tornadoes in the 1800s

A treatise on meteorology with a collection of meteorological tables Injuries: 30 Injuries: 4 April 20, 2011 from her body. Path width: 100 yards Minimal F2. Time: 1:00pm This F4 damage was the only clear example of F4 strength winds along the path. Time: 2:55pm CDT to 2:56pm CDT Deaths: 0 April 19, 2011 Injuries: Deaths: Path length: 0.5 miles Two minor injuries occurred with this tornado. Path length: 15 miles Time: 3:38am CST Time: 2:05am Considerable damage was done in what was then known as Brownstown, and today is Old Louisville. Grazulis narrative: Moved southeast, hitting a rural mobile home eight miles northeast of Corydon, blowing it apart, killing a man, and scattering debris for almost a mile. Path length: 1.5miles tornado struck the Baker home just outside Path width: 350 yards Siding and shingles were blown off of multiple houses. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado destroyed two barns in the Fairfield area. Nobody knew about it until the next morning when they saw the scattered debris causing tales of a night phantom., A tornado was reported near Dallas, Texas on April 15, , 1879 that destroyed more than a dozen homes and injured twenty-five people. Trees were blown down in Saint John. October 18, 2007 During the final stages of the tornado, it struck homes along Peyton Road flipping over single wide trailers, lifting the roof of a barn, and doing extensive tree damage. June 16, 1997 Path width: Besides the structural damage, about 40 large hardwood trees were uprooted along the path. Counties: Scott KY, Fayette Multiple power lines were down in this area as well. Near IN 203 and North Bethlehem Road several trees were down and agricultural buildings and residential roofs were damaged. May 21, 1990 Several vehicle windows were smashed. 11. Time: 6:30pm Deaths: Time: 8:53pm EDT EF-scale: EF0 Deaths: Notes: Storm Data places this tornado two and a half miles west southwest of Happy Landing. Their home, which was destroyed, caught fire and only one child could be rescued. Time: 5:20pm - 5:22pm CDT Injuries: 0 Time: 10:33pm - 10:35pm CST Grazulis lists it at 10:00am. F-scale: F1 SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC give 30 yards. Time: 9:45am October 18, 2007 May 8, 2009 Path length: 2 1/2 miles beneath a nearby tree. Notes: Storm Data puts this tornado on Garrett Hollow Road. F-scale: F3 County: Scott KY Time: 8:23pm EDT It touched down on Buck Lane, struck KY 1978, crossed Georgetown Road, and struck near Citation Boulevard. Path length: Twelve homes were destroyed in the touchdown near Allensville. Just before crossing the highway, the tornado increased from 75 yards to 140 yards and picked up hundreds of cornstalks tossing them in various directions across the road up to 300 yards away. The tornado grew in strength very rapidly, and after traveling only about a mile it crossed Boone Creek and completely swept away a house on the Clark County side of the creek. There were far fewer towns and people and most went unrecorded. Path length: Counties: Nelson Path width: 100yards Time: 3:16pm CDT Deaths: Path length: 3 miles Numerous trees were blown down, snapped, or uprooted. Notes:This skipping tornado first touched down along Campbellsville Rd near the community of Cane Valleywhere it downed power lines as it snapped tree limbs and uprooted several large trees. F-scale: F2 Most of the wind damage was between 85 and 95 mph. Path width: 200 yards (Credit: Library of Congress . Notes: The tornado touched down in eastern Garrard County south of Nina on Bethel Road. Path length: 0.6 mile March 6, 1961 March 2, 1878 Black and white with county lines Jefferson County: The Jefferson County portion of the track was well-covered in the local newspapers. Counties: Franklin Path width: 70 yards The tornado increased in width to 200 yards on Wobegon Way significantly damaging several homes. Christ Church on Churchill Downs had some roof and siding damage. Notes from investigation in 2017: In McAfee several homes had uplifted roofs, a chimney was destroyed, and garage doors collapsed. F-scale: F1 Noted discrepancies: NCDC and SPC storm databases place a tornado in Metcalfe County at this time, and nothing in Boyle County. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down just south of Corydon. Path width: Several buildings were unroofed. RBI Corporation, next door, also had some structural damage. Injuries: Notes: SPC's touchdown lat/lon is in McCracken County, and the liftoff lat/lon is in Marshall County. County: Edmonson EF-Scale:EF2 F-scale: F1 Most of the injuries in the tornado were in a street car that was hit by the roof of a house. Injuries: 1 Deaths: 1 May 28, 1996 At 291 Elamond Road part of the roof of a home was peeled back with extensive siding damage. Path width: 50yards It then crossed Sweeney lane. The city organized crews of 60 men each who worked day and night searching the wreckage, along with families and friends. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado hit Mannsville, Burdick, Meadow Creek, and White Ridge. Injuries: F-scale: F0 Time: 1:55am It is to be hoped that the number of those willing to aid in establishing the facts and ferreting out the mysteries will be largely increased, and it is for such these instructions are given. 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. Time: 7:05pm Injuries: 0 February 6, 2008 Several witnesses saw two different tornado near the Miami Court and Wobegone Way area. February 6, 2008 Notes: Two dozen large trees were uprooted or snapped about two miles east of Connersville. Injuries: County: Madison Time: 10:30pm and narrowed to about 50 yards. February 6, 2008 The National Weather Service out of Peachtree City has just issued a Tornado Warning for Forsyth County and Cherokee County until 4:30 p.m. June 6, 1990 Grazulis narrative: Moved northeast from near Hackley and Cottonburg, passing just north of Richmond, and lifting east of Mount Sterling. Several homes lost roofs. Injuries: 0 One person died in a home near Gilpin. Counties: Grayson Path width: 150 yards The Cook Hazelip Building in Smith's Grove was unroofed. Many homes, trailers, outbuildings, and barns were damaged along the tornado's intermittent path. SPC, Grazulis, and NCDC list the path width at 30 yards, Storm Data says 1 yard. Narrative: A tornado touched down west of present-day University of Louisville and moved to the north-northeast across eastern sections of the city. In the late 1800s, meteorology was still in its infancy. Path length:5.3 miles Counties: Hardin The oldest known tornado occurred in June of 1830 near Louisville. Counties: Crawford, Harrison IN EF-Scale: EF1 Path width: 150 yards Time: 6:15pm Narrative: A barn was significantly damaged west of Big Spring, and a mobile home was partially unroofed southeast of Big Spring. Path length: 1.7mile Two barns were destroyed, two barns suffered significant roof and structural damage, and about two dozen trees were snapped or uprooted. Barns, power poles, and trees were immediately blown down. F-scale: F0 Iseeo was returning from a raid against the Utes when they encountered a tornado near the Washita River in Oklahoma. Deaths: Deaths: 0 Timber between the river and Eighteenth Street Road along Greenwood Road was observed to have been felled pointing to a common center. Path width: Tales Time: 11:54pm EST to 12:05am EST Path width: 40 yards Notes: The tornado touched down just east of Lake Celina where one tree was uprooted and others were snapped. F-scale: F4 Time: 10:53am - 10:54am EDT At the intersection of Highway 1164 and 1544 at the Cedar GroveChurch there was roof damage to the church and many trees weretwisted and uprooted. After possibly weakening or lifting in Jessamine County, the tornado slammed into eastern sections of Fayette County with renewed vigor. Path width: Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list a path width of 17 yards, Grazulis lists 20 yards, Storm Data says 33 yards. Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC gives nothing. Notes: Storm Data puts this tornado at Shipley. It was called the worst storm in the history of Clark County, and probably still is (rivaled only by the April 3, 1974 tornado). Counties: Anderson F-scale: EF1 Path width: The tornado proceeded to Route 79/259 and struck a home just north of A.H. Wilson Road with EF-2 strength. Counties: Metcalfe, Monroe The way the Kentucky River winds through the area, the SPC track takes the tornado from near Valley View in Madison County, into southernmost Lexington in Fayette County, and then back into Madison County. Notes: Touchdown was just north of West Galway Trail North in a tree line behind some houses. The side of the track on which the observer stood should be given. EF-Scale: EF-1 Power poles were torn down along New Cut Road. Deaths: November 9, 2000 Path length: 15 miles F-scale: F3 The tornado continued northeast through some woods and lifted after damaging a small shed off of Tom Cain Road. It snapped several pine trees before dissipating. April 13, 1972 Time: 7:10pm The Norman Roundup Club will serve as a hub for reuniting valuables tossed around by Sunday night's tornado and their owners. Deaths: Counties: Clark IN There were some hardwood trees uprooted and parts of them fell onto homes, fences, trampolines, and swing sets. Ending lat/lon at SPC is over the Ohio River. Deaths: 0 Narrative: This tornado moved east-northeast from one mile northwest of Fern Creek, traveling parallel to the previously mentioned tornado. Path length: 4.7 miles Path length: Deaths: 0 Path width: Deaths: 0 . Deaths: 0 Path width: Immediately after the storm, Lagrange Interurban cars leaving Louisville could not get beyond Lyndon. Path width: 80yards The tornado started along Belmont Rd (KY 251) 0.7 miles west of Belmont, then traveled east-northeast through the community of Belmont, and lifting just east of Church Street. Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC gives 30 yards. Injuries: Path width: Path length: 4 miles May 30, 1979 My home was in between the two vortices and was spared. Counties: Clinton This was largely thanks to increased instances of tornado disasters given an expanding and westward moving population. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck at Rocky Hill Crossroad. Counties: Madison Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mileNCDC gives nothing. At the end of thepropertydrone photography showed trees going in nearly every direction. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2Grazulis does not list it. It is very essential that one divests himself of every preconceived notion about the whirling, sucking, or any other action of a tornado. It continued to do tree-top damage in a heavily wooded area as it moved east, then tore roof panels off of several hog barns on the south end of A Mills Road. Along the path two barns and a silo were damaged. EF-Scale: EF-4 June 19, 2011 Time: 9:40pm F-scale: F1 Path width: Counties: Fayette One person was killed in Simpson County at Temperance as seven homes and 40 barns were destroyed. It also destroyed a detached three car garage. Counties: Jefferson IN Time: 3:27pm Counties: Scott KY Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list a path width of 400 yards, Grazulis says 100 yards. Grazulis lists this tornado at 8:15pm. Path length: 3.4 miles Path length: 13 miles (skipping) Injuries: 0 SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Grazulis nothing. The tornado touched down at approximately 3:38 PMEST, and the initial damage included snapped and twisted trees just west of Hwy 421. Deaths: 0 Path width: 800 yards East of I-71 the tornado damaged outbuildings and snapped trees. Grazulis probably has the more correct path width. Injuries: 40 A 16-inch rafter was driven into the ground. Time: 10:30pm Central time Notes:Several trees were toppled in a forest on the southwest portion of the path. Deaths: 0 reported to be a "green-rimmed cone-shaped They escaped without injury, though they were trapped in rubble for 30 minutes. Deaths: Path width: 200yards Notes: This storm swept through the southern half of Louisville with the primary damage swath a mile wide. Time: 11:25pm EDT There were three homes destroyed in Kentucky, and $200,000 damage. A mobile home had its metal roof blown off into a nearby pond and insulation was blown along the ground and into a couple of trees. A home was destroyed on the east side of North Fraucke Road. Time: 5:11pm - 5:13pm CDT Counties: Hardin, Bullitt Injuries: Path length: 6 miles Counties: Monroe, Cumberland 19. F-scale: F2 Path width: 150 yards Injuries: 2 Path length: 1 miles This tornado was probably spawned from the same thunderstorm that produced the earlier tornado in southwest Louisville (see previous entry). Path width: Time: Noon Notes: This tornado touched down in the Pellyton area. Time: 9:26pm CDT to 9:33pm CDT F-scale: F2 EF-Scale: EF1 Path width: Path length: 0.1 mile An outbuilding was destroyed and debris was scattered for a quarter mile. Time: 4:15pm Path length: 1.8 miles Large parts of the barn debris were lofted into trees southwest of the structure, snapping their trunks. 