Severe Thunderstorms and Heavy Rainfall in the Southern Plains; Heat Continues in the West

Strong to severe thunderstorms may bring areas of excessive rainfall and flooding over parts of the southern Plains today through Friday. Hot to dangerously hot temperatures are forecast across portions of the Pacific Northwest and southern Great Basin today. Gusty winds, dry, and hot conditions will bring critical fire weather to parts of central Washington state today. 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.

Weather Story

Weather Map

Local Radar

LMK RSS Feed

Severe Thunderstorms and Heavy Rainfall in the Southern Plains; Heat Continues in the West

Tornadoes of 1884