Notes: This tornado began near the intersection of IN 145 and Base Line Road where it destroyed a metal roofed barn. In addition, we can only know about the tornadoes that were reported to us. It then crossed Sweeney lane. A 72'x12' shed next to the barn was destroyed. Injuries: 0 On Lemons Mill Pike the John Drake Farm and the home of Dr. S. S. Amerson were hit. Path width: 50 yards Counties: Garrard and Madison Time: Time: 5:47pm Brooks and Doswell (2002) discussed the long-term history of tornado deaths, drawing on the work of Grazulis (1993) (Grazulis, T. P., 1993: Significant Tornadoes, 1680-1991. September 26, 1976 February 28, 2011 April 3, 2018 Path length: 5 miles Six people were killed when the tornado demolished a number of homes in the Mount Pleasant Church area on KY 551. Deaths: 1 Grazulis doesn't many any specific locations of the injuries he reported. It's a compilation of stories that appeared in St. Louis daily newspapers after the tornado hit.It was first published just days after the tornado hit in 1896. Deaths: 0 Counties: Breckinridge Time: 4:02pm Counties: Warren Forty homes and 75 barns were destroyed. Path width: 150 yards Notes: The tornado mostly did damage to the upper halves of several trees along its path. The tornado moved into far southeast Washington County before reappearing in Clark County. Thirty businesses were destroyed and damage totalled over ten million dollars. Deaths: Path length: 0.9 mile Path width: Deaths: 0 Nineteen homes and 23 businesses were destroyed or damaged. An injured person at Pewee Valley may have died several weeks later. Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mileNCDC gives nothing. Counties: Washington IN EF-Scale: EF-1 Counties: Hart February 6, 2008 Path length: 1.3 miles Path length: 5 miles Notes: This small tornado struck just southwest of Milton. Cedar trees were snapped. Path length: Notes: The tornado spun up west of Star Field on the north side of the Paoli School Complex, destroying a 100 year old barn and heavily damaging the roofs of two other outbuildings. At Stanford the sky was "filled with debris" and funnels were again sighted, along with scattered damage. Path length: 1 mile Time: 9:45pm Time: 1:05pm Injuries: 0 Notes: An EF-0 tornado first touched down at the Wal-Mart parking lot on the northwest corner of the Veteran`s Parkway near I-65. All NOAA. Path width: 60yards Noted discrepancies: SPC/NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis does not list it. As the tornado turned to the northeast, so did the RFD, and a two-and-a-half story house lost its roof in Germantown (which the 1875 newspaper described as a "remote suburb") at Mary and Logan Streets. Further down on Willard Wilson road, another 30 by 50 foot barn was collapsed and a 400 pound 4-wheeler was moved 30 feet. Deaths: 0 Path length: 1.7miles SPC gives a path length of 38 miles, NCDC gives 33 miles, Storm Data says 40 miles, Grazulis lists a skipping path of 23 miles. A car was destroyed and tossed about 100 yards in the direction of storm motion from its origin at the home. SPC gives a path length of 20 milesNCDC gives 21 milesGrazulis give 29 miles. Near Talley, the tornado lifted the roof off of a home. Time: 3:26am The tornado did its worst in Whitesville in Daviess County, damaging much of the town. Catastrophic December tornadoes slam Mid-Mississippi Valley Deaths: 0 Counties: Lincoln (from Pulaski) Path length: Path length: Counties: Garrard, Madison SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mile, NCDC gives nothing. The church itself was leveled. Counties: Ohio, Butler Houses were unroofed. along the Missouri River in Kansas during the Notes:The tornado touched down just insidethe Breckinridge-Meade County linenorth of Irvington. Counties: Warren Canmer and Woodsonville were the hardest struck districts. Deaths: 0 These tornadoes were plotted in grey with the annotation "F?". July 10, 2015 Deaths: 3 Counties: Mercer Heading east, the tornado felled several trees. EF-Scale:EF0 Theres no way to get an accurate account of Indians who perished in Tornadoes but there likely were considerable losses. May 9, 1933 A home was unroofed, and other buildings were damaged. Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mile and a width of 10 yardsNCDC gives nothing for either. Deaths: 0 Time: 9:27pm EDT to 9:30pm EDT The Bowling Green newspaper said the damage occurred around 10:30pm. Counties: Harrison KY Injuries: 0 February 6, 2008 EF-Scale:EF0 A carport was thrown over a house and landed 100 yards to the east. Deaths: Your email address will not be published. Deaths: See also PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT: Tornadoes. Deaths: 0 F-scale: F2 June 16, 1997 F-scale: F4 Deaths: Deaths: Noted discrepancies: None Path length: Notes: This was one of the worst tornadoes ever to strike Lexington. F-scale: F0 Path length: 0.7 mile The tornado had lifted the house completely off the foundation and rotated it about 3-4 feet. Deaths: F-scale: F1 Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list a path width of 440 yards, Grazulis lists 400 yards. This was largely thanks to increased instances of tornado disasters given an expanding and westward moving population. Grazulis lists an F2 tornado in Woodford County with eight injuries, a path length of one mile, and a path width of 200 yards on May 18, 1995 at 6:35am. Injuries: 2 Injuries: 0 Three small homes were blown down. Significant Tornadoes. It is very essential that one divests himself of every preconceived notion about the whirling, sucking, or any other action of a tornado. Path length: Path length: Path width: Path length: 18 miles Counties: Ohio Time: 9:30pm Path width: 100 yards Deaths: 0 Path width: F-scale: F2 Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck Angel Ridge. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck near Lewisport. The tornado crossed US 421 and continued northeast. The tornado struck the brand new baseball park, located where Saint James Court is today, built to host Louisville's new National League baseball team, the Louisville Grays. Time: 3:04pm CDT - 3:11pm EDT Path length: 0.7 miles There was major damage to 105 more homes. Path length: Germantown was hardest hit. 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. Injuries: 57 County: Warren Time: 6:50pm Injuries: Path length: 6.5 miles Path length: Be sure to provide good evidence for your claim. Narrative: Coincidentally enough, a tornado hit Lincoln County on Abraham Lincoln's birthday. It moved east-southeast, uprooting and snappingtrees near the intersection of Hwy 62 and Goshen Church Rd, along with damaging some small outbuildings. Five barns at the race track had large sections of their roofs blown off and cinder block walls buckled or collapsed. May 28, 1996 Here, EF3-EF4 damage was estimated with winds of 150-170 mph. A small well-constructed shed was pushed over onto its side, and another small shed was destroyed. Path width: 800 yards Injuries: There was complete destruction of roofs and walls of several single and double wide trailers. Deaths: 0 Time: 2:09pm Path width: A bowling alley and several businesses were damaged at Sellersburg. Injuries: 0 Path width: Counties: Dubois Path length: 85 mph winds. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Grazulis nothing. January 2, 2006 April 27, 1971 Counties: Breckinridge On This Day: The Great St. Louis Tornado of 1896 | News | National Path width: Counties: Madison This was one of a family of small tornado that skipped across three counties. The funnel lifted northeast of Bedford. F-scale: F3 Storm Data lists a path length of 34 miles. Counties: Warren F-scale: F1 Counties: Dubois (from Knox, Daviess, and Martin) Injuries: 0 Counties: Clark KY (to Powell) The tornado damaged struck the Horntown convenience store damaging the roof. Notes: Several structures were badly damaged as the tornado moved along KY 70 from Elm Drive to KY 206. Two people may have died. Tornado History - National Weather Service A car was blown off the road, over a fence, and into a field. Counties: Adair They raised the pipes to the storm spirit asking it to smoke and go around them. Eagle Park was Louisville's baseball park before the new one to the south was constructed. Deaths: Path length: 1.7mile Counties: Mercer Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down near where I-64 crosses the Jefferson/Shelby county line, moving on to the Governor's Manor Shopping Center in Shelbyville. Counties: Simpson February 24, 2018 County: Garrard Anoutbuilding, previously used to make brooms, next to the house hadsignificant damage when a large tree fell on top of it. were blown down. Cornfields were flattened and convergent wind signatures could be seen in the vegetation. A house was damaged. May 25, 2011 Path length: Deaths: 0 May 12, 1978 Tornadoes are some of the most destructive forces of nature. This included several mobile homes totally destroyed, several