Significant Winter Storm to Bring Heavy Snow and Ice Impacts; Dangerously Cold Temperatures Expands Across the East; Severe Storm Threat in the Gulf States Sunday

A significant winter storm is underway, bringing widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain from the Southern Rockies to New England through Monday. Extremely cold air will follow, prolonging dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts into next week. Severe thunderstorms may produce damaging gusts and tornadoes across the eastern Gulf Coast states Sunday morning and afternoon. Read More >

October 1, 1977
Counties: Harrison IN
F-scale:  F1
Deaths: 1
Injuries: 1
Path width: 40 yards
Path length: 1/2 mile
Time: 7:00am
Grazulis narrative: Moved southeast, hitting a rural mobile home eight miles northeast of Corydon, blowing it apart, killing a man, and scattering debris for almost a mile. The side of a two-story home was torn off.
Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F1, Grazulis says F2.

October 1, 1977
Counties: Marion
F-scale:  F1
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Time: 8:00am
Noted discrepancies: None

October 1, 1977
Counties: Fayette
F-scale:  F1
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Time: 8:00am
Noted discrepancies: SPC's beginning lat/lon is in Scott County KY. Cannot plot this tornado without further research.

October 1, 1977
Counties: Hardin
F-scale:  F2
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Path width: 30 yards
Path length: 2 miles
Time: 4:00pm
Grazulis narrative: A new brick home was destroyed and the neighboring home was unroofed in a brief touchdown in Radcliff.
Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis calls it an F3. SPC and NCDC time it at 4:00pm, Grazulis and Storm Data 6:00pm. SPC, Grazulis, and NCDC list the path width at 30 yards, Storm Data says 1 yard.

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Significant Winter Storm to Bring Heavy Snow and Ice Impacts; Dangerously Cold Temperatures Expands Across the East; Severe Storm Threat in the Gulf States Sunday

Tornadoes of October 1, 1977