November 18, 2017 Injuries: 0 The National Weather Service would like to thank volunteer general aviation pilots Mark Powers and Josh Kieffer for flying the damage path in N16NA and Austin Lassell for aerial photography. It is most likely the following event. Path length: Path width: 200 yards 12. Deaths: Path width:200 yards Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list a path width of 17 yards, Grazulis lists 20 yards, Storm Data says 33 yards. One other death occurred in the village of Mount Olive, where several homes were destroyed. Deaths: All of the damage was consistent with, The National Weather Service would like to thank volunteer general, aviation pilots Mark Powers and Josh Kieffer for flying the damage, path in N16NA and Austin Lassell for aerial photography. April 1, 1974 Path length: 1.7 miles April 23, 1970 Injuries: 1 County: Ohio Dozens of buildings and hundreds of trees were destroyed in Louisville. F-scale: F1 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 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). Storm Data says the tornado touched down eight miles north of Carlisle on Ball Hill Road. A trailer was demolished east of Savoyard, in which a woman named Glinda Jeffries was killed. F-scale: EF1 Path width: 125 yards Deaths: July20, 2018 F-scale: F2 The tornado produced EF1 and EF0 damage in Simpson County until it lifted at Russellville-Gallatin Road at 2:09pm CDT. Time: 5:30am More recent research by Gary Purlee and Cody Moore indicate that this was actually one tornado. Noted discrepancies: SPC, Storm Data, and NCDC list no injuries, but Grazulis lists 5. Path width: 220 yards Deaths: Injuries: 0 The tornado advanced to the northeast. It lifted again before coming down and taking the roof of a barn on Armstrong Rd., where the tornado ended. 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. Deaths: 0 Path width: 34 yards County: Clark IN SPC and NCDC list only a touchdown pointno lift-off point is given. Injuries: A mobile home was rolled over and trees and power lines were blown down. There are hundreds of small tornadoes that are not listed here simply because they have yet to be rediscovered, and that's if they were ever even reported in the first place. Path width: 300 yards County: Ohio In this area, several well-built brick homes were destroyed. Path width: Counties: Hancock Path length: The tornado then crossed IN 145 and moved into the marina. Counties: Fayette Deaths: Grazulis narrative: Grazulis gives a lengthy description of this tornado, but does not give any information about Orange County, most likely since the tornado just barely clipped the corner of the county and went through an extremely rural, wooded area that is virtually unpopulated. Path width: 300 yards EF-Scale:EF2 Four people were killed near Tracy Lane, and eleven others were injured in southeast Allen County. Many buildings, homes, and trailers were severely damaged. Path length: 2 miles Time: 3:05pm Path width: 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. tornado which rose and fell moving like a Deaths: 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. Path length: 0.3 mile June 23, 2017 Injuries: 2 Forty homes and 75 barns were destroyed. EF-Scale:EF1 Path width: Deaths: 0 EF-scale: EF0 At 291 Elamond Road part of the roof of a home was peeled back with extensive siding damage. F-scale: F0 Several trees were also toppled in a wooded area behind this home. The tornado then weakened as it traveled across KY 1359. A new frame home was destroyed on Sixth Street just south of Broadway, and chimney and other miscellaneous damage occurred along Broadway between Fifth and Fourth Streets as the tornado began to dissipate. Path length: 2.8 miles F-scale: F3 F-scale: F2 December 21, 2013 Narrative: From one of the worst tornado outbreaks ever to strike central Kentucky. F-scale: F2 Path width: 80yards F-scale: F2 Large brick homes lost their roofs on 18th at Prentice and at Oak. Debris from one home blocked the railroad tracks for three hours. Learn how your comment data is processed. County: Washington IN Path length: Many trees were uprooted and there were signs of rotation on Goose Creek Road. Deaths: 0 A swing set was thrown from the back of the house to the front. Time: 5:11pm - 5:13pm CDT Some tornadoes are clearly visible, while rain or nearby low-hanging clouds obscure others. Grazulis has the tornado starting in Muhlenberg County east of Greenville and he lifts it at Hartford in Ohio County (nowhere near the SPC/NCDC lat/lon). Path length: 6 miles Time: 8:10pm Counties: Hardin County: Adair In Washington County many buildings across the county were leveled. Across from the complex