tornadoes in the 1800s

Path length: EF-Scale: EF-1 A large grain bin was demolished and an anchored mobile home was pushed off of its foundation. May 23, 2000 Grazulis Narrative: A house and a garage were destroyed at New Washington. Path length: 10.5 miles Deaths: 0 SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mile, NCDC provides no length, and Grazulis gives a length of 5 miles. EF-scale: EF1 F-scale: F4 Three people were killed in a home near Alpha and two in a home near Sumter. In Metcalfe County, damage reported at Center and Sulphur Well appears to be from straight-line winds. EF-scale: EF0 Path length: 24 miles F-scale: F2 April 3, 1974 Notes:This touchdown occurred approximately 5 miles west of Salem on SW Washington School Rd. Time: 2:00am Three brick houses were completely wrecked. Path length: 2 miles Path length: Very few Americans had actually seen a tornado until the 1880s . Time: 3:27pm There was extensive damage from falling brick. Two homes and several barns were destroyed. Injuries: 27 Path width: 200 yards Grazulis narrative: Moved east-northeast from Tanyard to south of Caneyville, passing north of Leitchfield and ending near Big Clifty. Numerous trees and a grain silo weredown along the property. SPC lists a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards. June 7, 1985 Counties: Warren Injuries: 1 The tornado snapped large limbs from the tree canopy in this area and likely was not in total contact with the ground. Counties: Dubois Counties: Lincoln The church was scheduled to be dedicated the following Sunday. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list no injuries, Grazulis lists 20, Storm Data lists 7. Three quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) tornadoes were surveyed. May 18, 1995 Information lead and forecaster for the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang. There was significant damage on the upper portion of the feed mill approximately 70 feet off the ground along with some power poles being severely bent. Notes: This small tornado touched down near the intersection of Iron Mountain Road and Kidd Road where it heavily damaged a barn, then moved east-northeast over open farmland before hitting a farm on the west side of Center Three Springs Road. The tornado narrowed and went to about 50 yards in width. The tornado went over a hill and down into a holler where multiple vortices were witnessed. F-scale: F0 One tornado near Notes: This small tornado first destroyed a 2-car garage 0.4 miles south of KY 744 on Smith Chapel School Road. Deaths: 0 Path length: 40 miles January 2, 2006 constitute a distinctive folklore. Counties: Adair 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 by the wind, and afterward inclined upward. . Counties: Russell Counties: Bourbon The tornado ended approximately 400 yards from Highway 1544 near theintersection of 1164. It uprooted and snapped the trunks of several large trees and did some minor roof damage to a home. Path width: Counties: Harrison KY 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. Sightseers started arriving the next day, and the Guard was called to control the crowds. In the Alabama town of Cordova, Paula Hastings and her husband survived an April 27 twister by hiding in the basement of their stone-and-masonry home, which dates to the 1800s. As the tornado continued to the northeast, it produced major roof damage to homes along Rineyville Road. Time: 5:05pm Tornadoes | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Noted discrepancies: There is a coding error in the SPC database here. Path width: 10 yards Injuries: 15 Therefore you will find no tornadoes of F0 or F1 strength before 1950 here, unless they resulted in a death. January 18, 1929 A very well-built family residence took a direct hit from the EF2 tornado, with the front side of the home having the plywood exposed and with most of the shingles gone but the rest of the house fully intact due to the house having all the proper clips and braces with rebar. By John Brocklesby (1811-1899) Path width: 50 yards Time: 6:45pm Counties: Grayson, Hardin The tornado proceeded to Route 79/259 and struck a home just north of A.H. Wilson Road with EF-2 strength. April 3, 1974 Path width: 250 yards Deaths: 0 May 21, 1990 EF-Scale:EF1 County: Adair Deaths: 6 25, 1877, a tornado destroyed two spans of From there, the tornado crossed into Jefferson County, Indiana. There are roughly one hundred such tornadoes that were not able to be plotted. Injuries: 0 Path length: Counties: Meade Path length: Injuries: 0 Notes: A large swath of hardwood trees were snapped or uprooted three miles north of Huntingburg. SPC gives a path width of 10 