tornadoes in the 1800s

More than a dozen uprooted and snapped trees were observed around the Tucker House Bed and Breakfast at 2406 Tucker Station Road. The tornado continued on for another mile, causing occasional tree damageand dropping debris before lifting near the east end of Groce Road, where it peeled roofing material from a metal out building. Deaths: 0 A Kiowa named Iseeo told an anthropologist his people called them Mankayia. Counties: Perry Path length: CoCoRaHS Injuries: 0 November 9, 2000 F-scale: F2 Overall, 845 homes were damaged, and 200 of them near-F3. Path length: Time: 1:00pm Most of the house damage was caused by falling trees. Twelve more homes were destroyed at Dundee. Injuries: 7 Injuries: Deaths: 0 April 3, 1989 March 19, 2005 F-scale: F1 First "documented" hurricane to strike Key West. Path length: 30 miles Time: 3:20pm Path length: 0.25 mile F-scale: F0 One person was killed in Simpson County at Temperance as seven homes and 40 barns were destroyed. Time: 2:00pm April 22, 2011 SPC/NCDC give a path length of 38 miles, Grazulis gives 42 miles. Deaths: 0 Path width: On the west side of Thomas Road, the tornado reached its greatest intensityand size, with winds of 100 mph. Cornfields were flattened and convergent wind signatures could be seen in the vegetation. Time: 3:00pm F-scale: F3 May 18, 1995 Time: 8:01pm CDT Injuries: 0 Path length: August 1, 1954 Counties: Ohio, Grayson (from Hopkins and Muhlenberg) Another metal out building on the right periphery of the damage path had sheeting pulled off the back of the building apparently from the force of the inbound winds into the tornado. Next, along KY 1607, not far from Salem Church Road and Dan Dunn Road, a silo was crumbled and some parts of a corn field were mashed sown. Notes: Most of the damage caused by this tornado was concentrated in the Flood Road area, as it intensified while moving to the northeast. Counties: Jefferson IN (to Switzerland, Ohio IN, Dearborn) A man was killed in a tobacco barn, and thirty people were injured in the High Grove area as at least six homes were destroyed. Deaths: If possible, locate the first appearance of the funnel by a tree, house, or object close by, and, after the tornado has passed, measure the distance from the observers position to that of the tornado when first seen. Deaths: 0 F-scale: F0 Digging out: Tornado damages home, downs power lines; minor injuries Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck on Gaffney Road. Mr. Bradley made a full recovery. Notes: Houses were twisted and trees uprooted. Notes: According to Storm Data, one house was struck on Happy Hollow Road four miles south of Hawesville. Path length: 18 miles Grazulis narrative: Moved east, destroying barns and badly damaging two farm houses near Turkey Foot. Deaths: 0 Notes: Storm Data puts this tornado at Holland. November 14, 2011 Strong winds in north Wales were a tornado, experts confirm. F-scale: F2 On the family's cemetery, several tombstones were knocked over and one headstone was destroyed. Some children were killed on their way home from school. June 2, 1990 Multiple barns, garages, and outbuildingswere destroyed here as well. Lexington Weather Bureau meteorologist Dix Newtown felt it was straight-line wind damage at the time. The narrow tornado continued northeast, uprooting trees and damaging outbuildings, breaking out all of the windows of one building. Path length: 2.2miles Counties: Clark IN F-scale: F2 Injuries: Path width: 1886 St. Cloud-Sauk Rapids tornado outbreak - Wikipedia Keep in mind that these maps only depict tornadoes -- not severe thunderstorms, downbursts, or other damaging winds. Numerous trees were blown down, snapped, or uprooted. Deaths: Time: 7:20am EF-Scale: EF-1 October 18, 2007 F-scale: F2 The tornado then moved into Jefferson County, heading towards Hanover. mud from head to foot; eyes, mouths, and ears Path length: 2 miles Deaths: 0 May 27, 2004 April 8, 1948 Injuries: 0 More research is needed. Path length: Injuries: 11 February 6, 2008 Time: 11:22pm EDT A workshop containing tools and heavy equipment was destroyed. Path width: Path length: 1.6mile Path width: Notes: Storm Data says this tornado went from near McKinney to Preachersville to near the Garrard County line, damaging the county fairgrounds and Maywood. 