By coincidence, this was the date of the annual statewide tornado drill test. The tornado continued to move east northeast along the countrysideuprooting, twisting, and damaging numerous hardwood trees. Deaths: In addition to being an interesting read on its own, one can also compare it to queries sent by the Smithsonian Institution about 30 years prior to get a sense of where tornado thought was moving at the time. SPC and NCDC give a path width of 880 yards, Storm Data says 1320 yards, Grazulis says 200 yards. Path length: SPC/NCDC end it on the northwest side of Leitchfield. The tornado proceeded to Route 79/259 and struck a home just north of A.H. Wilson Road with EF-2 strength. Injuries: 96 Strange time disagreement between SPC and NCDC. Counties: Hardin Counties: Cumberland Trees were snapped and uprooted, and power lines were blown down. The end of the path was surveyed east at Hwy 259 where another metal structure was damaged and several trees where downed. See this YouTube video. Time: 6:09am EDT Injuries: 0 April 3, 1974 F-scale: F4 It moved north of English, struck Marengo, and went north of Milltown. Path width: 230 yards Grazulis narrative: Moved east-northeast from one mile northwest of Galena to Sellersburg, passing through Floyds Knobs and Hamburg. April 5, 2017 The family's pick-up truck was thrown 40 yards to the north. In this area many trees were snapped and uprooted. Deaths: 6 Path length: The unattached bed of a pickup truck was picked up and thrown 150 yards. November 15, 2005 June 18, 1992 Path length: 5.7 miles F-scale: F2 Counties: Jefferson IN Path length: 1.6miles A man received minor injuries when a barn he was in collapsed around him. The twisting nature of the winds was clearly revealed when the bodies of the Tyree family were found 75 yards south of their home site, and the bodies of the Redeford family were discovered 100 yards north of the spot where their home had stood. It then proceeded through the center of Charlestown and removed several roofs. It proceeded to the east-southeast through Little Bend (near Mining City) and into Butler County. Path length: EF-scale: EF1 Counties: Warren Deaths: 0 F-scale: F1 Time: 2:14pm EDT Time: 9:00pm Twelve homes were destroyed near Alton. Near the end of its path two small barns were destroyed and two homes sustained roof damage. Path width: Deaths: The tornado tracked to the north of Paynesville and south of Lee Bottom, extensively damaging forests in southern Jefferson County before crossing the Ohio River into Trimble County, Kentucky. Notes: The tornado first downed a large tree on McDowell Road 2.8 miles south of Hodgenville. the Union Pacific Railroad bridge that crossed Injuries: April 20, 1996 Injuries: 100 Deaths: The Salem School was damaged. Path width: Sightseers started arriving the next day, and the Guard was called to control the crowds. County: Warren, Barren The tornado severely damaged or destroyed several houses and double wide mobile homes around the intersection of Nabb New Washington and Nabb Marysville. At least three homes were damaged, two from trees falling on them, with minor roofing damage to a third. February 28, 2011 Deaths: F-scale: F1 Abstract Tornadoes and waterspouts have long fascinated humankind through their presence in myths and popular beliefs and originally were believed to have supernatural causes. Grazulis' description may simply be "near Smithville" rather than a certain number of miles in some direction from Smithville. Notes:The first evidence of tornado damage was just south of US 421 where the tornado passed between two farms. Time: 3:59am April 20, 2000 Deaths: 0 Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Time: 3:22pm EF-Scale:EF0 The tornado continued northeast, crossing Irving Road and Ironworks Road, finally dissipating five miles east of Winchester. F-scale: F3 If SPC/NCDC's lat/lon is changed from -85.92 to -84.92, it is placed in Franklin County. Injuries: 0 F-scale: F0 Injuries: 0 Deaths: Injuries: Time: 6:57pm - 6:58pm EDT Time: 5:30pm National Weather Service information only goes back to 1950, so all pre-1950 tornadoes here are necessarily fromSignificant Tornadoes 1681 - 1991and are considered "unofficial". Mrs. Carson's roof was carried across the street. Injuries: 87 A new 24 foot travel trailer was destroyed. Path length: Give an estimate of the loss to buildings, also specifying the number of buildings destroyed and their characters as to strength, etc. Time: 5:04pm CDT Tornado families, or "cyclic" tornadoes, can be very difficult to record correctly without detailed scientific field surveys. This survey was conducted by personnel from both the NWS and emergency management from Franklin and Scott Counties. It threw the debris into a small church and removed some of its roof. Notes: The tornado moved from three and a half miles west of Franklin to the north side of town. Counties: Jessamine, Fayette The roof of the restaurant was thrown westward on top of a livestock barn. A child was killed when a concrete block grocery store caved in. Notes: Storm Data has this tornado cross US 60, moving in a north-northeast direction. May 11, 2003 April 3, 1989 Storm Data only mentions Scott, Harrison, and Fleming counties (which doesn't make sense since Nicholas County is between Harrison and Fleming counties). Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F3, Grazulis calls it an F2. Deaths: His right hip was dislocated to the point where it was alongside his chest. The path length was about a third of a mile and the tornado was on the ground for less than 1 minute. Path length: 15 miles Path width: 40 yards Injuries: 0 Injuries: 0 Leaving town, the tornado restrengthened and demolished a barn and a nearby house, and unroofed several homes three miles from Elizabethtown on US 62, where the twister grew to a quarter mile wide. Deaths: Numerous outbuildings were damaged or destroyed. Path length: 2.8 miles EF-Scale: EF-2 F-scale: F2 There were a couple of areas where it fully descended to the surface and caused more widespread damage. Deaths: Path width: 50 yards SPC lists a path length of 19 miles, NCDC 18 miles, Grazulis 21 miles. Notes: Storm Data mentions damage in County Trace Estates and on Zoneton Road east of Mount Washington. Path length: Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC give a path length of 15 milesGrazulis and Storm Data give 13 miles. Path width: F-scale: F2 If the observer is a thousand feet or more away from the funnel, or cannot see distinctly trees or objects in it or near it, he should not try to make detailed observations of the whirl, or any thing else at the tornado. The deadliest was on. April 21, 1972 November 5, 2017 Path width: January 30, 2013 Path width: Injuries: A 125 pound chimney was blown 60 yards away. Strong winds, possibly a result of a phenomenon known as a "rear flank downdraft" or RFD, blew down the length of Magnolia Street from Twelfth to Third. Injuries: 0 Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from Wisdom to two miles east of Edmonton. A horrific nighttime There were some hardwood trees uprooted and parts of them fell onto homes, fences, trampolines, and swing sets. F-scale: F1 March 2, 1878 Time: 12:35am - 12:37am CST Several homes and outbuildings had roof damage. Damage continued east into Allen County with the last evidence of damage at Walker Chapel Road about a mile south of Highway 100. 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. There were far fewer towns and people and most went unrecorded. Path length: 0.5 mile Time: 10:31pm CST to 10:50pm CST Injuries: Injuries: There was also widespread wind damage and large hail. EF-scale: EF1 Injuries: Noted discrepancies: Not listed at NCDC. The tornado did occasionally reach closer to the ground, causing significant damage to two structures. Counties: Warren There were several pieces of lumber that were impaled in the ground and pieces of metal sheeting were thrown into trees. Numerous trees and a grain silo weredown along the property. mud from head to foot; eyes, mouths, and ears have involved accounts of plucked poultry, May 8, 2009 Injuries: 0 It damage many roofs with the heaviest damage at a day care center in a residential home off Miami Court. Noted discrepancies: None. May 24, 2000 Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC rank this as an F2, Grazulis calls it an F3. As the tornado lifted at Coletown several trees fell or were snapped. Path length: Grazulis narrative: Moved northeast from three miles north of Scottsburg. A 60x30 foot barn was damaged with parts of it thrown 400 yards toward the east, northeast, and southeast. Time: 5:05pm - 5:06pm CDT Path width: May 27, 2004 March 19, 1849 June 25, 2018 Time: 5:25pm At NCDC the two counties are listed separately. Notes: Storm Data says the hardest hit areas were Apalona and Branchville. Grazulis narrative: A tornado was intermittently on the ground about five miles east of Bowling Green. Path length: 2.2miles April 24, 2010 Rather, the paper instead describes damage in Lexington in a southwest-northeast path from Collier Court through Balmoral Court to the intersection of Bryanwood Parkway and Bellcastle Road. Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from one mile southwest of Burkesville to one mile northwest of Burkesville. Path width: 125 yards Minimal F2. Tee climbed the tree and got her out. EF-Scale: EF-3 Storm Data mentions only that this tornado "touched down briefly" near where I-75 crosses the Fayette/Madison County line. A 40 ft by 50 ft outbuilding was destroyed in the vicinity of the grain silo, with siding thrown up to 500 yards downwind. Many pioneer farms were damaged or destroyed. NWS Notes:While Lexington newspapers listed the many farms that were struck by the tornado (or its attendant straight-line winds), no road names and few references to nearby towns were given. Notes:A very narrow and intense damage path of rotating winds of90-95 mph was embedded within a 3-mile wide area of straight-linewinds. In addition, two homes on Dutch Chapel Road had significant roof damage and other structural damage, with debris thrown to the north, northeast, and east southeast. May 21, 2010 Injuries: 