Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis does not list it. A 5000 pound horse trailer was thrown to the northwest 70 yards. Path width:
It damaged 3 to 4 barns and snapped numerous trees along its 1.1 mile path. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis does not list it. Storm Data mentions that the tornado was small and the worst damage seems to have been the destruction of a barn. Right before it lifted, it tore the front porch off a home and destroyed a barn. Injuries:
Deaths: 0
Path width: 250yards
Path length: 60 miles (probably a family of tornadoes)
Time: 6:00pm
F-scale: F4
Counties: Jessamine
all the family. Another area of significant damage was at the intersection of Highway 100 and Reeder School Road (near the Simpson/Allen County line)where a house had significant roof damage and had an exterior wall blown out. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down in Creal, crossed KY 61, KY 2762, KY 210, entered LaRue County, hit Pleasant Ridge, entered Marion County, dissipating three miles west of Saint Joseph. October 9, 2009
Time: 4:45pm
June 9, 1961
Deaths:
Deaths:
Another information statement will follow shortly. Deaths: 0
EF-Scale:EF1
Time: 6:04am - 6:05am EST
Deaths:
Path length:
F-scale: F2
Grazulis lists the tornado in Franklin County but gives no location or path length. The twister lifted in a field a couple of hundred yards downwind. Injuries:
Counties: Marion
Counties: Shelby
EF-Scale:EF1
F-scale: F2
The observer reports that the tornado sucked all the water out of this tank. June 27, 2008
Injuries: 2
Counties: Bullitt
Path width: 100 yards
Deaths: 0
During the final stages of the tornado, it struck homes along Peyton Road flipping over single wide trailers, lifting the roof of a barn, and doing extensive tree damage. Path length: 1.5 miles
EF-Scale:EF0
A pillar of flame shot skyward when the vortex of the twister struck the Kelley residence." Path width: 100 yards
Deaths: 0
F-scale: F1
April 20, 1996
About twenty homes were destroyed, and some were swept completely away. Time: 1:25pm
Moore has been hit by 23 tornadoes since the late 1800s, according to the National Weather Service. After a brief break in the path, the tornado touched down again four miles southwest of Celestine and took a slight turn to the northeast. The tornadoes touched down just north of the front in Kentucky. Counties: Barren and Metcalfe
April 20, 1986
Deaths: 7
EF-scale: EF2
Path length: 1.9 mile
June 21, 2019
Injuries: 0
The length of this touchdown was .90 miles. April 3, 1974
EF-Scale:EF1
Winds were estimated at 85 mph in this area with a width of 50 yards.
Across Holmans Lane trees and roofs were damaged before the tornado lifted near IN 62. February 6, 2008
Path width: 15 yards
Path width: 100 yards
Path length: 1/2 mile
Deaths: 7
Notes: More specific information is needed to accurately map this tornado. 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. Storm Data says the tornado touched down near Slaughters in Hopkins County, proceeded to Sacramento in McLean County, and then went on to Prentiss in Ohio County. Deaths: 0
Trees also fell on at least two outbuildings. F-scale: F2
Counties: Perry
County: Washington IN
F-scale: F1
About a dozen expensive homes were destroyed in affluent suburbs of northeast Louisville. Path length: 1.8 miles
Path length: 16 miles
Time: 3:05pm
Time: 5:40pm - 5:42pm CDT
Time: 12:12pm
NWS A dozen trees were snapped, uprooted, and twisted. Deaths:
Path length: 2 miles
Time: 6:20pm
At 291 Elamond Road part of the roof of a home was peeled back with extensive siding damage. August 13, 1966
January 19, 1928
Injuries: 0
At this tornado's touchdown point in Ohio County a witness said it "swerved" as it approached his house, just grazing the home but destroying the garage and a nearby barn. Grazulis narrative: A barn was destroyed near Scottsburg. Neither SPC nor NCDC list this tornado. Time: 3:42am CST
Time: 7:45pm
Minor injuriesto the resident. F-scale: F3
Time: 4:45pm EDT
Injuries: 2
January 2, 2006
Path length: 10.4 miles
Notes: Storm Data says this tornado hit Mannsville, Burdick, Meadow Creek, and White Ridge. Storm Data lists this tornado in McCracken and Marshall counties. Time: 7:00pm
July 30, 2009
Path width: 150 yards
Counties: Warren
Time: Noon
LMK Warning Area Counties: Oldham, Henry
F-scale: F2
The tornado damaged the roof of a home and did porch, deck, and roof damage to a neighboring residence, plastering the east side of the home with insulation. Path width:
The tornado then weakened considerably, and the only significant damage done in Elizabethtown was power lines getting ripped down on North Dixie Highway. Path width: 80yards
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:
Path width:
Power lines were down and several power poles were snapped. Noted discrepancies: SPC has beginning and ending lat/lons as 37.18/-85.32, 37.22/-85.08NCDC has 36.88/-85.72, 37.03/85.45. Numerous trees were felled and several outbuildings were damaged. Path width:
Wind speeds were estimated around 85 mph. All NOAA. Counties: Warren
Also on Slack Road a two-story house lost its entire roof. Notes:The tornado touched down in downtown Salem at the Salem Feed Mill on South Water Street. Numerous homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed on the north side of Bowling Green. Injuries: 2
Path width:
This tornado is very oddly listed at the NCDC website. Ten buildings were destroyed on a farm. October 29, 1883
County: Meade
Time: 7:10pm
Counties: Harrison KY
85 mph winds. Time: 8:25pm - 8:27pm EDT
Deaths:
November17, 2013
Path length:
SPC/NCDC stop the tornado where Grazulis starts it (Grazulis then moves it northeast for 5 miles). In this location just east of U.S. 60, damage suggested an EF4 tornado with 170 mph estimated winds, and a width of observed damage from 0.3-0.4 mile. The tornado first touched down on the south side of Fredericksburg just south of U.S. 150 where several trees were snapped off. Path width: 200 yards
One day we had to move a house that had "survived" a tornado. The tornado quickly strengthened and caused quite a bit of damage in Saint Helens, just southwest of Shively. Counties: Anderson, Woodford
Deaths:
County: Henry
SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC gives 30 yards. Accounts of tornadoes or tornado-like winds have been noted throughout English history back to around 1,000 AD. Grazulis narrative: Grazulis gives a lengthy description of this tornado, but does not give any information about Orange County, most likely since the tornado just barely clipped the corner of the county and went through an extremely rural, wooded area that is virtually unpopulated. Time: 5:49pm Central
Injuries:
Injuries: 0
Path width: 400 yards
F-scale: F3
Path length:
leaving a kerosene lamp, still lighted and burning, A well-constructed and large factory building (Airgo Industries) was cleared to its foundation slab with numerous anchoring bolts bent in the direction of the storm. Path length: 1 mile
Flying debris damaged at least two other buildings and vehicles, with roofing debris scattered a quarter of a mile to the northeast. Two women were injured by flying glass but the injuries were not serious. There was also structural damage and roof damage at the Good Samaritan Society Nursing Home at 3500 Good Samaritan Way. Injuries: 0
Path length:
Path length: 5 miles
Counties: Washington KY
Deaths: 0
Path length: 2.6miles
Time: 1:00pm
A four-year-old girl in the house was blown 200 yards and survived with a broken leg. Injuries: 0
Injuries: 7
Path length:
Deaths:
Besides the structural damage, about 40 large hardwood trees were uprooted along the path. The "coldest" tornadoes occurred on March 12, 1986, when three F1 tornadoes were observed while temperatures were in the middle 40s. EF-Scale:EF1
Injuries: 0
Numerous trees were uprooted, a 145-foot barn was destroyed, and the top was sheared off an adjacent silo. Tall grass along a fence line within the tornado's path showed evidence of convergence. Five grain bins were blown away, and two others collapsed. The twister was 1/4 mile wide as it entered Pewee Valley where it destroyed a three-story brick home and a two-story frame house. Deaths: 0
Notes: Thetornado touched down near I-65 embedded in straight line winds. Path length: 0.75 mile
Path length: 5 miles
A new 24 foot travel trailer was destroyed. After causing comparatively little damage in Houston Acres, the tornado strengthened again and grew to a width of about three blocks. EF-Scale: EF-1
Time: 5:30pm
Injuries: 0
The tornado dissipated about a minute later. Early reports were of a single 110-mile tornado path, but later research showed it to be three . These textbook entries were reproduced in entirety, as found in Early American Tornadoes 1586-1870 (David Ludlum), pp. Another stand of 50 hardwood trees was uprooted and snapped, along with significant damage to the porch and roof of a home. Time: 4:22pm - 4:24pm EDT
Injuries:
Noted discrepancies: Only Martin, Orange, and Lawrence are listed in this SPC entry. Path length: 8 miles
Path width:
The tornado spent its last fury in the Happy Acre area, causing damage along Goose Creek, near Friendship Church, and on the southern end of Bethany Ridge where chickens were stripped of their feathers. March 12, 1986
One man was killed in Butler County, running from a house to a barn. Deaths:
Fifteen power poles were blown down along the highway. Injuries: 0
Damage was confined to IMS Lane. 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. Smithsonian Institution got involved in the research, Andover, Kansas struck by intense damaging tornado, Joplin, Missouri: Five years after the EF5 tornado of May 22, 2011. May 18, 1995
Path width:
Deaths: 0
F-scale: F1
Time: 4:25pm
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