tornadoes in the 1800s

SPC and Storm Data give a time of 12:10am, NCDC gives 12:06am. A child was killed when a concrete block grocery store caved in. Counties: Hancock Path length: 0.4 mile Counties: Clark IN Path width: April 3, 2007 Counties: Washington IN One person was killed in Scott County. Injuries: 0 Time: 3:20pm The day after the storm the head of the Louisville weather service office, J. L. Kendall, surveyed the damage. Time: 10:00pm Homes had shingle and siding damage. Noted discrepancies: NWS ranks this as an F2, Grazulis says F1. Time: 5:00pm Two large barns, a silo, and a stable were also destroyed on the same property. F-scale: F0 Path width: Deaths: 1 Adjusted track here to agree with Storm Data/Grazulis. A detached garage had its door bow out. Counties: Jefferson IN (to Jennings and Ripley) County: Scott, KY Counties: Harrison, IN Path length: 7.2 miles A tied-down trailer was overturned. SPC gives a path length of 16 miles, NCDC 17 miles, Grazulis 18 miles. On Christmas Tree Road a 30 x 30 barn had significant damage south of the main tree damage. EF-scale: EF3 Time: 3:47am Path width: April 3, 1974 Counties: Madison Path width: A dozen other homes were unroofed. Path length: January 3, 2000 F-scale: February 7, 1904 Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck near Keene. Path width: 200 yards Deaths: 0 Most of the path was through dense forest. There were many barns damaged or destroyed, power lines and power poles down or snapped, some trees snapped and uprooted, and several homes and outbuildings had roof damage. Injuries: 1 At NCDC's listing for Madison County, the touchdown lat/lon is in Marshall County (near the McCracken County line) and the liftoff lat/lon is in Marshall County (same as SPC). May 31, 2001 The head of the weather service office in Louisville, O. K. Anderson, surveyed the damage and said there was no doubt in his mind that it was a small, bounding tornado. Deaths: 0 Injuries: 0 F-scale: F1 The worst damage occurred north-northeast of Adairsville where the tornado crossed Route 663. Noted discrepancies: None Path width: 25 yards Path length: Path width: 880 yards October 7, 2014 Mobile homes and outbuildings were damaged. Counties: Grayson, Hardin Path length: Considerable damage occurred on parts of Slack Road. The tornado crossed Interstate 65, damaging several vehicles and semis and closing the interstate for several hours. On April 14-15, 1886, a destructive tornado outbreak affected portions of the Midwestern and Southern United States. Path width: Notes: This tornado touched down near Cecilia, blowing the roof off a barn, but only producing shingle damage on nearby residences. EF-Scale: EF1 The last evidence of the tornado was at the north end of Quaker Rd, where small branches were broken. Grazulis narrative: A tornado destroyed two trailers and a barn, just north of Jamestown. Deaths: Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis does not list it. The greatest damage occurred in thistwo block area, where up to a dozenoutbuildings were destroyed or heavilydamaged, and sections of roofing werelifted off homes and garages. Ending lat/lon at SPC is over the Ohio River. Time: 2:00pm May 9, 1933 The number one killer on the Oregon Trail, by a wide margin, was disease and serious illnesses, which caused the deaths of nine out of ten pioneers who contracted them.The hardships of weather, limited diet, and exhaustion made travelers very vulnerable to infectious diseases such as cholera, flu, dysentery, measles, mumps, tuberculosis, and typhoid fever which could spread quickly through an . 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. Counties: Dubois Time: 9:00pm Counties: Lincoln May 30, 1979 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. Path width: 75 yards Path width: 300 yards Path length: 15.7 miles (skipping) A chicken house weighing hundreds of pounds was rolled over and moved several feet. Time: 12:50am EST to 12:52am EST Time: 5:45pm Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from 1.7 miles southwest of Dugansville to 1.6 miles southwest of Dugansville, or half a mile east of Tablow. Path width: County: Metcalfe March 28, 1997 Notes: This tornado touched down southeast of Troy and moved southeast through the east side of Tell City. The Submit a Storm Report Time: 4:00pm Flying debris from this building damaged another outbuilding, while columns on the southwest-facing front porch of the farm home were blown out as the porch roof was briefly elevated. The tornado crossed KY 829 and then crossed KY 1009 with extensive tree damage along both sides of the road. Path width: April 13, 1876 Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from half a mile north of Georgetown to 2.8 miles east