4. The tornado then reformed and crossed I-265 and continued to the east-northeast through several subdivisions north and northeast of Fincastle. Time: 5:20pm Time: 9:00pm Deaths: It then continued southeast across Gumbottom Road, where a large oak tree was uprooted. Counties: Clinton F-scale: F1 Notes: This tornado struck the southeast side of Huntingburg. One lane of Interstate 65 was blocked by debris, and cars were damaged. Injuries: 0 Notes: Touchdown was on a hill along KY 1822 where a large hay barn was destroyed, amedium sized barn was damaged, and fencing was destroyed. The tornado touched down about 200 yards west of the Dollar General store, which suffered some minor roof damage. It damaged a few more barns and trees before lifting about half a mile southwest of Cynthiana. 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. F-scale: F2 Path length: 7 miles March 1, 2017 Path length: January 4, 1997 Path length: 6.5 miles Splitting shingles in the Wilson Cedar Forest. Eyewitnesses June 15, 1964 Injuries: 0 Damage was then fairly sparse until the tornado entered the Germantown and Phoenix Hill neighborhoods. Injuries: Time: 2:15pm Deaths: 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. Injuries: 0 April 3, 1974 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: 0.4 miles Wind speeds in the area were estimated at 170-175 mph (EF4) with a damage width of one-quarter mile. Time: 9:00pm It's interesting to note that the part that was destroyed was aligned north-south, so that a strong west wind, which would be typical of an RFD, would have hit it broadside. Of course, every one will keep eyes and ears open for any and all phenomena to be noted in this remarkable outburst. Injuries: 0 Deaths: June 2, 1990 Over 100 homes were severely damaged or destroyed at Junction City. F-scale: F0 Injuries: 0 bars on the bridge were bent and twisted. The tornado crossed the highway, uprooted two trees, and lifted. Path length: 1 mile Then the barn of T. P. Pickett was unroofed on Lemons Mill Road. Counties: Dubois Counties: Logan Notes: Damage with this tornado occurred along Old Union Chapel Road of IN 62 nearT&T Auto. Time: 8:10pm EST to 8:12pm EST Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path width of 10 yardsNCDC 30 yards. EF-scale: EF3 Time: 11:53pm - 11:56pm EDT One home was destroyed and 15 were damaged. A 72'x12' shed next to the barn was destroyed. Path width: 75 yards About the NWS Path width: 250 yards Path width: Deaths: Counties: Madison Note: NCDC has an entry for a F5 in Clark County IN at 2:10pm that does not appear in the SPC database nor in Grazulis Deaths: 0 F-scale: F1 Deaths: RBI Corporation, next door, also had some structural damage. EF-Scale: EF-2 Path width: This was largely thanks to increased instances of tornado disasters given an expanding and westward moving population. (Credit: Library of Congress . F-scale: F1 While many homes were swept away, the deaths were concentrated in groups, including at least five (possibly 12) deaths at the Olden Street School, eight deaths at a wood specialties plant, and five deaths in one home. Counties: Hardin Time: Grazulis narrative: Tornado touched down in Edmonton then moved east-northeast along KY 80 to the Adair County line. Path width: 50 yards Injuries: 87 It lifted near the IN 64/I-64 interchange, near Edwardsville. Near the tornado's touchdown point the twister was followed by hail that greatly damaged fruit trees. Path length: 0.5mile Injuries: Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC give a time of 2:20pm, Grazulis gives 3:25pm, Storm Data 3:30pm. As soon as the mid-1800s, the government began collecting data on tornadoes. Both the aerial photos and picture of the, tornado relayed by the emergency manager were matched up with a, radar signature indicating rotation. Deaths: County: Washington IN The first written accounts of tornadoes in the Moore, Oklahoma Slammed by Five Tornadoes in Five Years - NBC News A well-anchored 50x20 three bay barn was destroyed and scattered in three directions. A very well-built family residence took a direct hit from the EF2 tornado, with the front side of the home having the plywood exposed and with most of the shingles gone but the rest of the house fully intact due to the house having all the proper clips and braces with rebar. April 9, 1999 Time: 6:31am CDT Debris from this building was observed one-half to three-quarters of a mile downwind. Time: 4:59am F-scale: F2 Path width: 50 yards Path length: Path width: Time: 12:27am EST to 12:29am EST Moving