Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped in a convergent pattern. There was an uprooted tree, along with shingle, gutter, roof, and barn damage. On the north side of Salvisa there was roof damage to barns and sheds along with extensive tree damage. Path length: 0.9 miles
Path width: 100 yards
Another challenge is coming up with a complete database. The last observed damage in Washington County was near S. Flatwood Road in a wooded area before the tornado entered Clark County. Trees were uprooted all along the tornado's path. Path length: 0.5 miles
Time: 2:05am
Time: 8:25pm
On the whole, the evidence seems to show something like an uprush, though it seems conclusive that this is not due to a vacuum in the tornado, as many think. Counties: Jefferson IN
Time: 9:56pm - 9:59pm CDT
Older, shabbier buildings in the storm were less damaged than the church full of parishioners. Path length: 0.2 mile
Path width:
April 20, 2000
The tornado increased in width to 200 yards on Wobegon Way significantly damaging several homes. Path width: 200 yards
Path width:
Just east of Route 135, tremendous tree damage wasobserved. Injuries: 0
EF-scale: EF1
Multi-story downtown buildings were hit by the tornado and subsequently collapsed. It moved northeast, leveling homes and forests west of Fairview, leveling a church north of Bear Branch, passing south of Milton, and lifting near Wilmington. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC gave this an F3, Grazulis gives an F2. Structural damage was observed on one farm, where the roof was torn off a large metal outbuildingand minor damage occurred to several other buildings as a result of this debris. Deaths:
Narrative: Moved east, crossing the Ohio River about 6 miles "north" (upstream?) Time: 7:05pm
Path width:
Noted discrepancies: NWS calls this an F2, Grazulis says F1. The Metcalfe County damage consisted of house and barn damage, but was spread across an area three miles wide. The Salem School was damaged. See if any debris or objects have been carried in any case toward the west or south-west on the north side of the track, and measure the distance. Deaths: 0
April 20 1996
Injuries: 0
Notes: Aweak, skipping tornado occurred on Fort Knox. Counties: Orange, (Lawrence), Washington IN
Counties: Washington KY
October 24, 1967
F-scale: F2
Path length: 2.4 miles (skipping)
Path width: 100 yards
death" experienced by some of the tornado Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F3, Grazulis calls it an F2. A tied-down trailer was overturned. Grazulis lists the tornado in Franklin County but gives no location or path length. A steady watch of the needle may show any sudden fluctuation too rapid to be caught by reading the barometer. Path width: 200 yards
Notes: The tornado uprooted and snapped several large trees and destroyed a small shed on Daisy Hill Road north of Borden. Time: 5:30pm
EF-Scale:EF1
Counties: Washington IN
Path length: 6 miles
Injuries:
Noted discrepancies: None
EF-Scale:EF1
Injuries:
A barn was picked up and scattered over 60 to 70 acres. Deaths:
April 19, 2011
Deaths: 1
Where SPC has Edmonson County (FIPS061) coded, it should be Mason County (FIPS161). Park Hills Shopping Center was damaged, and Pimlico Parkway and Mammoth Drive were badly hit. F-scale: F0
Deaths: 0
Path length: 3.2 miles
Injuries:
Storm Data begins this tornado between Huffman and Tarry in Perry County and lifts it a few miles northeast of Lexington in Scott County. Path length: 1/3 of a mile
Frontier Tornadoes Mapping tornado tracks is not as easy as it sounds. Path length: 10 miles
Homes and other buildings were unroofed at Crab Orchard Springs. Deaths: 0
Path length: 5.8 miles
The cab of a small pickup was crushed by debris and the vehicle was blown onto KY 969. Path length:
February 28, 2011
F-scale: F0
Injuries:
April 20, 2011
At those locations the brick facade of each building was pushed out. Path length: 15 miles
SPC and NCDC give a path length of 13 miles, Grazulis gives 12 miles, Storm Data says 8 miles. The lat/lons and path lengths given here are the mirror image of the lat/lons and path lengths given in the next event. Path width:
Time: 6:04pm
Noted discrepancies: Storm Data says this tornado touched down at Beech Bend Park four miles northwest of Bowling Greenshould say northeast. Director Teresa Hopkins-Elam and Ward 5 City Councilman Rarchar Time: 8:16pm
F-scale: F1
Path width: 400 yards
County: Metcalfe
March 10, 1986
Deaths: 0
Other homes received minor damage, and some outbuildings and carports were damaged. Counties: Franklin
At least 27 people died in Tennessee. Path width: 100 yards
destroyed and hundreds of chickens were killed and/or lost. The front porch of a nearby home was briefly raised, causing the supports to fall out. Time: 3:55pm
Deaths: 25
Deaths: 8
Time: afternoon
A 500 gallon propane tank moved to the south 3 feet and became lodged against a grain storage building. down the river lifting water into the funnel. The day after the storm the head of the Louisville weather service office, J. L. Kendall, surveyed the damage. Notes: This tornado struck about 11 miles NNW of Albany in the northwest tip of Clinton County. December 21, 2013
Path width:
Time: 7:54pm
Counties: Edmonson (from Pendleton and Bracken). January 3, 2000
Grazulis narrative: Moved east from Commiskey to Dupont. Path length:
and the Middle Blue River. Grazulis narrative: Hit at Becks Mill. Path width:
Counties: Lincoln
Deaths:
Deaths: 0
Path width:
Deaths: 0
Time: 2:10pm
May 28, 1996
April 3, 1974
Time: 6:00pm
On Michael Edward Drive the garage door was blown in on a detached garage and the roof was lifted off and shifted a foot. Hazen, Assistant Professor of the United States Signal Office. Path width:
People would cross the street rather than walk by it. Vinyl siding was ripped off a home and small outbuildings were damaged. Splitting shingles in the Wilson Cedar Forest. March 25, 2021
A pontoon boat was flipped over. Mr. Miller reported that a small whirlwind passedwithin a few hundred feet of his house, sucking out a storm window, uprooting a cedar tree, and depositing debris. Several more homes were severely damaged along this road. Path length: 1.6mile
