tornadoes in the 1800s
Those sources were compared with each other to verify tornado data. Grazulis narrative: Tornado damaged some homes at New Bethel. The tornado formed about a mile northeast of Temple Hill just south of Barbour Road. Path length: 11.6 miles Path length: 32 miles Counties: Logan The bus was thrown fifty feet into the ditch, crushing the couple and killing the woman. A 30'x40' garage was significantly damaged and a large beam from the garage was thrown into the side of the home adjacent to the garage. Injuries: 4 Injuries: 2 Notes: Storm Data takes this tornado from one mile southwest of Blowing Springs to one mile northwest of Blowing Springs. August 13, 1966 Deaths: 0 February 6, 2008 Deaths: 0 Notes: Storm Data mentions damage on KY 1590 half a mile west of Albany. from the east edge of Jeffersonville. It then moved northeast and removed several shingles from another home along this same street. June 22, 2011 Deaths: 0 A tornado in North Dakota during the late 1800s. Path width: On the family's cemetery, several tombstones were knocked over and one headstone was destroyed. Storm Prediction Center. Injuries: 2 F-scale: F0 F-scale: F4 Injuries: 87 End lat/lon takes this tornado into Adair County, which agrees with NCDC narrative. Path length: January 24, 1997 It increased in width to 250 yards and struck the Harry Owen trucking company buckling roof trusses and spreading significant debris over the Lincoln Parkway into the mobile home park. The observed damage width was one-third of a mile with estimated winds of 170 mph (EF4). Notes: The tornado touched down in eastern Garrard County south of Nina on Bethel Road. Path length: 0.6mile Injuries: Path length: Counties: Franklin Path length: One single wide mobile home had siding panels blown out in several spots. Injuries: 2 Counties: Barren Counties: Perry, Crawford, Harrison IN, Washington IN, Clark IN, Scott IN Injuries: 0 Time: 2:49pm June 17, 1997 The tornado struck the north portion of Westport Bend Commerce Park, snapping and bending several trees. Sep. 16, 2016. Counties: Hardin Path length: 0.5miles Time: 4:00pm In addition, an outbuilding lost part of its roof and debris struck a residence causing cracked masonry and dented drywall inside the structure. Path length: Several theories have been advanced to explain the causes of whirlwinds, but they are supposed to be generally produced by the lateral action of opposing winds, or the influence of a brisk gales upon a portion of the atmosphere repose; in a manner analogous to the eddies that arise at the junction of the two streams, flowing with unequal velocities, or the air-whirls that occur, when the wind sweeps by the corner of a building, and strikes the calm behind it. Path length: Injuries: EF-Scale:EF0 Path width: Grazulis lists this tornado at 8:15pm. At least 15 homes were destroyed or torn apart. F-scale: F1 Time: 11:51am EDT Several barns and outbuildings were destroyed. Counties: Hart Path length: 0.20 mile More research is necessary. In the Rockport and Echols area the tornado was up to a quarter mile wide. Path width: 150 yards Counties: Clinton Path length: February 5, 2008 Two trailers were destroyed, and pieces were carried for a mile. Will use more logical SPC lat/lons for plotting. The storm continued to the northeast through Becknerville (where the funnel was 400 yards wide), with its sights set on Winchester. Notes: Touched down just northwest of Bradfordsville and moved east across the north side of town. Notes: In the Duff area several homes suffered minor damage and numerous trees, both softwood and hardwood, were snapped or uprooted. Deaths: 0 F-scale: F2 Path length: 2.25 miles Twenty-nine more homes were damaged, as were trailers, barns, and fences. Deaths: Tree damage continued along thepath with additional EF-2 damage, occurring attwo chicken farms where a 200 yd long chicken barn was. Narrative: Moved to the east-northeast from Mauckport to just south of Louisville. A swing set was thrown from the back of the house to the front. Time: 12:41pm CDT to 12:43pm CDT Counties: Warren January 2, 2006 There was extensive tree damage along Elamond Road where over 100 trees were snapped, twisted, and uprooted. EF-scale: EF1 The pilots are associated with the Kentuckiana Volunteer Aviators. Notes: According to Storm Data the tornado touched down on the southwest side of IN 66 at the west edge of Tell City. At that point it heavily damaged two brick homes and one wood frame home as well as destroying a wood barn (overturning the tractor inside) and two metal outbuildings. There was also extensive snapping and uprooting of trees. Counties: Barren and Metcalfe F-scale: F2 A Kubota UTV weighing 2500 pounds was moved 30 yards and rotated 180 degrees. Will map as such, but further research would be helpful. Notes: According to Storm Data, this tornado damaged four city blocks on the west side of Munfordville. Another dozen or so homes, along with barns and outbuildings, sustained heavy damage. Another area of significant damage was at the intersection of Highway 100 and Reeder School Road (near the Simpson/Allen County line)where a house had significant roof damage and had an exterior wall blown out. Injuries: 0 The most intense damage occurred as the tornado lifted east of Haysville in the woods along IN 56. 26 Kansas City, Missouri. Deaths: Path width: Grazulis narrative: Moved northeast from the Kentucky State Fairgrounds in Louisville. October 31, 2018 F-scale: F0 The last observed damage in Washington County was near S. Flatwood Road in a wooded area before the tornado entered Clark County. Path width: Path width: 80 yards By evening, the skies darkened and the winds began to roar. The tornado may have then turned to the left (northeast) as it caused F2-level damage to a two-story brick dwelling near the corner of Breckinridge and Preston. F-scale: F1 Time: 4:30pm April 20, 2011 Two tornadoes were reported in Kansas and Missouri, and one in Texas. south of Kyana, near the end of the damage path. Path width: 300 yards Injuries: The path of utter destruction, in which everything was flattened, was a quarter mile wide. Path length: 60 miles (probably a family of tornadoes) F-scale: F4 The Earl Watson farm was damaged as the tornado crossed Paris Pike. Injuries: 0 Several houses and five barns were demolished. Path width: 400 yards Injuries: Path length: Injuries: Counties: Washington KY Time: The Anderson County courthouse lost some of its roof. Injuries: 0 A dozen other homes were unroofed. Counties: Perry Time: 2:50pm Injuries: Other than mud spattering from the south-southwest on the back corner of the brick one-story home, no other evidence of wind was observed, as no shingles were damaged. 