Notes: Tree damage. Path length: 1.6miles Path length: 1 mile Time: 9:40pm The roof was torn off of the Tarr Distillery at 899 Manchester Street. Path length: The SPC/NCDC touchdown lat/lon is just barely inside Pulaski County. Time: 11:59am Time: 1:40pm 19. Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from two miles east of Broadway to five miles east of Broadway. Path length: Deaths: 0 Path width: 150 yards The tornado began to skip and struck a few trees in Forest Springs North before moving into Oldham County. Aftermath of Galveston, Texas hurricane of 1900. Path width: 100 yards Path length: 15 miles One significant goal of this project is to develop the most accurate, reliable, and useful tornado database ever developed for southern Indiana and central Kentucky. April 20, 2011 EF-Scale:EF1 April 22, 2011 Click on a tornado or its track to find out more information about it. NCDC gives no endpoint lat/lon. Counties: Harrison IN March 27, 2017 Will not disagree with the official strength ranking of F3, but it sounds like this tornado was a minimal F3 at best. Path width: Just before crossing the highway, the tornado increased from 75 yards to 140 yards and picked up hundreds of cornstalks tossing them in various directions across the road up to 300 yards away. Injuries: Notes: Several structures were badly damaged as the tornado moved along KY 70 from Elm Drive to KY 206. Path length: 0.3miles The tornado lifted on the south side of Electron Drive. Time: 10:30pm Time: 4:42pm - 4:54pm CDT Notes: A tornado with 90 mph winds touched down one mile west of the intersection of KY 214 and KY 953. Injuries: Deaths: 0 Noted discrepancies: None Injuries: 12 Notes: Touched down 2.7 miles southwest of Huntingburg. were blown down. Three tornadoes were 1200 yards wide: one each on March 27, 1890.March 18, 1925.and April 3, 1974. Injuries: 60 SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC gives 30 yards. The final damages northeast of the tornado's endpoint were at Chestnut and Madison where a horse-and-buggy were turned over and at Main and Jackson (site of today's Slugger Field) where a tree was blown down. The tornado skipped to the east-northeast over open farmland and gave a glancing blow to the north edge of Ireland, doing roof damage and destroying a block garage. Path width: F-scale: F4 Time: 1:17pm Deaths: EF-scale: EF2 Deaths: F-scale: F0 Path length: Injuries: 0 The tornado lasted for a minute or less. F-scale: F3 Path length: 3.2 miles The tornado skipped east-northeast for nearly 9 miles across primarily open fields. Path width: Deaths: 0 Injuries: 5 Time: 2:00pm Counties: Madison Injuries: 2 Path width: 3. If changed to -86.45 it is in Warren County (right in Bowling Green). F-scale: F0 Notes: Grazulis' path width is probably the most correct. Notes: The tornado first downed a large tree on McDowell Road 2.8 miles south of Hodgenville. Counties: Boyle, Mercer Time: 5:39pm - 5:43pm EDT Most of the damage was high end EF0 around 85 mph with much of the damage being 20 to 50 yards off the ground. Here are five of the worst natural disasters to wreak havoc on U.S. soil. F-scale: The airport operations building had a disabled awning and post. F-scale: F1 EF-Scale:EF0 It began as a very narrow 80 yard tornado as a mainly elevated funnel cloud/tornado near tree top level. Injuries: 0 Several barns and outbuildings were destroyed. April 3, 2007 Would guess it was an F1, but more research is needed to get a better idea of this tornado's f-scale. Injuries: 0 County: Adair Path length: 1/10 mile Deaths: April 16, 1998 A second tornado touched down just south of Woebegone Way in a wooded area. Path width: A number of roofs were removed and walls blown out along the path through Danville. Injuries: F-scale: F0 About the NWS Deaths: A tornado appears as a rotating, funnel-shaped cloud that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground with whirling winds that can reach 300 miles per hour. Counties: Adair Injuries: 5 Injuries: 0 Deaths: Injuries: F-scale: F0 EF-Scale:EF1 October 18, 2007 Regional Weather Map Path width: 40 yards April 24, 2010 EF-Scale: EF-2 The toll in the church was about 18 to 20 dead, out of the 55 who were in the church at the time. Louisville, KY6201 Theiler LaneLouisville, KY 40229-1476502-969-8842Comments? Path length: 1.3 miles After damaging several outbuildings it traveled a mile northeast where it heavily damaged two brick ranch homes on CR 200N and CR 750W, removing their roofs and collapsing an outer wall on one of them. March 25, 1964 The tornado began in the vicinity of Tates Creek Road and Man O War Boulevard. A narrow tornado developed quickly just west of 3667 Grassland Black Gold Rd (Highway 1365) and snapped a few softwood and few large limbs. Path length: 0.9 mile Counties: Shelby Path width: The tornado grew to about two blocks wide and tore the roof off of a home at 4503 Zeta Court, dropping it in the back yard. EF-Scale:EF0 SPC and NCDC give a path width of 430 yards, Grazulis give 800 yards. Injuries: At this point, prefer to plot this tornado only in Mercer County. Path width: 100 yards Deaths: 0 Deaths: 0 March 7, 1956 Deaths: Noted discrepancies: None November 7, 1996 May 27, 2004 Path width: SPC gives a path length of 36 miles, NCDC gives 35 miles, Grazulis 38 miles. The tornado cut a swath 350 yards in southwest El Dorado, traveling southeast instead of northeast. Time: 6:32am CDT Deaths: 0 Immediately after the storm, Lagrange Interurban cars leaving Louisville could not get beyond Lyndon. