Path length: 0.5mile The only Kentucky event on this day in Storm Data is in Fulton County. The last evidence of the tornado was at the north end of Quaker Rd, where small branches were broken. Noted discrepancies: SPC, Grazulis, and Storm Data give a time of 12:05am, NCDC 12:03am. Trees were blown down in the steep valleys as well as on the hilltops. Noted discrepancies: Not listed at NCDC. June 26, 2018 Path width: 200 yards The roof at 3245 Mammoth Drive flew into the Park Hills Shopping Center, 1240 Ascot Park was badly damaged, and the houses at 3576 Bold Bidder and 1248 Ak-Sar-Ben Park were destroyed. Injuries: 0 Path width: 14. Injuries: 0 Grazulis mentions this was probably a family of tornadoes. Deaths: Path width: Notes: Wind damage occurred in a five mile wide swath from Howe Valley to three miles east of Elizabethtown. December 29, 1865 Deaths: Noted discrepancies: This tornado is not included in the SPC database or at the NCDC website (despite listing 32 tornadoes elsewhere across the country that day), but is listed in Storm Data and Grazulis. The attached home sustained considerable siding and roof damage. The tornado moved from west to east, generally bounded by Kentucky Street on the north and Oak Street on the south. Path length: 5. One of the houses, a prefabricated home set on a concrete slab, "could not be found". 15. Injuries: 0 Narrative: This unusual January tornado touched down southwest of Shively and moved east-northeast. Counties: Breckinridge March 1, 2017 A detached garage had its door bow out. Deaths: Time: 5:34pm Deaths: 0 A An elderly man and a child were killed in a home two miles west of Berea. Noted discrepancies: NWS ranks this as an F2, Grazulis does not list it. Injuries: Damage was again observed along and west of Speith Road, 1/4 of a mile north of Henryville-Blue Lick Road just southwest of Henryville. April 16, 1982 Path width: 100 yards Large pieces of tin roofing were twisted around trees and wadded up into balls. Path width: 50 yards Deaths: 0 Path width: Time: 12:48am Injuries: NCDC lists Hamilton County Illinois with an F4 at 5:20pm, agreeing perfectly with Grazulis. The church itself was leveled. 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?). On US 127 cars were blown off the road and damaged. Time: 4:50pm At the home next door the front door was pulling away from the building. On the fairgrounds the tornado struck a large livestock barn as well as the fairgrounds' restaurant. Path length: Near the end of its path two small barns were destroyed and two homes sustained roof damage. It then moved northeast and removed several shingles from another home along this same street. Path width: 200 yards Path width: A large barn was destroyed, trees were felled, and the doors and siding were pulled off of a barn along Finney Road. Further east along Mayhew Road a large, well-built barn was uplifted and removed from its foundation with several cedar and maple trees twisted and snapped. He looked up into what appeared to be a hollow Along the tornado's path, plate-glass windows, signs, trees, and smaller buildings were smashed. Path length: 8.6miles SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Grazulis nothing. Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from five miles west of Centertown, on Shrull Lane, to Hartford. Path length: 18 miles Path width: Path length: 0.5 mi If one has a barometer, an observation should be made by some one every minute till the tornado has passed. Path length: 10 miles (skipping) The Jonas Weil Farm on Briar Hill Road suffered an unroofed home, two miles of destroyed fence, and 500 felled trees. Time: 6:30pm EF-Scale:EF0 The Anderson County courthouse lost some of its roof. Notes:Four grain bins were scattered over a quarter mile, with some debris thrown up to ahalf mile away. Its occupant was found in a ditch 200 feet from the foundation, unconscious, critically injured, and holding her unharmed baby. On Cardwell Way a carport collapsed, three homes were damaged, and a car was demolished. Notes: Trees and a tobacco barn were damaged. Up to a mile wide, this very intense tornado swept away entire farms as it passed one mile north of Laconia and two miles south of Elizabeth. Injuries: 0 Path length: F-scale: F3 F-scale: F1 Path width: 200 yards F-scale: F2 What to do during a tornado? | 13wmaz.com Time: 2:00pm Time: 3:04pm CDT - 3:11pm EDT F-scale: F2 Shingle damage occurred to a home in this location. However, before plotting the Taylor County tornado, an F-scale must be investigated. One of the buildings had its doors blown in, on another the metal roof was peeled back, and the third was leveled