tornadoes in the 1800s

A dairy farming operation lost several barns, along with some trees that were uprooted. Deaths: 1 Injuries: 20 Tornadoes are some of the most destructive forces of nature. Time: 8:08am CDT Path width: 250 yards Time: 6:07pm 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 half a mile northeast of Sharpsville to two miles northeast of Sharpsville. Time: 11:40pm EDT Abasement crawl space door was blown out along with siding and roofdamage at 125 Spinks Drive. F-scale: F1 EF-Scale:EF1 It's been mapped here according to the information in Storm Data, but additional research would be helpful. Notes: The track began near the intersection of South John Batt Road and West Batts Road. Injuries: Path length: 15 miles Fifty homes were damaged or destroyed, mostly in and near Cave City. Counties: Butler Deaths: 0 Time: 9:16pm CDT F-scale: F2 A path length of 14 miles would take this tornado out of Metcalfe County, so the SPC path length is used here. Counties: Russell Path width: He described in graphic detail the "agonies of Barns and the L&N roundhouse were flattened. Notes: Thistornado briefly touched down on SpinksDrive just off of Highway 69. Notes: Storm Data places this tornado two and a half miles west southwest of Happy Landing. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list a path length of 10 miles, Grazulis says 14 miles. Notes: Thetornado touched down near I-65 embedded in straight line winds. Path length: 8.2 miles Deaths: Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mile and a width of 10 yardsNCDC gives nothing for either. 157-158. Path width: Notes: Storm Data places this tornado near Hardyville. F-scale: F0 Notes: The tornado touched down south of D&G Archery and snapped, twisted, and uprooted trees on rugged, rural countryside. Time: 6:00pm Just east of Route 135, tremendous tree damage wasobserved. Injuries: 250 Grazulis' path length and width are probably more correct. Time: 7:45pm Injuries: 1 More recent research by Gary Purlee and Cody Moore indicate that this was actually one tornado. A couple of houses and two church buildings sustained roof damage. By evening, the skies darkened and the winds began to roar. Path length: The touchdown occurred along a forested area which threw branches and large portions of maple and cedar trees over the road approximately 300 yards. At the corner of Maple Road and Galene Drive a significant portion of a large oak tree split off and was thrust into a wall of Tully School. This tornado was part of the "Enigma Outbreak", when sixty tornadoes swept through the southeast United States. EF-Scale:EF1 It did minor roof damage to two homes, tossed a trampoline into a neighboring home, causing siding damage, and pushed a large travel trailer onto a minivan, heavily damaging both. EF-Scale: EF-0 Counties: Orange EF-scale: EF2 Path length: NWS EF-Scale:EF1 A house was leveled as well, with the furniture carried over half a mile away. Fort Campbell Notes: This squall line tornado was short lived but caused considerable destruction. April 26, 2011 9. Notes: Several mobile homes were damaged and trees were snapped on Lyons-Daughtery Road. Tree and structural damage was widespread northeast of Route 135 as the tornado crossed Trainer Lane and then State Road 335 to Robbs Lane. Path length: 5 miles The tornado lifted slightly and passed over Hawesville as a funnel cloud (though 75 mph winds still did damage in town). Time: 6:20pm Counties: Garrard From here, the tornado raced east-northeast over more fields, where it snapped the tops off a few trees before it hit the next farm, at Milky Way Lane on Mt. EF-scale: EF3 Deaths: 0 Path width: 30 yards List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks Grazulis narrative: About 100 of the 500 residents of Campbellsburg were left homeless. Path width: 35 yards Notes: Grazulis/NCDC seem more believable here. Time: 2:00pm The first touchdown was in an industrial area just off Millers Lane west of Dixie Highway. The tornado continued north of Barnes Road, damaging several clusters of trees in open country. Time: 5:20pm Injuries: 0 F-scale: F3 F-scale: F2 March 27, 1890 85 mph winds. Time: 6:45am The facility was shaped somewhat like a squat capital "H," with the relatively longer sides of the H lined up along B Street and C Street (now Bloom Street and Cardinal Boulevard), and the short connecting section parallel to First and Second Streets (the two longer sides of the "H" had been stand-alone buildings, and were subsequently connected by the short middle section of the "H"). County: Henry May 8, 2003 The maps presented in these web pages have been constructed with as high a degree of accuracy as possible. Injuries: 0 Time: 4:00pm EF-scale: EF1 The tornado lifted quickly at the intersection. Three people were injured in the mobile home when it rolled over and disintegrated. Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mile and a width of 10 yardsNCDC gives nothing for either. Injuries: The tornado snapped large limbs from the tree canopy in this area and likely was not in total contact with the ground. Path width: Counties: Clinton November 5, 2018 Path length: 3 miles On the south side of the path, trees were laying in an ENE direction, with the trees on the left/north side of the path laying NNW. Notes: The tornado touched down four miles northwest of Dunnville and skipped along ridgetops to the east-southeast, exiting Casey County at Mintonville. F-scale: F1 Narrative: Moved northeast along the southeast edge of Cecilia. Path length: October 1, 1977 Counties: Scott KY, Fayette Violin from the late 1800s donated to Pioneer Days May 30, 2004 Notes: The tornado touched down near the intersection of Second and Jackson Streets in Tompkinsville. Injuries: April 27, 1971 April 20, 2011 A man was watching this tornado off to his 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. Injuries: 0 The likelihood of tornado involvement seemed to begin near Gilpin, continued east, passing south of Eubank, and ending in northern Laurel County. Grazulis narrative: Moved east-northeast from Tanyard to south of Caneyville, passing north of Leitchfield and ending near Big Clifty. Injuries: 18 Notes: Storm Data puts this tornado in Eckerty. Counties: Mercer EF-scale: EF1 Counties: Orange Counties: Logan This tornado is unplottable, pending further research. Injuries: 0 Damage was also observed along Charlane Parkway and Dell Road. Injuries: 0 Injuries: 3 Injuries: 1 EF-Scale: EF-0 On August Counties: Logan Time: 6:12pm F-scale: F1 Deaths: Deaths: 0 If the longitude is changed from SPC/NCDC's -84.08 to -85.08, it's in Shelby County. A satellite dish was blown about a mile. Winds in this area were estimated to be between 90 and 95 mph. Several residences and barns suffered extensive damage along Cemetery Road and Martinsville Ford Road. May 17, 2003 Only three houses remained standing on the far east side of Winchester. Near the end of the track a house's roof was partially torn off a gravel from the driveway was lifted and pelted into the side of the house. Several trailers were moved off of their foundations and had roof damage. March 1, 1997 Finally, the tornado lifted after doing damage from the south side of Henryville near Robyn Avenue to the east side of Henryville at the intersection of Highway 160 and Haddox Road. April 28, 2002 April 8, 2020 A convenience store was destroyed along US 31W. Path length: 1.3mile A carport was thrown over a house and landed 100 yards to the east. Counties: Washington KY Path width: 75 yards Narrative: Large buildings were destroyed at the Bluegrass Ordnance Depot at Richmond. May 14, 1967 Along with the destroyed homes, one large Oak tree was downed along with several other smaller trees. Notes: Touchdown was two miles north of Campbellsburg. April 7, 2015 Tornadoes: The deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history - Axios County: Orange SPC lists 86 injuries, NCDC 53, Grazulis 76, Storm Data 95. However, by the beginning of the 1800s, no Europeans had settled in the Oklahoma region. bars on the bridge were bent and twisted. Even in the 1830s, a large tornado between New York City and Philadelphia drew crowds in its aftermath. Two small vortices, one 50 yards wide and the other 100 yards wide, reached speeds of 105 mph as they destroyed a large, well-built barn and two smaller outbuildings in addition to a fifth-wheel trailer. One of the houses, a prefabricated home set on a concrete slab, "could not be found". Path length:4.1 miles The last evidence of a tornado was at a house on Point Pleasant Road where the tornado blew in a garage door. F-scale: F1 May 28, 1996 Injuries: 87 Path length: Damage to houses and other buildings was mainly to roofs and windows of the upper floors. Grazulis narrative: Moved northeast through the northwest corner of Austin. Path length: 1.5 miles August 19, 1972 Insulation from the roof was thrown eastward and also rotated back and covered the