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis does not list it. He later changed his ruling to an F2 tornado. Notes: The tornado moved from three and a half miles west of Franklin to the north side of town. Eight smokestacks were toppled at a canning plant, and the roof was ripped off a house. Path width: Path width: Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down on the east side of I-75 at the KY 21 exit. Most of the early pioneers came from Europe and there is no place in the world that has tornadoes like the United States. The only damage to the home, however, was minor roof damage from a branch falling on it. Time: 8:04pm EDT Deaths: 0 The storm increased in width to 200 years and struck several single and double wide mobile homes south of Millerstown road. F-scale: F1 Notes: Will use the Storm Data description. Counties: Jefferson IN (to Switzerland, Ohio IN, Dearborn) Time: 1:05pm The path ended at Blue River. Counties: Garrard EF-Scale:EF1 Time: 2:00pm EF-Scale: EF-1 Path length: 8 miles Path width: 60 yards Time: 3:17pm EDT - 3:27pm EDT Time: 12:27am EST to 12:29am EST Lat/lon pair given by SPC disagrees with this storm striking Perryville. We have plotted it according to Storm Data. June 3, 1996 Injuries 3 Deaths: 0 Fourteen farm buildings were damaged and a tenant home was destroyed. Continuing to the east-southeast, the tornado downed numerous trees in a cyclonic pattern on both sides of Spencer-Hamilton Road south of Loretto. Path width: 400 yards Deaths: For much of the mid-1800s, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. was the center of weather observation for the United States. Along the path two barns and a silo were damaged. Path width: 35 yards Notes:This very small tornado touched down on top of an older wooden barn on KY 289 just south of the intersection with US68. Path length: 15 miles Path width: Injuries: 4 Injuries: 0 Berea College was damaged. Deaths: 0 EF-scale: EF2 Injuries: So far, it doesn't look like it Grazulis lists an F2 tornado in Woodford County with eight injuries, a path length of one mile, and a path width of 200 yards on May 18, 1995 at 6:35am. Deaths: Time: 8:00pm Injuries: 0 Path length: 1.1 miles Grazulis narrative: At Blueberry Hill, two barns were "blown up and flattened" by a tornado that touched down south of Lexington. Injuries: Damage then occurred again when a frame home's garage was torn from its foundation at 2835 Klondike Lane and was thrown 100 feet into the side of Saint Martha Catholic Church. Path width: 50 yards April 2, 1983 Three barns were destroyed, 2 of them were concreted in strong firm footers. Grazulis times this tornado one hour later (12:05am November 27)could be a time zone issue here (either with Grazulis or the NWS). February 24, 2018 Notes: Hard to believe and F3 tornado with a path length and width as small as what SPC gives. Noted discrepancies: NWS ranks this as an F2, Grazulis says F1. The tornado twisted and snapped several cedar trees before going across the farmers field. The tornado then crossed the Ohio River and moved into Harrods Creek. Early pioneers knew very little about tornadoes. Counties: Crawford, Harrison IN March 27, 1890 There was significant damage on the upper portion of the feed mill approximately 70 feet off the ground along with some power poles being severely bent. Path length: 3 miles It uprooted and snapped the trunks of several large trees and did some minor roof damage to a home. Time: 7:00am Tornado Machine Plans, Weather Safety Notes:An NWS survey team has confirmed an EF-0 tornado touch down east of Elizabeth in Harrison County, Indiana. a squall accompanying a thunderstorm in Africa. On October 25th, 1844 a tornado struck near present-day Mission, Kansas and into Missouri damaging or destroying a number of farms. A mother and four children died in one home on the Laurel County side of the Rockcastle River, fifteen miles northwest of London. Near Lake Street some trees were felled and some monuments were overturned in Maple Grove Cemetery. Injuries: Counties: Lincoln (from Pulaski) Large, heavy fuel tanks were rolled in two different directions on Mayhew Road. The tornado moved north-northeast and northeast through the Parkland neighborhood (Twenty-eighth and Dumesnil), leveling a few homes. April 5, 2017 Narrative: Moved east-northeast from north of Caneyville to near Summit. It then tracked across rural Monroe County, uprooting and snapping large trees. Twelve homes were destroyed near Alton. Extensive structural damage was done to the school, amounting to a cost of two million dollars. Time: 10:25pm F-scale: F1 The most significant damage occurred near the end of the path near Prices Mill Road where a large barn lost a significant portion of its roof. