tornadoes in the 1800s

This included large sections of roof structure being removed and exterior walls collapsing at 202 Woebegone Way. Path width: 250 yards Time: 2:00pm F-scale: F2 Path length: 0.3 mile June 27, 2008 Deaths: 0 where 2 structures were destroyed. On Brownstown Road, many homes were severely damaged especially on the north side of the tornado track with estimated speeds of 150 mph (EF3). November 5, 2017 Path length: 2.1miles F-scale: F2 Time: 8:35pm The tornado then weakened as it moved into southern Casey County where it damaged more trees, barns, and outbuildings. Narrative: Buildings were unroofed in downtown Lexington and at Sayre College. Notes: This tornado touched down 6 miles southeast of Columbia along Dale Morrison Road. The two-story eight-room main residence was "torn from its foundations" and reduced to a pile of rubble. Deaths: 0 Trimble County is included at NCDC, with begin and end lat/lons identical to each other and to the end lat/lon given at NCDC for Jefferson County. Deaths: 0 Homes and other buildings were unroofed at Crab Orchard Springs. Path width: 40 yards A trampoline was thrown approximately a mile from the house along with lots of playground toys being thrown several hundred yards. The tornado did its worst damage at the beginning of its pathwhere it demolished three homes on Dawson Drive. Deaths: 0 Path width: Path width: 150 yards Notes: Storm Data says this struck Peyton Ridge. November 14, 1993 Path length: Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck Angel Ridge. 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. The owner of the house was upstairs sleeping when he felt his ears popping, then a large roar of wind on top of the house and bricks fell on his bed. 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"). Last updated: May21, 2021. Several outbuildings were damaged and numerous trees were uprooted or snapped in the Sunfish area. He looked up into what appeared to be a hollow Counties: Henry The tornado caused major damage to 44 homes and two businesses. EF-Scale:EF1 October 26, 2010 Path length: Twenty-nine more homes were damaged, as were trailers, barns, and fences. Notes: Storm Data touches this tornado down at Eastview and hits KY 84. Time: 9:34pm EDT The tornado then moved across a mixture of open farm fields and scattered forest. Injuries: 1 Path length: The National Weather Service has no official tornado record prior to 1950, and other sources for early tornadoes do not list every tornado that has occurred. Time: 3:40pm Counties: Perry, Breckinridge, Meade This tornado is very oddly listed at the NCDC website. The garage doors were bent and pushed in. Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path width of 10 yards and a path length of 1/10 of a mileNCDC gives nothing for either. May 25, 1973 Noted discrepancies: SPC, Storm Data, and NCDC list no injuries, Grazulis lists 2. Noted discrepancies: SPC has this storm moving from McCracken County directly into Madison County, which is geographically impossible. 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. Time: 9:21pm - 9:24pm CST Path width: 20 yards Counties: Clinton Time: 5:41am - 5:47am EST Along the tornado's path, plate-glass windows, signs, trees, and smaller buildings were smashed. The tornado also caused significant tree damage from the middle school north/northeast across a remote area of the northeast part of the post. EF-scale: EF2 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. Path length: 0.3mile October 29, 1883 Counties: Orange (from Martin, to Lawrence) filled, and clothing torn into shreds. Time: 6:00pm Path width: 50 yards Grazulis narrative: Skipped east-northeast from Madisonville to Bremen, Moorman, and on to Beaver Dam. Path width: 150 yards spread about the "night phantom that appeared Injuries: 0 Injuries: 0 F-scale: F1 Path length: 1/10 of a mile Path width: 25 yards Noted discrepancies: SPC lists this as an F2, NCDC and Grazulis list it as an F1. Injuries: There was mention of tornado damage in Smithfield and just outside New Castle in Henry County. Continuing to the east-southeast, the tornado downed numerous trees in a cyclonic pattern on both sides of Spencer-Hamilton Road south of Loretto. Injuries: 0 Time: 11:06am EST Path