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During the late evening of Friday, December 10, 2021, a violent, long-tracked and devastating EF4 tornado, sometimes referred to as the Western Kentucky tornado, [3] Mayfield tornado, [4] or The Beast, [5] moved across Western Kentucky, United States, producing severe-to-catastrophic damage in numerous towns, including Mayfield, Princeton, Dawson Springs, and Bremen. [2]
On December 10–11, 2021, a significant and deadly tornado outbreak occurred across the Central United States.The tornado outbreak produced 71 tornadoes, with the bulk of the activity coming from a very long-tracked supercell that produced several very long-track and violent tornadoes, one of which was on the ground for almost 3 hours and traveled well over 150 miles (240 km) and killing 57 ...
In the early hours of December 11, 2021, two large and strong tornadoes would hit the city of Bowling Green, located in Warren County, Kentucky. The first tornado cut a swath of EF3 damage through city and directly killed sixteen people, while the second tornado produced EF2 damage but no injuries or fataliites. The tornadoes touched down as ...
The governor of Kentucky on Sunday detailed the “deadliest tornado event” his state has ever experienced, two days after twisters left at least 100 feared dead and destroyed thousands of ...
A deadly tornado outbreak caused at least 90 deaths across the country’s heartland on Dec. 10 – 11, 2021. An EF-4 tore through the heart of Mayfield, Kentucky, damaging facilities owned by ...
The death toll from the outbreak was 89 (with six additional non-tornadic fatalities), surpassing the Tornado outbreak sequence of December 1–6, 1953, which caused 49 fatalities, as the deadliest December tornado event ever recorded in the United States. In Kentucky alone, 74 people were killed by three separate tornadoes.
December 11, 2021 at 4:41 PM ... from this event will exceed 50 Kentuckians and probably end up closer to 70 or 100 lost lives,” he said. Beshear said at least four tornadoes ripped through ...
This page documents all tornadoes confirmed by various weather forecast offices of the National Weather Service in the United States in December 2021. In December, tornadoes are most likely in the southern states due to their proximity to the unstable airmass and warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, with only occasional incursions farther north. [1]