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Severe Thunderstorm Threat From the Central Plains to the Northeast; Extreme HeatRisk for the East Coast

Strong to severe thunderstorms are possible from the central Plains to the Northeast through this evening. Widespread damaging winds are the primary threat but hail and a tornado or two is also possible. Extremely dangerous heat continues across the Eastern U.S. Warm overnight low temperatures will provide little to no relief. Read More >

October 16, 1925
Counties:  Warren, Edmonson, Hart
F-scale:  F3
Deaths: 1
Injuries:  44
Path width:  300 yards
Path length:  45 miles (probably a family of tornadoes)
Time:  4:00pm
Notes:  A family of tornadoes and downbursts moved from six miles west of Bowling Green to beyond Munfordville.  Homes were wrecked near Kuykendall's Store west of Bowling Green and in Davenport on Barren River Pike.  Three houses and four barns were blown into the Barren River at Thomas Landing, injuring ten people.  A car was blown off the road, over a fence, and into a field.  The vehicle landed on its tires and the driver survived, despite the top half of the car getting sheared off.  Additional damage occurred in the Richardsville area.  In Edmonson County, barns and a hotel were torn apart near Mammoth Cave National Park, along with the home of a cave tour guide.  In Hart County the tornado and its attendant straight-line winds mowed down a path five miles wide.  Three people were injured as houses were unroofed and barns destroyed.  Canmer and Woodsonville were the hardest struck districts.  Seven barns were blown down near Munfordville.

April 29, 1963
Counties:  Edmonson
F-scale:  F2
Deaths:
Injuries:
Path width:
Path length:
Time:  8:30pm
Noted discrepancies:  SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis does not list it.  SPC gives a path width of 10 yards and a path length of 1/10 of a mile...NCDC gives nothing for either. 
Notes:  Storm Data says this tornado struck at Rocky Hill Crossroad.

April 28, 2002
Counties:  Edmonson
F-scale:  F1
Deaths:
Injuries:
Path width:
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Time:  3:35am
Noted discrepancies:  SPC lists a path width of 30 yards...NCDC and Storm Data say 100 yards.
Notes:  Storm Data takes this tornado from two miles east of Broadway to five miles east of Broadway.

October 18, 2007
Counties:  Dubois
EF-scale:  EF0
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  125 yards
Path length:  2 miles
Time:  9:27pm EDT to 9:30pm EDT
Notes:  The door of a house was blown out about four miles northeast of Ferdinand, near the start of the tornado path. A barn was damaged about a half mile
south of Kyana, near the end of the damage path. Over 100 large oak trees were snapped off or uprooted in the Ferdinand Forest.

February 28, 2011
Counties:  Dubois
F-scale:  EF2
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  1
Path width:  225 yards
Path length:  15.7 miles (skipping)
Time:  3:19am EST
Notes:  The tornado first touched down just north of Duff east of County Road 650W.  Damage to several large metal buildings, a large barn, and a radio tower were observed south of Jasper.  After a brief break in the path, the tornado touched down again four miles southwest of Celestine and took a slight turn to the northeast.  The most significant damage along this segment was in Celestine near Ellsworth Road.  Damage included roofs blown off two brick homes with the walls collapsed in one home.  In addition a double-wide trailer was blown off its foundation and an RV was tossed across the road.

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Dubois
EF-scale:  EF1
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  200 yards
Path length:  3.1 miles
Time:  11:22pm EDT
Notes:  A well constructed 75-foot tall grain silo had the top 40 foot portion sheared off north of Ireland.  A 40 ft by 50 ft outbuilding was destroyed in the vicinity of the grain silo, with siding thrown up to 500 yards downwind. 

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Dubois
EF-Scale:  EF0
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  200 yards
Path length:  0.3 mile
Time:  11:22pm EDT
Notes:  A large swath of hardwood trees were snapped or uprooted three miles north of Huntingburg. 

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Dubois
EF-Scale:  EF-0
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  200 yards
Path length:  2 miles
Time:  11:25pm EDT
Notes:  At the beginning point of this tornado a few small trees, some dead, were blown over and branches were blown off of some of the trees.  Several trees were blown over in Haysville.  The most intense damage occurred as the tornado lifted east of Haysville in the woods along IN 56.  At that point several trees up to two feet in diameter were blown down.

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Dubois
EF-Scale:  EF-2
Deaths:  0
Injuries: 0
Path width:  300 yards
Path length:  3.3 miles
Time:  11:26pm EDT
Notes:  A large number of trees were snapped and uprooted north of Bretzville and Saint Anthony.  Several barns and outbuildings were destroyed.

