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The 2021 Western Kentucky Tornado also known as The Mayfield Tornado was a violent, long-tracked and destructive EF4 tornado that destroyed portions of Kentucky during the late evening of Friday, December 10, 2021. It moved across Western Kentucky, producing severe to catastrophic damage in numerous towns, including Mayfield, Princeton, Dawson ...
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.
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.
The National Weather Service will confirm if a single tornado tracked over 200 miles from Arkansas to Kentucky, which could set the record for longest tornado in U.S. history
Huddled in his basement with his best friend and his mother, Mayfield resident Terry Richards didn't hear a train as the tornado passed overhead, as many other tornado survivors have previously ...
On December 10–11, 2021, a significant and deadly tornado outbreak occurred across the Central United States.The tornado outbreak produced 71 tornadoes, with the bulk of the activity coming from a very long-tracked supercell that produced several very long-track and violent tornadoes, one of which was on the ground for almost 3 hours and traveled well over 150 miles (240 km) and killing 57 ...
At the time, it was nicknamed the "quad-state storm," because the parent thunderstorm that produced the destructive tornado crossed four states: Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky.
List. Worldwide during the 2020s, 21 tornadoes have been rated F4/EF4/IF4. Nineteen of these tornadoes occurred in the United States, receiving EF4 ratings, one occurred in Canada, and one F4 / IF4 occurred in the Czech Republic. [note 1] These tornadoes have caused 136 fatalities and over 1,183 injuries.