July Tornadoes

July 29, 1943
Counties:  Clark, IN
F-scale:   F3
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  25
Path width:  300 yards
Path length:  7 miles
Time:  7:00pm
Narrative:  After damaging a farm one mile west of Charlestown, the tornado moved into the village.  The twister first struck Pleasant Ridge on the southwest side of town, which was a neighborhood of pre-fab housing built for war effort employees.  Sixty-five homes were unroofed, shifted, or blown apart, and seven people were badly hurt.  The tornado sounded like "a dozen freight trains crossing a trestle."  It then proceeded through the center of Charlestown and removed several roofs.  The tornado was about three blocks wide in Charlestown.  Debris could be seen in the air swirling around the funnel.

July 13, 1956
Counties:  Fayette, Bourbon
F-scale:   F1
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  30 yards
Path length:  3 miles
Time:  5:00pm
Grazulis Narrative:   Moved northeast from extreme northeast Fayette County, tearing apart four farms.  At least one barn was destroyed.
Noted discrepancies:  SPC and NCDC list this as an F1...Grazulis calls it an F2.  SPC and NCDC give a time of 6:00pm, Storm Data gives 5:00pm, Grazulis says 6:30pm.  SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mile...NCDC gives nothing...Grazulis gives 3 miles.  SPC and Grazulis give a path width of 30 yards...NCDC gives nothing...Storm Data says 38 yards.  SPC and NCDC give only a touchdown point (which agrees with Grazulis' touchdown point), but no lift-off point.

July 23, 1961
Counties:  Clark IN
F-scale:  F2
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
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Time:  6:30pm
Grazulis narrative:  Near New Washington a small tornado leveled two barns and damaged a farm house.
Noted discrepancies:  SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mile and a width of 10 yards...NCDC gives nothing for either.

July 23, 1961
Counties:  Clark IN
F-scale:  F1
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Time:  6:30pm
Noted discrepancies:  SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mile and a width of 10 yards...NCDC gives nothing for either.

July 18, 1971
Counties:  Henry, Shelby
F-scale:  F2
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Time:  2:15pm
Grazulis narrative:  In the Pleasureville-Defoe area a tornado destroyed three barns and a silo.
Noted discrepancies:  NCDC and Grazulis only list Henry County.  The single lat/lon SPC gives is indeed in Shelby County, but very close to the county line.  SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mile and a path width of 10 yards...NCDC and Grazulis give nothing for either.  Both places of damage listed by Grazulis are on the Henry/Shelby county line.  Using damage locations listed by Grazulis the path length might have been longer than the 1/10 mile given by SPC.  Storm Data says the tornado touched down between Pleasureville and Defoe and almost immediately lifted back into the clouds.  Storm Data lists both Shelby and Henry counties.

July 2, 1972
Counties:  Simpson
F-scale:  F1
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Time:  6:30pm
Noted discrepancies:  None

July 28, 1972
Counties:  Hart
F-scale:  F1
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Time:  6:30pm
Notes:  According to Storm Data, this tornado damaged four city blocks on the west side of Munfordville.

July 22, 1973
Counties: Simpson
F-scale:  F1
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Time:  3:00pm
Noted discrepancies:  SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC gives 30 yards.

July 12, 1979
Counties:  Scott KY
F-scale:  F1
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Time:  2:30pm
Notes:  Storm Data touches this tornado down on "Lemon Hill Road" near Georgetown...it seems this should be "Lemons Mill Road".

July 2, 1980
Counties:  Scott KY, Fayette
F-scale:  F1
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  300 yards
Path length:  13 miles (skipping)
Time:  6:55pm
Noted discrepancies:  SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Storm Data 300 yards.  The details concerning this tornado are somewhat murky, but it appears that it touched down southwest of Georgetown where it damaged a greenhouse, and skipped to the east into far northern Fayette County.  The Lexington Leader mentions the tornado north of the city but doesn't say anything about any damage.  Rather, the paper instead describes damage in Lexington in a southwest-northeast path from Collier Court through Balmoral Court to the intersection of Bryanwood Parkway and Bellcastle Road.  It's possible that this was a very small weak tornado, but knowing that for certain is virtually impossible this far after the event.  The newspaper also mentions light damage on Nantucket Drive and Melbourne Way in the southwest part of the city, and a tree that was blown down somewhere on Emerson Drive.

July 2, 1980
Counties:  Mercer, Woodford
F-scale:  F1
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Injuries: 1
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Time:  7:30pm
Noted discrepancies:  Storm Data also includes Jessamine County, but mentions no specific damage.

July 2, 1980
Counties:  Boyle
F-scale:  F1
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Time:  7:45pm
Noted discrepancies:  Storm Data mentions damage at Perryville, Parksville, and Michelsville.  Lat/lon pair given by SPC disagrees with this storm striking Perryville.  Cannot find Michelsville on any map.  There is a Mitchellsburg in Boyle County, but it's not in line with Perryville/Parksville.  Will plot according to the lat/lon for now.

