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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]
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
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Third-costliest U.S. tornado ever. Other violent tornadoes hit Kentucky and Tennessee, including a long-tracked F4 that killed 38 people. (≥9 significant, 3 violent, 8 killer) 1926 La Plata, Maryland tornado outbreak: November 9, 1926: Mid-Atlantic – 17 fatalities, 65 injuries: 17 people killed at schools in La Plata.
In the afternoon hours of April 3,1974, a large and destructive tornado would move through Central Kentucky and southern Indiana, striking several communities along a 32 miles (51 km) path and devastating the town of Brandenburg, Kentucky. The tornado would kill thirty-one people, twenty-eight in the Brandenburg area, and would produce damage ...
Kentucky cities such as Mayfield, Bowling Green and Dawson Springs were hit by tornadoes. What to know about damage, deaths, ways to help and more.