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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 ...
Other tornadic thunderstorms affected portions of eastern Missouri, Southern Illinois, West and Middle Tennessee, and western to central Kentucky during the late evening into the overnight hours of December 11, including four intense tornadoes that hit Bowling Green, Kentucky; Dresden, Tennessee; Edwardsville, Illinois; and Defiance, Missouri ...
This is the 2021 Western Kentucky tornado (seen via the hook echo) prior to impacting the city of Mayfield, Kentucky with winds estimated to be at least 188 miles per hour (303 km/h). The long “line” to the south-southeast is a debris spike caused by debris lofted by the tornado.
The biggest tornado to cause destruction in Kentucky from Friday into Saturday may have been at least an EF3, per the National Weather Service.
The deadliest December tornado outbreak in United States history caused catastrophic damage and numerous fatalities, as multiple strong to violent long-tracked tornadoes devastated portions of the Southern United States and Ohio Valley from the evening of December 10, into the early morning hours of December 11.
Mayfield, Kentucky. Coordinates: 36°44′16″N 88°38′24″W. Mayfield, Kentucky. City. Graves County Courthouse and Confederate monument in 2018. The courthouse was severely damaged by the 2021 Western Kentucky tornado on December 10, 2021, and was demolished in 2022. Flag.
Tornado Alley (also known as Tornado Valley) is a loosely defined location of the central United States and Canada where tornadoes are most frequent. [1] The term was first used in 1952 as the title of a research project to study severe weather in areas of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, and New York.
Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021 – One of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in Kentucky's history. 2011 Super Outbreak – A very similar, but larger and deadlier outbreak that occurred in April 2011. Tornado outbreak and derecho of April 1–3, 2024 – A tornado outbreak that affected similar areas almost exactly 50 years later.