Tracking Winter Weather and Frigid Temperatures This Weekend

Another clipper will drop into the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest into Sunday with snow and gusty winds contributing to some areas of blizzard conditions and snow squalls. Impactful snowfall will occur up and down the East Coast Sunday extending from the western Florida Panhandle to Maine. Read More >

May 8, 1969
Counties: Nelson
F-scale:  F1
Deaths:
Injuries:
Path width:
Path length:
Time: 5:00pm
Noted discrepancies: SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mile and a width of 10 yards...NCDC gives nothing for either.
Notes:  Storm Data says this tornado destroyed two barns in the Fairfield area.

May 8, 1969
Counties: Hart
F-scale:  F1
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 1
Path width: 100 yards
Path length: 9 miles
Time: 6:15pm
Grazulis narrative: Moved northeast from three miles northeast of Horse Cave, to Uno, and on to Hardyville. Several houses and five barns were demolished. Most of the house damage was caused by falling trees.
Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC rank this as an F1, Grazulis gives it an F2. SPC and NCDC give it a path length of 9 miles, Grazulis and Storm Data give 8 miles. SPC and NCDC lat/lons start the tornado east of Horse Cave...Grazulis starts it northeast of Horse Cave.
Notes: Storm Data says this tornado struck three miles northeast of Horse Cave, and then to Uno and Hardyville, crossing KY 541 about two miles west of US 31E. However, KY 541 is in Breathitt County. Probably meant KY 571.

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Tracking Winter Weather and Frigid Temperatures This Weekend

Tornadoes of May 8, 1969