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Tornado outbreak sequence of May 3–9, 1961; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 14–31, 1962; Tornado outbreak sequence of June 1966; Tornado outbreak of April 30 – May 2, 1967; Tornado outbreak of April 21–24, 1968; 1969 Hazlehurst tornadoes; Tornado outbreak sequence of June 10–16, 1970; 1971 Gosser Ridge tornado; 1974 Brandenburg tornado
At least 18 structures were destroyed or damaged there, primarily within a few blocks of the riverfront. In all, the tornado killed at least 115 people (possibly as high as 120), placing it among the deadliest tornadoes in United States history, and remains the deadliest tornado in Kentucky's history to date. [21]
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]
Our state was devastated this week by deadly tornadoes with more than 75 deaths and significant destruction in at least eight of our western counties. Kentucky tornadoes deadliest in state history ...
First of the Palm Sunday outbreaks; one of the deadliest outbreaks in US history. Tornadoes devastated the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley, including parts of the Chicago metropolitan area. Other long-track killer tornadoes tore across the Southern states. Official death toll is uncertain and may be considerably higher than what is listed.
The National Weather Service has confirmed that at least 11 tornadoes touched down across Kentucky during Tuesday’s severe storm outbreak. The confirmed tornadoes were in Anderson, Bourbon ...
An EF-4 tornado first touched down in southwestern Tennessee and traveled 165.7 miles to Falls of Rough, Kentucky, tracking through 11 Kentucky counties, according to the National Weather Service.
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]