tornadoes in the 1800s

Deaths: 0 Path length: 2.1miles The tornado continued to move east northeast along the countrysideuprooting, twisting, and damaging numerous hardwood trees. Injuries: The tornado snapped and uprooted trees, destroyed a mobile home, and caused roof damage to a number of homes. Path width: The F4 rating isbased on a single leveled home south of Caneyville Path width: 100 yards Moving east-northeast, the tornado damaged roofs and snapped several large tree limbs, as well as toppling a large but rotting tree that crushed the roof of a garage. Path width: 30 yards Injuries: 1 The tornado crossed into southern Woodford County just north of Mundys Landing. County: Oldham Time: 6:29pm Residents were not home at the time of the tornado at the other homes destroyed along its path. Injuries: In Scott County, immediately north of Highway 362 and east of Concord Road, three homes were severely damaged while five double wide mobile homes were completely destroyed. Injuries: Submit a Storm Report April 22, 1958 February 24, 2018 Injuries: Deaths: 31 Another information statement will follow shortly. According to the (Lexington) Weekly Press, the roof of "Mr. Sharp's house on the hill" was removed, and two chimneys were destroyed at the home of Mr. Bassett. Narrative: Moved east-northeast, passing north of Bardstown, killing people in three different homes. County: Clark IN Across a farmer's field, corn was flattened and twisted in multiple directions. The way the Kentucky River winds through the area, the SPC track takes the tornado from near Valley View in Madison County, into southernmost Lexington in Fayette County, and then back into Madison County. Sporadic tree damage continued southeast towards Walter Lakes Road. Time: 6:00pm Notes: Storm Data puts this tornado in Eckerty. June 2, 1990 Time: Timber between the river and Eighteenth Street Road along Greenwood Road was observed to have been felled pointing to a common center. F-scale: F1 April 20, 2011 Storm Data has this tornado touch down four miles north of Frankfort and moves it to Georgetown and near Cynthiana. Time: 2:00pm Deaths: 0 The tornado then skipped intermittently over primarily open farmland for before uprooting and snapping several trees along Leafdale Road west of KY 470. Deaths: 1 Path width: There were 28 deaths in the Brandenburg area. Noted discrepancies: None Path length: 16 miles Counties: Henry EF-scale: EF1 Injuries: 0 Lat/lon given place it in Sumner County, Tennessee. F-scale: F3 Time: 4:05pm - 4:10pm EDT Path width: 250yards Path length: 0.7 mile EF-Scale:EF1 The tornado thenflattened a fence and peeled a section ofsheet metal on an outbuilding beforelifting. Path width: Counties: Logan and Simpson Notes:This touchdown occurred approximately 5 miles west of Salem on SW Washington School Rd. Thunderstorms are expected to hit the . The second home experienced significant foundation damage and the roof was completely removed. The end lat/lon given by NCDC for Shelby County is actually located in Henry County. Winds in this area were estimated at 75 to 80 mph. Strange time disagreement between SPC and NCDC. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado went from near McKinney to Preachersville to near the Garrard County line, damaging the county fairgrounds and Maywood. Time: 1:05pm spread about the "night phantom that appeared The tornado reached its peak intensity near the intersection of Moore Road and KY 839. Grazulis narrative: Sixteen homes and 12 barns were damaged along the north edge of Shelbyville. Time: 2:50pm Grazulis does not include Grayson County. It then crossed Sweeney lane. A trampoline was thrown and wrapped around a shed and a tree. Time: 4:40am Counties: Washington IN Deaths: 0 May 14, 1995 August 19, 1999 Storm Data only mentions damage at the fairgrounds. Deaths: Counties: Clark KY F-scale: F1 Counties: Simpson Path length: 2.7 miles Path width: January 18, 1929 Deaths: F-scale: F1 Injuries: Numerous trees were blown down, snapped, or uprooted. Click on a county name to see a map of every known tornado track in that county. Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC gives 30 yards, Storm Data says 25 yards. This tornado did damage along Calvary Road where a mobile home was destroyed and a small shed slid off its foundation. Time: 7:20pm The tornado itself touched down on the edge of a large wooded area west of KY 527 0.4 mile south of Saint Francis. were damaged or destroyed. A camper parked on the southern edge of the path rolled three times toward the center of the circulation and was destroyed. Such tornado stories Path length: 8 miles Path length: It touched down north of the town of Lorena and began moving North-Northeast toward Waco. There was extensive tree damage along Elamond Road where over 100 trees were snapped, twisted, and uprooted. Injuries: 2 Deaths: 0 Time: 3:30pm Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC give a path length of 6 miles, Grazulis gives 7. Injuries: 0 These textbook entries were reproduced in entirety, as found in Early American Tornadoes 1586-1870 (David Ludlum), pp. April 3, 1974 Path length: 3 miles November 10, 2002 Four people were killed near Tracy Lane, and eleven others were injured in southeast Allen County. One trailer roof was thrown 65 yards. Path length: 3.4 miles Noted discrepancies: None Path width: Path width: 350 yards Time: 3:04pm CDT - 3:11pm EDT July 27, 1997 Noted discrepancies: Not listed at NCDC. Time: 11:39pm EDT Deaths: Counties: LaRue If there is an uprush in the tornado, it ought to be easily told; and the appearance will be very different from that if the object or house is borne along . The tornado also did moderate damage to barns and destroyed several outbuildings, and moved a 2700 pound motorboat 220 feet. At this point, prefer to plot this tornado only in Mercer County. EF-scale: EF3 It destroyed a mobile home and removed the roof from a house. Path width: Deaths: 0 EF-Scale: EF0 Counties: Perry, Crawford, Harrison IN, Washington IN, Clark IN, Scott IN Path width: February 24, 2011 Path width: 50 yards Thirty-four homes were damaged. Path width: 250 yards Notes: The NWS storm survey team found many areas of intermittent straight line wind damage around northern Harrison County, with one specific tornado path. Counties: Cumberland, Clinton (to Wayne) F-scale: F2 F-scale: F3 A large semi trailer and a few rides were blown sideways at a carnival at 10th & Watt streets. Time: 5:58pm - 5:59pm EDT There was also extensive structural damage on the east side of Henryville on North Front Street and Pennsylvania Street. The tornado crossed Paoli Pike just north of I-265 and caused roof damage at the Knob Point Apartments. SPC and NCDC give a path width of 1200 yards, Grazulis give 800 yards. F-scale: F2 Fifteen homes were destroyed Path width: Path length: Injuries: For the first case study on outbreak sequences, we examine two weeks of nearly nonstop tornadoes. If the longitude is changed from SPC/NCDC's -84.08 to -85.08, it's in Shelby County. 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. Path width: 200 yards Mr Hammonds, another policeman on duty at the time of the storm, said that he noticed nothing like a funnel, but he observed a violent rotation apparently about a vertical axis in a black ominous looking cloud associated with the storm. County: Cumberland Path length: 3 and a half miles Injuries: F-scale: F1 SPC and NCDC give a path width of 1133 yards, Grazulis give 800 yards. Time: 3:05pm Path length: Path length: However, Grazulis's "Kinney Station" was likely Kenney Station, which today is Monterey, located 4 miles southwest of Paris. This was one of the highest tornado death totals in a single building ever recorded in the United States. In southwest Jessamine County at the intersection of KY 1268 and US 68 seven horses were killed along with extensive barn and fence damage. F-scale: EF0 Time: 12:35am - 12:37am CST Injuries: 0 The tornado tracked to the east with extensive damage of trees along Hwy 1226. Noted discrepancies: None Twisters brought devastating results. Counties: Warren F-scale: F1 Injuries: 0 Deaths: 0 Time: 5:39pm - 5:43pm EDT Nobody knew about it until the next morning when they saw the scattered debris causing tales of a night phantom.. Path length: 0.25 mile The tornado moved to the northeast through present-day Saint Regis Park and Hurstbourne. Injuries: 0 Path length: 5miles Path length: 5 miles June 2, 1990 Two days after the tornado the tracks were still blocked beginning at O'Bannon Station. Injuries: 2 Path length: 0.4 miles Debris could be seen in the air swirling around the funnel. F-scale:F2 In Hartford two children were hospitalized when their trailer was overturned. Most of the wind damage was between 85 and 95 mph. Homes and businesses were destroyed. Deaths: SPC gives a path length of 16 miles, NCDC 17 miles, Grazulis 18 miles. At least one barn was destroyed. June 19, 2011 Deaths: 0 Notes: This tornado touched down near 812 Mount Vernon Road, damaging a barn and home at that location. Notes: Thistornado briefly touched down on SpinksDrive just off of Highway 69. Injuries: 0 Counties: Madison Path width: EF-Scale:EF1 County: Dubois Deaths: 0 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. 