July 26, 1984
Counties:  Spencer
F-scale:  F2
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  70 yards
Path length:  2 1/2 miles
Time:  4:00pm
Grazulis narrative:  Several barns were destroyed or unroofed near Taylorsville.  Trees three feet in diameter were twisted off eight feet above the ground.
Noted discrepancies:  None

July 26, 1984
Counties:  Warren
F-scale:  F1
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Time:  4:00pm
Notes:  Storm data places this tornado just south of Smiths Grove.

July 11, 1986
Counties:  Hardin
F-scale:  F1
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Injuries:  1
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Time:  9:00pm
Noted discrepancies:  Storm Data mentions damage on Black Jack Road in southeast Radcliff.

July 5, 1987
Counties:  Harrison IN
F-scale:  F0
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Time:  4:30pm
Noted discrepancies:  None

July 5, 1987
Counties:  Orange
F-scale:  F0
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Time:  4:30pm
Noted discrepancies:  None

July 13, 1987
Counties:  Woodford
F-scale:  F0
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Time:  1:30pm
Notes:  Storm Data says this tornado hit the Buckley Wildlife Refuge.

July 18, 1988
Counties:  Meade
F-scale:  F1
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Time:  1:05pm
Noted discrepancies:  None

July 8, 1991
Counties:  Garrard
F-scale:  F1
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Time:  5:38pm
Noted discrepancies:  SPC gives a time of 5:38pm, NCDC gives 4:38pm, Storm Data says 6:38pm.
Notes:  Storm Data says this tornado touched down in Cartersville.

July 21, 1996
Counties:  Harrison IN
F-scale:  F1
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Time:  2:05pm
Notes:  Storm Data puts this tornado four miles south of Corydon.

July 27, 1997
Counties:  Jefferson KY
F-scale:  F0
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Path length:  1/2 mile
Time:  7:05pm
Noted discrepancies:  SPC's lat/lon do not agree with NCDC's narrative.  Plotted according to NCDC's narrative.  Storm Data says this tornado touched down just south of the Gene Snyder Freeway two miles south-southeast of Jeffersontown.

July 30, 2009
County: Allen
EF-scale:  EF1
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  200 yards
Path length:  1 mile
Time:  11:35 - 11:40pm CDT
Notes:  A small tornado touched down near the intersection of state routes 234 and 1533 near the northern tip of Allen County.  Most of the damage was to trees, and there was some minor structural damage to two farms.  Three track maps are available:  zoomed in (local view), zoomed out (regional view), and a satellite map with damage points plotted.

July 10, 2015
County:  Meade, Hardin
EF-Scale:  EF0
Deaths:   0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  100 yards
Path length:  3.2 miles
Time:  10:35am - 10:41am EDT
Notes:  A weak, skipping tornado occurred on Fort Knox. The tornado first touched down near the intersection of Lee Road and Fort Avenue just west of the military base's boundary. It traveled east over forested land, doing occasional damage to trees before it passed into Hardin County, 0.7 miles WSW of the U.S. Bullion Depository. It continued east for approximately 0.5 miles, then turned northeast over the PX and commissary complex before lifting 0.6 miles ENE of the base high school near Wilson Road. Several large hackberry and oak trees were uprooted and snapped between the PX and Scott Middle School. There was also some shingle damage to some of the buildings near the high school track. The tornado also caused significant tree damage from the middle school north/northeast across a remote area of the northeast part of the post.

July 10, 2015
County:  Bullitt
EF-Scale:  EF0
Deaths:   0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  150 yards
Path length:  0.9 mile
Time:  10:53am - 10:54am EDT
Notes:  A small tornado touched down in southern Bullitt County, just east of the eastern boundary of Fort Knox Army Base. This rain-wrapped tornado was only on the ground for about a minute, with most of its damage limited to large limbs and weaker tree trunks being snapped. The tornado started along Belmont Rd (KY 251) 0.7 miles west of Belmont, then traveled east-northeast through the community of Belmont, and lifting just east of Church Street. At least three homes were damaged, two from trees falling on them, with minor roofing damage to a third. Trees also fell on at least two outbuildings.

July 13, 2015
County:  Green
EF-Scale:  EF1
Deaths:   0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  50 yards
Path length:  1.1 miles
Time:  5:20pm - 5:22pm CDT
Notes:  The highest winds with this tornado were estimated to have been 95 to 105 mph. The tornado destroyed two barns and one mobile home in addition to doing considerable roof damage to six outbuildings along Ebenezer Road and KY 61 southeast of Greensburg.

July 13, 2015
County:  Adair
EF-Scale:  EF0
Deaths:   0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  35 yards
Path length:  1.5 miles
Time:  5:58pm - 6:00pm CDT
Notes: This small tornado destroyed one outbuilding in addition to uprooting and snapping limbs on several trees in a very narrow path near the community of Breeding.