width: 200 yards March 2, 2012 Counties: Franklin After destroying an older barn, the tornado ended just east of KY 55 where numerous softwood trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado continued southward for another two-tenths of a mile, downing trees along Campground Rd before lifting. Counties: Hardin The only damage to the home, however, was minor roof damage from a branch falling on it. Path length: It damaged or destroyed eight homes with several injuries. EF-Scale: EF-1 Several trees were snapped or uprooted before the tornado lifted just east of Highway 90. Injuries: 0 Trees pointed in towards the center on both sides of the track. Deaths: 0 Time: 8:15pm Path length: 1 1/2 miles Counties: Casey, Lincoln, Boyle Will plot a single tornado as close to the given lat/lons as possible. Several outbuildings were destroyed or damaged. F-scale: F3 April 22, 2011 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. Plotted according to NCDC's narrative. A mobile home had its metal roof blown off into a nearby pond and insulation was blown along the ground and into a couple of trees. One person was killed as 15 homes were destroyed near Cox's Creek, Nelson County. Injuries: Path width: 200 yards September 22, 1980 Redeford's wife was carried 150 yards to a pond on the land belonging to L. P. Hagan. Path length: Time: 2:00pm Injuries: 0 Notes: Storm Data puts this tornado in Eckerty. Injuries: 0 Path width: 250yards The tornado then finally began to weaken and it dissipated about four miles shy of Paris. F-scale: F1 Path length: 0.20 mile A 16-inch rafter was driven into the ground. There were some hardwood trees uprooted and parts of them fell onto homes, fences, trampolines, and swing sets. Significant damage continued until the intersection of Main and Sixth Streets. Deaths: 0 June 27, 1973 Injuries: 2 March 27, 1890 Will plot it as an F1. Path length: Three houses and four barns were blown into the Barren River at Thomas Landing, injuring ten people. The exact end point of the tornado was difficult to determine as it went into a thickly wooded area with limited access. A cinder block storage building was toppled. Counties: Casey, Lincoln, Pulaski (and on into Rockcastle and Laurel) Deaths: 0 July 26, 1984 Notes: The EF-1 tornado touched down southeast of Center, Kentucky near Herbert Hodges Road. July20, 2018 Time: 3:30pm A workshop containing tools and heavy equipment was destroyed. [Offsite link: 19th-Century Storm Chasers Took the First Tornado Photographs]. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Storm Data 133 yards, Grazulis 300 yards. Along the path two barns and a silo were damaged. County: Adair Counties: Hardin Four tornadoes accomplished that feat: one on March 27, 1890two on March 18, 1925and one on May 9, 1933. Time: 6:18pm CDT to 6:45pm CDT 1830 - Hurricane impacted the Florida Keys on August 15th. The Jonas Weil Farm on Briar Hill Road suffered an unroofed home, two miles of destroyed fence, and 500 felled trees. Grazulis has the tornado starting in Muhlenberg County east of Greenville and he lifts it at Hartford in Ohio County (nowhere near the SPC/NCDC lat/lon). The Exposition Building and its skating rink were damaged. March 28, 1997 A house on Base Line Road had its front porch ripped off and thrown over the house into the back yard. EF-1 tornado first touched down on East Riley Rd. SPC path length is only one mile, however. Joplin tornado May 22, 2011. A purple martin house was bent over 60 degrees facing east. Notes: This brief twister destroyed two barns and did heavy damage to several other barns and homes. Seventeen houses were damaged along Walnut Street from Fifteenth to Seventeenth Streets, a home was severely damaged near the corner of Madison and Thirteenth Streets, and a factory was damaged at the corner of Chestnut and Twelfth Streets. Counties: Oldham Two residents survived in an underground tornado shelter where they took refuge having heard of the warning via sirens and phone calls 3-5 minutes before the tornado destroyed their homes. Path length: 3.1 miles SPC lists a path length of 19 miles, NCDC 18 miles, Grazulis 21 miles. April 11, 2008 Path length: 2 miles Path length: F-scale: F2 Time: 3:45am Damage to houses and other buildings was mainly