tornadoes in the 1800s

The only structural damage was to a small home on the top of a hill near South Rays Fork Road. Three small homes were blown down. County: Allen Time: 7:05pm Counties: Hardin Deaths: Path length: 3.3 miles 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. Time: 3:28pm The tornado caused major damage to 44 homes and two businesses. November 10, 2002 Counties: Dubois Pay particular attention to the direction of the trees, making a separate observation on the south side, in the centre, and on the north side. March 20, 1982 April 28, 1994 It then continued southeast across Gumbottom Road, where a large oak tree was uprooted. Counties: Lincoln Many trees were blown down. A second barn had metal sheeting thrown 500 yards. F-scale: F1 SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC says 30 yards. County: LaRue EF-Scale: EF1 Path length: 60 miles (skipping) Deaths: F-scale: F3 Tropical Cyclones of the 1800s. Here EF1 damage, 90 mph winds, and a path width of 50 yards were estimated. Fifteen homes were destroyed Path width: 75 yards Counties: Madison Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Counties: Fayette Deaths: Noted discrepancies: None Counties: Washington, IN Path width: F-scale: F2 Grazulis narrative: Moved east from near Marysville, with the funnel up to a half mile wide, just north and northeast of New Washington. Grazulis narrative: Moved east-northeast and northeast from three miles south of Huffman, passing southeast of Branchville, north of Sulphur Springs and Pilot Knob, south of Sulphur and Curby, across the southeast part of DePauw, hitting two miles east of Palmyra, passing through Martinsburg, crossing the southeast half of Daisy Hill, passing between Bunker Hill and New Liberty, and ending two miles north of IN 160. About 150 families required emergency shelter. Path width: 300 yards Path width: 100 yards A few tree limbs and a small fence were downed near Sparks Ferry Road before it moved northeast over a large wooded area and open farmland. However, just to the east of this location, along Coats Road, a metal outbuilding was destroyed consistent with EF-1 damage. Before days of weather forecasting, there are accounts of tornadoes destroying settlements, wagon trains and Indian villages in the Old West same as today Before days of weather forecasting, there are accounts of tornadoes destroying settlements, wagon trains and Indian villages in the Old West same as today. The tornado then weakened and crossed the Blue Grass Army Depot, doing minor damage. F-scale: F1 EF-Scale: EF0 tornado continued east across route 69 toward Cloverport. Many buildings had roof or other damage. Notes:A large barn was destroyed, trees were felled, and the doors and siding were pulled off of a barn along Finney Road. After causing comparatively little damage in Houston Acres, the tornado strengthened again and grew to a width of about three blocks. Path length: 3 miles (skipping) The tornado weakened to an EF-1 at 871 Palmyra Rd. The tornado advanced to the northeast. April 15, 1994 Path length: 1.5 miles Tornado stories are handed down through generations of families. Time: 12:10am Time: 2:15pm Houses were damaged at Churchill and Fourth, and the Baptist Orphan's Home lost its roof at Churchill and First. Time: 4:05pm Grazulis narrative: Moved northeast from three miles northeast of Horse Cave, to Uno, and on to Hardyville. Grazulis narrative: Moved east, destroying barns and badly damaging two farm houses near Turkey Foot. Deaths: 3 June 22, 2011 of the event until morning, when they EF-scale: EF1 Path length: 1/2 mile Counties: Lincoln Three empty silos were destroyed with metal sheets thrown a quarter of a mile. intermittently touching down and doing damage to small outbuildings. Path length: 0.2 miles It first destroyed a barn southwest of Irelandand then moved on to damage several homes near the intersection of CR 200N and CR 875W. Deaths: 0 Residents were not home at the time of the tornado at the other homes destroyed along its path. Storm Data narrative says, "A small tornado of the bounding type moved in a straight line west-southwest to east-northeast from about half a mile east of Standiford Fieldto approximately ten miles northeast. EF-Scale: EF-2 Deaths: Path length: It was only 50 yards wide twisting many trees and was rated a EF0. Counties: Jefferson KY, Oldham F-scale: F4 Path width: Grazulis narrative: A barn and a 222-foot long hog house were destroyed on separate farms, four miles north of Depauw. Noted