July 13, 2015
County:  Cumberland
EF-Scale:  EF0
Deaths:   0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  100 yards
Path length:  0.7 mile
Time:  6:13pm - 6:15pm CDT
Notes: This small tornado destoryed one outbuilding and tore roof panels off another before crossing the state line into the Pearidge area of Tennessee just west of Dale Hollow Lake.

July 20, 2018
County:  Washington IN
EF-Scale: EF0
Deaths:   0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  75 yards
Path length:  1.1 miles
Time: 2:03pm - 2:05pm EDT
Notes: This very small, skipping tornado did its damage primarily on hilltops between Sparks Ferry Road and the intersection of IN 135 and Lewellen Road. A few tree limbs and a small fence were downed near Sparks Ferry Road before it moved northeast over a large wooded area and open farmland. The next damage was concentrated about a quarter mile south of Water Tower Road, just west of IN 135. Here the tornado tore multiple metal roof panels off a barn, blew the southward-facing overhead doors of a garage in, and tore the entrance door off the garage on the west side. The attached home sustained considerable siding and roof damage. A small play shed on the west side of the home was destroyed, with the debris blown to the west-northwest. Debris from the barn and home were scattered in a narrow path through row crops up to a third of a mile to the northeast, where a resident witnessed large sheets of roofing and siding fall into a hay field on the north side of Lewellen Road. A corn field on the south side of Lewellen Road showed cyclonic rotation in a narrow path of flattened corn.

July 20, 2018
County:  Harrison IN
EF-Scale: EF1
Deaths:   0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  250 yards
Path length:  6 miles
Time: 2:04pm - 2:20pm EDT
Notes: A National Weather Service storm survey team confirmed a maximum wind speed of 105 mph. The tornado first touched down along Justin`s Trail in the Southwind Estates subdivision. There was significant tree damage along Pleasure Ridge Road where a large tree fell on a garage. Farther east along Pleasure Ridge Road, several small funnels from the main funnel did extensive damage. A 2 x 8 impaled a concrete grain silo. At least four big barns received extensive damage, including a turkey barn. Further east, several funnels congealed into one main tornado doing extensive damage to hardwood trees and significant roof damage to several homes. Along South Pleasant Road, one home had mud spatter on the east side of the house where several pieces of wood were impaled in the ground. At that property, a pole barn was completely destroyed and thrown in different directions. A truck and horse trailer were moved 50 feet and twisted. At the end of Sarabeth Way, there was extensive hardwood tree damage which included uprooted, twisted, and mangled trees. This included several healthy hickory trees which were snapped. Further east on Sinker Road, there was impressive cyclonic crop damage across a corn field with corn laying in every direction. On Simler Road, there was consistent snapped tree damage and a camper that had been tossed and flipped over and several barns received extensive damage. During the final stages of the tornado, it struck homes along Peyton Road flipping over single wide trailers, lifting the roof of a barn, and doing extensive tree damage. Parts of the barn, including insulation and sheet metal, were thrown into the trees.

July 20, 2018
County:  Metcalfe
EF-Scale: EF0
Deaths:   0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  60 yards
Path length:  2.1 miles
Time: 6:03pm - 6:05pm CDT
Notes: This short-lived spin-up occurred as a northeast-moving storm interacted with outflow winds from a southeastward-moving storm in eastern Metcalfe County. The first damage occurred along Subtle Road, where a carport was overturned and a large part of a metal outbuilding's roof was torn off, in addition to snapping numerous trees.  The tornado then moved east-northeast at tree-top level over wooded areas and farm fields, doing its next major damage a mile away where it pushed a double-wide mobile home to the northwest off its blocks, breaking windows, and ripping off shingles from the roof. The tornado continued on for another mile, causing occasional tree damage and dropping debris before lifting near the east end of Groce Road, where it peeled roofing material from a metal out building.

July 20, 2018
County:  Hart
EF-Scale: EF1
Deaths:   0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  60 yards
Path length:  1.2 miles
Time: 9:56pm - 9:59pm CDT
Notes: This tornado touched down in a wooded area midway between J Riggs Rd and Copelin Rd north of KY 728, snapping trees as it moved southeast along a hay field where it destroyed two 1200 lb hay bales and rolled numerous others up to a tenth of a mile into a soybean field and uphill onto a knoll. Snapping trees on the land adjacent to the hay and soybean fields, the tornado took a slight right turn, crossing KY 728, and destroyed a large barn.  Large parts of the barn debris were lofted into trees southwest of the structure, snapping their trunks.  A 20 x 20 section of the barn was blown 500 feet to the south-southeast.  The tornado continued southward for another two-tenths of a mile, downing trees along Campground Rd before lifting.