to roofs and windows of the upper floors. SPC and NCDC give a time of 6:00pm, Storm Data gives 5:00pm, Grazulis says 6:30pm. F-scale: F2 Notes: Thetornado touched down near I-65 embedded in straight line winds. If changed to -86.45 it is in Warren County (right in Bowling Green). Path length: 34 miles (skipping) Trees were laying in all directions with lots of twisting and many snapped trees. Injuries: 0 Path length: 0.1 mile Injuries: The tornado snapped large limbs from the tree canopy in this area and likely was not in total contact with the ground. Counties: LaRue Will plot into Adair County. Time: 4:01pm EST March 20, 1982 County: Clinton March 20, 1882 April 5, 1985 Path width: 50 yards A neighbor along Deatsville Road had a tree fall and crush a trampoline. To the north of the barn and home, it tossed a 1500 lb. Time: 3:30pm 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. Notes:The tornado touched down near the intersection of Canton Road and Howell Road. SPC and NCDC give a path length of 31 milesGrazulis says 25 miles. Deaths: Notes: Storm Data says this tornado formed near Fox Creek, moving south of Lawrenceburgalong KY 513 near the intersection of the Blue Grass Parkway and US 127Gilbert's Creek Roadand Lillards Ferry Road in Woodford County. Injuries: 0 Grazulis takes it to just northeast of Bedford, which generally agree with a track map of the outbreak drawn up by NSSFC. Path length: 1.2 miles Counties: Warren "When I flipped one of the steaks and it didn't come back down, I knew it was time to go inside." Injuries: The deadliest tornado in American history was "The Tri-State Tornado" that killed 625 people in 1925. Counties: Scott KY Time: 6:10pm Path width: Deaths: 0 Injuries: 0 Counties: Logan Several barns and outbuildings were destroyed. Path width: 25yards SPC and NCDC give a path length of 7 miles, Grazulis and Storm Data give 8 miles. Path width: Path length: Hourly Observations EF-Scale: EF-2 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. The tornado may have again weakened or lifted as the storm crossed Blue Ridge Manor and Anchorage. Path length: Metal roofing material was lofted into nearby trees and spread up to a quarter mile to the east. Counties: Grayson Notes:Four grain bins were scattered over a quarter mile, with some debris thrown up to ahalf mile away. Deaths: Deaths: 0 Path width: 50 yards Injuries: 44 April 20, 2011 Debris could be seen in the air swirling around the funnel. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis says F3. Houses were severely damaged on Green Street (now Liberty Street) near Campbell. Time: 8:20pm CDT Path width: 250 yards November 14, 2011 Significant wind damage occurred outside the tornado's path. County: Perry Several trees were knocked down or snapped. The garage of this house was destroyed with one vehicle thrown 30 yards and another tossed 75 yards. EF-Scale: EF0 Path width: 50 yards Path length:2.7 miles Here, EF3-EF4 damage was estimated with winds of 150-170 mph. The tornado moved from west to east, generally bounded by Kentucky Street on the north and Oak Street on the south. A trailer was carried 30 yards, then dropped and smashed. Injuries: 6 Between 1890 and 2011, the city, which is located near the heart of "tornado alley," was hit by a . Injuries: 1 Notes:The tornado touched down in a corn field near Morrison Park Road, just east of Tompkinsville Road. May 9, 1933 April 2, 1983 Insulation from the largest building was spattered onto the south and east facing walls and vehicles on the east side of the complex. Path width: However, before plotting the Taylor County tornado, an F-scale must be investigated. Time: 1:05pm On Simler Road, there was consistent snapped tree damage anda camper that had been tossed and flipped over and several barns received extensive damage. SPC lists a path length of 27 miles, NCDC 28 miles, Grazulis and Storm Data 30 miles. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list three fatalities, Grazulis 2, Storm Data 6. April 14, 1972 Path length: 1.5 miles Counties: Clinton EF-scale: EF1 Metal roofing on a barn was blown off and pushed a few hundred yards downwind into the woods. Path length: County: Allen County: Harrison IN 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. Path length: Beyond the initial touchdown area, only minor roof damage and tree damage in the form of uprooted trees and snapped trunks, occurred before the funnel lifted at Childress Road. Noted discrepancies: None. Path length: Injuries: 10 There were far fewer towns and people and most went unrecorded. County: Metcalfe Notes: The tornado touched down near the intersection of Second and Jackson Streets in Tompkinsville. At this location there was more tree and roof damage. Path width: Path width: Time: 5:54pm - 5:56pm EDT The car ended up in the living room of the home. Several homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed. Path length: Time: 10:15pm Deaths: 0 Time: 4:04pm A second building, a large two-story brick industrial building 1/2 mile east, had about 20 percent of its metal roof peeled off. There were 28 deaths in the Brandenburg area. The vortex quickly intensified to EF3 strength as it crossed the south portion of the town of Marysville, severely damaging several homes. Throughout the property there were twisted and uprooted trees. Counties: Harrison IN Notes: A small tornado traveled from northwest of Cyclone to south of Cyclone, damaging a few buildings and felling trees. January 29, 2008 Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a time of 2:00pm, NCDC 1:00pm, Storm Data 3:00pm. Path width: Low end EF-2 damage was observed. July 10, 2015 Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down eleven miles northeast of Standiford Field and traveled northeast for three miles. Noted discrepancies: SPC and Grazulis list a path width of 100 yards, NCDC lists 200 yards. Damage continued to the east along and south of Hurst Road in extreme southeast Washington County. Time: 10:28pm Time: 6:30pm Time: 4:50pm F2 and F3 tornadoes are strong tornadoes, with winds as high as 206 . F-scale: F1 They also stated that the tornado looked like a black wall as it approached. Time: 9:40pm Path length: 6 miles Injuries: 0 Noted discrepancies: This tornado is not listed at SPC or NCDC. Thetornado continued skipping along thenorthwest side of Sandy Hill Rd, damagingoutbuildings on another farm, beforecrossing KY highway 261 at Guston Rd. Several more homes were severely damaged along this road. May 18, 1995 Grazulis narrative: Moved east-northeast from five miles southeast of Stamping Ground to Muddy Ford. EF-Scale: EF-0 Counties: Jefferson KY Notes: Storm Data begins this tornado near Nevada, moving it to the east side of Burgin, then curving northward to 3/4 of a mile west of Dix Dam, to the east side of Pleasant Hill. Path width: 65yards Storm Data lists this tornado as having struck both Metcalfe and Adair counties, touching down a mile west of Summer Shade at the intersection of KY 90 and Milam Clark Road, crossing KY 90 and KY 640, KY 163 south of Goodluck, lifting just north of Breeding. Injuries: Time: 4:26am Time: 7:30pm Path length:5.2 miles Path length: May 26, 1968 by a tornado that struck Pryor, Oklahoma, Deaths: 0 Storm Data lists a path length of 34 miles. Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a time of 5:22pm, NCDC gives 4:22pm, Storm Data gives 6:22pm. Path length: EF-Scale: EF1 Injuries: 2 F-scale: F4 Injuries: 0 One snapped tree came down onto the roof of a home and did considerable damage. Notes: Trees and a tobacco barn were damaged. Deaths: F-scale: F0 Farther east on Webster Road another residence sustained significant roof, gutter, and siding damage. March 1, 1997 Time: 2:30pm Miller farm. Of the injured, 3 were serious enough to be hospitalized. Deaths: 2 A news story in the Oklahoma Herald also mentioned two deaths in the Waterloo area, and that "over a score of people" were injured. Path length: 0.4 miles July 28, 1972 Click here for a map of the Jefferson County portion of this tornado track. F-scale: F2 Notes: This tornado caused relatively minor damage to fences, trees, and a few roofs on the east side of Versailles. Path width: 100 yards Next a large oak tree was uprooted at 3705 Modesto Road and a trampoline was thrown into a Volkswagen and then over a house. Path width: 75 yards Time: 11:51am EDT July20, 2018 The tornado touched down near, the Hill Grove and Guston area on the south side of U.S. 60, blowing, a porch off the side of a house. 