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During the late evening of Friday, December 10, 2021, a violent, long-tracked, EF4-intensity 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]
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.
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At least one tornado did impact Milton, Kentucky, as well as Hanover, Indiana. Officials are working to determine if the damage caused in both areas may be the same tornado or two separate events.
Kentucky’s death toll from devastating tornadoes in December has risen as Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday announced the deaths of a woman and her infant. Beshear said during a news briefing that the ...
Worldwide, 150 tornado-related deaths were confirmed with 103 in the United States, 28 in China, ... 2021 Western Kentucky tornado: EF4 December 10 >$25,000 ...
The largest of the tornadoes to hit Kentucky, believed to have been on the ground for 128 , is so far being considered an EF4 tornado, the National Weather Service's Paducah office said in an ...
This is a list of tornadoes by their official and unofficial width.The average width of a tornado according to the National Weather Service is 50 yards (46 m). [1] The official widest tornado in history is the 2013 El Reno tornado, which a confirmed width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km), with the World Meteorological Organization believing the width could have been up to 1 mile (1.6 km) wider.