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Grazulis nothing. Deaths: 0 Path width: Deaths: 0 Notes: Storm Data mentions damage at the intersection of Georgetown and Greenville roads. Counties: Meade Notes: This tornado touched down 7.3 miles southwest of Payneville and skipped to 4.3 miles west of Brandenburg. Path length: 15 miles The barn sufferedroof and door damage. Cattle and horses were killed. Tales F-scale: F3 It appears that tornadoes may have also struck Franklin, Anderson, and Fayette Counties on this day. Path width: 150yards Path length: 1.4 miles April 20, 2011 SPC and NCDC give a time of 6:00pm, Storm Data gives 5:00pm, Grazulis says 6:30pm. Jackson Deaths: 0 Path length: 85 mph winds. If one has a barometer, an observation should be made by some one every minute till the tornado has passed. F-scale: F0 The farm's chickens were stripped of their feathers. The tornado did its worst damage at the beginning of its pathwhere it demolished three homes on Dawson Drive. Path length: Deaths: 0 Narrative: Timber and barns were destroyed four miles north of Paoli. Deaths: Deaths: 0 Time: 11:35pm Path length: Time: 1:22pm CST The tornado narrowed and went to about 50 yards in width. The tornado then did some damage to trees and a grain silo. F-scale: F1 Time: 8:00pm November 18, 1957 Path length: 10 miles (skipping) County: Washington, IN Mr. Grazulis' data were largely responsible for pre-1950 information presented here. F-scale: EF2 The tornado moved east-northeast, roughly paralleling Morrison Park Road, flattening corn on several farms. Deaths: Injuries: 7 Deaths: 0 Path width: 200 yards Debris from the double wides was tossed around a mile downwind. March 1, 1997 Notes: Damage began near Ewing Road where trees were snapped and twisted. Path length: 4 miles Trees and power lines were torn down along Eighteenth Street Road from Kerrick Station to Greenwood Roada distance of about a mile. April 7, 2015 February 29, 2012 The relatively new Signal Service (a forerunner of the National Weather Service) tracked storms using telegrams, passing weather . This tornado is not listed in Storm Data! Counties: Floyd Injuries: 32 March 18, 1925 Path width: 150 yards Grazulis narrative: Moved northeast from Lee's Lick to west of Cynthiana, east of Poindexter, ending near Claysville. Injuries: EF-Scale:EF1 Notes: Storm Data puts this tornado at Donansburg. 1880s scientists didn't use terms like "wind shear" or "cold front," but they did observe that tornadoes affecting "central states of the Union" occurred when winds of different temperatures collided. Injuries: 0 Grazulis narrative: In the Pleasureville-Defoe area a tornado destroyed three barns and a silo. Path width: 75yards Time: 8:00pm Time: 6:03pm - 6:05pm CDT Storm Data says this tornado entered Orange County three miles south-southwest of Huron and entered Lawrence County three miles south-southeast of Huron. No trace of his cabin was ever found. Counties: Clark IN, Jefferson IN, Trimble Time: 7:10pm CDT Time: 2:38pm CST Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from 6.3 miles south southwest of Salem, to Pekin, to 1.3 miles southeast of Pekin, to 2.7 miles northwest of Charlestown, to 3.1 miles southeast of Charlestown. At one point, there were two distinct paths, as two funnels moved parallel to one another. Injuries: 0 The large metal shop had minor roof damage, but was pierced in several locations by debris from the outbuildings to the southwest, and the entire facility was shifted slightly off of its foundation. The single lat/lon SPC gives is indeed in Shelby County, but very close to the county line. Counties: Jefferson KY Time: 11:12am EST Deaths: 0 Minor damage to buildings occurred just on the western outskirts of Cloverport, then the tornado lifted over the town, touching down again less than a mile east of the community, where numerous hardwood trees were observed to be uprooted from aerial photos. The young braves wanted to run away but the older ones drew their medicine pipes and lit them. Northwest of ValleyStation many softwood trees were damaged, a pine tree was snapped, and a trampoline was blown over. Notes:This tornado touched down in a grove of trees near the end of Kurtz Drive. A large barn on KY 1009 had two walls blown out with debris thrown over half a mile downwind into Wayne County. Time: 7:20pm One home and at least six barns were destroyed. November 7, 1996 Counties: Casey Near the intersection of KY 152 and Mac Court extensive tree damage occurred. Noted discrepancies: None Deaths: Stanton, Kansas, on June 8, 1860, killing Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F3, Grazulis calls it an F2. Injuries: 0 April 3, 1974 Notes: Storm Data says this occurred near New Roe. March 2, 2012 Path length: Time: 4:00pm From here it travelled east-northeast, snapping tree limbs as it skipped over mainly open pastureland until it reached Thomas Road. The Salem School was damaged. F-scale: F1 Injuries: 2 Notes: SPC's touchdown lat/lon is in McCracken County, and the liftoff lat/lon is in Marshall County. Oklahoma. Time: 4:59am Path width:
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