia, blowing the roof off a barn, but only producing shingle damage on nearby residences. Homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed. Fix the attention on the motion of detached clouds. Path width: 100 yards
The storm then crossed Adair Rd, lifting somewhere in a wooded area west of a large pond near Beauchamp Lane, where residents witnessed its dissipation. County: Trimble
May 17, 1999
Metal siding was thrown 250 yards and several trees were snapped and uprooted. It's possible that this was a very small weak tornado, but knowing that for certain is virtually impossible this far after the event. Grazulis narrative: A tornado was sighted at Fort Knox, northeast of Radcliff. Path width: 350yards
The garage of this house was destroyed with one vehicle thrown 30 yards and another tossed 75 yards. County: Washington, IN
Counties: Clark IN
This time disagreement may have something to do with the tornado being near a time zone boundary. Path width: 300 yards
Notes: A tornado with 90 mph winds touched down one mile west of the intersection of KY 214 and KY 953. Deaths:
Path width: 325 yards
Time: 6:45pm
Event Summary: January 12th Damaging Winds and Tornadoes Notes:An NWS survey team has confirmed an EF-0 tornado touch down east of Elizabeth in Harrison County, Indiana. EF-Scale: EF1
It moved an 18,000 pound trailer four feet, and flipped it. April 3, 1974
Path width: 100 yards
Path length: 1.4miles
More than a dozen uprooted and snapped trees were observed around the Tucker House Bed and Breakfast at 2406 Tucker Station Road. Just east of Route 135, tremendous tree damage wasobserved. Path length:
The track may very well have continued on past Barren County. Time: 6:45pm
Two barns were destroyed, two barns suffered significant roof and structural damage, and about two dozen trees were snapped or uprooted. driven into the flesh.". The tornado then intensified and produced some of its worst damage at Preston Street and Mechanic Street (Mechanic Street was today's Saint Catherine and Mary streets). April 2, 1989
Time: 6:02pm CDT
Deaths:
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Deaths: 6
County: Boyle
Deaths: 0
Grazulis narrative: Moved northeast from the south side of Clarkson, just north of Big Clifty, to near the Hardin County line. EF-Scale: EF-3
Counties: Woodford
A jeep in the driveway was blown into the house and a camper was blown from the driveway across the road with debris scattered through the field beyond. April 5, 1985
Four homes and two barns were damaged along Highway 111. Cornfields were flattened and convergent wind signatures could be seen in the vegetation. F-scale: F0
Counties: Barren
Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, but Grazulis does not list it (which it should be, regardless of strength, as was his practice in his 1992-1995 supplementlending support to the theory that this tornado is listed in Grazulis as the Woodford County event.) Path width: 50 yards
Horseshoe Bend Road was closed due to trees down across the road and from flooding. May 25, 2011
Injuries:
Time: 9:38pm EDT
F-scale: F2
Injuries:
Path width: 100 yards
Time: 3:04pm CDT - 3:11pm EDT
Deaths:
Grazulis narrative: A barn was destroyed near Scottsburg. Another outbuilding was overturned and slidabout 10 feet. Path length: 5.8 miles
Injuries:
Injuries:
Path length:
Narrative: One "substantial" home and four barns were destroyed as a tornado moved northeast at Sonora. Some witnesses thought there might have been a small tornado, but no credible eye-witness accounts of a visible funnel were received. Injuries:
Injuries:
Deaths:
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 1
F-scale: F0
Across the county numerous power poles, barns, and homes sustained damage. EF-Scale: EF-1
Path width:
Path length: 1 mile
In these cases, a southwest-to-northeast movement of the tornado was assumed, since that is the most common direction of travel for tornadoes. Notes: Storm Data has this tornado touch down near Paris. A two-story brick home was destroyed at Lakeland. Saints Mary and Elizabeth Hospital lost part of its roof at Twelfth, roofs were lost at Sixth, and homes were damaged at Fourth and Third. We are working on a new method to display this information, and hope to have it finalized in 2022. March 12, 1986
Time: 7:54pm
Time: 4:47pm
Injuries: 0
Time: 3:30pm
One day we had to move a house that had "survived" a tornado. April 19, 2011