back of the house. Injuries: Injuries: 0 Counties: Clark IN Path width: A nearby well-built brick home had its roof and exterior walls swept away. Trees were snapped in Schochoh as the tornado lifted. Time: 4:45pm The tornado continued northeast through some woods and lifted after damaging a small shed off of Tom Cain Road. Debris from the barn was scattered overa half mile downwind. The earlier investigators of the phenomenon were untrammelled, to a large extent, by preconceived opinions, and it must strike every one that few substantial facts unknown to them have been brought out since their time. This tornado was probably spawned from the same thunderstorm that produced the earlier tornado in southwest Louisville (see previous entry). Deaths: 3 Miller farm. Power lines were torn down. Injuries: 0 Time: 7:45pm In Glasgow one person was killed in his mobile home and another was killed by flying debris. EF-Scale: EF-0 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. Path length: 1/2 mile Counties: Jefferson KY The church was scheduled to be dedicated the following Sunday. Path width: Deaths: A more concentrated area of damage then occurred as the tornado crossed Saloma Road and moved roughly parallel to and just north of Upper Miller Park Road. Noted discrepancies: Grazulis lists this at 10:03pm. The next morning the newspaper called the storm "the whirling tiger of the air". January 17, 2012 May 14, 1995 One day we had to move a house that had "survived" a tornado. Notes: The tornado developed in a subdivision in Goshen and traveled to the east northeast. Three 400-foot-long broiler buildings were destroyed at Magnolia. F-scale: F0 Counties: Harrison IN EF-Scale:EF1 February 7, 1904 Counties: Jefferson KY Deaths: 0 May 30, 2004 The homes had anchor bolts attached to steel plates and a concrete foundation. Deaths: 1 Counties: Clinton Maximum wind speeds were 95 mph. Annual distribution of tornadoes, by month, Actual number of tornadoes each year since 1830, Color-coded by F-Scale without county lines, Color-coded by F-Scale with county lines and time zones, Color-coded by F-Scale without county lines with time zones, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. County: Adair Path width: 150 yards Deaths: 0 June 21, 2019 Death toll may have been as high as 17. Injuries: 10 Path length: 2.2 miles This was largely thanks to increased instances of tornado disasters given an expanding and westward moving population. Also hard to believe the NWS would give it an F3 rating and Grazulis would only give it an F1 or less. Debris from this building was observed one-half to three-quarters of a mile downwind. Path width: Time: 9:29pm EDT Path width: 30yards There was also widespread wind damage and large hail. November 28, 1879 Time: 11:12am EST F-scale: F1 The debris pattern from the four outbuildings and nearby trees with snapped trunks and limbs showed clear cyclonic rotation. One barn was destroyed and another had the roof blown off. Counties: Ohio Injuries: Time: 6:43am CDT It took down several fences, with evidence of cyclonic circulation. F-scale: F1 Notes: Storm Data says this tornado hit Mannsville, Burdick, Meadow Creek, and White Ridge. F-scale: F1 Witnesses describe this as a very narrow, skipping tornado. A barn was destroyed and the debris was carried a quarter mile. Time: 5:10pm Path length: 0.4mile Counties: Dubois Notes: Storm Data puts this on the northwest side of Priceville. Injuries: 0 May 11, 2003 Path width: Notes: A bow echo passed through Grayson County and quickly spun up a small tornado just south of Clarkson at 3900 Millertown Road. Path width:110 yards Salvisa is in Mercer County, not Woodford. 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. Injuries: 0 Path width: Path length: The city organized crews of 60 men each who worked day and night searching the wreckage, along with families and friends. Path length: Path length: 3.2 miles Injuries: 2 (known) Injuries: 0 This included a home which was totally leveled as well as a couple of anchored down double wide trailers. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC gives 30 yards, Grazulis doesn't know. Just keep in mind several of these observation methods are outdated today. Four other farm buildings were damaged. Deaths: At NCDC the two counties are listed separately. Counties: Taylor Path width: Injuries: 0 was consistent with EF-1 damage and 90 mph winds. F-scale: F1 Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis says F3.