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. Metal sheeting was thrown from the barn in various directions and much of it ended up in the trees. Several homes and outbuildings had roof damage. Counties: Henry Notes: This small tornado struck just southwest of Milton. Two people were killed in this area. EF-scale: EF1 Counties: Barren, Metcalfe Counties: Orange (to Lawrence) 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. F-scale: F1 There were also trees facing in nearly every direction that were snapped, twisted, or uprooted. F-scale: F0 Please select one of the following: Noted discrepancies: SPC has this storm moving from McCracken County directly into Madison County, which is geographically impossible. Deaths: Northwest of ValleyStation many softwood trees were damaged, a pine tree was snapped, and a trampoline was blown over. March 23, 1917 The tornado was 1/4 mile wide in Mercer County. Path length: Two people received injuries when a chimney fell on them and broke their ribs. Path width: County: Harrison KY Nevertheless, the city and the surrounding area see hundreds of less apocalyptic tornadoes a year. This agrees with what Grazulis has. Noted discrepancies: NCDC gives no liftoff lat/lon. Path width: 50 yards March 24, 1921 Path length: 7 miles F-scale:F2 Deaths: The city organized crews of 60 men each who worked day and night searching the wreckage, along with families and friends. The Board of Trade organized a relief committee to oversee the recovery, and the Board also authorized $15,000 in pensions to widows and orphans of the storm. Deaths: Noted discrepancies: Grazulis and Storm Data list this tornado at 6:40pmSPC and NCDC say 5:40pm. The same tornado once again touched down on the east side of main street at the State Farm Insurance agency and Citizens Union Bank. Injuries: south of Kyana, near the end of the damage path. The tornado destroyed a large well-built barn and threw the structure 50 yards. At the home next door the front door was pulling away from the building. A truck and horse trailer weremoved 50 feet and twisted. Path width: F-scale: F2 Injuries: 0 Time: 8:29pm CDT Time: 8:29pm - 8:36pm CDT Deaths: 0 No further damage occurred to the east of this location as the tornado dissipated. Injuries: F-scale: EF0 Counties: Green A mile farther to the northeast, just before lifting, the tornado sheared off a portion of a row of trees adjacent to Maraman Road. It began as a very narrow 80 yard tornado as a mainly elevated funnel cloud/tornado near tree top level. Counties: Cumberland, Clinton (to Wayne) Here, the tornado was an EF4 with 170 mph winds. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down just south of Shipley. F-scale: F0 Deaths: 0 Path length: 1.5 miles The path Grazulis describes seems to keep the tornado just barely inside Nelson County, though it does indeed come very close to the Bullitt County line. The tornado destroyed nine cottages as well as the county fairgrounds. Path length: Path length: Injuries: 0 Counties: Warren Deaths: 11 County: Nelson Storm Data says this tornado touched down just south of the Gene Snyder Freeway two miles south-southeast of Jeffersontown. Injuries: 0 Deaths: 0 F-scale: F1 Deaths: The skipping storm then raced northeast across hilly rural terrain. Several outbuildings were damaged and numerous trees were uprooted or snapped in the Sunfish area. A store at the intersection of Brownsboro Road and Ballardsville Road was unroofed. Time: 1:28am EDT Path width: 100 yards Injuries: 0 Winds in this area were estimated at 75 to 80 mph. Path width: Notes: Touchdown occurred northwest of Adairville near the intersection of Vick Road and Route 96, where a barn sustained roof damage and another outbuilding was destroyed. Storm Data lists this tornado in McCracken and Marshall counties. The tornado dissipated halfway between the intersection of KY 585 and Shores Road and the intersection of Shirk Road and Grider Drive. This tornado also damaged a lot of rugged forested area before intersecting with the path of the first vortex near the confluence of Highway 1838 (Corn Creek Road, Highway 625, and Joyce Mill Road. Injuries: 20 Deaths: 0 Path length: Path width: 75 yards Other than mud spattering from the south-southwest on the back corner of the brick one-story home, no other evidence of wind was observed, as no shingles were damaged. The tornado peaked in intensity on a farm just north of Sexton Lane. Time: 6:13pm - 6:17pm CDT One boy received a broken leg. Path length: Path width: 20 yards Path length: 9 miles F-scale: F2 Path length: A large barn was destroyed, trees were felled, and the doors and siding were pulled off of a barn along Finney Road. Time: 3:45pm - 3:50pm EDT Path length: The most significant damage was done on Brook Chase Court, about in the middle pf the path. F-scale: F2 Most of the wind damage was between 85 and 95 mph. Time: Near the intersection of Horners Chapel Road and Fredericksburg Road, a high tension metal power structure was toppled along with numerous trees uprooted and snapped. 