Deaths: Notes: At the start of the path the tornado was EF-0 strength as it damaged shingles and siding and snapped maple trees. Deaths: 0 Path length: May 10, 2016 Storm Data mentions only that this tornado "touched down briefly" near where I-75 crosses the Fayette/Madison County line. EF-Scale: EF-1 1-Stop Drought Crossing into Kentucky, the tornado struck Mt. Another fascinating account Path width: Counties: Warren One, on the left side of the path, was shifted south, and the other, to the right of the path, was shifted north. Notes: Storm Data places this tornado near Hardyville. Injuries: 0 Path length: Tales Damage totaled $1,500,000 as 500 homes were destroyed, along with two schools and many other buildings. EF-Scale: EF-1 Narrative: One of central Kentucky's darkest days began when a tornado moved northeast from south of Knottsville to north of Patesville. Path length: 3 miles Injuries: Damage was severe at Saint Helens, with one house completely removed except for one interior room. The tornado skipped eastward, damaging the Juniper Hills Golf Course and blowing the roof off of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System building on Versailles Road. The tornado then touched back down or strengthened as it entered Wyandotte-Oakdale. where 2 structures were destroyed. Grazulis lists this tornado at 10:30pm. The tornado tracked to the east with extensive damage of trees along Hwy 1226. Time: 4:34pm Path length: 1.3 miles (skipping) Deaths: 0 Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards. F-scale: F0 Most of the injuries were in a church that was torn apart and collapsed during evening services. Time: 9:21pm - 9:24pm CST Counties: Warren However, this database strives to be the most complete list possible, given those constraints. March 27, 1890 Several businesses were damaged in the Broadway and Lakeview Drive area. Deaths: 0 Trees also fell on at least two outbuildings. Time: 4:40pm Eyewitness narrative: I was 15 years old at the time andI lived on KY 44 just east of Elk Creek in Spencer County. There were several outbuildings and two pole barns destroyed as well. EF-Scale: EF-1 Deaths: 0 April 11, 2008 Injuries: The top image is a drawing of an undated tornado (likely from the early 1800s or prior), as seen in Significant Tornadoes: 1680-1991 (Thomas Grazulis), p. 550. April 3, 1974 Injuries: 0 Path length: Counties: Dubois Counties: Jefferson IN, Trimble Path length: The damaged residences of O. C. Landrum and Oscar Sims marked the edges of the devastation. Over 100 homes were severely damaged or destroyed at Junction City. History of the Clinic | The Mayo Clinic | Ken Burns - PBS March 25, 1964 Local Programs. F-scale: F1 Deaths: 76 Deaths: 1 In Metcalfe County, damage reported at Center and Sulphur Well appears to be from straight-line winds. F-scale: F2 About 120 homes were damaged or destroyed near Frankfort, as were businesses and factories. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down on Liberty Church Road in Auburn. They also stated that the tornado looked like a black wall as it approached. Injuries: 0 Path length: Deaths: 0 Path width: 50 yards Injuries: 0 Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped in a convergent pattern. Below are the results. Deaths: Path length: 1.1miles Path length: Counties: Hart Significant destruction was done on Main Street between Ninth and Eighth Streets where two of the "best and most substantial business houses in the city were scattered as though they had been made of cards," with the walls collapsing inward. Path width: 30 yards The tornado then crossed the road where a brick facade home lost part of its outer wall, suffered roof damage, and was struck by debris. Time: 2:20pm After crossing Cave River Valley Road and White River Road the tornado took outabout 50 softwood trees. Injuries: 0 Yale Programmar. F-scale: F2 Injuries: 0 The cafeteria was completely destroyed. February 24, 2018 Time: 7:15pm Note the time of day carefully, and specify whether the time used is Eastern, Central, Mountain, or some city time. Finley had it figured out but lost out in a power play. Additional tree damage was observed as the tornado moved east- northeast across farmland. Vinyl