east-northeast, the tornado damaged roofs and snapped several large tree limbs, as well as toppling a large but rotting tree that crushed the roof of a garage. Counties: Clark Deaths: 5 have involved accounts of plucked poultry, 1835 - Major hurricane passed near Key West on September 14th and 15th. EF-Scale: EF-1 Several large branches were downed near this home as well. Fortunately it was unoccupied. Time: 4:45pm EDT May 10, 1973 Path length: 4miles County: LaRue Time: 2:25pm Counties: Jessamine Time: 8:08pm EST to 8:09pm EST The family survivedthe tornado by sheltering in a 3-foot crawl space. July 5, 1987 Injuries: Path width: It is considered an F5 on the Fujita Scale, even though tornadoes were not ranked on any scale at the time. SPC and NCDC give a path width of 1200 yards, Grazulis give 800 yards. Deaths: Deaths: An 11-year-old boy was killed in the trailer. F-scale: F3 Grazulis narrative: Several barns were destroyed or unroofed near Taylorsville. Injuries: 20 That one killed 36 and injured 583. F-scale: F1 F-scale: F1 Injuries: Spot Request Nineteen homes and 23 businesses were destroyed or damaged. However it dissipated soon thereafter. Path length: 0.8mile Time: 6:30pm The Jonas Weil Farm on Briar Hill Road suffered an unroofed home, two miles of destroyed fence, and 500 felled trees. Path length: 1/3 of a mile Notes: An EF-0 tornado with estimated winds between 65 and 80 mph touched down southeast of Shepherdsville and snapped a tree at a residence along Lotus Street. Time: 5:45am Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC give a path length of 21 milesGrazulis give 18 miles. Grazulis narrative: Moved east from just east of Goshen, passing one mile north of Lagrange, and through Jericho. Finally, the tornado did a more concentrated area of damage along Muddy Creek Road where a few more homes and trees were damaged. Injuries: On Simler Road, there was consistent snapped tree damage anda camper that had been tossed and flipped over and several barns received extensive damage. Deaths: Path length: EF-Scale: EF-0 EF-Scale:EF1 Damage was reported at Rockford Station (Rockford Lane and 18th Street Road -- now Dixie Highway). Path width: 300 yards Time: 5:19pm - 5:21pm CST Injuries: 0 Counties: Boyle and Lincoln (and on into Rockcastle) One day we had to move a house that had "survived" a tornado. April 27, 1971 August 2, 1954 Path length: 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. F-scale: F0 Counties: Hart Path width: Counties: Shelby Counties: Mercer F-scale: F0 Deaths: Notes:There was significant straight line wind damage across much of the county facing an easterly and southeasterly direction. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, but Grazulis does not list it (which it should be, regardless of strength, as was his practice in his 1992-1995 supplementlending support to the theory that this tornado is listed in Grazulis as the Woodford County event.) Path length: 10 miles Path width: 75 yards Notes: The tornadobegan at the end of McGee Road where two homes suffered extensive damage. Injuries: 5 Path length: 0.7 miles Major tornado disasters during the spring and summer of 1860 resurfaced previous concerns about tornadoes, and by 1862 the Smithsonian distributed circulars alerting people to their dangers. After skipping over an additional mile of farmland, it destroyed a silo and damaged an outbuilding on CR 300N. Here, it caused minor damage to some homes, destroyed a barn, and damaged the roof of another. The map shows every tornado to touch down in the U. S. from 1980 to 2012, and includes details on casualties and where each ranks on the Enhanced Fujita scale - a system scientists have used to . The storm roared across Two Mile Pike and into the southern and eastern outskirts of the city. Six people were killed when the tornado demolished a number of homes in the Mount Pleasant Church area on KY 551. where 2 structures were destroyed. Notes: A large barn was destroyed. This is one of the earliest photos of a Fall Creek Falls inhabitant. Several large 2x10s and 2x8s were impaled in the ground about 50 yards from the barn. 7. Deaths: 0 Grazulis lifts the tornado two miles north of Fairfield, but SPC/NCDC take it to north of Wakefield. Deaths: 0 April 15, 1994 Vinyl siding was, ripped off a home and small outbuildings were damaged. This tornado was probably spawned from the same thunderstorm that produced the earlier tornado