yardsNCDC 30 yardsGrazulis 800 yards. The result: 116 fatalities, more than 350 homes and businesses leveled and close to 850 people injured. June 6, 1917 Counties: Jefferson KY Path length: 0.6mile Time: 1:51am EST to 1:52am EST Deaths: 0 Path length: 17.4 miles Path width: 150yards Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis does not list it. The tornadoes touched down just north of the front in Kentucky. F-scale: F1 EF-scale: EF0 Counties: Metcalfe F-scale: F0 F-scale: F1 Injuries: 0 Time: 8:53pm EDT However IN 7 doesn't go northeast of Madison. It went into a wooded area narrowing in Miami Court to about 75 yards and becoming more elevated. EF-Scale: EF0 SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC gives nothing. 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. June 26, 2013 Path width: 70 yards Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2Grazulis does not list it. Notes: Storm Data mentions damage at Pellsville and Roseville. Injuries: 0 Noted discrepancies: Storm Data also includes Jessamine County, but mentions no specific damage. The tornado reached its peak strength, high-end F3 (possibly F4) over a four-mile stretch of eastern Fayette County. 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. April 22, 1887 It is very plain that nothing can be sucked into the tornado, because of a partial vacuum there; but if it rushes in or up, it must be borne or propelled by a stream of electricity, so to speak, or by a rush of air. March 23, 1917 SPC, Grazulis, and NCDC list the path width at 30 yards, Storm Data says 1 yard. Twelve other homes and a church were damaged, and two barns were destroyed. Noted discrepancies: SPC lists a path width of 70 yards, NCDC 73 yards, Storm Data 50 yards. The path was 50 yards wide. Path width: 400 yards Injuries: 0 Time: 5:42am EST At around the same time during the mid-1800s textbooks began to describe the phenomenon and what was believed to be behind it. Debris from the double wides was tossed around a mile downwind. Injuries: 100 Deaths: 1 Path width: July 10, 2015 Counties: Logan In this area many trees were snapped and uprooted. SPC and NCDC give no F-scale rating, and it's not listed in Grazulis. Injuries: Deaths: 0 F-scale: F1 They account for 68 percent of all Great Plains tornadoes. Path length: Injuries: Injuries: Both the aerial photos and picture of the tornado relayed by the emergency manager were matched up with a radar signature indicating rotation. Multi-story downtown buildings were hit by the tornado and subsequently collapsed. A factory was damaged on Main Street just west of Ninth Street, in the Tobacco District. County: Ohio Deaths: 7 Strong winds in north Wales were a tornado, experts confirm. Injuries: 0 Path length: The tornado quickly strengthened and caused quite a bit of damage in Saint Helens, just southwest of Shively. The surrounding areas remain under a Tornado Watch until 8 p.m. Counties: Harrison IN Path width: 100 yards 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). Path length: Falling debris at this location struck and killed a resident. Path width: 30 yards Time: 9:27pm EDT to 9:30pm EDT Weather Stories Path length: 0.3 miles Path width: Path width: 616 yards At that point several trees up to two feet in diameter were blown down. Injuries: 0 cylinder and saw lightning, "which zigzagged Injuries: 0 Time: 2:10pm Will plot it as an F1. Barns and outbuildings were destroyed. Deaths: 0 Path width: F-scale: F0 May 18, 1995 On Stewart Avenue a house lost its roof. EF-Scale:EF0 Countless trees were snapped and uprooted. A small branch was driven into the side of a car and a chimney was knocked down from the side of a house. In addition, we can only know about the tornadoes that were reported to us. Time: 6:30pm The Metcalfe County damage consisted of house and barn damage, but was spread across an area three miles wide. Debris was thrown up to a quarter mile eastward into the woods. The tornadosignificantly increased in width to approximately 300 yards and dida lot of damage along Halls Creek Rd. The tornado here was rated EF4 with estimated wind speeds of 170 mph and a damage width of one-third mile. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis does not list it. The tornado Time: 5:20pm Path width: 125 yards It damaged 3 to 4 barns and snapped numerous trees along its 1.1 mile path. Injuries: Storm Data takes this tornado from 3/10 of a mile southwest of Tobinsport to 1.8 miles east northeast of Tobinsport. F-scale: F2 SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Grazulis nothing. The path length was about a third of a mile and the tornado was on the ground for less than 1 minute. June 29, 1979 Notes: Storm Data has this tornado touch down at Finchville and end near Bagdad. The tornado was at its strongest right before it dissipated. Path width: 15 yards Wheat, orchard grass, strawberries, and garden crops were ruined near Smith's Grove. F-scale: F0 F-scale: F2 It threw a 10,000 pound large grain silo leg. March 27, 1890 It touched down about 0.3 mile southwest of Center, destroying two large barns and a small outbuilding in addition to taking the roof off of a small home. Path length: 0.14 mile EF-scale: EF1 Deaths: 0 The last visible damage was on Georgie Way. Path width: Deaths: The details concerning this tornado are somewhat murky, but it appears that it touched down southwest of Georgetown where it damaged a greenhouse, and skipped to the east into far northern Fayette County. Injuries: 0 After the tornado has passed, note the appearance of the houses for explosive effects. Path width: EF-Scale:EF0 Five barns at the race track had large sections of their roofs blown off and cinder block walls buckled or collapsed. Counties: Hardin June 22, 2011 May 18, 1995 EF-Scale:EF1 Injuries: 2 The tornado then crossed US 27, destroying several barns, uprooting and snapping trees, and damaging several homes. Grazulis Narrative: Moved northeast from seven miles southwest of Salem to near Little York. Injuries: 0 Injuries: Path width: 150 yards Injuries 3 F-scale: F0 Deaths: There were some hardwood trees uprooted and parts of them fell onto homes, fences, trampolines, and swing sets. Time: 6:00pm F-scale: F2 Fatality counts for Russell County vary from 14 to 20 depending on the sourcethis study will use Grazulis' number of 18. April 23, 1968 Trees were snapped and uprooted, and power lines were blown down. Many trees were uprooted and a few were snapped. It is to be hoped that the number of those willing to aid in establishing the facts and ferreting out the mysteries will be largely increased, and it is for such these instructions are given. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down just south of Corydon. Three tornadoes were 1200 yards wide: one each on March 27, 1890March 18, 1925and April 3, 1974. Path length: Digging out: Tornado damages home, downs power lines; minor injuries One person became paralyzed from the neck down, and a 4 year old child suffered a fractured skull and broken leg. Injuries: 0 Notes: After researching this tornado (see discrepancies below), including reviewing radar data, it appears this tornado touched down at Chandlers Chapel in northeast Logan County, moving through Warren County crossing I-65 about seven and a half miles south of Bowling Green, continuing eastward into northernmost Allen County passing just north of Meador, then turning to the northeast near Finny, Haywood, three miles south of Glasgow, and ending at the Metcalfe County line near where the parkway crosses the border. February 20, 1951 Storm Data also has it right. This area is just northwest of the US 421 and I-71 junction near the Trimble/Henry county line. Deaths: 0 Deaths: 2 It was only 50 yards wide twisting many trees and was rated a EF0. 14. County: Edmonson Path width: Sep. 16, 2016. Path width: A "queer greenish light" was reported before the storm hit. Path length: Path length: 30 miles Counties: Harrison KY Path length: 4.6mile The second funnel cloud/tornado was near tree top level. New True West merchandise is here! Grazulis narrative: Moved east, destroying barns and badly damaging two farm houses near Turkey Foot. F-scale: F1 Notes: The tornado touched down on a farm at 1235 Crooksville Road where it snapped and uprooted several trees, spreading them in several directions. "It's been through many, many owners over a hundred-some years," Mr. Brown said. The first places hit were the Anderson Farm about three miles south of Georgetown, where a cabin lost its roof, the Showalters Farm just south of there, and Julia Marcum's place next door to the Showalters. Path length: 0.2 mile Injuries: 0 Notes: Photographs taken during a Civil Air Patrol flight corroborate interviews with residents along the damage path that there were intermittent touchdowns of a weaker tornado with the second supercell to pass over the area (see previous tornado). August 11, 1983 April 5, 2017 As storm systems moved across Texas Tuesday, a tornado wrecked havoc on the small town of Salado,shredding homes and leaving a debris trail in its wake. Notes: Storm Data puts this tornado four miles north of Depauw. It damaged or destroyed eight homes with several injuries. While there were heavy property losses, no one was killed. Several witnesses saw two different tornado near the Miami Court and Wobegone Way area. Injuries: 0 EF-Scale: EF-0 One