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. Counties: Hart Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from Wisdom to two miles east of Edmonton. Tornadoes have been part of the historical record for a very long time. Path width: May 2, 1948 April 4, 2011 Path width: February 28, 2011 Notes:This brief, skipping tornado touched down initially as an EF0 near the east end of Labrador Wayin a subdivision 1.5 miles south of Rineyville Elementary School. Injuries: 0 Injuries: About 150 families required emergency shelter. Time: 1:00pm Narrative: One of the worst tornadoes in Kentuckiana's history. 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. Injuries: 0 Injuries: 0 The tornado had lifted the house completely off the foundation and rotated it about 3-4 feet. Deaths: The vehicle landed on its tires and the driver survived, despite the top half of the car getting sheared off. It destroyed a dozen houses and half a dozen mobile homes, damaged 40 other houses and several barns to some degree, and injured eleven people. Time: 10:30am The tornado then continued to skip northeast, snapping branches and trunks to the west of Frank Luttrell Rd, before crossing the road and causing minor roof damage to the metal roof of a barn and snapping more tree limbs a third of a mile southeast of North Hancock Elementary School. We can uncover their habits, such as their preferred direction of travel, time of year for formation, typical strength, and myriad other data through careful historical study. Injuries: 0 Storm Data may begin this tornado at Colesburg in Hardin Countythen it reports continuous damage from 3 miles north of Boston to Samuels to 2 miles north of Fairfield. While a large tree next to their home crushed a pickup truck as it came down, their home sustained minimal damage. The width of observable damage increased to one-quarter to one-third of a mile. Notes: Touchdown was just north of West Galway Trail North in a tree line behind some houses. F-scale: EF3 F-scale: F0 Path length: In addition a nearby house had its metal roof blown off. Trees were uprooted in a convergent pattern, some of which fell on power lines causing the poles to snap. Time: 6:00pm EST 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. Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from one mile west of Dugansville to 9/10 of a mile west of Dugansville. Injuries: 0 Deaths: 25 Deaths: 0 Injuries: 270 County: Ohio Also on Slack Road a two-story house lost its entire roof. Deaths: F-scale: F2 Deaths: 0 The other path was parallel to the tornado and about half a mile to the north, on the west edge of downtown. Time: 6:02pm CDT Event Ready Injuries: 7 Path width: In Kentucky 15 homes and 25 barns were damaged in and around Mount Pleasant, with one injury. Deaths: 1 Path length: 5 miles More research would be nice. SPC and NCDC give a path length of 49 miles, Grazulis gives one mile, Storm Data says 50 miles. Noted discrepancies: SPC's beginning lat/lon is in Scott County KY. Deaths: Counties: Clinton Path width: 125 yards Notes:Mostly tree damage occurred with this tornado. Deaths: 0 Path length: 9 miles Time: 6:02pm Notes: The tornado touched down along Danny Sadler Road and crossed KY 920 and KY 720, lifting near Burkhead Lane. Counties: Scott KY Path width:110 yards Notes:The tornado touched down in a corn field near Morrison Park Road, just east of Tompkinsville Road. Aristotle was one of the first natural philosophers to speculate about the formation of . Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck the north edge of Smithfield. Injuries: 0 "It's been through many, many owners over a hundred-some years," Mr. Brown said. Path width: A satellite dish was blown about a mile. The tornado was rated EF3 here with 150 mph winds and a damage width of one-third mile. F-scale: F1 Time: 3:48pm - 3:49pm EDT Notes: This tornado touched down near several large metal outbuildings destroying two and heavily damaging two others. Time: 4:00pm The tornado moved into the Hurstbourne Woods subdivision and ripped a locked pool gate free and threw it over a building and 35 yards downwind. A groom was killed. Path length: On Simler Road, there was consistent snapped tree damage anda camper that had been tossed and flipped over and several barns received extensive damage. Injuries: 0 Narrative: Moved east (northeast?) Time: 1:55am December 21, 2013 Path length: 25 miles (skipping) Path width: 100 yards Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from 1.7 miles southwest of Dugansville to 1.6 miles southwest of Dugansville, or half a mile east of Tablow. March 25, 1964 Deaths: September 8, 2018 Noted discrepancies: SPC lists this as an F2, NCDC and Grazulis list it as an F1. Noted discrepancies: SPC has no entry for fatalitiesNCDC lists zeroStorm Data lists one. June 25, 2018 Path length: March 20, 1982 Deaths: Path length: 15 miles The tornado