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A deadly late-season tornado outbreak, the deadliest on record in December, [5] produced catastrophic damage and numerous fatalities across portions of the Southern United States and Ohio Valley from the evening of December 10 to the early morning of December 11, 2021.
English: Map of confirmed tornadoes and tornado warnings issued by the National Weather Service from 12 UTC December 10 to 12 UTC December 12, 2021, over the Ohio River Valley and central Mississippi valley. Most of the tornadic activity occurred on the night of December 10–11.
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]
That figure is inflated somewhat by 2011, when one of the costliest and deadliest tornado outbreaks ever recorded claimed the lives of at least 553 people, including more than 150 in one Missouri ...
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 ...
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Clockwise from top: Tornado damage in Mayfield, Kentucky following a large EF4 tornado on December 10; A multi-vortex tornado near Punkin Center, Colorado on May 22; A radar loop of an EF4 tornado near Peachtree City, Georgia on March 25; Major damage caused by an IF4 tornado in Lužice, Czech Republic on June 24; Damage from a deadly tornado ...
December tornadoes are unusual but not rare. The National Climatic Data Center recorded 58 tornadoes in December 2022 but 232 in December 2021 , an unusually high spike. Show comments