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23 hours ago · At least two confirmed F-1 tornadoes touched down in Kentucky, according to preliminary survey results from the National Weather Service in Louisville. One tornado with 90 mph winds hit eastern ...
Apr 1, 2024 · At 3:40 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), a tornado ripped through the Ohio River city of Brandenburg, Kentucky, southwest of Louisville. It left 31 people dead and immense devastation.
- Tornado Killed 11 People in 1890
- Bell County Tornado in 1933 Killed 12
- 1890 Tornado Path Stretched Nearly 100 Miles; Killed 21
- 2012 Tornado Killed 22
- 1974 Saw Kentucky's only EF5 Tornado
- 1933 Tornado Killed as Many as 36*
- 39 People Killed in 1925 Tornado
- Two Tornadoes Two Months Apart Resulted in 111 Deaths in 1917
- Another 1890 Tornado Was The Worst Tornado in Kentucky History
On Jan. 12, 1890, a tornado that touched down in New Madrid, Missouri, which sits just opposite the Kentucky state line, moved northeast along the Mississippi River, occasionally crossing into the commonwealth. Before and after:Satellite photos of Mayfield leave city unrecognizable after tornado The Hickman County city of Clinton lost 55 homes in t...
Like the 1890 tornado, the majority of the destruction done by a tornado in 1933 did so across the state line. In this case, it was in Tennessee. A closer look:How many advance tornado warnings did Western Kentucky residents receive Friday? Twelve people were killed in Bell County as a result of the tornado on March 14, 1933, and buildings were dam...
On March 27, 1890, less than three months after a tornado killed 11 people in the state, a tornado took the lives of 12 Kentuckians. The storm touched down in west Paducah and drove through Livingston and Crittenden counties. It increased to EF4 strength in Webster County, where it also caused a train to crash. Inside the Kentucky candle factory:Wh...
The tornadoes of 2012 largely impact Indiana, but one tornado that touched down near a location in Trimble County caused damage to power lines as well as several barns and mobile homes in the area. Eleven people died as a result of the storm in Trimble County on March 2, 2012. Another 11 were killed elsewhere in the commonwealth. Hard hit towns inc...
The April 3, 1974, tornado is the only one to receive an EF5 rating. It touched down in Breckinridge County, causing damage and killing multiple people as an EF3 storm. The storm grew once within Meade County, demolishing the town of Brandenburg. More than 100 homes were destroyed in the city and 28 of the 31 total deaths reported on account of the...
After a tornado killed 11 Kentuckians earlier in the year, another one killed more than three times that amount on May 9, 1933. A tornado touched down just outside of Tompkinsville, and swept through the town, flattening several homes in the community. World War I veterans reportedly described the damage they saw in Monroe County as worse than what...
On March 18, 1925, a tornado that began north of Gallatin, Tennessee stormed into Kentucky. The tornado took out 150 homes in the commonwealth and killed 39 people in Allen, Barren, Monroe and Metcalfe counties.
On March 23, 1917, a tornado decimated New Albany, Indiana, but also crossed into Kentucky. It killed 46 people in Jefferson County. Tornado ratings:Was the tornado that hit Mayfield an EF5? Here's how the National Weather Service decides Two months later, a tornado that started in northwest Tennessee stormed into Kentucky. Of the 67 people killed,...
On March 27, 1890, a tornado ravaged communities in the Louisville area, starting in Shively and eventually became an EF4 as it plotted north. Once the storm entered the city, it more than doubled in width and severely damaged the city's downtown core. It crossed the Ohio River before coming back into Louisville to continue its damage, which amount...
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Dec 19, 2021 · The historic, devastating December 10-11 tornado outbreak 13:18. The devastation is so severe across such an expanse that we still don't know the toll of the Southern and Midwestern tornadoes.
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Dec 15, 2021 · MAYFIELD, Ky. — The tornado that ripped through Mayfield last Friday night destroyed shops and homes that had stood for at least a hundred years. Much of the town’s historic district — about ...
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Dec 11, 2021 · Where did the tornado hit in Kentucky? In Kentucky, it struck Mayfield directly before moving northeast through Benton, Princeton and Beaver Dam before weakening in Breckinridge County. Its path ...
Dec 12, 2021 · 30 Photos. In Focus. Late on December 11, multiple tornadoes touched down in a line that raged across several Midwest states, leaving a trail of widespread destruction and causing at least 80 ...