siding was, ripped off a home and small outbuildings were damaged. Deaths: Noted discrepancies: SPC lists a path width of 20 yards, NCDC and Storm Data says 50 yards. Counties: Fayette Narrative: Moved east-northeast, passing north of Bardstown, killing people in three different homes. F-scale: F2 May 14, 2014 Path width: A barn was damaged and a house unroofed on the Terhune Farm, barns were blown down on the Quartz and Shelton Farms, a house and a barn were lost on the Sanford Farm, and the home of Kye Crossfield at Ebenezer was destroyed. Path width: 200 yards Narrative: Moved east-northeast from near Grantsburg to northwest of Hancock. If you see a tornado track that looks out-of-place, pleasecontact us. 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 . Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path length of one mile, NCDC and Storm Data say 14 miles. Color-coded by F-Scale without county lines Metal sheeting was thrown from the barn in various directions and much of it ended up in the trees. Grazulis narrative: Moved east from east of Russell Springs, to Salem, and to Faubush. Deaths: Time: 7:30pm Time: 4:30pm About 100 people were left homeless in Clark County. SPC and NCDC place it at 8:00pm, Grazulis and Storm Data at 10:00pm. F-scale: F1 Narrative: This unusual January tornado touched down southwest of Shively and moved east-northeast. It destroyed a cinder block outbuilding and took a 100 foot section of roofing off of a large metal outbuilding. Time: 12:30pm Time: 12:38pm CDT to 12:42pm CDT !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)? The tornado did its worst damage at the beginning of its pathwhere it demolished three homes on Dawson Drive. Many tornado stories Deaths: 0 Hammonville was struck. Counties: Scott KY Two homes were unroofed and torn apart, injuring two people inside one of them. Grazulis narrative: Moved east from just east of Goshen, passing one mile north of Lagrange, and through Jericho. Trees three feet in diameter were twisted off eight feet above the ground. Time: 4:55pm Counties: Scott KY, Fayette Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F1, Grazulis says F2. Notes: Thistornado briefly touched down on SpinksDrive just off of Highway 69. Injuries: 0 Plotted on Gaffney Road as close to the given lat/lon as possible. Deaths: 0 A church was damaged near the intersection of Broadway and KY 933. F-scale: F1 June 21, 2019 The tornado advanced to the northeast. Time: 2:07pm EDT The tornado was about three blocks wide in Charlestown. Injuries: 0 1886: Ohio's Deadliest Tornadoes of the 19th Century Path length: 2.4 miles Deaths: Moving due east, it snapped the trunks of several large trees, blocking the highway, and mowed down a line of trees along Louis Mattingly Road. At 2592 Highland Church Road (Highland General Baptist Church) there was significant brick damage on the west, south, and east sides of the church dueto open vents. F-scale: F4 Mapped as best as possible, since lat/lon given was just off of Irvine Road. Deaths: 0 Path width: 80yards Deaths: 0 Path length:0.1 mile Time: 12:50am EST to 12:52am EST Path length: April 28, 1983 The Louisville Courier-Journal mentions two tornadoes in Washington County on this day. 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. F-scale: F3 March 1, 1997 Counties: Jessamine Injuries: 0 Path length: November 15, 2005 February 5, 2008 Notes: The tornado initially touched down on the northwest side of a large family home and farm on Fairfield Road. One single wide mobile home had siding panels blown out in several spots. Deaths: 0 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. One home was unroofed, at the corner of North Church Street and West Haysville Road. Time: 7:00pm Grazulis narrative: Moved northeast from near Hackley and Cottonburg, passing just north of Richmond, and lifting east of Mount Sterling. Three houses and four barns were blown into the Barren River at Thomas Landing, injuring ten people. Deaths: Noted discrepancies: SPC lists a path width of 20 yards, NCDC 27 yards, Storm Data 25 yards. Path width: Two large barns had pieces of tin roofing ripped off and thrown. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis calls it an F3. Path width: 20 yards Grazulis Narrative: Moved northeast near Eastern State College in Richmond. Path length: 1.4miles Counties: Clark, IN Time: 8:08am CDT EF-scale: EF1 F-scale: F2 June 2, 1990 May 2, 1948 Counties: Clark, IN Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC rank this as an F3, Grazulis gives it an F2. Path width: 150 yards Lastly, the tornado struck a barn and several trees. A tied-down trailer was overturned. County: Warren Injuries: 0 Injuries: 0 Along Shelburn Dr, a front porch with four columns was lifted, collapsing the columns and throwing the front half of the roof 100 yards to the northeast. Counties: Orange (from Martin, to Lawrence) Path width: F-scale: F1 Time: 10:40am EST Counties: Harrison KY "Husto" was possibly Huston, named for a local landowner with that name, though it is unclear exactly where Huston was located, though it may have been where Paris sits today. Counties: Dubois (from Knox, Daviess, and Martin) Notes: Storm Data says this tornado went from near McKinney to Preachersville to near the Garrard County line, damaging the county fairgrounds and Maywood. She had been sucked out of her mobile home when she tried to open her front door. There was major damage to 105 more homes. The tornado proceeded to the northeast across the southeastern section of Churchill Downs -- click here to see a map of how close the tornado came to the twin spires (the path of the tornado is outlined by the thick white lines). Injuries: 0 March 2, 1878 Counties: Dubois A barn was destroyed near the intersection of Wilson Downing Road and Tates Creek Road. F-scale: F0 April 19, 2011 Path width: 50yards Counties: Ohio The tornado rapidly narrowed to a rope-like structure and ended as an EF1 with 90-95 mph winds and an 80 yard wide path. Jim Barnes of 1448 Canonero Drive said he was grilling steaks in his driveway. So far, it doesn't look like it Path width: 100yards June 6, 1966 A mobile home was destroyed and a conventional home was shoved 10 feet off of its foundation. Across the county numerous power poles, barns, and homes sustained damage. April 3, 1974 Time: 8:53pm EDT Time: 8:18-8:22pm CST Path width: Injuries: 0 A house along the path had a window blown out and the metal roof peeled back. Four farm houses were destroyed, and three members of a family were killed in one of them. The tornado lifted near Catnip Road in Perry County which is about 2.3 miles east of St. Meinrad. Injuries: 0 The tornado lifted just shy of the Ohio River near the end of Fulton Road. Path width: 440 yards Continuing to the northeast, a home was damaged at the corner of Kentucky and Shelby streets and brick cottages on Kentucky near Shelby were wrecked. Injuries: 0 Injuries: 0 Counties: Hardin Deaths: A stable was destroyed and a frame home "was knocked higher than a kite" on Harney between Fifteenth and Sixteenth (just east of today's California Park). Injuries: Path width: 50 yards Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from half a mile north of Georgetown to 2.8 miles east southeast of Georgetown. Several cars were blown off US 127, resulting in injuries. Deaths: 0 Counties: Orange (to Lawrence) Injuries: The tornado then crossed IN 60 where people in the Buckboard Diner witnessed it. Path length: Notes: Storm Data mentions damage in County Trace Estates and on Zoneton Road east of Mount Washington. I am impressed! Counties: Mercer, Woodford, Jessamine, Fayette Path length: 7.2 miles 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. Path length: 1 mile Deaths: 0 setTimeout(function(){var t=document.createElement("script");t.setAttribute("src","https://sample.dragonforms.com/getEmbeddedClientScript.do?embeddedsite=TW_dispatch_nl"),t.setAttribute("type","text/javascript"),document.body.appendChild(t)},5); Become a subscriber today and youll recieve a new issue every month plus unlimited access to our full archive of backlogged issues. Deaths: Injuries: 0 Trees were laying in all directions with lots of twisting and many snapped trees. Path width: 100 yards Path width: 100 yards It threw Ronnie and Timmy, Ronnie's only son, into a mud puddle with just a few scratches. At this location, the tornado destroyed a30 by 60 foot old barn and a single