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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]
Wind gusts in Western New York reached 70 mph (110 km/h) and in the New York metropolitan area reached 50 mph (80 km/h). Waves reached 20 feet (6.1 m) along the Lake Erie coastline, forcing multiple parks to close. On December 11, both New York City and Buffalo saw record highs, at 67 °F (19 °C).
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.
Dec. 11—Local leaders are offering words of support following a night of devastating tornados and storms that is believed to have killed at least 70 Kentuckians primarily in the western part 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 ...
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 ...
The National Weather Service office in Paducah alerted Western Kentucky of tornadoes earlier Friday, surpassing the average lead time for warnings.
English: Collage of radar imagery of a long-lived supercell that tracked across several states on the night of December 10-11, 2021. The supercell produced at least one tornado that caused fatalities in each of the labeled locations. Also shown are tornado warnings issued by the National Weather Service in connection with this supercell.