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During the late evening of Friday, December 10, 2021, a large and extremely 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 April 27, 1971, a violent F4 tornado struck Gosser Ridge and other parts of Russell and Pulaski County, Kentucky. [1] [2] [3] In November 1999, the National Climatic Data Center published a list of the historical F5 tornadoes in the United States from 1880 to 1999, which rated the Gosser Ridge tornado as an F5 tornado. [4]
This is the 2021 Western Kentucky tornado (seen via the hook echo) prior to impacting the city of Mayfield, Kentucky with winds estimated to be at least 188 miles per hour (303 km/h). The long “line” to the south-southeast is a debris spike caused by debris lofted by the tornado.
There was damage to many homes and travel trailers in Milton, Kentucky, after a tornado touched down on Thursday, March 14, 2024 The town Milton, Kentucky, saw plenty of damage from Thursday's ...
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May 1996 Kentucky tornado outbreak; Type: Tornado outbreak: Duration: May 28, 1996: Tornadoes confirmed: 11: Max. rating 1: F4 tornado: Duration of tornado outbreak 2: 3 hours, 55 minutes: Fatalities: 11 injuries: Damage: 102.01 Million USD (1996 dollars) [1] 1 Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita scale 2 Time from first tornado to last tornado
Devin Johnson's life was uprooted for a second time when a tornado flattened his home over the Memorial Day weekend — on the same lot in Kentucky where another twister left him homeless in 2021.
The storms resulted in 41 tornado-related fatalities, 22 of which occurred in Kentucky. [2] Tornado-related deaths also occurred in Alabama, Indiana, and Ohio. The outbreak was the second deadliest in early March for the U.S. since official records began in 1950; only the 1966 Candlestick Park tornado had a higher death toll for a tornadic ...