framed houses heavily damaged, tremendous tree damage, and power poles snapped and shredded. Noted discrepancies: None Grazulis narrative: Moved southeast, hitting a rural mobile home eight miles northeast of Corydon, blowing it apart, killing a man, and scattering debris for almost a mile. As many as eight people died in one home. Path width: 60 yards Path length: 5 miles July 23, 1961 Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. F-scale: F1 September 22, 1980 Some trees were uprooted and blown 20 feet. Counties: Jefferson KY, Oldham Path length: 3 miles Path length: 1.4miles Grazulis narrative: Moved east-northeast through rural areas from one mile south of Milport passing two miles east of Crothersville and two miles southeast of Paris Crossing, ending one mile northeast of Lancaster. The relatively new Signal Service (a forerunner of the National Weather Service) tracked storms using telegrams, passing weather . The second funnel cloud/tornado was near tree top level. Deaths: 0 Path length: Injuries: 0 Eight homes were destroyed, but some walls were left standing on all of them. Deaths: 0 Counties: Monroe County: Logan (from Robertson, Tennessee) A house lost its roof at 570 Dresden Avenue, with additional damage at 550 and 552 Dresden. KY Mesonet, Latest Forecasts Deaths: 0 The lat/lon issue and path length issue here are the mirror image of the lat/lon issue and path length issue of the previous tornado. The track may very well have continued on past Barren County. There were at least 20 injuries, one critical. May 17, 2003 Path length: 2.2miles The tornado peaked in intensity on a farm just north of Sexton Lane. Path length: 9 miles The tornado left a distinctpath in the vegetation and destroyed a part of a large metal barnnear the Rosetta General Store. Path length:2.7 miles Path width: 100 yards F-scale: F4 The vortex quickly intensified to EF3 strength as it crossed the south portion of the town of Marysville, severely damaging several homes. F-scale: F1 Time: 6:30pm Injuries: 0 A large, well constructed barn was destroyed. Time: 5:30pm Injuries: 0 Notes: A National Weather Service Survey Team in conjunction with Larue County EMA determined a tornado began near Kyle Lane which is 2 miles west of Hodgenville. Path length: 1.5miles Another area of significant damage was at the intersection of Highway 100 and Reeder School Road (near the Simpson/Allen County line)where a house had significant roof damage and had an exterior wall blown out. F-scale: EF-Scale: EF1 Seventeen houses were damaged along Walnut Street from Fifteenth to Seventeenth Streets, a home was severely damaged near the corner of Madison and Thirteenth Streets, and a factory was damaged at the corner of Chestnut and Twelfth Streets. Path width: 800 yards At those locations the brick facade of each building was pushed out. Near the intersection of KY 152 and Mac Court extensive tree damage occurred. Path length: 6miles Path length: 1/3 of a mile A ranch style home suffered significant damage. Time: 4:00pm Path length: 6 miles County: Jefferson, KY Counties: Fayette Injuries: There was a number of cedar trees that were sheared off half way up. The storm then crossed into Metcalfe County about three miles northeast of Nobob. April 5, 2017 At least 15 homes were destroyed or torn apart. Deaths: 0 The tornado lifted near Drennon Creek. Counties: Anderson Deaths: 0 Injuries: 0 F-scale: F4 June 11, 1985 Counties: Spencer Injuries: 0 Residents told the Louisville Courier-Journal that the tornado crossed the river and damaged trees on the Indiana shore, however that is not reflected in the official record. March 25, 1964 EF-Scale: EF1 Deaths: 0 Path width: 80yards Path length: 0.20 mile Injuries: A roof was torn off and thrown 60 yards. County: Mercer Four other farm buildings were damaged. Deaths: Path width: Path length: April 19, 2011 17th century. Path length: 1.3 miles F-scale: F3 Injuries: 0 Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck on Gaffney Road. Narrative: Moved east-northeast from near Grantsburg to northwest of Hancock. Counties: Shelby Deaths: 0 Time: 3:30pm EST Path length: 16.4 miles The exact end point of the tornado was difficult to determine as it went into a thickly wooded area with limited access. April 22, 1887 The high death toll was partly a result of the tornadoes traveling rapidly . Path width: Workers working on the home heard a loud roar while seeking shelter and observed the twister striking and uprooting some trees.