person was killed as 15 homes were destroyed near Cox's Creek, Nelson County. Path length: The worst damage, near the upper bound of EF1 around 105 mph, was done to a well-constructed home west of Mintonville. Path width: One of the women had been injured in a tornado on April 3, 1956. Deaths: Injuries: Time: 2:00pm Path length: Path length: 32 miles Grazulis narrative: Moved east from Commiskey to Dupont. Injuries: 0 Narrative: A "bounding-type" tornado destroyed barns and stables at the Keeneland Race Track. One family residence on the west side of the road was severely damaged, reflecting EF3 damage with 150 mph winds. Path width: 300 yards The tornado became elevated as it continued east-northeast from Thomas Road, snapping a few tree limbs in a wooded area before briefly touching down one last time on Rineyville Road, where it littered the highway with tree limbs and tore the front porch off a home, vaulting the roof over the house into the back yard. On the square, the tornado ripped the metal roofs off of Reflections Flower Shop and Liberty Furniture. County: Hardin Counties: Boyle Counties: Jefferson IN The tornado dissipated as it approached the east shore of the channel. April 15, 1994 There were two injuries in one, and a death in another. SPC and NCDC give a path length of 13 miles, Grazulis gives 12 miles, Storm Data says 8 miles. have involved accounts of plucked poultry, Counties: Madison Many homes, trailers, outbuildings, and barns were damaged along the tornado's intermittent path. Two occupants of the mobile home were injured. Path width: 60yards Deaths: 0 The worst damage was in Barren County. Historically, the only extreme weather images were from eyewitness sketches. F-scale: F2 A truck and horse trailer weremoved 50 feet and twisted. It initially moved south, damaging a farm south of town on Hustonville Road. April 12, 2019 Time: 3:14pm CDT June 7, 1980 Injuries: 0 Damage continued to the east along and south of Hurst Road in extreme southeast Washington County. Path length: 49 miles September 8, 2018 And, while the sturdy Eads Bridge remained standing, nearly 300 feet of its eastern approach was torn away. Path length: It snapped trees as it moved east into Haysville. June 2, 1990 20. This was largely thanks to increased instances of tornado disasters given an expanding and westward moving population. Counties: Washington IN March 28, 1997 Time: 8:04pm CDT Deaths: April 27, 1971 Deaths: 0 Fifty homes were damaged or destroyed, mostly in and near Cave City. F-scale: F1 Deaths: 0 Path width: 25yards Counties: Washington KY Path length: 2.2 miles Injuries: 0 Deaths: Counties: Monroe December 15, 1971 Deaths: 0 Injuries: This tornado "bounced like a rubber ball" and destroyed several homes. Notes: Storm Data puts this tornado in Eckerty. Time: 10:44pm EDT Time: 2:09pm Time: 1:40pm Injuries: The tornado lifted at the intersection of West Mount Tabor Road and Smedley Road. A child was killed when a concrete block grocery store caved in. More research would be helpful. 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. 85 mph winds. Injuries: 0 4 miles west of Cloverport, additional minor damage was done to a, group of homes along 2169. Security cameras from a business next door captured the damage occurring as a wall of wind and water that occurred in less than half a minute. Another outbuilding was overturned and slidabout 10 feet. Notes: The tornado initially touched down near the Hardin-LaRue County line between routes 210 and 61 just north of Tonieville. Deaths: June 29, 1979 The second home in the path of the tornado was badly damaged and a paper bill from the home was lifted into the tornado and carried 35 miles to the northeast into Powell County, landing in the yard of a National Weather Service employee. March 23, 1893 numerous eyewitness accounts, documented Canmer and Woodsonville were the hardest struck districts. Deaths: Deaths: 0 March 22, 1952 The NCDC begin location and end location (8 miles southwest of Albany) also places this tornado in Tennessee, or, depending on the degree of "southwest", in the middle of Dale Hollow Lake. Time: 9:42am CST F-scale: F1 May 31, 2001 Deaths: Sources for the tornado information presented here includetheNational Centers for Environmental Information'sStorm Events website,Storm Data(the official National Weather Service storm report publication),Significant Tornadoes 1681 - 1991by Thomas P. Grazulis, andSignificant Tornadoes Update 1992 - 1995also by Thomas P. Grazulis. Path width: 50yards Noted discrepancies: None Debris from the barnwas thrown up to 300 yards downwind and in many different directions. The tornado then continued on an intermittent path to the