1831 - Hurricane impacted the Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas on August 14th and 15th. Noted discrepancies: NCDC and SPC storm databases place a tornado in Metcalfe County at this time, and nothing in Boyle County. About half a mile to the east along US 62 at the Caneyville Milling Company three large empty metal grain bins were moved off their foundations causing damage to nearby objects. Injuries: several February 24, 2018 Injuries: 1 Almost all of the information for this post came from the book The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896. Time: 7:10pm CDT injured watchman on the east bank of the river Noted discrepancies: Storm Data lists this and the following tornado as one. F-scale: Injuries: 2 Path length: Storm Data has it in Logan County (Chandlers Chapel to six miles east of Chandlers Chapel), Warren County (ten miles southwest of Bowling Green to sixteen miles southeast of Bowling Green), Allen County (three miles west of Meador to two miles east of Meador), and Barren County (fourteen miles southwest of Glasgow to ten miles east of Glasgow, with Glasgow hard hit). Injuries: 5 Path length: Time: 5:04pm CDT A Mr. Joseph Bradley, while assisting in removing victims from the rubble immediately after the storm, had his eye cut out by a hatchet wielded by a nearby person removing fallen rafters. More research would be nice. Deaths: Deaths: F-scale: F0 Deaths: There were 134 "uninhabitable" homes. June 22, 2011 Time: 2:36pm - 2:38pm EDT Make careful observations of all electric displays, the appearance of balls of fire, the sound of thunder, the roar of the tornado, etc. Injuries: 0 It damaged three more barns and uprooted more trees along Montpelier Rd. Deaths: Insulation was everywhere. This tornado was part of the "Enigma Outbreak", when sixty tornadoes swept through the southeast United States. F-scale: F1 Path length: Path length: 0.4mile Notes: A tornado touched down 0.7 miles south of St. Meinrad in Spencer County on the southern end of the St. Meinrad Seminary grounds. More research is needed. While these spinny winds are not unique to our country, they are very much a part of the American experience. Storm Data says the tornado moved northeast and crossed I-65 three miles north of Scottsburg. F-scale: F3 Time: 4:15pm Along Palmyra Road near Strickland Road, several trees were snapped with EF1 damage 50-100 yards wide and estimated winds of 100-110 mph. EF-scale: EF1 Injuries: Noted discrepancies: SPC/NCDC lat/lon place this tornado in Mason County. Moving eastward over open fields, it tore most of the roof off a barn at the end of Doug White Road, plastering insulation from the barn onto the northeast side of the adjacent home. Path length: 0.3 mile The most significant damage occurred near the intersection of McKendree Church Road and Highway 100 where a well constructed brick house completely lost its roof. Notes: This tornado touched down three miles northeast of Huntingburg, destroying a barn and blowing several outbuildings off their foundation. Injuries: 0 Counties: Washington IN Path width: SPC and NCDC give a path length of 14 miles, Grazulis give 28 miles. At Westport Business Center there was significant roof damage with portions of the roofing material and parts of the roofsupports 20 to 50 yards downwind and several windows blown out. The Daily Courier noted, "There was scarcely any more cohesiveness in the mortar in the brickwork than if had been made of sand and water." The first dataset is the number of deaths per year from tornadoes in the United States. Time: 7:17pm This tornado touched down at 338 Soards Road and moved northeast, lifting as it began to cross a small lake. The tornado lifted near the Simpson County line near KY 100. The attached home sustained considerable siding and roof damage. Counties: Bourbon The tornado crossed into Oldham County, moving through Orchard Grass Hills and lifting at the northern tip of Clore Lane. Path length: Time: Midnight The first home damaged was on Fourth Street opposite the park. Time: 10:28pm EDT F-scale: F0 F-scale: F3 Path length: 0.1 mile May 30, 2004 F-scale: F2 Noted discrepancies: None. Path length: Deaths: Counties: Crawford, Harrison IN

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