and blown 300 yards downwind. Path width: Path length: Grazulis narrative: A new brick home was destroyed and the neighboring home was unroofed in a brief touchdown in Radcliff. Counties: Perry, Breckinridge, Meade Path width: 10 yards Grazulis lists only Scott Countyhe does not specifically list Harrison or Nicholasthough he does mention that his Scott County tornado was "one of a family of small tornadoes that skipped across three counties" and he does mention Fleming County as being one of those three. Further east in the 500 block of Kara Court there was significant tree damage with the back of a house being uplifted and insulation being thrown upwind and downwind around the back of the house. Counties: Washington KY Two barns were destroyed, two barns suffered significant roof and structural damage, and about two dozen trees were snapped or uprooted. Deaths: 0 June 16, 1987 Path length: All of the damage was consistent with EF-0 wind speeds between 70 and 80 mph. A carport was thrown over a house and landed 100 yards to the east. Path length: 1.6 miles Counties: Edmonson (from Pendleton and Bracken) Only one structure was destroyed in Fayette County, which was a barn on the Scott Farm when the tornado was about 200 yards wide and less than a minute old. It damaged tree tops at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park as it moved northeast. March 18, 1925 F-scale: F3 Deaths: 0 Their 2-year-old son remained unhurt. Injuries: 0 Counties: Hart Deaths: October 7, 2014 Proceeding into Bourbon County, the house of Rodes Donald had two rooms blown away, the Dudley School was moved four feet off its foundation, fifty trees were blown down on the Ewing Farm, and the Spears Farm on Stewart Road was damaged. F-scale: F0 August 25, 1972 Time: 7:15pm Path width: 150yards Information lead and forecaster for the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang. Thirty homes were destroyed, with F4 damage and deaths in southwest Madison County, mostly near Richmond. November 7, 1996 Path length: 3.8 miles Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2Grazulis does not list it. Deaths: 0 Deaths: Deaths: 5 Numerous large hardwood trees were snapped in half. Counties: Allen Time: 4:26am One man was sitting in his trailer when the tornado hit, and subsequently found himself sitting in a field after his trailer was carried away. CoCoRaHS The funnel lifted northeast of Bedford. The tornado traveled from Clark County, Indiana across extreme southeast Scott County and into far southern Jefferson County. A tornado leveled trees and unroofed houses along a track 400 yards wide "at Paris" or "near Paris" (depending on the source used). Deaths: 0 Time: 1:40pm CDT Grazulis narrative: Moved north-northeast from five miles west of Danville to the east side of Pleasant Hill, passing two miles east of Harrodsburg and ending about eight miles northeast of that town. [Offsite link: 19th-Century Storm Chasers Took the First Tornado Photographs]. Path length: 0.3 miles Path width: Counties: Perry IN Tornado History - National Weather Service F-scale: F0 Path length: Counties: Clinton Two people were killed in one rural building. The tornado then hit a large farm at 3604 Schley Road destroying the second story of the home. Notes: The tornado destroyed a shed when it touched down along North CR 200W west of Haysville. In the Oak Hill area two barns and some outbuildings were destroyed. Path length:7 miles The school's tobacco barn and greenhouse were destroyed and the cattle barn was damaged. The tornado immediately lifted over the home and nearby trees, then set back down in a subdivision on the west side of New Calvary Road, about a mile east where several small tree trunks were snapped, but no apparent structural damage occurred. Time: 11:16pm EST Notes: This tornado began one mile northeast of Flaherty, damaged buildings at the intersection of US 60 and KY 1882, and lifted in western Fort Knox near Camp Carlson. Color-coded by F-Scale without county lines with time zones, March 27, 1890 -- Louisville (est. Early American Tornadoes 1586 - 1870, by David M. Ludlum, was also an important source. Path width: 100 yards Deaths: SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Grazulis nothing. Path width: 40 yards EF-Scale: EF-1 June 1, 1917 Path length: Path length: 1.3miles Path width: Path length: 3.2 miles Time: 4:45pm EF-Scale:EF0 Counties: Henry County: Marion Counties: Casey Time: 7:58pm EST to 7:59pm EST Deaths: 0 June 2, 1990 Path length: 0.7 miles Path width: 200 yards Tree and house damage also occurredat the end ofWindamere Lane, and warehouses were damaged just before the