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. Time: 8:25pm Injuries: Of course this is absurd, and we must resort to some other explanation of the phenomenon. Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC rank this as an F3Grazulis does not list it. Along Black Branch Road just east of the school complex the tornado caused some structural damage to homes. Injuries: The tornado moved north-northeast and northeast through the Parkland neighborhood (Twenty-eighth and Dumesnil), leveling a few homes. June 7, 1980 Time: 10:44pm EDT The tornado traveled to the northeast and damaged homes on Kurtz Drive and at the intersection of Thornhill Drive and Gaines Road. The tornado lifted near the intersection of KY 333 and M. H. Dowell Road. It continued skipping east, uprooting and snapping trees and destroying an anchored mobile home on Underwood Road. Path width: 50 yards F-scale: F2 June 1, 1917 It touched down at the end of Arlington Drive at the floodwall and moved east-northeast, crossing I-65 between exits one and two, then crossed Tenth Street and lifted near the end of Plaza Drive. Time: 5:30pm Injuries: 30 A tied-down trailer was overturned. Injuries: 3 Path width: Grazulis narrative: Moved northeast from south of Greensburg to Mannsville, destroying a large part of that town. Counties: Oldham 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. Tree and structural damage was widespread northeast of Route 135 as the tornado crossed Trainer Lane and then State Road 335 to Robbs Lane. F-scale: F0 Storm Data narrative says, "Tornado first appeared near Finley in Taylor County, completely missed Marion County, and came to earth again in Washington County a short distance south of Springfield." Deaths: 0 Notes: (From internal Weather Bureau memo and from newspaper clippings) Eight homes destroyed, 29 damaged. Storm Prediction Center Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards. However, by the beginning of the 1800s, no Europeans had settled in the Oklahoma region. Deaths: 0 The last visible damage was along Highway 1544just east of 1164 with some trees uprooted and twisted. A number of roofs were removed and walls blown out along the path through Danville. Path length: The tornado then weakened and crossed the Blue Grass Army Depot, doing minor damage. Notes: Storm Data says this tornado touched down initially west of Lawrenceburg and moved into the downtown section of that city. Path width: Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC call this an F3, Grazulis calls it an F2. Across Washington County, particularly east of IN 135, thousands of trees were uprooted and snapped. Path width: Path length: 1.2 miles Path length: Grazulis lists this tornado at 10:57pm. June 2, 1990 White's Distillery's roof was blown "out of sight." EF-Scale:EF1 August 11, 1983 Only three homes that were affected by the funnel were able to be salvaged. Deaths: 0 County: Metcalfe Time: 7:25pm Trees were blown down in the steep valleys as well as on the hilltops. The debris from the barn was thrown over a quarter mile to the northeast. Path length: 0.9 mile Counties: Anderson County: Warren, Allen Time: 10:28pm EDT Many pioneer farms were damaged or destroyed. Path width: 75 yards The first dataset is the number of deaths per year from tornadoes in the United States. High tension wires were down and trees snapped along West End Road just north of Shanks Hill Road. A total of five homes sustained extensive damage, and two homes suffered minor damage. Will plot a single tornado as close to the given lat/lons as possible. The tornado sounded like "a dozen freight trains crossing a trestle." Deaths: Notes: Four utility poles were snapped along US 127 near Snow, as were several large diameter trees in a narrow path on a wooded hill to the east of the highway. All lat/lons are roughly in alignment with each other and with the Grayson County lat/lons. Moving on from the church, the tornado tore off rooftops along Tenth, Ninth, and Eighth Streets between Chestnut Street and Broadway. At 4510 Chamberlain Laneon the J. W. Head farm the roof of the residence was destroyed, portions of which were found several hundred yards downstream. Path length: Path length: It appears this tornado should be listed as Marshall/McCracken rather than McCracken/Madison. The tornado crossed into southern Woodford County just north of Mundys Landing. County: Trimble 157-158. The cloud heard their prayers and passed them by. EF-Scale: EF-1 Injuries: It's been mapped here according to the information in Storm Data, but additional research would be helpful. May 24, 2000 Path length: Path width: 25yards Three trees were knocked down or snapped northeast of the shop, with the last evidence of a tornado about 150 yards farther down. Further southeast on Highland Church Road numerous trees were uprooted and snapped with trees facing from the north northeast to the southeast. It appears that tornadoes may have also struck Franklin, Anderson, and Fayette Counties on this day. Winds in this area were estimated at 75 to 80 mph. Deaths: Trees and telephone poles were blown down for a mile along Briar Hill Road. F-scale: F1 April 4, 2011 The tornado next removed the roof of an older building next to the cafe and a garage behind the cafe. Deaths: 0 The tornado continued across KY 22 where trees were blown down and one outbuilding was damaged. April 4, 2011 July 10, 2015 At that property, a pole barn was completely destroyed and thrown in different directions. EF-Scale: EF-1 Blacksmith shops on Preston "near the railroad crossing (?) Path width: A Injuries: 98 Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck Valley Station.