southeast of Georgetown. Farther east on Electron Drive several corporations and warehouses had structural damage to roofs and the sides of buildings. Counties: Jefferson KY Mankayia was a great medicine horse or horse-like spirit. Path width: Storm Data says this twister touched down at Bonnieville in Hart County and moved to Magnolia in LaRue County before lifting. Path width: Injuries: 0 Outreach Other homes and mobile homes were damaged. At around the same time during the mid-1800s textbooks began to describe the phenomenon and what was believed to be behind it. November 7, 1996 October 9, 2009 Moving eastward over open fields, it tore most of the roof off a barn at the end of Doug White Road, plastering insulation from the barn onto the northeast side of the adjacent home. Deaths: Path width: However, this path would completely miss Allen County. Time: 1:17pm The tornado then did some damage to trees and a grain silo. June 22, 2011 Notes: This tornado touched down along Old Greensburg Road just west of the intersection of US 68 and KY 323, where it immediately destroyed small outbuildings. Path width: 100yards Path length: Additional damage occurred in the Richardsville area. March 2, 2012 Debris from these structures was found up to 300 yards to the east in a pond. Itcrossed Interstate 71 where it overturned a truck, and lifted 2.2 miles northeast of Campbellsburg. It damage many roofs with the heaviest damage at a day care center in a residential home off Miami Court. Time: 4:00pm Counties: Green Injuries: 0 Cedar trees were snapped. Three empty silos were destroyed with metal sheets thrown a quarter of a mile. Path length: 8 miles Path length: Path length: 4.7 miles Injuries: 1 Vinyl siding was ripped off a home and small outbuildings were damaged. Noted discrepancies: None A brick building was unroofed and had a wall blown down. The tornado then turned to the right and re-crossed the Ohio River, coming back into Louisville dissipating near the present-day intersection of Zorn Avenue and River Road after badly damaging the city water tower. May 27, 2004 Counties: Fayette January 2, 2006 Path length: Injuries: 0 June 23, 2017 If a good faith effort could be made in determining which source had the correct information, then the tornado was plotted according to that information. Noted discrepancies: None Injuries: 0 The tornado lifted just north of Bailey School Road in far NW Allen County. another tornado approached from the south, Path width: 30 yards Counties: Hardin The tornado did its worst in Whitesville in Daviess County, damaging much of the town. The tornado continued to the northeast damaging another outbuilding and uprooting and snapping numerous trees before lifting. Time: 6:30pm F-scale: F3 F-scale: F0 Path length: March 28, 1997 Here are five of the worst natural disasters to wreak havoc on U.S. soil. Deaths: 0 A vehicle was turned over on I-65, then the tornado skipped over an area before coming down again on a subdivision to the east, with damage occurring along Belmar Dr and Meadows Dr as well as at the intersection of Kingsfield St and Crown Ct. Path length: 3. Injuries: In all, more than 175 storms - including wind and hail - were recorded, with the bulk of them being in Kansas, Oklahoma . The tornado continued through several fields doing extensive tree and fence damage. Deaths: 0 Time: 4:30pm Injuries: 0 F-scale: F4 Time: 9:42am CST Path width: Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from one mile southwest of Blowing Springs to one mile northwest of Blowing Springs. Deaths: 0 Storm Data lists it in Shelby County. The storm continued to the east and apparently lifted off the ground as the ground surface descended into a small valley along Ruckriegel Parkway and Chenoweth Run. Damage was then fairly sparse until the tornado entered the Germantown and Phoenix Hill neighborhoods. Notes: The National Weather Service in conjunction with Trimble County Emergency Management and anaerial survey conducted by pilots from the Kentuckiana Volunteer Aviatorsconfirmed thata tornado touched down about 5 miles SSE of Milton, just west of the Milton volunteer firestation number 2 on Highway 421. Notes: Touched down just east of Lexington. Time: 4:00pm EF-scale: EF1 Deaths: Injuries: Injuries: F-scale: F1 April 28, 2002 Tornado fascination and observation is nothing new. Time: 10:40am EST Winds at this location were between 85 and 90 mph with a width of 50 yards. Counties: Scott IN, Jefferson IN Counties: Franklin F-scale: F1 EF-Scale: EF-3 Noted discrepancies: SPC lists a path width of 70 yards, NCDC 73 yards, Storm Data 75 yards. Outside of these points, weak trees were felled, signs were blown over, and minor roof damage occurred. of a tornado from his cellar on June 22, 