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. A church and a school were struck at Canton. Many boats were damaged and some were totally destroyed, including a steamboat. Cedar tree damage was rather extensive with many cedars snapped. Path width: A dozen other homes were unroofed. Counties: Orange April 28, 1994 Some bradford pear trees were uprooted on Dan Dunn Road. A couple of porch columns fell. Injuries: 1 Counties: Madison The storm then crossed into Metcalfe County about three miles northeast of Nobob. Path length: Only minor roof damageoccurred to one home in its path. Right before it lifted, it tore the front porch off a home and destroyed a barn. Injuries: 0 Path width: Time: 12:14am EDT 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. to be composed of fire. Time: 2:50pm - 2:51pm EDT Path width: Path width: 100 yards Time: 2:10pm At Ceva Logistics a large section of the north wall was pushed out due to 75-80mph winds. An elderly woman escaped injury because she was sitting in the only part of her home where the ceiling remained intact after her roof blew away and a wall collapsed 15 feet from her. Time: 4:00pm Near Rocky Hill a barn was destroyed and two outbuildings lost their roofs. It threw a 10,000 pound large grain silo leg. June 27, 1973 Path length: 1 mile F-scale: F1 Deaths: 0 The family dog was found alive under piles of rubble. Path width: This was largely thanks to increased instances of tornado disasters given an expanding and westward moving population. Deaths: 0 SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Storm Data 500 yards, Grazulis nothing. Winds were about 90 mph along Monroe Drive. Noted discrepancies: SPC lists the beginning and ending lat/lons as 36.88/-85.72, 37.03/-85.45NCDC has 37.18/-85.32, 37.22/-85.08. Path width: Flint-Beecher tornado June 8, 1953. Notes: Tree damage. Most of the path was through dense forest. It then grew in width and intensity as it crossed Highway 1365 and uprooted, snapped and twisted over 200 trees in a heavily forested area around a deep karst ravine. Counties: Jefferson KY, Oldham F-scale: F2 Injuries: 0 Noted discrepancies: SPC lists a path width of 17 yards, NCDC and Storm Data list 50 yards. Injuries: 0 Several different sources were used to compile this tornado catalogue. Injuries: 1 Time: 8:31am Counties: Jefferson KY, Clark IN It took down several fences, with evidence of cyclonic circulation. Path length: Grazulis narrative: Moved east-southeast from near Milltown, passing near Depauw and Ramsey. Path width: 75 yards F-scale: F1 Path width: 200 yards Winds estimated at 175mph near Glasgow damaged or destroyed 35 mobile homes and 25 barns. The tornado hit the Salem Rd area hard with extensive tree damage. Counties: Warren Grazulis narrative: A tornado touched down briefly two miles southeast of Glasgow "destroying" 13 trailers and 34 frame homes as well as feed mills and silos. April 28, 2002 F-scale: F2 ticket window was blown into a nearby field, Deaths: Deaths: 0 Counties: Lincoln March 23, 2012 Counties: Franklin Narrative: Moved east from ten miles west of Harrodsburg. in Floyds Knobs, where a garage was destroyed. Time: Noon July 13, 2015 An additional smaller. Path width: 150 yards County: Warren, Allen Ending lat/lon at SPC is over the Ohio River. Time: 6:20pm Path width: 225 yards Three single-wide mobile homes near the intersection of Joyce Mill Roadand Highway 625 were destroyed along with tree damage and downed power lines and poles. Grazulis narrative: Moved east from three and a half miles east of Mauckport to west of Laconia. Path width: SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC gives nothing. Path width: 125 yards Path length: The hailstones had "long icicles" on them. This photo was taken in Lebanon, Tennessee.