southeast where it did some additional roof damage to another home and snapped several other trees. Notes: A strong thunderstorm passed through Georgetown in the pre-dawn hours. The tornado intensified east of the intersection of Kettle Bottom and State Highway 362. Tornadoes and severe winds strike central US as another round of rain Deaths: 0 Path width: 200 yards EF-scale: EF0 Counties: Metcalfe Notes: The tornado touched down just east of Lake Celina where one tree was uprooted and others were snapped. Deaths: 0 Advisory/Warning Criteria, Radar July 13, 2015 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. Louisville newspapers did not mention any damage in Oldham or Shelby Counties. Path length: Path width: McCool placed the old lace . Path length: SPC gives an ending lat/lon of 38.42/-83.73NCDC gives 38.40/-83.93. F-scale: F4 Homes were unroofed on both the east and west sides of the intersection of Churchill at Thirteenth. F-scale: F3 Notes:This very small, skipping tornado did its damage primarily on hilltops between Sparks Ferry Road and the intersection of IN135 and Lewellen Road. Deaths: 0 Counties: Washington IN Time: 11:40pm EDT Injuries: 0 Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck near Lewisport. Injuries: 20 Injuries: February 7, 1904 Counties: Logan Grazulis narrative: Skipped from Guthrie to Keysburg and Schochoh. Counties: Logan Counties: Jessamine EF-Scale: EF-0 May 24, 2000 Injuries: Counties: Breckinridge Grazulis narrative: Moved northeast from northwest of Elizabethtown, destroying businesses as it passed two miles north of that town along the miracle mile strip on US 31W. F-scale: F1 The tornado stayed on the ground for one mile before lifting, heavily damaging a church on Dixie Highway, as well as uprooting and snapping several trees and damaging numerous homes. February 6, 2008 Counties: Warren Counties: Breckinridge Time: 7:00am A tornado appears as a rotating, funnel-shaped cloud that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground with whirling winds that can reach 300 miles per hour. Path length: 3.4 miles Deaths: 0 New York, NDC Hodges, 1890. EF-Scale: EF-1 County: Scott, IN Path length: Injuries: 0 EF-Scale: EF1 Path width: Noted discrepancies: SPC/NCDC lat/lon is actually in Robertson County. Path length: Path length: Their home, which was destroyed, caught fire and only one child could be rescued. Grazulis narrative: A new brick home was destroyed and the neighboring home was unroofed in a brief touchdown in Radcliff. Three empty silos were destroyed with metal sheets thrown a quarter of a mile. It appears to have touched down at Hike's Point along Taylorsville Road and Brown's Lane. There is the utmost danger of seeing the tornado do what we think it ought to do. F-scale: F1 Nearly a complete roof of one outbuilding was project 1/2 mile to the east. Deaths: Deaths: 0 SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mileNCDC gives nothingGrazulis gives 3 miles. Pre-17th century. Deaths: The tornado continued for four minutes along a 3.4 mile long path with winds to 100 mph, lifting 0.7 miles northeast of Needmore. At that point it heavily damaged two brick homes and one wood frame home as well as destroying a wood barn (overturning the tractor inside) and two metal outbuildings. Time: 11:08am CDT Notes: This tornado hit several residences in a rural subdivision along Pleasure Ridge Road. F-scale: F1 Path width: 25yards Notes: This tornado began just east of the end of the previous tornado and began by damaging roofs of about a dozen houses and uprooting and snapping trees along Saint Edwards Drive. Twelve homes were destroyed in the touchdown near Allensville. Time: 10:00am Path width: February 10, 1959 Time: 3:40pm Plotted according to NCDC's narrative. Notes: The tornado touched down four miles northwest of Dunnville and skipped along ridgetops to the east-southeast, exiting Casey County at Mintonville. Here EF1 damage, 90 mph winds, and a path width of 50 yards were estimated. Notes: Storm Data puts this tornado near Center. The tornado crossed Tanner Road and lifted just west of downtown Hodgenville. Time: 7:58pm EST to 7:59pm EST Streets that suffered damage (other than those listed above): Atokad Park, Aztec Circle, Big Ben Court, Carlsbad Court, Carriage Lane, Custer Drive, Custer Lake Court, Dale Drive, East Hills Drive, Glacier Court, Golden Gate Park, Mount Rainier Drive, Packanack Court, Personality Court, Pipestone Court, Rocky Mount Court, Stephen Foster Drive, Shoal Lake Drive, Squires Circle, Squires Road, Tates Brook Drive, Travis Court, Tuscaloosa Lane, Woodview Drive, and Yosemite Circle.

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