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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]
The Brandenburg tornado is the only tornado to have officially produced documented F5/EF5 damage in the state of Kentucky, with the 1971 Gosser Ridge, Kentucky tornado being rated F5 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, before being downgraded to F4 after 2000. [10]
His death is considered the only credible case of death-by-meteorite. [169] [170] [171] Isaack Rabbanovitch August 1891: A bear walked into the barkeep's inn in Vilna, Russia (now part of Lithuania) and picked up a keg of vodka. When he tried to take it back, he was hugged to death by the intoxicated bear along with his two sons and daughter.
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The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest tornado outbreak spawned by a single weather system in recorded history; it produced 367 tornadoes from April 25–28, with 223 of those in a single 24-hour period on April 27 from midnight to midnight CDT, [5] [12] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.
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1 death – Tornado killed one woman as it destroyed a home. Majority of damage was reported on farms. Parent thunderstorm later produced the F4 Hamburg tornado. F3: N of Blue Mound to N Decatur: Macon: IL: 19:30 18.2 miles (29.3 km) 350 yards (320 m) 1 death – Tornado struck northwest side of Decatur, destroying 35 homes and damaging 120 more.