tornado lifted at US 460. Injuries: 0 Path length: June 23, 1984 Counties: Jefferson KY Time: 11:05pm Time: 9:00pm Deaths: F-scale: F3 Deaths: 0 beneath a nearby tree. Path length: 3 miles SPC gives one point, just northeast of KY 390 northwest of Bohon. Would tend to believe Storm Data's width. Path width: 100 yards Deaths: 0 Counties: Lincoln Several trailers were moved off of their foundations and had roof damage. Path width: 50yards SPC and NCDC give only a touchdown point (which agrees with Grazulis' touchdown point), but no lift-off point. Deaths: 0 The final damage was that of an unroofed house at the corner of Breckenridge and Fifth Streets. Counties: Harrison IN Path width: This is consistent with EF-2 damage and 120 mph wind. Path length: 1 mile Grazulis narrative: Moved east-southeast from near Milltown, passing near Depauw and Ramsey. F-scale: F0 Narrative: Moved east from south of High Grove, to seven miles west of Fairfield, to two miles east of Fairfield. Counties: Breckinridge, Hardin Noted discrepancies: SPC and Grazulis list 6 deaths for this tornado, NCDC lists 5. Path width: 75 yards Injuries: Great Plains were from settlements near and EF-Scale:EF1 Deaths: 0 Grazulis narrative: Moved southeast from three miles southeast of the intersection of I-65 and the Cumberland Parkway. May 8, 1969 Splitting shingles in the Wilson Cedar Forest. Tornadic damage continued east of Cox Ferry Road. Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Notes:The tornado touched down near the intersection of I-264 and Brownsboro Road. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck Angel Ridge. Itcontinued east for approximately 0.5 miles, then turned northeast over the PX and commissary complex before lifting 0.6 miles ENE of the base high school near Wilson Road. Both of the F5 tornadoes were recorded on the same day: April 3, 1974. Path width: Damage totaled $1,500,000 as 500 homes were destroyed, along with two schools and many other buildings. Path width: Time: 7:17pm Path length: 16 miles Injuries: 0 Injuries: Injuries: 0 A new 24 foot travel trailer was destroyed. A horrific nighttime tornado struck the Baker home just . Injuries: 5 Injuries: Path width: Deaths: Deaths: 0 Path width: 200 yards April 27, 1942, a frame house was blown away NCDC does not include Fayette County. Path length: 5 miles Path length: Time: 4:43am to 4:45am EST intermittently touching down and doing damage to small outbuildings. All evidences of corks flying from bottles should be carefully looked for. Aviation EF-Scale: EF-0 Path width: 100 yards No homes were leveled there, but the tornado intensified as it passed north of Madison, and killed seven people in that area. A large metal barn with cinder block walls was destroyed. A narrow tornado developed quickly just west of 3667 Grassland Black Gold Rd (Highway 1365) and snapped a few softwood and few large limbs. Deaths: 0 Narrative: Homes and barns were destroyed at Wade's Mill. A 60'x43' barn that had been recently remodeled and upgraded had three walls blown out. April 20, 2000 March 19, 2005 East of Marysville, another cyclic vortex from the parent storm formed just southwest of the intersection of Nabb New Washington Road and Nabb Marysville Road. Some children were killed on their way home from school. Another stand of 50 hardwood trees was uprooted and snapped, along with significant damage to the porch and roof of a home. F-scale: F0 Path width: Several homes and barns in far northern Jefferson County were damaged. Path length: 15 miles Path length: 3.1 miles This is one of the earliest photos of a Fall Creek Falls inhabitant. Some called the storm "wrong-way" or "backward." For 11 days in 1966, cities across the state, including Topeka in Shawnee County, experienced 59 tornadoes. The tornado skipped eastward, damaging the Juniper Hills Golf Course and blowing the roof off of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System building on Versailles Road. Noted discrepancies: NWS ranks this as an F2Grazulis does not list it. Time: 12:27am EST to 12:29am EST Continuing to the northeast and north-northeast the tornado killed people as it passed along the edge of China. Time: 2:35pm April 4, 2011 F-scale: F4 There was minor damage along Inverness Avenue northeast of Iroquois Park. It tore the back end off of a large barn there and collapsed a 60-foot tall silo, then crossedthe road and snapped several trees. Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from half a mile north of Georgetown to 2.8 miles east southeast of Georgetown. Time: 12:43am EST to 12:45am EST The pilots are associated with the Kentuckiana Volunteer Aviators. Deaths: 2 Path length: 2.2miles Time: 10:30am Injuries: 0 Tornado intensity is described by the fscale. Counties: Crawford, Harrison IN Time: 4:30am Path length: 1.2 mile June 7, 1980 Near the end of the track a house's roof was partially torn off a gravel from the driveway was lifted and pelted into the side of the house. Louisville, KY6201 Theiler LaneLouisville, KY 40229-1476502-969-8842Comments? No evidence of furtherdamage was observed until Rawlett Lane, where some trees were snapped and uprooted. About five and a half miles from Lexington on Briar Hill Road the twister devastated the Kelley Farm. Noted discrepancies: NCDC only lists Orange County, but the NCDC liftoff lat/lon is in Lawrence County. Some of the dead were found 300 yards from where they were sleeping. Counties: Clark IN, Jefferson IN, Trimble Injuries: Time: 7:30pm Injuries: F-scale: F1 Tree damage continued along thepath with additional EF-2 damage occurring attwo chicken farms where a 200 yd long chicken barn was destroyed and hundreds of chickens were killed and/or lost. Deaths: 0 April 4, 2011 Time: 6:21pm Deaths: 0 Injuries: 0 A door was opened by gusts of wind just moments prior to the tornado, and this may have been one factor in the destruction of the church as powerful tornado winds battered the outside of the building and also were allowed to sweep into the interior of the building. Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Path width: SPC/NCDC begin the tornado west of ScottsburgGrazulis starts it north of Scottsburg. Deaths: In 1883, the government had banned the word "tornado" from official forecasts because they were concerned the word would cause widespread . Injuries: 0 Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC give a path length of 14 miles, Grazulis and Storm Data give 15. A few more homes received minor damage before the tornado lifted near Longview. Time: 2:12am CDT Time: 4:00pm Noted discrepancies: None Five planes were destroyed. Injuries: 1 About 30feet from the tree there was an outbuilding that had half its roofblown off and the roof remnants were found about 50 yards away. April 20, 2000 F-scale: F1 EF-Scale:EF1 F-scale: F0 F-scale: F0 Counties: Edmonson Damage included roofs blown off two brick homes with the walls collapsed in one home. Notes: Touched down briefly just northeast of Henryville. Counties: Crawford Injuries: 4 Notes: Aerial photos were matched perfectly with radar signatures to determine that the initial start point of the tornado occurred 4.5 miles south southwest of Hawesville in Hancock County along route 2181. Injuries: Injuries: 0 Deaths: 0 Path length: Deaths: 1 Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC rank this as an F3Grazulis gives it an F2. November 22, 1992 March 29, 1974 Metal sheeting was thrown from the barn in various directions and much of it ended up in the trees. F-scale: F2 May 26, 1965 Path width: 150 yards F-scale: F0 Farther along the tornado's path, it knocked a mobile home off the foundation, and rolled it over two nearby cars. Injuries: EF-Scale:EF2 Several homes and barns were damaged or destroyed. Deaths: Path width: Deaths: Along Walnut Rd, the tornado caused damage to several barns andnumerous softwood trees and hardwood trees. February 5-6, 2008 Path width: 50 yards F-scale: F1 F-scale: F2 Counties: Lincoln Path length: It has been decided, to the best of our ability, that these events were due to straight-line winds. March 18, 1925 The Daily Press said, "A tornado struck the city with inconceivable energy." March 20, 1982 Counties: Clark IN The most significant damage occurred on Jones Lane where 100 mph winds destroyed two large barns along with small outbuildings. It then traveled southeast damaging the middle school complex on Highway 27 about a mile south of Stanford. Path length: 2 miles The tornado quickly strengthened and caused quite a bit of damage in Saint Helens, just southwest of Shively. F-scale: F2 Path width: 50yards Grazulis narrative: Moved east-northeast and northeast from three miles south of Huffman, passing southeast of Branchville, north of Sulphur Springs and Pilot Knob, south of Sulphur and Curby, across the southeast part of DePauw, hitting two miles east of Palmyra, passing through Martinsburg, crossing the southeast half of Daisy Hill, passing between Bunker Hill and New Liberty, and ending two miles north of IN 160. The width of the damage path also began to widen, increasingto 200 yards. A trailer and two barns were destroyed. Numerous trees were snapped along the path. Injuries: 5 Several cars were blown off US 127, resulting in injuries. About a hundred homes were unroofed or