lifted at the Casey County line. The first written accounts of tornadoes in the Great Plains were from settlements near and along the Missouri River in Kansas during the mid-1800s. County: Meade, Hardin Deaths: 0 The only damage to the home, however, was minor roof damage from a branch falling on it. Path length: He should note carefully the foot, the middle, and the top of the funnel, to see whether any tree or object is carried to his right as he faces the funnel. F-scale: F2 Path width: Learn how tornadoes form, how they are rated, and the country where the most intense tornadoes o. Path length: Path length: 0.8 miles The tornado here was rated EF4 with estimated wind speeds of 170 mph and a damage width of one-third mile. NCDC gives no endpoint lat/lon. October 19, 2007 A small shed was lofted out of its yard and became entangled in utility lines 30 yards to the northeast. Click here for a close-up map of the approximate path. The Cook Farm suffered two destroyed barns and a badly damaged house. There was minor tree damage near Spring Valley Road and Woodhaven Drive indicating wind speeds of 85 mph. Counties: Marion, Washington KY, Mercer, Jessamine, Fayette, Bourbon Deaths: Path width: Counties: Scott KY Counties: Jefferson KY Injuries: 0 Numerous large hardwood trees were snapped and twisted. Path width: F-scale: F2 Injuries: 0 Injuries: Path length: 2.2 mile A nearby house was lifted bodily from its foundation, power lines were torn down, and a white leghorn rooster was stripped of its feathers. Nicholas has had the fewest, with only 2. Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from half a mile northeast of Sharpsville to two miles northeast of Sharpsville. Counties: Mercer Counties: Breckinridge Deaths: 0 Deaths: Harrison County, Indiana, has had the most F5 tornadoes (2). It is very essential that one divests himself of every preconceived notion about the whirling, sucking, or any other action of a tornado. In appears to have struck in or very near Winchester, so additional research may help to pinpoint its exact location. The deadliest was on. Time: 4:31am EST A tornado formed from these conditions, devastating most of the town and much of the outlying rural area. Time: 6:30pm It was described as a green-rimmed cone-shaped tornado which rose and fell moving like a monster wave.. 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. Path width: 100 yards Injuries: 96 Path width: Path length: Deaths: 0 Injuries: 0 F-scale: F0 Deaths: 0 Deaths: EF-Scale:EF1 F-scale: F0 EF-scale: EF1 Counties: Simpson Counties: Hardin Injuries: 0 Path width: Path length: 1 mile Path width: 150 yards EF-scale: EF1 June 21, 2019 County: Madison The SPC/NCDC lat/lon pairs actually put this tornado in Meade County. Time: 9:20pm EDT Counties: Spencer Noted discrepancies: None Injuries: 0 The only Kentucky event on this day in Storm Data is in Fulton County. Color-coded by F-Scale without county lines with time zones, March 27, 1890 -- Louisville (est. EF-scale: EF1 Time: 5:30pm Path width: Time: 12:48am More tree and power line damage was along KY 585 near Shores Road. The last visible damage was along Highway 1544just east of 1164 with some trees uprooted and twisted. F-scale: F1 In the Oak Hill area two barns and some outbuildings were destroyed. Path width: Barns and outbuildings were destroyed. Click here for a detailed map of the approximate path of the center of the tornado. We hope you enjoy the fruits of our labor in these pages, and find the information both entertaining and useful. EF-Scale:EF1 Path length: Time: 1:00pm Time: 2:40pm Path width: 100 yards Along Walnut Rd, the tornado caused damage to several barns andnumerous softwood trees and hardwood trees. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC give a time of 2:20pm, Grazulis gives 3:25pm, Storm Data 3:30pm. May 18, 1995 Path width: Deaths: 0 Notes: Storm Data mentions Demplytown and Buckner. Path length: 34 miles (skipping) Injuries: 0 Injuries: 0 One piece of roofing lumber was found 500 feet ENE of the home. Injuries: It next downed a tree on Mine Fork Road that fell between a home and outbuilding,damaging both structures and causing aminor head injury to the occupant of the shed. Time: 1:20pm There have been . Noted discrepancies: SPC/NCDC call this an F1, Grazulis says F2. On Carter Brothers Road a large RV inside a metal shed was blown onto its side and the shed was destroyed. Path length: 5miles Counties: Breckinridge On Pacelli Place parts of trees were thrown into two houses, puncturing the siding. Path length: 1.6 miles Grazulis narrative: Touching down five miles southwest of Hardinsburg, Breckinridge County, the tornado passed along the northern edge of that town, with F3 damage to homes. Path width: June 27, 1973 June 23, 2017 Another nighttime tornado struck May 9, 1933 Path width: Deaths: Trees blocked the Louisville-Pewee Valley road for two miles. Path width:200 yards Counties: Mercer Environmental Films, 1993. Path width: of Louisville, knocking down trees and fences. Next to that location a baseball field had the metal roofs blown off the cinder block dugout with a number of cinder blocks blown several feet east of the dugout. May 19, 2017 Counties: Clark IN Path width: Injuries: Moving northeast, it devastated a home near Hibernia when the two-story house was blown completely off of its basement foundation and destroyed. Time: 12:50am EST to 12:52am EST Notes from investigation in 2017: In McAfee several homes had uplifted roofs, a chimney was destroyed, and garage doors collapsed. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC give a path length of 10 miles, Grazulis give 9 miles. Path width: 80 yards Injuries: Noted discrepancies: Only Martin, Orange, and Lawrence are listed in this SPC entry. Path width: Path length: For residents of Rochester, August 21, 1883, began with oppressive heat and ominous stillness. Path length: Path width: 33 yards EF-Scale: EF-1 F-scale: F2 Path length: 18 miles He described in graphic detail the "agonies of This is where a small tornado formed within the straight-line wind path with winds between 80 and 85 mph. Climate Prediction EF-Scale: EF-2 February 10, 1959 A storage building was lifted up and thrown across Broadway. It damaged two homes with many exterior walls partially collapsing. Path width: 120 yards Path length: 1/2 mile Path width: 80yards Time: 4:26am Deaths: 0 F-scale: F0 Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down just south of Corydon. They account for 68 percent of all Great Plains tornadoes. July20, 2018 April 15, 1994 Deaths: The worst of the tornado took place at its inception on Bethlehem Academy Road, where a barn was destroyed killing a woman inside. County: Grayson Time: 5:30pm Notes: This tornado began one mile northeast of Flaherty, damaged buildings at the intersection of US 60 and KY 1882, and lifted in western Fort Knox near Camp Carlson. Time: 12:41pm Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F3, Grazulis calls it an F2. Counties: Fayette An elderly woman was hospitalized with a broken collar bone and nose. Two homes and several barns were destroyed. Deaths: F-scale: F2 Path length: Deaths: Path width: Deaths: This seems odd, since the tornadoes were moving to the southeast, and Crawford and Harrison counties are directly southeast of Knox and Daviess counties. April 20, 2011 When the frontier reached the great plains in the mid 1800s, they were shocked by the sheer ferocity and size of the storms. Deaths: Time: 6:30pm Counties: Washington IN, (Jackson), Scott IN, Jefferson IN Counties: Logan, Warren, Allen, Barren Then the barn of T. P. Pickett was unroofed on Lemons Mill Road. According to news accounts, damage was heavy in Lawrenceburg, especially in a three-block wide swath through downtown. Near the end of the track along Davis Bend Road, trees were blown down and 22 barns and stables were damaged or destroyed. EF-scale: EF2 October 10, 1959 March 19, 1963 June 2, 1990 F-scale: F1 Deaths: 0 A metal roof was peeled off of a small outbuilding. Path width: Path width: F-scale: F1 April 19, 2011 Path width: A mobile home was destroyed and a conventional home was shoved 10 feet off of its foundation. April 12, 2019 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. Damage to houses and other buildings was mainly to roofs and windows of the upper floors. April 28, 2002 Counties: Washington IN Give the names of persons killed, if any. This is consistent with EF-2 damage and 120 mph wind. February 19, 1884 Time: 4:24pm Injuries: 0 Injuries: Drone footage clearly showed trees lying in multiple directions. Time: 9:30pm CDT At least three locations along the path of this storm support the occurrence of a tornado of EF-1 intensity, with maximum winds approaching 110 mph, an intermittent path length of 6.5 miles, and a damage path width of 60 yards. Noted discrepancies: SPC lists a path width of 70 yards, NCDC 73 yards, Storm Data 50 yards. County: Clark IN May 15, 1986 Counties: Madison Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down in Cartersville. Trees were laying in all directions with lots of twisting and many snapped trees. tornado which rose and fell moving like a Path length: 9 miles Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from two miles west of Radcliff to Radcliff. Numerous homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed on the north side of Bowling Green. Deaths: Path width: 25 yards F-scale: F2 Storm Data mentions that the tornado was small and the worst damage seems to have been the destruction of a barn. Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mile and a width of 10 yardsNCDC gives nothing for either. Further southeast on Highland Church Road numerous trees were uprooted and snapped with trees facing from the north northeast to the southeast. Counties: Breckinridge mother and two children were left in the rubbish; Deaths: 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). It's just the way the wind patterns work. Deaths: 0 Injuries: The tornado proceeded to Route 79/259 and struck a home just north of A.H. Wilson Road with EF-2 strength. This tornado was probably spawned from the same thunderstorm that produced the earlier tornado in southwest Louisville (see previous entry). Grazulis lists the tornado in Franklin County but gives no location or path length. Numerous large hardwood trees were snapped or uprooted at a Girl Scout campground on Geyman Hill Road. Notes: A state trooper spotted an F0 tornado at the Metcalfe County Fairgrounds. March 10, 1986 Counties: Scott IN Path width: 30 yards Another woman was killed in her home two miles east of Palmyra. One home and at least six barns were destroyed. Deaths: 0 Notes: Two barns destroyed, one damaged. Notes: (This information was discovered on an internal Weather Bureau memo from Charles E. Hardy at WSO Lexington) The violent storm moved from the southwest part of Nicholasville near Shun Pike and reached the center of the city near the police station at Oak and Main. June 2, 1987 SPC and NCDC list a path width of 20 yards, Grazulis says 50 yards, Storm Data 14 yards. It then crossed Sweeney lane. Barns were destroyed five miles east of town. Time: 3:59am Pre-17th century. Notes: The tornado began just southwest of Lake Spring Road where a couple of trees were snapped or uprooted and a 24 x36 barn experienced extensive roof panel damage. The tornado first touched down near the intersection of Lee Road and Fort Avenue just west of the military base's boundary. Counties: Logan Never more than 50 yards wide, the first evidence of the tornado touching down was one mile south of the water tower on Thomas Lane, where it downed several large branches that blocked the road. One woman was pulled out of her house and landed on her porch. Injuries: 10 Path width: 200 yards Injuries: In some cases sources were contradictory with one another. Path width: More research would be nice. Deaths: 0 Deaths: 0 Narrative: Buildings were unroofed in downtown Lexington and at Sayre College. April 20, 2000 Nobody knew about it until the next morning when they saw the scattered debris causing tales of a night phantom., A tornado was reported near Dallas, Texas on April 15, , 1879 that destroyed more than a dozen homes and injured twenty-five people. At this tornado's touchdown point in Ohio County a witness said it "swerved" as it approached his house, just grazing the home but destroying the garage and a nearby barn. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down on Rowlette Street one mile west southwest of Munfordville and on KY 537, and moved northeast toward Glen Lily one mile east-northeast of Munfordville. Time: 11:22pm EDT F-scale: F2 May 8, 1918 A guide to tornado watching appeared in a book entirely about tornadoes that was published before the turn of the 20th century, and weve reproduced it below. May 30, 2004 May 5, 1996 Path length: Injuries: Numerous trees were felled and several outbuildings were damaged. Path width: 40 yards Injuries: As the tornado crossed Cemetery Road it damaged a home. Path length: Deaths: 0 Time: 6:39am CDT It is important to remember that the Grazulis publications list only those tornadoes that were of at least F2 strength or resulted in at least one fatality. The tornado crossed Interstate 65, damaging several vehicles and semis and closing the interstate for several hours. F-scale: F0 By John Brocklesby (1811-1899) On October 25, 1844, a tornado Trees were snapped and uprooted, and power lines were blown down. Path length: The tornado then skipped intermittently over primarily open farmland for before uprooting and snapping several trees along Leafdale Road west of KY 470. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC gives nothing. Time: 6:04am - 6:05am EST The tornado next touched down along US 31W north of Bonnieville, where it heavily damaged or destroyed several more barns and mobile homes. Counties: Allen, Barren F4) StoryMap, March 27, 1890 -- Louisville (est. Notes: A tornado touched down near the corner of Bramers and Campground roads. It pushed a largetobacco barn 15 feet eastward, tore offits roof, and collapsed several walls. Path width: 100 yards One day we had to move a house that had "survived" a tornado. Along Connersville Road the tornado lifted the roofs off of three homes, and damaged three others. Counties: Jefferson KY Time: 2:28pm EDT However, some of the most significant damage of the storm took place almost a mile south of where this project feels the true tornado took place. Time: 12:08am 7. Counties: Henry Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado on a two mile long path along Gilberts Creek from Salvisa to two miles east of Salvisa. Path width: 40 yards April 20, 2000 Counties: Adair A two-story house in Pewee Valley was swept ten feet off its foundation and collapsed. A sign was also blown down at a, 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.