discrepancies: None F-scale: F2 Deaths: 6 Injuries: 0 County: Henry Path length: 3 miles Deaths: 0 Tree damage continued into Allen County along Allen Springs Road. March 20, 1976 The tornado continued to the Tennessee state line. A pick-up truck was thrown 250 yards into a field. The tornado then crossed US 27, destroying several barns, uprooting and snapping trees, and damaging several homes. Path width: 70 yards Path length: However, the spring of 2011 was one of the deadliest and costliest tornado seasons on record. (The ending lat/lon given by NCDC for the Franklin County portion of the track is wrong.) Deaths: 0 Storm Data says a pole barn was reduced to rubble along IN 160 northwest of Charlestown. Metal sheeting was thrown from the barn in various directions and much of it ended up in the trees. Counties: Madison Noted discrepancies: Grazulis and Storm Data list this tornado at 6:40pmSPC and NCDC say 5:40pm. It moved nearly parallel to IN 64. Barns and the L&N roundhouse were flattened. Notes: This fast-moving tornado began along US 421 one half mile south of the Jefferson-Ripley County line, then raced eastward, doing minor damage to a home, sucking the door out of a large garage, and taking off much of the roof off of a large tobacco barn. 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. Deaths: 36 The City refused any outside aid. They got under some heavy equipment for shelterand the barn came down around them. Path width: EF-Scale:EF1 EF-Scale: EF-2 Two trailers, two cars, and ten barns were destroyed. Notes: Touchdown was a mile east-northeast of Stinnettsville. Power lines were leaning over Route 79/259. The first was a large brick ranch homewhich had most of the north half of its roof torn off, and insulation spread eastward in a narrow path. Time: 6:00pm Path width: 100 yards F-scale: F1 Path width: EF-Scale: EF-2 Path width: A thin path of downed trees coincident with a circulation observed on radar was surveyed by the pilots. Counties: Monroe Path length: 7 miles Injuries: There were far fewer towns and people and most went unrecorded. Notes:This tornado caused minor damage to the roofs of two houses and significant damage to the roofof another house. The twister lifted 2.4 miles east of Deputy. She had been sucked out of her mobile home when she tried to open her front door. 7. Injuries: 0 Counties: Logan June 26, 2013 Deaths: Path length: 12 miles Path length: Time: 5:35pm Time: Time: 3:00pm Path width: The tornado completely lifted at Jackie Crow salvage yard with debris thrown on the top of the hill about 250 yards from the salvage yard. Noted discrepancies: Grazulis does not include Shelby County. Local Climate Pages March 27, 1890 Time: 8:20pm CDT The second storm, which pummeled the recently devastated area with hail up to the size of softballs, followed nearly the same path as the first supercell. All lat/lons are roughly in alignment with each other and with the Grayson County lat/lons. Adjusted track here to agree with Storm Data/Grazulis. NCDC or Grazulis must have the better path lengthSPC entry looks to be an entry error. Path length: A storage building was lifted up and thrown across Broadway. 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. EF-scale: EF1 Tornado Machine Plans, Weather Safety Time: 9:27pm EDT to 9:30pm EDT EF-Scale: EF1 Time: 4:12pm - 4:13pm EDT July 18, 1988 County: Jefferson, KY Path width: 75 yards Path length: It holds records for longest path length at 219 miles (352 km), longest duration at . June 11, 1985 It then moved northeast and removed several shingles from another home along this same street. Time: 5:39pm - 5:43pm EDT Injuries: 1 Path width: 70 yards Narrative: Moved east from south of High Grove, to seven miles west of Fairfield, to two miles east of Fairfield. The tornado entered the city of Campbellsville when it crossed KY 210 and uprooted trees and damaged buildings near the intersection of Hodgenville Road and Vintage Lane. Injuries: 1 April 3, 1974 Injuries: Counties: Allen, Barren A house was damaged. June 7, 1980 Counties: Breckinridge Path width: This occurred near the intersection of Blackberry Trail and State Highway 3. Path length: Path length: 2 miles Path length: April 20, 2011 The tornado continued east across the Knobs toward Binford Rd, where it took multiple trees down. Injuries: 0 A frame cottage was entirely destroyed and a three-story brick residence lost its facade along Churchill between Fifteenth and Fourteenth. The bus was thrown fifty feet into the ditch, crushing the