0 October 7, 2014 F-scale: F1 Time: 6:00pm 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. Winds in this area were estimated to be between 90 and 95 mph. Grazulis narrative: Eight homes and 22 barns were destroyed, and 13 other homes were damaged in the south part of Franklin. Deaths: 0 EF-Scale: EF-1 4. Time: 4:42pm - 4:54pm CDT Injuries: 0 Path width:110 yards Notes: A tree was uprooted at the beginning of the track. Counties: Ohio Time: 2:30am Noted discrepancies: SPC, NCDC, and Grazulis give a time of 3:45pmStorm Data says 4:45pm. The Exposition Building and its skating rink were damaged. Path length: April 20 1996 Path length: 0.8 miles Just east of Route 135, tremendous tree damage wasobserved. Path width: Time: 9:15pm - 9:16pm CST One, on the left side of the path, was shifted south, and the other, to the right of the path, was shifted north. Time: 6:15pm May 28, 1996 Notes: Straight line winds along and north of the supercell moving through Simpson County uprooted shallow-rooted hardwood and softwood trees and destroyed a tool shed on Evans Rd. Time: 11:05pm Notes: Touched down 2.7 miles southwest of Huntingburg. Path width: Would tend to believe Storm Data here. Counties: Adair Deaths: Notes: At the beginning point of this tornado a few small trees, some dead, were blown over and branches were blown off of some of the trees. January 17, 2012 Path length: 1.4 miles Injuries: 0 The final damage was that of an unroofed house at the corner of Breckenridge and Fifth Streets. Many farm buildings were damaged, and one farm was almost completely blown away. 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. Deaths: 0 Injuries: 0 Deaths: Counties: Metcalfe Counties: Orange F-scale: F2 January 11, 1963 Deaths: County: Butler Time: 4:04pm The lat/lon for this tornado shows it moving northwest, though no mention of that is made in the NCDC narrative. Time: 4:00pm Path length: One of the most famous tornado stories Path width:275 yards Path width: 1200 yards Deaths: 0 August 9, 1968 Damage was widespread along Dresden and Longfield Avenues, with damage on Longfield reported at the addresses of 812, 713, 716, and at 715 the house was "twisted." Path width: The barn sufferedroof and door damage. Numerous vehicles near the repair shop sustained damage when hit by large debris from barns to the southwest. F-scale: F2 Time: 3:55pm Another fascinating account Notes:This tornado touched down in a wooded area midway between J Riggs Rd and Copelin Rd north of KY728, snapping trees as it moved southeast along a hay fieldwhere it destroyed two 1200 lb hay bales and rolled numerous others up to a tenth of a mile into a soybean field and uphill onto a knoll. Grazulis lists this tornado at 10:57pm. Path length: Trees were uprooted and a car was lifted and spun around. After the tornado the direction of the path should be most carefully determined. F-scale: F0 The tornado crossed Paoli Pike just north of I-265 and caused roof damage at the Knob Point Apartments. Witnesses saw one vortex coming down from the apparent wall cloud and quickly lifting before a new vortex came down nearby. It also moved a Beechcraft/King Air plane 10 degrees and the nose gear was broken. Notes: Thetornado touched down near I-65 embedded in straight line winds. Path width: 100 yards Time: 5:34pm Injuries: 0 Narrative: This tornado hit the Kirksville and Silver Creek areas. Path width: 880 yards Grazulis narrative: Moved northeast from two miles south of Kettle, to Ida, eight miles northwest of Albany, to 76-Falls, to Piney Woods, and finally to Mill Springs. Path length: 20 miles Counties: Shelby, Henry Minor damage was sustained east of KY 639 to several outbuildings. Path width: 40 yards A store at the intersection of Brownsboro Road and Ballardsville Road was unroofed. Deaths: 0 Path length: 0.6mile Noted discrepancies: Grazulis does not include Madison County. Time: 9:00am Time: 2:57pm Central Noted discrepancies: SPC has this storm moving from McCracken County directly into Madison County, which is geographically impossible. Injuries: This historic event may have actually started in Harrison County IN, but is traditionally plotted from west of Shively, Kentucky, in western Jefferson County. April 3, 1974 March 23, 2012 June 27, 2008 On Culls Ridge Road, the tornado strengthened to an EF-3 once again with 140 mph winds. Noted discrepancies: SPC lists a path width of 70 yards, NCDC 73 yards, Storm Data 75 yards. A pillar of flame shot skyward when the vortex of the twister struck the Kelley residence." Counties: Warren F-scale: F1 F-scale: F3 Grazulis lists Hamilton, Wayne, Edwards, Wabash IL, Knox, Gibson, Pike, Daviess, Martin, Orange, and Lawrence IN (note the last three match the SPC entry). "When I flipped one of the steaks and it didn't come back down, I knew it was time to go inside." Somewhat lighter damage was noted on Personality Court, Sundart Drive, Centre Parkway, and River Park Drive in Gainesway. A two-story house in Pewee Valley was swept ten feet off its foundation and collapsed. County: Meade Deaths: Path length: The tornado crossed farmland and