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Two miles (3.2 km) before impacting Princeton, the tornado hit and destroyed a Kentucky mesonet station, which recorded 120.1 miles per hour (193.3 km/h) winds, setting the new record for the highest-measured wind gust in Kentucky history. [49] Within two-miles, the tornado intensified a minimum of 60 miles per hour (97 km/h). [49]
Early estimates suggested that the tornado family—identified by some media outlets as a "Quad-State tornado", due to the storm's long track and similarity to the 219-mile (352 km) Tri-State tornado of 1925—might have cut a path of up to 250 miles (400 km) across the affected areas, making it the longest-tracked tornado in history.
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.
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.
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Tornado outbreak of April 1–2, 1974; Tornado outbreak of April 1977; 1979 Red River Valley tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of March 10–12, 1986; November 1989 tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of November 21–23, 1992; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 6–27, 1995; List of tornadoes in the May 1995 tornado outbreak sequence
February 2012 was more active than normal in terms of the number of tornadoes, with a total of 50 confirmed. While the first three weeks of the month were unusually quiet, the pattern changed abruptly with a major tornado outbreak, which struck the region less than 72 hours prior to this storm, killing 15 people, including 8 in Harrisburg, Illinois alone, the result of an EF4 tornado.