couple and killing the woman. Deaths: Near Rocky Hill a barn was destroyed and two outbuildings lost their roofs. Injuries: 0 Insulation from the largest building was spattered onto the south and east facing walls and vehicles on the east side of the complex. It damaged trailers and downed many trees. Counties: Green, LaRue, Marion Deaths: Photographs are particularly welcome. Damage continued east into Allen County with the last evidence of damage at Walker Chapel Road about a mile south of Highway 100. The tornado knocked down the exterior wall of another building. Deaths: A trailer was demolished east of Savoyard, in which a woman named Glinda Jeffries was killed. Path length: Further east, several funnels congealed into one main tornado doing extensive damage to hardwood trees and significant roof damage to several homes. EF-Scale: EF-1 April 22, 2005 Along Connersville Road the tornado lifted the roofs off of three homes, and damaged three others. Narrative: Moved northeast from the east edge of Louisville to near Pewee Valley. April 20, 1996 Both of the F5 tornadoes were recorded on the same day: April 3, 1974. Path width: 880 yards A wheat field had distinct circulations quite visible. After driving a 4x6 through the roof of a home near Hunter Road, the tornado continued east to Prowsville Ridge Road where winds were up to 95 mph. Injuries: 58 Deaths: 0 Careful note should be made of hail, size of stones, width of track, situation with respect to the main track, etc. A dozen other homes were damaged. Counties: Perry IN F-scale: F2 Counties: Washington IN A narrow tornado developed quickly just west of 3667 Grassland Black Gold Rd (Highway 1365) and snapped a few softwood and few large limbs. Deaths: 0 June 6, 1990 Notes:An NWS survey team has confirmed an EF-0 tornado touch down east of Elizabeth in Harrison County, Indiana. F-scale: F2 Path width: 80yards Notes: Storm Data says this tornado did damage on Kinnard Road, passed Gold City, and ended one mile northeast of Mount Aerial (about two miles into Allen County). November 7, 1996 F-scale: F2 February 6, 2008 Storm Data lists this tornado in Mercer County, but it takes this storm from 4.3 miles southwest of Dugansville to 4 miles southwest of Dugansville near Tablow. The cab of a small pickup was crushed by debris and the vehicle was blown onto KY 969. The tornado dissipated about a minute later. Path length: Outreach The Turney, Clark, and Company livery stable was blown across the street. From there, the tornado crossed into Jefferson County, Indiana. Path width: 50 yards EF-scale: EF0 Time: 12:35am - 12:37am CST At the end of Sarabeth Way, there was extensive hardwood tree damage which included uprooted, twisted, and mangled trees. Time: 9:03pm Counties: Metcalfe April 19, 2011 May 28, 1996 They also stated that the tornado looked like a black wall as it approached. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC gives nothing. It destroyed five barns on the east side of the road. Deaths: 0 Several large hackberry and oak trees were uprooted and snapped between the PX and Scott Middle School. Notes: The tornado, with 105 mph winds,touched down approximately one mile west of Huntsville on Blaine Road where some trees were uprooted. 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: 8:00pm Near KY 152 and Montrose Street the roof of a factory was blown in and extensive tree damage occurred. Injuries: 0 Injuries: 0 Time: 5:50pm How strong was that tornado that took the roof from your barn back in '67? Injuries: 18 Injuries: 0 Continuing to the northeast, at a home east of Gaines Road the owner reported that the water was evacuated out of all four toilets in the building as the tornado passed by. Grazulis Narrative: Moved northeast in and near Neafus, Steff, Spring Lick, Goffs, Short Creek, Staff, and Caneyville. Here the tornado was estimated to be EF1 with a maximum wind speed of 105 mph. June 20, 1973 More research is necessary. Residents said there was a major pressure change with the tornado. Path width: EF-Scale:EF0 EF-scale: EF1 March 16, 1982 Time: 9:44am EST Path width: 200 yards October 31, 2018 F-scale: F2 Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down near Botland on Manton Road at the Carol Ballard Farm. In one case, it snapped the 2-foot diameter trunk of a large cedar less than 5 feet above the ground, but lofted the tree over nearby utility poles -- which remained intact -- and deposited the tree 200 feet to the east. Injuries: 0 Deaths: 2 F-scale: F0 Counties: Washington