The tornado then weakened or possibly lifted as it passed through or over Jacobs, where little damage occurred. Brooks and Doswell (2002) discussed the long-term history of tornado deaths, drawing on the work of Grazulis (1993) (Grazulis, T. P., 1993: Significant Tornadoes, 1680-1991. Hail up to 2 1/4 inches in diameter pounded Crescent Hill, and the stones had large "horns" on them. Grazulis narrative: Eight homes and 22 barns were destroyed, and 13 other homes were damaged in the south part of Franklin. Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards. November 26, 1965
Path length: 2.5miles
Path length: 0.3 mile
Two minor injuries occurred with this tornado. Click here for a map of the tornado's path and damage pictures. Path width: 200 yards
Counties: Adair
April 20, 1996
Deaths:
March 6, 1961
Several small twigs were driven through the siding of the home. Also hard to believe the NWS would give it an F3 rating and Grazulis would only give it an F1 or less. Path length:
SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC and Grazulis give nothing. Path width:
Storm Data erroneously lists this tornado in Jefferson County IN. Path width:
The storm cut a very narrow swath through trees immediately west of KY 79 near Gracie Lane, with a number of trees snapped and uprooted. Damage was confined to IMS Lane. Injuries: 44
Grazulis' path width is probably the most correct. Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from five miles west of Centertown, on Shrull Lane, to Hartford. Counties: Grayson
Path width: 200 yards
Counties: Breckinridge
Noted discrepancies: SPC lists a path width of 7 yards, NCDC 27 yards, Storm Data 25 yards. It was noted in subsequent days that the church was very poorly constructed. Time: 8:17pm
The track of the tornado extended to the Ohio River and into Jefferson County, Kentucky. Deaths: 0
Counties: Orange, (Lawrence), Washington IN
F-scale: F2
Notes:Touchdown occurred near the intersection of Hays Pondsville Road and FH Roundtree Road where a small metal shed was destroyed, a trailer was overturned, a fence was flattened, and a home suffered minor roof damage. SPC and NCDC list one injury, Grazulis lists four. he noted that the width of the tornado was 100 yards where it crossed Eighteenth Street Road, and widened to 500 yards as it entered Iroquois Park. Injuries: 0
An air handler was blown off of the roof of JCK Enterprises and thrown 125 yards. Deaths: 0
Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mileNCDC gives nothing. F-scale: F1
The facility was shaped somewhat like a squat capital "H," with the relatively longer sides of the H lined up along B Street and C Street (now Bloom Street and Cardinal Boulevard), and the short connecting section parallel to First and Second Streets (the two longer sides of the "H" had been stand-alone buildings, and were subsequently connected by the short middle section of the "H"). The tornado continued to damage large barns and out buildings as well as snap trees until it lifted about 2 miles northwest of Crab Orchard. Path width: 300 yards
October 1, 1977
Path width:
F-scale: EF2
Counties: Harrison IN
F-scale: F3
Path length: 1 mile
Noted discrepancies: This tornado is not listed at SPC or NCDC, but is in Storm Data. March 18, 1925
Path length:
Debris from the double wides was tossed around a mile downwind. Deaths:
Injuries: 1
On Murray Roada father and son were in their milking barn when they saw the storm approach. This large tornado passed one mile north of Corydon as it moved east across central Harrison County. Path length:
Path length: 0.6 miles
Injuries: 0
One home and at least six barns were destroyed. While there were heavy property losses, no one was killed. Notes: The tornado formed just west of Interstate 65 and crossed the highway, the Hardin County Fairgrounds, and lifted just east of the intersection of First Union Church Road and Sportsman Lake Road. February 19, 1888
Half a dozen houses were damaged on Milk Street (?) A barn was destroyed and the debris was carried a quarter mile. EF-Scale:EF1
Path width:
Injuries:
Deaths:
SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Grazulis nothing. Between Fifth Street and Carter Street the wind speeds increased to 95 mph and the width expanded to 60 yards. structural damage consistent with EF-1 damage and 90 mph winds. Path length:
The lat/lon given for this tornado agrees with the location Grazulis gives: Salvisa, which is in Mercer County, not Woodford. Counties: Washington IN, Scott IN
The tornado also uprooted numerous trees and ripped off sections of roofing from several other buildings. SPC gives a path width of 10 yardsNCDC 30 yardsGrazulis and Storm Data 100 yards. Two people may have died. June 10, 1980
Time: 4:25pm
April 22, 2011
Time: 3:37pm
April 5, 2017
Injuries: 0
Path width: 50 yards
Notes: A small tornado traveled from northwest of Cyclone to south of Cyclone, damaging a few buildings and felling trees. Counties: Washington, KY
Counties: Lincoln (from Pulaski)