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Dubois
EF-Scale:  EF-1
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  100 yards
Path length:  0.4 mile
Time:  11:26pm EDT
Notes:  Hardwood trees were snapped and uprooted southwest of Saint Anthony.  A residence north of Indiana 64 was damaged.

May 25, 2011
Counties:  Dubois
EF-Scale:  EF-2
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  100 yards
Path length:  2 miles
Time:  9:50pm EDT
Notes:  This tornado struck the southeast side of Huntingburg.

May 25, 2011
Counties:  Dubois
EF-Scale:  EF-1
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  60 yards
Path length:  1.9 miles
Time:  9:54pm EDT
Notes:  The tornado destroyed a shed when it touched down along North CR 200W west of Haysville.  It snapped trees as it moved east into Haysville.  One home was unroofed, at the corner of North Church Street and West Haysville Road.

June 26, 2011
Counties:  Dubois
EF-Scale:  EF-1
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  130 yards
Path length:  2.2 mile
Time:  2:54am EDT
Notes:  In the Duff area several homes suffered minor damage and numerous trees, both softwood and hardwood, were snapped or uprooted.

January 17, 2012
County:  Dubois
EF-Scale:  EF0
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  25 yards
Path length:  0.1 mile
Time:  9:44am EST
Notes:  Touched down 2.7 miles southwest of Huntingburg.  An outbuilding was destroyed and debris was scattered for a quarter mile.

January 17, 2012
County:  Dubois
EF-Scale:  EF1
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  100 yards
Path length:  9 miles
Time:  9:54am EST
Notes:  This tornado touched down three miles northeast of Huntingburg, destroying a barn and blowing several outbuildings off their foundation.  The tornado skipped east-northeast for nearly 9 miles across primarily open fields.  Structural damage occurred along IN-162 where over 50 feet of a 600 foot long commercial outbuilding was destroyed.  One-half mile east of IN-162, numerous outbuildings were damaged and a small grain hopper was toppled.  Continuing east-northeast, a roof was blown off of one barn and another barn had roof sections peeled off on St. Anthony Road West.  Occasional uprooted and snapped trees occurred for an additional 5 miles before the tornado dissipated after destroying a 40 by 50 foot tool shed 1.6 miles south-southeast of Celestine.

April 25, 2015
Counties: Edmonson
EF-Scale: EF2
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Path width: 220 yards
Path length: 0.2 mile
Time: 7:12pm - 7:14pm CDT
Notes: A narrow tornado developed quickly just west of 3667 Grassland Black Gold Rd (Highway 1365) and snapped a few softwood and few large limbs. It then grew in width and intensity as it crossed Highway 1365 and uprooted, snapped and twisted over 200 trees in a heavily forested area around a deep karst ravine. A drone was used to pinpoint the exact storm end point which was about 100 yards east of Highway 1365 near a farmer's field.

June 25, 2018
County:  Edmonson
EF-Scale:  EF0
Deaths:   0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  50 yards
Path length:  1.6 mile
Time: 12:04pm - 12:06pm CDT
Notes: This weak tornado skipped along mainly at treetop level near the Moutardier Recreation Area and 1/2 mile south of the Edmonson-Grayson county line. The tornado snapped the upper reaches of several tree trunks near its initial point near several homes -- leaving debris in a circular pattern -- then skipped eastward, causing other minor tree damage before crossing Nolin Lake northeast of the Moutardier Marina. The tornado was captured on video and shared on social media, confirming the existence of the rotation and funnel. The tornado dissipated as it approached the east shore of the channel.

November 5, 2018
County:  Edmonson
EF-Scale: EF0
Deaths:   0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  65 yards
Path length:  0.3 mile
Time: 9:53pm CST
Notes: A brief tornado touchdown was embedded at the end of a longer axis of straight line winds about 6.2 miles SE of Brownsville. Evidence of cyclonic rotation was noted in this concentrated area of damage where several 1 to 2 foot diameter trees were either uprooted or snapped. On the south side of the path, trees were laying in an ENE direction, with the trees on the left/north side of the path laying NNW. The tornado touchdown was very brief and lifted at the intersection of Cedar Sink Road and Brownsville Road just inside the southwestern border of Mammoth Cave National Park. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph with a maximum path width of 65 yards. The path length was about a third of a mile and the tornado was on the ground for less than 1 minute.