damaged. Several residents on Dutch Chapel Road heard a distinct "freight train roar" and their ears popped, along with zero visibility during torrential rain when the storm struck. The tornado then moved into Jefferson County, heading towards Hanover. SPC and Storm Data give a path width of 100 yards, NCDC gives nothing. Injuries: 0 Path width: Time: 7:15pm May 13, 1998 Should probably plot as one coherent tornado from Skinnersburg to Fleming, including all counties in between (and avoiding Bourbon County). August 14, 2002 The tornado lifted in a grove of trees about 250 yards east of the church. A custom-builthome had exterior wall damage in the master bedroom with adjacentbathroom. A house was leveled as well, with the furniture carried over half a mile away. Deaths: Path length: Counties: Green, Adair June 11, 2009 April 23, 1970 Deaths: 0 Notes: A strong thunderstorm passed through Georgetown in the pre-dawn hours. Counties: Hardin Here the tornado was estimated at EF2 with 115mph winds. June 1830 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. Injuries: 1 County: Scott, KY Path length: Notes: The tornado touched down 7.7 miles south of French Lick just west of Tony's Marina near IN 145. Tornadoes may be regarded as hurricanes, differing chiefly in respect to their extent and continuance. October 7, 2014 The old fruit cellar behind the house may have been weakened by rain water and the sudden pressure change. December 15, 1971 Environmental Films, 1993. STARLA POINTER , Yamhill Valley News-Register. First "documented" hurricane to strike Key West. Counties: Boyle, Mercer Path width: 400 yards Homes lost their roofs along Oak Street at Sixth, between Fifth and Fourth, and at Fourth. Mrs. Kelley's 40-year-old "Negro hired hand" was blown 300 yards to his death. Time: 9:38pm EDT Time: 6:45pm Counties: Clark KY Path width: Deaths: 0 Losses totalled five million dollars in Lincoln County. Injuries: 0 Counties: Boyle and Lincoln (and on into Rockcastle) The twister knocked down many power lines down and twisted and snapped trees and did roof damage to several homes and then crossing highway 210. Noted discrepancies: SPC mistakenly replaces Warren County with Lawrence County. About 30feet from the tree there was an outbuilding that had half its roofblown off and the roof remnants were found about 50 yards away. The tornado continued on eastward, where it damaged several barns near US 31E. Path length: 1/2 mile March 27, 2017 Several trees were snapped or uprooted and a roof was damaged near Rutherford Hollow Road. Time: 10:50am - 10:51am CDT Please select one of the following: Noted discrepancies: SPC has this storm moving from McCracken County directly into Madison County, which is geographically impossible. 11 tornadoes were spawned by 2 squall lines that crossed the state. Counties: Harrison IN Historic outbreak sequences: Five major tornado events during the second half of May 1896. Two houses, a trailer, and a barn were destroyed. June 11, 2009 Noted discrepancies: A straight line between the touchdown lat/lon and liftoff lat/lon would have the tornado scrape the northernmost tip of Trimble Countyable to work around it though for plotting. Path length: 16 miles Noted discrepancies: SPC lists Ohio and Daviess countiesNCDC lists only Ohio CountyGrazulis lists Muhlenberg and Ohio counties. Path length: Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC call this an F2, Grazulis does not list it. Injuries: 0 Time: 6:50pm At NCDC's listing for Madison County, the touchdown lat/lon is in Marshall County (near the McCracken County line) and the liftoff lat/lon is in Marshall County (same as SPC). In this area the tornado was rated as an EF2 with 115 mph estimated winds. June 26, 2011 Path length: 2.5 miles List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks Path width: Deaths: Path length: 0.1 mile SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Grazulis nothing. Deaths: 0 The tornado hit a property on Murrays Run Road ripping off the sides of a large well-built barn. Weather Radio Noted discrepancies: None On a radar screen at Texas A&M University, the tornadic . Trees were snapped in Schochoh as the tornado lifted. Deaths: Storm Data says "F1 or F2". Click here for a map showing the approximate path of the tornado through Winchester. There were several pieces of lumber that were impaled in the ground and pieces of metal sheeting were thrown into trees. A roof was removed on Mary Street near Swan Street, and some light damage was done along Fischer Avenue, though those damages were probably from straight-line winds.
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