in southwest Louisville (see previous entry). Path length: Deaths: Injuries: The only structural damage was to a small home on the top of a hill near South Rays Fork Road. Time: 5:30am May 18, 1995 Neighboring homes on either side were undamaged. Grazulis does not include Grayson County. Injuries: Noted discrepancies: Narrative given at the NCDC website and in Storm Data makes no sense. Deaths: Counties: Hart One house was lifted and slid 65 yards off its foundation while mostly still intact. Path width: F-scale: F0 EF-Scale:EF1 Path length: 0.9 mile Path width: 215 yards Path width: June 16, 1987 Notes: Six homes damaged in Utica. At Stanford the sky was "filled with debris" and funnels were again sighted, along with scattered damage. 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. Path length: 0.5 mile Path length: Cannot find Creal on any map. Path width: Notes: The tornado first touched down near Lone Star, where it destroyed several barns and a mobile home. Injuries: This tornado is very oddly listed at the NCDC website. The second home in the path of the tornado was badly damaged and a paper bill from the home was lifted into the tornado and carried 35 miles to the northeast into Powell County, landing in the yard of a National Weather Service employee. Path length:2.3 miles Deaths: Damage totalled $2.5 million (1890 dollars) in Jefferson County, with another half a million dollars with F2 intensity damage in Jeffersonville INalong with 20 injuries. Will plot it between New Roe and the Tennessee border. Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mileNCDC and Grazulis give nothing. March 6, 1961 Path length: Less than 440 yards If the observer is within a hundred feet of the tornado on the north side, he need have no fear, and may carefully examine all objects flying just above the ground. Notes: Storm Data puts this tornado at Cecilia. F-scale: This year is trending higher in the number tornadoes. Time: 1:25pm Time: 10:28pm Injuries: 0 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. Minor damage was sustained east of KY 639 to several outbuildings. Injuries: 0 Time: 8:00pm Path width: Counties: Warren Notes: Numerous windows and chimneys were damaged in downtown Greensburg. Injuries: 0 Path width: 800 yards This tornado touched down at 338 Soards Road and moved northeast, lifting as it began to cross a small lake. Listed in Storm Data in Clark County near New Washington. Path width: Time: 6:05am - 6:07am EST Grazulis narrative: One barn was destroyed and another was damaged at Smiths Grove. 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. Path width: 300 yards Counties: Grayson The tornado became elevated as it continued east-northeast from Thomas Road, snapping a few tree limbs in a wooded area before briefly touching down one last time on Rineyville Road, where it littered the highway with tree limbs and tore the front porch off a home, vaulting the roof over the house into the back yard. As storm systems moved across Texas Tuesday, a tornado wrecked havoc on the small town of Salado,shredding homes and leaving a debris trail in its wake. Homes on Needmore School Road southwest of Haywood were extensively damaged, and a mobile home was flipped over near the intersection of Riddle Road and KY 249. Path width: 440 yards Path width: The first dataset is the number of deaths per year from tornadoes in the United States. Near IN 203 and North Bethlehem Road several trees were down and agricultural buildings and residential roofs were damaged. Submit a Storm Report 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: 2 Notes: Storm Data says Pellyton was hard hittornado went from Portland to one mile northeast of Pellyton. Damage continued east into Allen County with the last evidence of damage at Walker Chapel Road about a mile south of Highway 100. perfectly with radar signatures to determine that the initial start, point of the tornado occurred 4.5 miles south southwest of, Hawesville in Hancock County along route 2181. Path width: Smithsonian Institution got involved in the research, Andover, Kansas struck by intense damaging tornado, Joplin, Missouri: Five years after the EF5 tornado of May 22, 2011. Path length: 0.2mile Path length: 0.4 mile It's possible that this was a very small weak tornado, but knowing that for certain is virtually impossible this far after the event.

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