then struck another barn near the intersection with US 31W. F-scale: F2 January 29, 2008 Path width: Time: 9:03pm Deaths: Color-coded by F-Scale without county lines with time zones, March 27, 1890 -- Louisville (est. Path length: 32 miles Moving northeast over forested land, the next evidence was more tree trunks and branches snapped on Poplar Grove Rd just north of the intersection with Hilldale Rd. Counties: Simpson F-scale: F4 Three chimneys of the Orange County Courthouse collapsed, most likely when hit by roof debris. Deaths: The church was scheduled to be dedicated the following Sunday. Time: 7:32pm EST Time: 9:00am The funnel may have either weakened or lifted over southern Barren County before striking Beaumont in Metcalfe County. Notes: This tornado touched down in or near Paoli. Injuries: F4) StoryMap, March 27, 1890 -- Louisville (est. A witness at the end of this tornado's path reported seeing two tornadoes on the ground simultaneously, as the fourth tornado produced by this supercell touched down about a quarter mile north of the ending point of this one. Path length: 3.4 miles Counties: Hardin Counties: Warren Counties: Warren, Edmonson, Hart Path length: 0.2mile Path width: F-scale: F1 Notes: The tornado touched down at the west end of A.H. Wilson Road with EF-0 strength and a width of 60 yards. Counties: Clark, IN Noted discrepancies: This tornado is not listed at SPC or NCDC, but is in Storm Data. Deaths: May 14, 1995 Here, damage was estimated as EF2 with 130 mph winds. Time: 7:45pm A two-story brick home was destroyed at Lakeland. Elements of meteorology with questions for the examination, designed for schools and academics Also, the storm brought extremely heavy rain that caused Beargrass Creek to flood, but the rains were generally welcome as the region had been suffering through a severe drought. Path length: Time: 7:20am 4 miles west of Cloverport, additional minor damage was done to a group of homes along 2169. Storm Data ends this tornado two miles northeast of Madison near IN 7. Injuries: 0 Injuries: 0 A truck and horse trailer weremoved 50 feet and twisted. Path length: This tornado touched down at 338 Soards Road and moved northeast, lifting as it began to cross a small lake. F-scale: F1 Tornado intensity is described by the fscale. Path width: 175 yards June 2, 1875 SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Grazulis 800 yards. Path length: Injuries: 0 June 27, 1973 Path length: F-scale: F1 Debris from these structures was found up to 300 yards to the east in a pond. Notes: Aweak, skipping tornado occurred on Fort Knox. The tornado continued across KY 22 where trees were blown down and one outbuilding was damaged. Two houses, a trailer, and a barn were destroyed. Injuries: 0 twenty-five people. Time: 8:20pm CDT County: Scott, IN About 50 vehicles in a car dealership lot were totaled. Path width: April 19, 2011 May 18, 1995 It did F1 damage to at least three businesses, six homes, and numerous barns and outbuildings. Path length: Path width: 100yards Injuries: Homes were unroofed. Path length: Path length: 10.7 miles May 27, 1995 Environmental Films, 1326 pp. After driving a 4x6 through the roof of a home near Hunter Road, the tornado continued east to Prowsville Ridge Road where winds were up to 95 mph. F-scale: F2 Trees and telephone poles were blown down for a mile along Briar Hill Road. F-scale: F0 A house was shifted off its foundation. F-scale: F1 Winds at this location were between 85 and 90 mph with a width of 50 yards. A chicken house weighing hundreds of pounds was rolled over and moved several feet. F-scale: F1 A warehouse containing five hundred barrels of whiskey was destroyed. F-scale: F3 Path width: Path length: 15 miles Residents at the house said they could feel the intense pressure and everything trying to suck out of the house. EF-Scale:EF1 was consistent with EF-1 damage and 90 mph winds. Lexington newspapers stated that the "cyclone did great damage," including unroofing J. L. Taylor's clothing store across the street from the courthouse in Paris. Path length: The tornado quickly grew to 3/4 of a mile wide, and uprooted an entire orchard (nearly 100 trees) on the Green Farm west of Stamping Ground. It's been mapped here according to the information in Storm Data, but additional research would be helpful. Injuries: 0 The first theories explaining weather phenomena as having natural causes were proposed by ancient Greek natural philosophers. Injuries: 2 F-scale: F0 Path width: 300 yards Noted discrepancies: None. Path length:2.7 miles Carmel Road. F-scale: F0 Minimal F2. 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. Multiple vortices may have been visible. Along the path a grain bin was destroyed and several trees were felled. Forty homes and 75 barns were destroyed. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Grazulis nothing. Eleven buses suffered damage and had their windows blown out. Path length: 3 miles Significant damage was done to the property, which included a 30x50barn sliding the wall 12 feet.
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