These tornadoes were plotted in grey with the annotation "F?". Climate Graphs
1886 St. Cloud-Sauk Rapids tornado outbreak - Wikipedia F-scale: F1
Storm Data says the tornado moved northeast and crossed I-65 three miles north of Scottsburg. Time: 1:55pm
A home and a small outbuilding were damaged, and numerous trees were uprooted. Path width:
Deaths: 0
Time: 11:20pm EDT to 11:26pm EDT
September 3, 1970
F-scale: F4
Deaths: 0
Time: 4:42pm - 4:54pm CDT
County: Washington, IN
The tornado lifted 1.5 miles east-southeast of Center, Kentucky. Path length:
Structural damage was observed on one farm, where the roof was torn off a large metal outbuildingand minor damage occurred to several other buildings as a result of this debris. Noted discrepancies: Storm Data puts this tornado two and a half miles north of Fredericksburg. Path width:
Injuries: 0
US Annual Tornado Death Tolls, 1875-present - NSSL News The track of the cyclone was very narrow." Required fields are marked *. May 5, 1996
Thirty homes and six businesses were destroyed at Narrows (virtually the entire village). Path width:
The tornado began to skip and struck a few trees in Forest Springs North before moving into Oldham County. Time: 1:05pm
Time: 8:00pm
Grazulis Narrative: Moved northeast in and near Neafus, Steff, Spring Lick, Goffs, Short Creek, Staff, and Caneyville. Path width:
EF-Scale:EF1
The first places hit were the Anderson Farm about three miles south of Georgetown, where a cabin lost its roof, the Showalters Farm just south of there, and Julia Marcum's place next door to the Showalters. Grazulis has an event that starts in Illinois at 5:20pm and crosses into Indiana as a 110-mile long tornado family path. Path width: 250yards
Counties: LaRue
Deaths: 0
In Springfield 30 people were injured and 2 were killed (the two fatalities may have been from Jimtown). . April 21, 1976
Deaths: 0
Path length:
Deaths: 0
Path width: 50 yards
It damage many roofs with the heaviest damage at a day care center in a residential home off Miami Court. A total of five homes sustained extensive damage, and two homes suffered minor damage. Pre-17th century. By coincidence, this was the date of the annual statewide tornado drill test. Time: 1:28am EDT
Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mileNCDC gives nothing. 2. Parts of the barn, including insulation and sheet metal, were thrown into the trees. Time: 11:59am
In this region, the tornado was an EF3 with 150 mph winds. Deaths:
F-scale: F2
Path width: 250 yards
Time: 6:13pm - 6:15pm CDT
Path length:
Path length:
Notes: (From internal Weather Bureau memo and from newspaper clippings) Eight homes destroyed, 29 damaged. Injuries: 0
The tornado again caused damage on Electron Drive at the Dillard's Warehouse and Machinery Specialties Warehouse. Counties: Dubois
June 7, 1985
Time: 5:38pm
Deaths:
Injuries: 2
A total of 51 homes, 33 barns, three churches, four trailers, and 100 other buildings were destroyed, and fifty more homes had major damage. The NCDC touchdown lat/lon in Shelby County is not the same as the liftoff lat/lon in Jefferson County, though it ought to be if the tornado went directly from Jefferson County into Shelby County as one coherent tornado, so perhaps at the NCDC website the Shelby County event is a separate tornado, and is also a separate tornado according to Grazulis who perhaps felt it was not F2 and thus omitted it? County: Hardin
Path width: 300yards
Deaths: 0
The tornado struck as students were arriving at school onbuses. June 20, 1973
The Exposition Building and its skating rink were damaged. The storm then lifted but came back down at the eastern edge of town. EF-scale: EF2
Aerial photography from a NOAA NWS drone showed distinct swirls along several farmers' properties with damage to a half dozen barns and numerous uprooted and snapped trees. F-scale: F0
F4) StoryMap, March 27, 1890 -- Louisville (est. Where SPC has Edmonson County (FIPS061) coded, it should be Mason County (FIPS161). SPC gives a path width of 10 yardsNCDC gives nothingGrazulis and Storm Data say 150 yards. EF-Scale: EF-2
Counties: Harrison IN
Path length:
April 4, 1892
Counties: Barren
Path width:
A 4500 pound tractor was moved seven feet and a 16-foot trailer was wrapped around a tree. It also toppled the sign of the Green River Bait and Grocery before lifting as it crossed Knifley Rd. Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from 3.8 miles southwest of Salem to 7.2 miles east of Salem. Path length: 0.3 mile
Notes:A very narrow and intense damage path of rotating winds of90-95 mph was embedded within a 3-mile wide area of straight-linewinds. Time: 10:15pm EST
Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC rank this as an F3, Grazulis call it an F2. Notes: Two barns damaged. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Grazulis nothing. Time: 4:26am
F-scale: F1
February 6, 2008
Notes: Storm Data says this tornado hit the Buckley Wildlife Refuge. Injuries: 0
Suddenly a sleeve appeared descending from the cloud and a tremendous funnel tore through the timber along the Washita, hurling trees into the air. Path length:
March 16, 1942
Top Ten Deadliest Tornadoes in Texas (since 1900) NUMBER ONE - THE WACO TORNADO - MAY 11, 1953. A rock garden was blown 25 yards upwind. Path length:
Storm Prediction Center Deaths:
The 25 Deadliest U.S. Tornadoes. April 28, 2002
SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Grazulis 400 yards. Storm Data seems to then continue the tornado into Hardin County to Colesburg (or could that be part of the tornado listed at 3:45pm from Hardin to Spencer counties?). A guide to tornado watching appeared in a book entirely about tornadoes that was published before the turn of the 20th century, and weve reproduced it below. Noted discrepancies: Grazulis does not include Shelby County. Counties: Nelson
Path width: 75yards
It damaged or destroyed eight homes with several injuries. Time: 5:25pm
A few tree limbs and a small fence were downed near Sparks Ferry Road before it moved northeast over a large wooded area and open farmland. Next, an office building that was under construction was lifted off of its foundation. Storm Data has this tornado touch down four miles north of Frankfort and moves it to Georgetown and near Cynthiana. Path length:
I would prefer pre civil war era though, Your email address will not be published. Counties: Hancock
Injuries:
It threw the debris into a small church and removed some of its roof. The tornado weakened as it moved into forested hills where it snapped and uprooted several trees along a narrowing path. However, by the beginning of the 1800s, no Europeans had settled in the Oklahoma region. This tornado also damaged a lot of rugged forested area before intersecting with the path of the first vortex near the confluence of Highway 1838 (Corn Creek Road, Highway 625, and Joyce Mill Road. Path length:
Time: 4:25am
Path length: 2 1/2 miles
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Two large barns had pieces of tin roofing ripped off and thrown. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down in Cartersville. Deaths:
Path width:
The National Weather Service in conjunction with Meade County, Emergency Management has determined that an EF-0 tornado with, maximum wind speeds of 75 mph briefly touched down just east of the, Breckinridge/Meade county line in Meade county. May 11, 2003
Deaths:
Deaths: 0
In this area, several large barns, garages, and outbuildings were either destroyed or sustained significant damage, with debris thrown to the north, northeast, and east. April 26, 2011
In the late 1800s, meteorology was still in its infancy. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down two miles east of Adairsville and moved northeast for two miles. Deaths: 4
Path length: 1 mile
Injuries: 0
August 9, 1968
Path width: 60 yards
Counties: Clinton
F-scale: F0
Notes: Numerous hardwood and softwood trees were snapped or uprooted along the northern bank of Indian Creek two miles northeast of Corydon. Injuries: 2
Injuries occurred when three trailers were destroyed. SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mileNCDC gives nothing. Time: 10:00pm
Carmon Creek Road where several hardwoods were snapped along with power lines down. The tornado was photographed from Ekron, looking southwestward. Counties: Scott IN
Several trees were uprooted. Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mile and a width of 10 yardsNCDC gives nothing for either. Path width: 150 yards
Moore has been hit by 23 tornadoes since the late 1800s, according to the National Weather Service. The tornado crossed into extreme northwest Clark County along and near Daisy Hill Road. Deaths: 0
Grazulis narrative: Moved northeast at Nicholasville. It appears to have touched down at Hike's Point along Taylorsville Road and Brown's Lane. Deaths: 0
Grazulis narrative: A tornado destroyed two trailers and a barn, just north of Jamestown. Path width:
Path width:
SPC/NCDC lat/lon list this tornado as touching down in Daviess County, and provide no liftoff lat/lon. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC give 3 injuries, Grazulis gives 6, Storm Data gives 0. Notes: The tornado first touched down north of Russell Springs in northern Russell County west of Highway 127 where it did minor damage to trees, barns, and outbuildings.
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