Heavy Rainfall and Severe Thunderstorm Threats; Heat Risk Expands; Monitoring the Tropics

Flash flooding risks continue for portions of the Four Corners and Great Basin through today. Severe thunderstorms are outlooked from the eastern Great Lakes, southern New England into the mid-Atlantic through Tuesday. Heat risk increases and expands across the center of the nation and across the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic this week. Continue to closely monitor tropical development in the Gulf. Read More >

March 21, 1962
Counties: Fayette
F-scale: F1
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Path width:
Path length: 1/3 of a mile
Time: 9:00am
Grazulis narrative: At Blueberry Hill, two barns were "blown up and flattened" by a tornado that touched down south of Lexington.
Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F1, Grazulis calls it an F2. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, Grazulis nothing. Grazulis lists it at 10:00am.

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Heavy Rainfall and Severe Thunderstorm Threats; Heat Risk Expands; Monitoring the Tropics

Tornadoes of March 21, 1962