1928. Path length: 8.2 miles Tornado expert Dr. Ted Fujita (or possibly students of his) surveyed the damage. It caused major roof damage along Bethlehem Academy Road, with one home losing the roof completely. Deaths: Time: 9:20pm EDT Two of the deaths were in Hardin County. Injuries: 0 Time: 9:38pm EDT For the first case study on outbreak sequences, we examine two weeks of nearly nonstop tornadoes. Time: 12:19am EDT F-scale: F2 Path length: Injuries: 0 The tornado then damaged an outbuilding and numerous trees as it headed east toward the intersection of Double Or Nothing Road and Radio Tower Road. F-scale: F1 Numerous pallets loaded with mulch and topsoil were thrown or shifted several yards. Path width: Deaths: A second building, a large two-story brick industrial building 1/2 mile east, had about 20 percent of its metal roof peeled off. Four tornadoes accomplished that feat: one on March 27, 1890two on March 18, 1925and one on May 9, 1933. EF-scale: EF0 Path width: 60 yards hay roll southeast over a fence. Also, an above ground pool half filled with water was missing. The family dog was found alive under piles of rubble. Path width: 75 yards Deaths: 0 Deaths: Two barns were destroyed and a well-built one story home sufferedsignificant roof and side damage. Notes: A large swath of hardwood trees were snapped or uprooted three miles north of Huntingburg. Time: 10:39am Grazulis doesn't many any specific locations of the injuries he reported. Path length: A one room schoolhouse was destroyed. The rope-like tornado lifted between Tucker Station Road and Interstate 265. Deaths: 0 EF-Scale:EF1 Learn how your comment data is processed. Path width: 150 yards Counties: Marion Path width: 100yards Path width: Time: 5:10pm Notes: Near Patterson Lane and McAfee Lane between McAfee and Ebenezer a well-built barn had two walls blown out and its roof blown one-half mile downstream. Deaths: 0 Two people died in Warren County: one at Three Forks and one at Rocky Springs. F-scale: EF0 reported to be a "green-rimmed cone-shaped Counties: Grayson Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down in a field along KY 103 a mile north of Auburn. Time: 11:30pm Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted. Most of the damage was high end EF0 around 85 mph with much of the damage being 20 to 50 yards off the ground. It damaged a row of trees behind a home and removed some flashing on the home. May 11, 2003 The four deaths were in two separate Indiana farm homes. Notes: The door of a house was blown out about four miles northeast of Ferdinand, near the start of the tornado path. Mrs. Bloomfield, whose house was in the path of the storm, stated that she heard a noise like a jet airplane. Fifty citizens were injured in Monroe County. Counties: Nicholas August 11, 1983 An empty trailer was flipped over near this location. Notes:Mostly tree damage occurred with this tornado. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis says F3. Noted discrepancies: SPC lists a path width of 70 yards, NCDC 73 yards, Storm Data 50 yards. Notes: The tornado first touched down near Lone Star, where it destroyed several barns and a mobile home. A garage wall of a well-built home buckled. At least three homes were damaged, two from trees falling on them, with minor roofing damage to a third. Notes: This tornado spun up in a broader area of 40-60 mph winds that caused minor tree damage across an area over a mile wide. Noted discrepancies: SPC/NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis does not list it. A sign was also blown down at a business along U.S. 60. August 25, 1972 March 18, 1925 February 6, 2008 Counties: Spencer Would tend to believe Storm Data here. Deaths: 0 Injuries: F4) StoryMap, March 27, 1890 -- Louisville (est. Injuries: 0 Path width: Time: 6:12pm CDT Narrative: Homes and barns were destroyed at Wade's Mill. F-scale: F2 Path length: Time: 8:29pm CDT Narrative: Homes of all sizes were destroyed near New Castle. Storm Data says the tornado touched down eight miles north of Carlisle on Ball Hill Road. The first damage observed was of EF1 intensity, and the tornado grew to EF2 intensity before reaching the Madison County line. A man received minor injuries when a barn he was in collapsed around him. The tornado tracked to the north of Paynesville and south of Lee Bottom, extensively damaging forests in southern Jefferson County before crossing the Ohio River into Trimble County, Kentucky. Notes: The tornado uprooted and snapped several large trees and destroyed a small shed on Daisy Hill Road north of Borden. Path width: 220 yards Counties: Jefferson IN Time: 12:30pm Injuries: 0 Path width: 250 yards Injuries: 0 Path width: So far, it doesn't look like it 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. Deaths: Time: 5:58pm - 5:59pm EDT Deaths: 0 A tornado leveled trees and unroofed houses along a track 400 yards wide "at Paris" or "near Paris" (depending on the source used). Injuries: June 7, 1980 Injuries: Counties: Warren March 6, 1961 F-scale: F3 Path width: 100yards Occupants of a mobile home witnessed the tornado as it approached from the west, and they took shelter in their bathroom. SKYWARN. Path width: Noted discrepancies: Only Martin, Orange, and Lawrence are listed in this SPC entry. Early Advances. Deaths: 0 The same tornado once again touched down on the east side of main street at the State Farm Insurance agency and Citizens Union Bank. The tornado then affected a residence, badly damaging the roof and throwing the porch of the house several yards to the northeast. Path width: Path length: 2.8 miles Only two of the 150 students were injured. SPC and NCDC give a path length of 14 miles, Grazulis give 28 miles. Time: 2:36pm - 2:38pm EDT Injuries: 5 SPC and NCDC give a path length of 15 miles, Grazulis and Storm Data give 1 1/2 miles. Deaths: Path length: 5 miles Counties: Edmonson (from Pendleton and Bracken) Path width: 1200 yards Some, like #9 in particular, are dangerous. Time: 11:44am CST to 11:47am CST At least 27 people died in Tennessee. Path length: 6. Another home was completely demolished and thrown downwind several hundred yards, within which there were 3 fatalities. Storm Prediction Center. F-scale: F0 Deaths: Path length: 1.4 miles Time: 4:35am June 6, 1990 F-scale: F4 EF-Scale:EF0 Injuries: 0 The tornado dissipated about a minute later. The twister finally lifted near the end of Drowning Creek Road northeast of Waco. Path length: 2.5 miles Notes: This tornado caused relatively minor damage to fences, trees, and a few roofs on the east side of Versailles. The tornado again caused damage on Electron Drive at the Dillard's Warehouse and Machinery Specialties Warehouse. Time: 1:36am EDT to 1:38am EDT The tornado touched down two separate times. Deaths: 0 Noted discrepancies: SPC and Storm Data list both Taylor and Washington countiesNCDC lists only Taylor CountyGrazulis lists only Washington County. Notes: This tornado touched down along the Edmonson/Warren county line between Brownsville and Bowling Green. F-scale: F1 Deaths: The top image is a drawing of an undated tornado (likely from the early 1800s or prior), as seen in Significant Tornadoes: 1680-1991 (Thomas Grazulis), p. 550. Path length: 20 miles Path length: 0.8 miles Grazulis narrative: Skipped east-northeast from Madisonville to Bremen, Moorman, and on to Beaver Dam. After moving through uninhabited hillside for a mile, uprooting and snapping trees in a near quarter mile wide path, the tornado tore off the roof of a ranch-style brick home and destroyed its nearby outbuildings. Injuries: 0 Insulation was everywhere. EF-Scale: EF-1 Noted discrepancies: None Path length: Injuries: 0 November 5, 2018 County: Taylor Deaths: Time: 7:15pm A cinder block storage building was toppled. 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. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck three miles northeast of Horse Cave, and then to Uno and Hardyville, crossing KY 541 about two miles west of US 31E. F-scale: F0 This time disagreement may have something to do with the tornado being near a time zone boundary. It wasn't until the 1800s that advances, For much of the mid-1800s, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. was the center of weather observation for the United, A list of instructions for observing tornadoes during the late 1800s, Historic outbreak sequences: Five major tornado events during the second half of May 1896, New Jerseys deadliest twister and the first scientific tornado study in the United States, U.S. Tornado History: Early American thought presented in textbooks of the 1800s, U.S. Tornado History: The Smithsonian Institutions Queries Relative to Tornadoes, circa 1860s, Understanding basic tornadic radar signatures, Into the Storm: 10 best and worst movie moments for a tornado nerd. EF-Scale:EF0 Path width: 50yards Injuries: 0 Notes: This tornado destroyed or heavily damaged two shop buildings at a construction company. While these spinny winds are not unique to our country, they are very much a part of the American experience. National Weather Service Injuries: 7 Towards the end of the path a pole barn was destroyed and a home was unroofed on US 31W. Path length: Path width: Notes: The highest winds with this tornado were estimated to have been 95 to 105 mph. Path length: 7 miles EF-Scale:EF1 EF-Scale: EF1 The tornado was 60 yards wide with wind speeds of 140 mph, indicative of EF-3 strength. Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from one mile southwest of Burkesville to one mile northwest of Burkesville. Across the county numerous power poles, barns, and homes sustained damage. October 7, 1965 Path width: Path width: 800 yards Path length: 6 miles Moving along to the northeast, the Muir area was next in line (near the intersection of KY 1970 and KY 1973 today). March 1, 2017 A number of roofs were removed and walls blown out along the path through Danville. Further down on Willard Wilson road, another 30 by 50 foot barn was collapsed and a 400 pound 4-wheeler was moved 30 feet. A mobile home on KY 829 was lifted off its foundation and there were several trees uprooted and snapped. SPC gives a path width of 10 yardsNCDC 30 yardsGrazulis and Storm Data 100 yards. A dozen barns, two trailers, and several other buildings were destroyed in the Southville area. The tornado traveled to the northeast and damaged homes on Kurtz Drive and at the intersection of Thornhill Drive and Gaines Road. Time: 4:55pm According to news accounts, damage was heavy in Lawrenceburg, especially in a three-block wide swath through downtown. Path length: 1/3 of a mile Counties: Hardin Path width: Several trailers were moved off of their foundations and had roof damage. Along Dan Dunn Road several barns sustained significant roof and wall damage, and a chain link fence was bent at 90 degrees along every support post. Mrs. Herrick's boarding house was nearly demolished, and the Paris Flour Mill's roof was damaged. Counties: Allen, Barren, Monroe, Metcalfe (from Sumner TN) Siding and shingles were blown off of multiple houses. EF-Scale:EF2 The tornado lifted near Catnip Road in Perry County which is about 2.3 miles east of St. Meinrad. EF-scale: EF0 It expanded to its maximum width and strength about a mile into its path. Path length: Path width: Time: 7:57pm Counties: Breckinridge A liquor store and two warehouses were unroofed. made for good press, and together they Deaths: Floods killed 28 people at Xenia on May 12, and two days later, from late on the night of May 14 into the early morning of May 15, 1886, Ohio's deadliest tornado outbreak of the 19th century occurred. The first written accounts of tornadoes in the One victim said that his "picture window looked as if it were breathing in and out." EF-scale: EF1 Notes: This tornado began on the county line near Roland, then crossed US 150 into Roland and onto CR 275N. County: Perry Time: 7:00am Counties: Adair Path width: 250 yards Over 150 homes were damaged or destroyed. The twister was rated EF2 at this location. Path width: F-scale: F1 February 5, 2008 Time: 7:10pm - 7:11pm EDT 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. Julia's barn's roof was blown into Georgetown Cemetery. Deaths: 0 The tornado traveled from Clark County, Indiana across extreme southeast Scott County and into far southern Jefferson County. June 25, 2018 Path length: 0.3 mile Deaths: January 29, 2008 The tornado sounded like "a dozen freight trains crossing a trestle." March 29, 1974 Most of the injuries were in a church that was torn apart and collapsed during evening services. F-scale: F3 Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck near Lewisport. The tornado continued northeast across the land that would become Central Park, and into Eagle Park between Ormsby and Park Avenues and Third and Fifth Streets. Path width: Injuries: Deaths: 0 Notes: Two barns damaged. Time: 10:15pm EST Injuries: 1 Notes: This tornado was embedded in a larger field of straight-line winds that was up to a mile wide. Path width: Injuries: 0 March 23, 2012 Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down on the east side of I-75 at the KY 21 exit. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1868. and injuring their mother in their home. October 19, 2007 Deaths: 0 F-scale: F3 Path width: (Storm Data says this tornado struck three and a half miles northeast of Versailles at Maplewood Farm.) F-scale: F0 Streets that suffered damage (other than those listed above): Atokad Park, Aztec Circle, Big Ben Court, Carlsbad Court, Carriage Lane, Custer Drive, Custer Lake Court, Dale Drive, East Hills Drive, Glacier Court, Golden Gate Park, Mount Rainier Drive, Packanack Court, Personality Court, Pipestone Court, Rocky Mount Court, Stephen Foster Drive, Shoal Lake Drive, Squires Circle, Squires Road, Tates Brook Drive, Travis Court, Tuscaloosa Lane, Woodview Drive, and Yosemite Circle. F-scale: F1 The tornado touched down at approximately 3:38 PMEST, and the initial damage included snapped and twisted trees just west of Hwy 421. Path width: Most of the house damage was caused by falling trees. Counties: Henry, Shelby Across the road a metal livestock building was destroyed.

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