Tracking Storm System Across the Eastern U.S.

A storm system will continue to produce widespread showers and thunderstorms as it progresses eastward across the central U.S. into the Northeast through the weekend. There are risks of severe thunderstorms and excessive rainfall on Saturday from the Ozarks into the mid-Mississippi River Valley with potential for damaging winds, large hail, tornadoes, and flash flooding. Read More >

February 19, 1884
Counties: Nelson, Spencer
F-scale: F2
Deaths: 1
Injuries: 30
Path width: 200 yards
Path length: 9 miles
Time: 4:30pm
Narrative: Moved east from south of High Grove, to seven miles west of Fairfield, to two miles east of Fairfield. A man was killed in a tobacco barn, and thirty people were injured in the High Grove area as at least six homes were destroyed. The funnel may have been aloft over Fairfield. This tornado was part of the "Enigma Outbreak", when sixty tornadoes swept through the southeast United States.

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Tracking Storm System Across the Eastern U.S.

Tornadoes of 1884