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. Time: 7:40pm EST to 7:50pm EST The tornado destroyed a large well-built barn and threw the structure 50 yards. Injuries: 0 Nearly 30 tornadoes rip across 7 states, killing 2. Notes: One well-constructed home lost its roof, two barns were demolished, and numerous trees were felled. EF-scale: EF1 Path width: 440 yards Deaths: 0 Path length: 30 miles Thirteen residents of the four homes took shelter in the basement of one of the homes. Several other vehicles hadwindows broken out. The Jonas Weil Farm on Briar Hill Road suffered an unroofed home, two miles of destroyed fence, and 500 felled trees. EF-scale: EF1 Time: 6:39am CDT Time: 4:00pm 85 mph winds. In Kentucky 15 homes and 25 barns were damaged in and around Mount Pleasant, with one injury. Time: 11:59pm EDT F-scale: F1 Violin from the late 1800s donated to Pioneer Days. The tornado lifted near the intersection of KY 333 and M. H. Dowell Road. Grazulis narrative: While the Madison tornado veered to its left, this tornado touched down just south of Manville. Noted discrepancies: NCDC doesn't list Ripley County. County: Clark, IN The first theories explaining weather phenomena as having natural causes were proposed by ancient Greek natural philosophers. Injuries: Time: 4:25pm Environmental Films, 1993. Path length: 7 miles Deaths: 0 The only Kentucky event on this day in Storm Data is in Fulton County. Even if using -86.45, that would put the tornado right in the city of Bowling Green, not on a farm south of town. Numerous trees were blown down, snapped, or uprooted. The width of the individual circulations varied between 75 and 125 yards with widespread straight line wind damage all around. F-scale: F2 Path width: 100 yards April 21, 1967 EF-Scale:EF0 Counties: Green F-scale: F1 Path length: 1 mile April 26, 2011 Counties: Franklin On Brownstown Road, many homes were severely damaged especially on the north side of the tornado track with estimated speeds of 150 mph (EF3). Path length: 2 miles [Offsite link: 19th-Century Storm Chasers Took the First Tornado Photographs]. Notes: This tornado touched down near several large metal outbuildings destroying two and heavily damaging two others. Path width: 75 yards Deaths: 0 Noted discrepancies: Not listed at NCDC. 2. Experimental Graphical Hazardous Weather Outlook, National Centers for Environmental Information'sStorm Events website, This storm swept through the southern half of Louisville. It's been mapped here according to the information in Storm Data, but additional research would be helpful. HEAT.gov Noted discrepancies: Grazulis and Storm Data list this tornado at 6:40pmSPC and NCDC say 5:40pm. County: Green Deaths: 0 Counties: Jefferson IN County: LaRue Counties: Meade Notes: Storm Data places this tornado in Danville at the Corning Glass Works. There were 28 deaths in the Brandenburg area. There was also extensive snapping and uprooting of trees. Counties: Scott KY Grazulis narrative: Moved southeast from three miles southeast of the intersection of I-65 and the Cumberland Parkway. This included large sections of roof structure being removed and exterior walls collapsing at 202 Woebegone Way. The tornado touched down on the east side of Louisville International Airport at the intersection of Standiford Lane and Preston Highway, where it lifted and blew a car 40 feet, depositing it on its roof. Whether it's a comment on our data, notification of a tornado you witnessed but do not see listed here, or if you would like to pass along your own personal encounter with a tornado, please feel free tosend us an e-mail. Counties: Hardin Notes: Thistornado briefly touched down on SpinksDrive just off of Highway 69.

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