numerous trees were snapped or topped off. We hope you enjoy the fruits of our labor in these pages, and find the information both entertaining and useful. Notes: The tornado traveled mainly over plowed fields, but was witnessed by at least three people and did do some damage to farms. One of the barns was 30 x 80, one was 150 x 100, and one was 12 x 16 along with numerous sheds destroyed, and debris was thrown in all directions downwind up to 500 yards. F-scale: F1 Eagle Park (primarily used for baseball) was damaged between Third and Fourth streets and Ormsby and Park avenues, and a home was damaged on Third Street opposite the park. November 18, 1957 Counties: Lincoln June 15, 1964 Deaths: 0 Deaths: 0 On Christmas Tree Road a 30 x 30 barn had significant damage south of the main tree damage. Tornado History - National Weather Service 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. People would cross the street rather than walk by it. Path width: 125 yards Injuries: 0 This was consistent with EF1 damage, 105 mph estimated winds, and a damage width of 75 yards. Path length: 8.2 miles Noted discrepancies: NCDC narrative does not match up with the lat/lons given for Jefferson County. However it dissipated soon thereafter. April 29, 1963 Counties: Dubois F-scale: Click here for a map of the tornado's path and damage pictures. The following two tabs change content below. Debris from this building was observed one-half to three-quarters of a mile downwind. It appears this tornado should be listed as Marshall/McCracken rather than McCracken/Madison. Path length: 15 miles Flying debris damaged at least two other buildings and vehicles, with roofing debris scattered a quarter of a mile to the northeast. Path width: May 23, 2000 EF-Scale: EF-1 Time: 2:20pm Counties: Butler Path length: 3 miles Counties: Clark, IN Deaths: 0 Injuries: 1 Path width: 100 yards Path width: 125yards Path width: Injuries: 0 Notes: A state trooper spotted an F0 tornado at the Metcalfe County Fairgrounds. Injuries: Noted discrepancies: NCDC does not give a liftoff lat/lon. Path length: 1 mile NOTE: Having happened before the era of comprehensive damage surveys, some of these events may have been composed of multiple tornadoes along a damage path. Path length: 3.4 miles Notes: One home received major roof damage. Path length: Notes: Ten trees were uprooted, blown over, or snapped on either side of Route 66 north of Oriole. Path width: Path length: The tornado then intensified as it moved east with the worst damage occurring along a 1.5 mile stretch from Highway 76 east over Oak Grove Road to Pattie Ridge Road. Path width: 250 yards to conduct a damage survey. from side-to-side." Noted discrepancies: NWS ranks this as an F2, Grazulis says F1. Path length: EF-Scale:EF1 Counties: Mercer Counties: Logan One resident lost twenty softwoodand hardwood trees, The tornado lifted just east of Hawley Gibson Road, twisting several trees on a farm there. Some witnesses thought there might have been a small tornado, but no credible eye-witness accounts of a visible funnel were received. Deaths: 0 F-scale: F1 Deaths: 0 Path length: 3 miles Deaths: 0 Greensburg's industrial park suffered the worst damage when a brick building suffered exterior and interior damage. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Grazulis 100 yards. EF-Scale:EF0 March 10, 1986 The distance across Marion County is about 14 miles. EF-scale: EF1 Path length: 1/10 mile Injuries: 0 It tore the back end off of a large barn there and collapsed a 60-foot tall silo, then crossedthe road and snapped several trees. Noted discrepancies: NWS calls this an F2, Grazulis says F1. Jefferson County, Kentucky has had the most tornadoes of any county, with 34. Path width: Path length: tornado struck the Baker home just outside Counties: Russell January 21, 1959 About five and a half miles from Lexington on Briar Hill Road the twister devastated the Kelley Farm. Injuries: 0 County: Mercer Notes: Touched down 2.7 miles southwest of Huntingburg. Advisory/Warning Criteria, Radar Significant Tornadoes. Further east along Mayhew Road a large, well-built barn was uplifted and removed from its foundation with several cedar and maple trees twisted and snapped. Injuries: 0 Notes: The tornado touched down four miles northwest of Dunnville and skipped along ridgetops to the east-southeast, exiting Casey County at Mintonville. Injuries: 0 Path width: Debris was thrown up to a quarter mile eastward into the woods. May 9, 1933 One house was lifted and slid 65 yards off its foundation while mostly still intact. Stanton, Kansas, on June 8, 1860, killing April 30, 1994 Notes: The tornado touched down south of D&G Archery and snapped, twisted, and uprooted trees on rugged, rural countryside. F-scale: F3 SPC path length is only one mile, however. Path length: 2.1miles Six people were killed when the tornado demolished a number of homes in the Mount Pleasant Church area on KY 551. A list of instructions for observing tornadoes during the late 1800s. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down initially west of Lawrenceburg and moved into the downtown section of that city. A large debris field was scattered 200-300 yards downwind. 1984, April 26-27: an outbreak of tornadoes covered all but extreme northeast Wisconsin. The roof at 3245 Mammoth Drive flew into the Park Hills Shopping Center, 1240 Ascot Park was badly damaged, and the houses at 3576 Bold Bidder and 1248 Ak-Sar-Ben Park were destroyed. Time: 12:35pm EF-Scale:EF0 EF-Scale:EF1 The tornado then moved across a mixture of open farm fields and scattered forest. Deaths: 0 The tornado lifted near this location. There were a few twisted trees on both sides of the highway and the tornado lifted just to the northeast of the road. Counties: Casey The most extensive damage was done near the end of the tornado's path, where it destroyed a mobile home, took the roof off a cinder block outbuilding, and did extensive damage to the roofs of several large barns. Time: 4:30pm Counties: Jefferson KY, Oldham In addition a nearby house had its metal roof blown off. Path length: Counties: Grayson Path width: Path length: the former having her head crushed, and Path width: Injuries: There could have been damage in-between although the survey team was unable to access this area. January 30, 2013 F-scale: F3 The tornado touched down about a half mile west of 1598 Carter Brothers Road. The high school roof was lifted and some top floor exterior walls collapsed. Time: 10:53pm CDT 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). Path width: 125yards F-scale: F2 The final damage occurred at the intersection of US 68 and Palestine Road. Path length: 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 Injuries: 0 Deaths: The path was 50 yards wide. Many miles of forest were leveled, and small farm communities were wiped out. Trees and telephone poles were knocked down. The tornado continued east-northeast in far northwest Clark County on Dan Gray Road where the twister leveled many well-built homes and caused extensive tree damage. April 16, 1998 Near Manassas Drive a trampoline was thrown 60 yards and a large sycamore tree was uprooted next to an air conditioner that was thrown to the north. F-scale: F3 While these spinny winds are not unique to our country, they are very much a part of the American experience. Injuries: 0 Although not all of the data for every storm that occurred are available, some parts of the coastline were populated enough to provide data of hurricane occurrences. Further east, a large 50'x60' barn was destroyed and debris went at least half a mile downwind. That portion of her hair left 7. March 1, 2017 Noted discrepancies: None Path length: F-scale: F1 weight. Injuries: 20 Notes: About two miles west of Gamaliel the tornado destroyed two conventional homes and two mobile homes. This was one of a family of small tornado that skipped across three counties. Path width: and narrowed to about 50 yards. Injuries: 0 At a quarter past noon during Sunday services the twister struck the church, causing it to collapse. Your email address will not be published. Clark County and Scott County: The National Weather Service in conjunction with Clark County Emergency Management conducted an exhaustive tornado damage survey on Saturday and Sunday, March 3 and 4. The SPC/NCDC liftoff lat/lon is in Oho County but makes no sense for a tornado coming from Hopkins and McLean counties, especially without passing through Muhlenberg County. Time: 7:00pm Click on a tornado or its track to find out more information about it. Deaths: White's Distillery's roof was blown "out of sight." The tornado traveled east-northeast snapping trees and power poles on County Road 850, and did its most significant damage at the intersection of Jackson Road, State Highway 62, and Swan Road about 2 miles south of the town of Chelsea. F-scale: F3 The tornado dissipated as it approached the east shore of the channel. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down south of Glasgow and did damage along KY 90. Experimental Graphical Hazardous Weather Outlook, National Centers for Environmental Information'sStorm Events website, This storm swept through the southern half of Louisville. The lat/lon given for this tornado agrees with the location Grazulis gives: Salvisa, which is in Mercer County, not Woodford.