Significant Winter Storm to Bring Heavy Snow and Ice Impacts; Dangerously Cold Temperatures Expands Across the East

A significant, long-duration winter storm will bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain from the Southern Rockies to New England through Monday. Widespread travel disruptions, prolonged power outages, and vast tree damage is likely. Frigid temperatures, gusty winds, and dangerous wind chills will expand from the north-central US to the Southern Plains, MS Valley, and Midwest. Read More >

April 24, 1955
Counties: Madison
F-scale: F1
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 2
Path width: 800 yards
Path length: 3 miles
Time: 3:45am
Grazulis Narrative: Moved northeast near Eastern State College in Richmond. Homes were unroofed in the student housing area. Hundreds of trees were uprooted.
Noted discrepancies: Grazulis lists this tornado as having occurred at 3:00am...Storm Data lists it at 3:45am...SPC lists it at 3:45pm. Storm Data also mentions it lifted at 4:00am. Would tend to believe Storm Data here. Storm Data says most damage was in and around Eastern State College in Richmond. Grazulis lists this tornado as an F2.

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Significant Winter Storm to Bring Heavy Snow and Ice Impacts; Dangerously Cold Temperatures Expands Across the East

Tornadoes of April 24, 1955