July20, 2018
April 27, 1971
The park was badly damaged, just 12 days before the season's Opening Day. The rope-like tornado lifted between Tucker Station Road and Interstate 265. Path width: 250 yards
For this mapping project we used the official start/stop lat/lons, but further research is needed to verify. Deaths:
Counties: Mercer
SPC gives an ending lat/lon of 38.42/-83.73NCDC gives 38.40/-83.93. Injuries: 2
June 2, 1990
Path length: 7.2 miles
The twister traveled to the northeast, heavily damaging Gainesway, Southeastern Hills, and many neighborhoods along Man O War Boulevard before lifting at Richmond Road across the street from Saint Joseph East Hospital. Path length:
May 10, 1973
Cecilia was one of six in Winterset who died as a result of the tornado. Counties: Warren
Further east, a large 50'x60' barn was destroyed and debris went at least half a mile downwind. Injuries: 1
Time: 11:30pm
Counties: Woodford
F-scale: F0
Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from Wisdom to two miles east of Edmonton. Interspersed with the straight line wind damage was at least one tornado in western Allen County north of and paralleling KY 585. Will go ahead and list 96 injuries for this tornado since that number is known for Cumberland and Clinton counties, and Wayne County is not in this project's area of concern. Crossing the highway the tornado did its greatest damage, tearing a very large pine tree out of the ground and tossing it 100 feet over a home, splattering the front of the home with mud, ripping holes in the roof, and destroying the attached garage. Notes: Touchdown was just north of West Galway Trail North in a tree line behind some houses. Path length:
March 19, 1943
The worst damage of the event occurred just before the tornado dissipated, when it removed the roof and broke the windows of a home owned by Lewis Oliver on Old Oxford Road. It appears this tornado should be listed as Marshall/McCracken rather than McCracken/Madison. Path width: 125 yards
Deaths: 1
Many of the homes that were leveled were the most expensive in the county. Time: 9:00pm
Path width:
Time: 12:52pm
Injuries: 0
EF-scale: EF1
Path length: 10.4 miles
April 20, 2000
Path width: 300yards
Besides the structural damage, about 40 large hardwood trees were uprooted along the path. F-scale: F2
It is most likely the following event. Path length: 3miles
Grazulis lists this storm at 5:45pm. Path width: 50 yards
Counties: Dubois
Ten buildings were destroyed on a farm. F-scale: F2
SPC gives a path width of 100 yards, NCDC gives 200 yards. Minor damage was sustained east of KY 639 to several outbuildings. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Storm Data 133 yards, Grazulis 300 yards. F-scale: F2
Path width:
Counties: Orange
Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck the Brooks Hill neighborhood. Deaths: 0
March 20, 1982
Time: 2:50pm - 2:51pm EDT
Notes: The touchdown point was on the east side of Harrodsburg and it caused three walls of a warehouse to collapse. Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
In Washington County many buildings across the county were leveled.
Notes: At the beginning point of this tornado a few small trees, some dead, were blown over and branches were blown off of some of the trees. Injuries: 0
Injuries:
Notes: Two dozen large trees were uprooted or snapped about two miles east of Connersville. Path width:
Notes: This tornado began by causing roof damage to two barns and destroying two other barns. Deaths:
Further east in the 500 block of Kara Court there was significant tree damage with the back of a house being uplifted and insulation being thrown upwind and downwind around the back of the house. In some cases, the various sources disagreed so strongly with each other that a good faith effort to plot the tornado in question was impossible. As it moved into Warren County, it damaged barn roofs and produced golf ball size hail which penetrated siding on numerous vinyl sided houses. April 28, 1994
Cars were blown upside-down and homes were demolished." Path length: 2 miles
Tornado History - National Weather Service F-scale: F2
Noted discrepancies: SPC lists a path width of 20 yards, NCDC 27 yards, Storm Data 25 yards. May 6, 1840 - The Great Natchez Tornado kills 317 in Natchez, Mississippi. Grazulis narrative: Moved east-southeast in the south part of the county. . March 27, 1890
Special note: Did Fujita's tornado #82 clip the southeast tip of Clinton County on April 3, 1974? Below are the results. Path width:
April 20, 1996
Moving across Crawford County, the tornado widened to over a mile, missing many small communities and levelling several farms. May 31, 1998
EF-scale: EF0
November 5, 2017
This project has so far been unable to find any damage in Marion or Jessamine Counties. Path width:
Time: 7:00pm
Path width: 150 yards
Path width: 80yards
The tornado touched down about 200 yards west of the Dollar General store, which suffered some minor roof damage. November 18, 2017
The tornado then proceeded into Rockcastle County, doing additional damage at Wildie. County: Crawford
An outbuilding was destroyed and debris was scattered for a quarter mile. F-scale: F1
A small well-constructed shed was pushed over onto its side, and another small shed was destroyed. Injuries: 0
Deaths:
An air handler was blown off of the roof of JCK Enterprises and thrown 125 yards. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC give a path width of 200 yardsGrazulis and Storm Data 100 yards. The back part of the barn was thrown to the west while a wagon in the trailer was pushed out through the barn. F-scale: F1
Damage in Roundhill and Reedyville may have been from straight-line winds or a separate small tornado. Time: 5:42am EST
Path width: 30 yards
April 24, 1955
Counties: Grayson
One person was killed in Simpson County at Temperance as seven homes and 40 barns were destroyed. Notes: One home received major roof damage. Path width:
Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC gives 30 yards, Storm Data says 25 yards.