wide home. Time: 5:55am Injuries: 0 February 6, 2008 Injuries: 10 Path width: Counties: Adair Path width: F4) StoryMap, March 27, 1890 -- Louisville (est. were damaged or destroyed. Path width: In one case, it snapped the 2-foot diameter trunk of a large cedar less than 5 feet above the ground, but lofted the tree over nearby utility poles -- which remained intact -- and deposited the tree 200 feet to the east. A large fence around the Dillard's Warehouse was damaged and a security shack was thrown about 30 yards. The worst damage mentioned in Storm Data is the destruction of a barn and three farm buildings, along with scattered roof damage and a "wrecked" trailer. Further research would be nice, to see what it did in Orange County, though it went through a rather desolate area in Hoosier National Forest. Notes:The tornado touched down in a corn field near Morrison Park Road, just east of Tompkinsville Road. Injuries: 0 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 Moorman High School gym was unroofed and a small home fell over. May need to re-visit this with SPC's lat/lons. F-scale: F2 A number of these homes were swept away. A satellite dish was blown about a mile. Time: 5:30pm Deaths: Noted discrepancies: This tornado is not included in the SPC database or at the NCDC website (despite listing 32 tornadoes elsewhere across the country that day), but is listed in Storm Data and Grazulis. May 30, 1979 Path width: Cecilia was one of six in Winterset who died as a result of the tornado. Path width: 100 yards F-scale: F0 Injuries: 0 Deaths: 1 The tornado touched down just west of the KY 480/I-65 junction, and moved east along Cedar Grove Road. Interspersed with the straight line wind damage was at least one tornado in western Allen County north of and paralleling KY 585. great distances. F-scale: F2 Path width: 73 yards Between Fifth Street and Carter Street the wind speeds increased to 95 mph and the width expanded to 60 yards. F-scale: F2 Time: 6:45pm Path length: Path width: 200 yards Large parts of the barn debris were lofted into trees southwest of the structure, snapping their trunks. June 16, 1982 Be sure to provide good evidence for your claim. The tornadosignificantly increased in width to approximately 300 yards and dida lot of damage along Halls Creek Rd. Injuries: 0 Noted discrepancies: None Deaths: 0 Path length: 12 miles The damage width narrowed in this area to only a couple hundred yards. July20, 2018 Path width: 150 yards EF-Scale:EF1 Deaths: SPC gives a path width of 170 yards and a path length of 9 milesNCDC gives nothing for either. Notes:The tornado touched down in a corn field near Morrison Park Road, just east of Tompkinsville Road. Injuries: Path width: 1200 yards Time: 10:52pm - 10:56pm CST Counties: Butler Time: 3:55pm Included in the circulars was a questionnaire [] miles. Use the filter button (top right corner) to filter by date, month, year, or EF rating. Notes: A fast moving tornado briefly touched down four times in Louisville. November 15, 2005 The tornado traveled to the northeast and damaged homes on Kurtz Drive and at the intersection of Thornhill Drive and Gaines Road. Path width: 200 yards Path length: 4miles February 24, 2018 Time: 7:23pm Deaths: The Tyrees lived on the southern edge of the storm area, while the Redefords lived near the northern edge. Path width: 50yards Injuries: 122 Injuries: 0 Path length: 1.2 mile Path length: Debris from the split level home was dropped across the road, where a few more trees were snapped and uprooted. June 22, 2011 Notes: Storm Data mentions damage on KY 1590 half a mile west of Albany. An estimated number of 75 to 100 trees were uprooted or blown over. Path width: Just keep in mind several of these observation methods are outdated today. Note: NCDC has an entry for a F5 in Clark County IN at 2:10pm that does not appear in the SPC database nor in Grazulis However the actual tornado appears to have been about half a mile wide, embedded within the wind damage. Metal roofing material was lofted into nearby trees and spread up to a quarter mile to the east. A car was overturned on Main Street. Time: 5:04pm CDT Path length: Notes: Storm Data says this tornado formed one and a half miles