KY Path width: Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards. Path width: 300 yards F-scale:F2 County: Perry Time: 5:00pm Counties: Simpson, Allen Noted discrepancies: None Up to a mile wide, this very intense tornado swept away entire farms as it passed one mile north of Laconia and two miles south of Elizabeth. Path width: Counties: Madison Path width: 200 yards Deaths: 0 F-scale: F2 Counties: Logan Injuries occurred when three trailers were destroyed. Path width: 50yards Injuries: 0 Counties: Harrison KY (to Robertson) Deaths: Path width: Deaths: Deaths: 0 Noted discrepancies: Only Martin, Orange, and Lawrence are listed in this SPC entry. Path length: 10 miles Counties: Ohio F-scale: F3 Time: 10:50pm F-scale: F2 February 5, 2008 SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mile, NCDC provides no length. Path width: 250 yards HEAT.gov This tornado touched down at 338 Soards Road and moved northeast, lifting as it began to cross a small lake. The twister first toucheddown at a home on U.S. Highway 62 just west of Goshen Church Road, tearing off shingles and uprooting a tree. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis does not list it. Path width: April 8, 1948 Injuries: 0 F-scale: F3 At 9407 Willowwood Way there was roof damage and many trees, both hardwood and softwood, were snapped and uprooted. EF-scale: EF1 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. Time: 4:22pm - 4:24pm EDT EF-Scale:EF1 Noted discrepancies: SPC, NCDC, and Grazulis give a time of 3:45pmStorm Data says 4:45pm. January 30, 2013 The tornado then struck the south buildings of the Henryville middle and high school complex, with severe damage and 170 mph winds (EF4). Injuries: Counties: Monroe Time: 11:59am Path length: 1.3 miles (skipping) Injuries: F-scale: F1 Counties: Jefferson, KY A tied-down trailer was overturned. Path length: It moved an 18,000 pound trailer four feet, and flipped it. NCDC does not include Fayette County. Injuries: As it crossed Paper Mill Road the inflow winds into the tornado pulled off siding from nearby houses and moved light objects several hundred feet. Time: 4:12pm EST Notes: A bow echo created a very brief spin-up in Rosine. Noted discrepancies: Storm Data puts this tornado on Lincoln Park Road. The tornado then did some damage to trees and a grain silo. Tornado Alerts: A tornado . Injuries: 0 Grazulis narrative: Moved north-northeast from five miles southwest of Hustonville, passing through Junction City and ending at the south end of Lake Herrington northeast of Danville. Notes: This tornado touched down near Columbia. The tornado was said to have been "thrashing about like the tail of a mad beast". Path length: 16 miles 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. A 500 gallon propane tank moved to the south 3 feet and became lodged against a grain storage building. The high school roof was lifted and some top floor exterior walls collapsed. Path width: 440 yards Several trees were knocked down or snapped. Time: 4:00pm Path width: F-scale: F2 County: Edmonson It did more damage when it reached Saint John Road, where it destroyed a home and some farm buildings. Deaths: 0 Nineteen homes and 23 businesses were destroyed or damaged. Path length: Path length: Path length: Path length: 2 miles Path length: Path width: 150 yards Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped along the storm's path. Homes lost their roofs along Oak Street at Sixth, between Fifth and Fourth, and at Fourth. Trees were blown down in the steep valleys as well as on the hilltops. 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. Counties: Jefferson KY Trees and telephone poles were knocked down. Counties: Warren May 5, 1996 Time: 8:30pm Time: 4:30pm Time: 3:38am CST April 22, 2011 After Tompkinsville, the tornado continued to the northeast, crossing Cumberland County (2 people injured) and clipping the southeast corner of Adair County (2 people killed in the Cundiff area) with comparatively little damage, before intensifying again as it entered Russell County. This area is just northwest of the US 421 and I-71 junction near the Trimble/Henry county line. Path width: Path length: 2 1/2 miles May 21, 2010 A farm home was also destroyed. June 2, 1990 Noted discrepancies: SPC and Storm Data list both Taylor and Washington countiesNCDC lists only Taylor CountyGrazulis lists only Washington County. Narrative: Hit the northern part of Lexington. Time: 6:29pm Time: 11:08am CDT Injuries: 9 July20, 2018 Path width: Injuries: 0 Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2Grazulis does not list it. Path length: 0.4 mile Deaths: 0 July 8, 1991 Deaths: 0 Deaths: Path length: 2.2miles Counties: Jefferson IN (to Jennings and Ripley) The tornado was about three blocks wide in Charlestown. June 22, 2011 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. Significant damage occurred on Broadway near Cave Hill Cemetery. Narrative: Buildings were unroofed in downtown Lexington and at Sayre College. northeast. Injuries: Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC gives 30 yards. By coincidence, this was the date of the annual statewide tornado drill test. Deaths: Path length: washed for days, were still covered with specks Noted discrepancies: Grazulis times this at 6:35am. EF-scale: EF1 It then crossed Sweeney lane. Time: 4:27pm Deaths: Both the aerial photos and picture of the, tornado relayed by the emergency manager were matched up with a, radar signature indicating rotation. November 15, 2005 National Weather Service information only goes back to 1950, so all pre-1950 tornadoes here are necessarily fromSignificant Tornadoes 1681 - 1991and are considered "unofficial". F-scale: F1 Injuries: 0 Time: 5:30pm Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC give a path length of 6 miles, Grazulis gives 7. Path length: 1 mile June 18, 1992 Looking at the map it seems more logical that the Knox/Daviess tornado would be first, followed by the Crawford/Harrison tornado. The lat/lon for this tornado at SPC is in Tennessee. Counties: Clark KY Counties: Hancock F-scale: F0 According to Storm Data, radar first showed a hook echo four miles east of Drakesboro. 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. Deaths: 0 Counties: Oldham Path length: 4.7 miles Path length: Several other homes were damaged in a subdivision one mile north of Gamaliel. EF-Scale: EF-0 Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from 1/10 of a mile southwest of Deputy to 3.9 miles northeast of Deputy. Strong winds in north Wales were a tornado, experts confirm. This historic event may have actually started in Harrison County IN, but is traditionally plotted from west of Shively, Kentucky, in western Jefferson County. Path length: It struck a home on Liberty Road where it ripped the front porch off the home and flipped the detached metal garage. Notes: This tornado began on the south side of Frankfort and tracked to the northeast. Path width: 100 yards Metal roofing and siding material werescattered nearly a quarter of a mile to the east-northeast, with some of it lofted into the trees of a heavily wooded area. Time: 11:15pm One home was destroyed and 15 were damaged. Deaths: Deaths: 0 The cafeteria was completely destroyed. When the storm came through, the entire middle section of the building was obliterated. Counties: Spencer The tornado continued along through fields, damaging and uprooting trees. Trees were uprooted and snapped. Tornadoes are some of the most destructive forces of nature. Injuries: Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck near Keene. Notes: Storm Data has this tornado touch down at Finchville and end near Bagdad. May 26, 1989 The family survivedthe tornado by sheltering in a 3-foot crawl space. A mobile home was rolled over and trees and power lines were blown down. 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. Time: 10:25pm EDT F-scale: F5 Notes: Storm Data begins this tornado on the west side of Simpsonville. Time: 6:30pm Notes from investigation in 2017: In McAfee several homes had uplifted roofs, a chimney was destroyed, and garage doors collapsed. The exact end point of the tornado was difficult to determine as it went into a thickly wooded area with limited access. F-scale: F1 Path length: 11 miles Time: 11:26pm EDT Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards. Near Patton Road there was an enhanced area of tree damage, with the trees laying in a convergent pattern. F-scale: F4 Most of the damage was high end EF0 around 85 mph with much of the damage being 20 to 50 yards off the ground. May 25, 2011 Notes: The tornado mostly did damage to the upper halves of several trees along its path. Injuries: 0 Time: 3:05pm Counties: Hancock Half a dozen houses were damaged on Milk Street (?) Path length: 8 miles Notes: Several mobile homes were damaged and trees were snapped on Lyons-Daughtery Road. F-scale: F1 Time: 3:40pm Noted discrepancies: NCDC does not give a liftoff lat/lon. The cyclone moved from south to north "over the lower edge" of Paris.