south southeast of Bohon and moved across Bohon Road near the Salt River, dissipating east of US 127 3.3 miles southeast of McAfee. Path width: 60 yards Path width: One of the buildings had its doors blown in, on another the metal roof was peeled back, and the third was leveled and blown 300 yards downwind. These textbook entries were reproduced in entirety, as found in Early American Tornadoes 1586-1870 (David Ludlum), pp. November 19, 1970 Multiple trees were snapped and uprooted. Notes: This tornado touched down near Columbia. Path length: 3.3 miles This scouring was evidence of a multi-vortex tornado, which was confirmed by multiple videos and photographs. Path length: It then proceeded through the center of Charlestown and removed several roofs. F-scale: F3 May 21, 2010 "Several church spires were bent, while the dome on the courthouse rocked to and fro at an alarming rate. The side of a two-story home was torn off. Significant Tornadoes. Time: 9:54pm EDT Time: 9:00pm [Offsite link: 19th-Century Storm Chasers Took the First Tornado Photographs]. Counties: Jefferson KY Injuries: Deaths: 0 EF-Scale:EF0 Path length: 0.5 mi EF-scale: EF1 It reached its peak strength on Sirocco Road where a carport attached to a house blew across a field, trees were snapped or uprooted, a barn door was blown in, and shingles were blown off of a nearby house. Injuries: April 3, 2007 Path width: 20 yards The tornado was witnessed at Little Bend and was described as being about 17 yards wide while moving at about 40mph (and accompanied by large hail). Trees were felled onto a farmhouse and a SUV just north of the silo, destroying the SUV and doing extensive damage to the home. Nevertheless, the city and the surrounding area see hundreds of less apocalyptic tornadoes a year. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC says 30 yards. Counties: Perry, Crawford, Harrison IN, Washington IN, Clark IN, Scott IN The tornado traveled north-northeast along Stony Brook Drive and lifted near the intersection of Stony Brook and Laverne Drive. Path length:2 miles A house was damaged. another tornado approached from the south, Tornadoes are some of the most destructive forces of nature. At 1598 Carter Brothers Roada riding lawn mower was thrown about 50 yards and thegarbage can flew 150 yards. Counties: Russell Counties: Washington KY April 22, 2011 Time: 4:02pm August 13, 1966 The tornado continued to move east northeast along the countrysideuprooting, twisting, and damaging numerous hardwood trees. Counties: Harrison KY (to Robertson) Notes: The tornado touched down near the intersection of Campbell and Market streets, where the roof on a business was destroyed, and a telephone pole was snapped. The lat/lon given for this tornado agrees with the location Grazulis gives: Salvisa, which is in Mercer County, not Woodford. Injuries: 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: Counties: Shelby As the tornado neared Stamping Ground, it narrowed to 1/4 mile wide, and then lifted just northeast of town. Path length: June 16, 1997 List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 18th century - Wikipedia Injuries: 6 F-scale: F2 Time: 5:00pm Notes: Damage began near Ewing Road where trees were snapped and twisted. Grazulis narrative: Moved north-northeast from five miles west of Danville to the east side of Pleasant Hill, passing two miles east of Harrodsburg and ending about eight miles northeast of that town. Injuries: 1 Probably meant KY 571. Notes: Storm Data puts this tornado four miles north of Depauw. Path length: 40 miles November 5, 1948 Time: 1:28am EDT Time: 4:47pm Continuing to the northeast, a large metal carport was lifted and blown 50 feet north into neighboring trees, and more tree limbs were snapped, while a vinyl fence was blown northwest, as was a large trampoline and a patio umbrella, which was entangled in utility lines northwest of its origin. F-scale: F2 There was extensive damage from falling brick. After overturning a tractor trailer on the highway it moved east-southeast, collapsing a wall on a large cinder block building, then destroying two metal outbuildings and flipping an unanchored mobile home.
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