Portal:Tornadoes/Anniversaries/October

October 1

1977 – A tornado outbreak affected parts of the Ohio Valley and Tennessee. An F1 tornado destroyed a mobile home near Corydon, Indiana, killing one occupant and injuring another. A short-tracked F3 tornado destroyed 12 homes on the northwest side of Cincinnati, Ohio and injured 17 people. An F2 tornado injured 16 people in the destruction of trailers and barns in Piney Grove east of Lancaster, Kentucky. An F1 tornado injured 10 people in and near Blountville, Tennessee
1989 – A small tornado outbreak affected the Southeastern United States. An F2 tornado hit a trailer park in Funston, Georgia, killing two people and injuring twelve in the destruction of nine mobile homes. A church was also destroyed.

October 2

1880 – A cone-shaped F3 tornado lifted a house in southwestern Eaton County, Michigan and threw it 200 feet (60 m), killing two children inside. The tornado's roar could be heard 6 miles (10 km) away.
1894 – An F3 tornado skipped through the Little Rock, Arkansas area, killing four people, including a doctor at a mental hospital, who died when a mass of metal crashed through three floors. Twenty-six people were injured.
2011 – Two tornadoes touched down in South Africa. One struck Duduza, Gauteng killing a child and injuring 160 other people; may poorly-built homes were destroyed. The other hit Ficksburg, Free State, killing another child and injuring 40 people. More than 1,000 structures were destroyed.

October 3

1903 – An F4 tornado devastated St. Charles, Minnesota, killing 7 people and injuring 30. The same tornado or a member of the same tornado family killed two people in and near Independence, Wisconsin. Another F4 tornado killed at least 4 people as it destroyed farms between Bancroft and Sheridan, Wisconsin. An F3 tornado killed 3 people near Hollowayville, Illinois.
1964 – The first day of a two day tornado outbreak from Hurricane Hilda spawned six tornadoes in Louisiana and Mississippi. A short-lived but devastating F4 tornado hit the northern part of Larose, Louisiana, killing 22 people. This was the deadliest hurricane-spawned tornado on record and one of only two to be rated F4.
1979 – An F4 tornado struck parts of Windsor Locks and Suffield, Connecticut, and Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, killing three people, injuring 500, and causing $400 million in damage, equivalent to $1.679 billion in 2023, marking it as the ninth costliest tornado in U.S. history.

October 4

1998 – A late-season tornado outbreak hit Oklahoma. A half-mile (800 m)-wide F3 tornado caused significant damage around Prague, injuring one person and overturning a truck carrying hazardous materials. Several other tornadoes touched down near Prague. An F2 tornado severely damaged and destroyed homes in Moore. This was the first of several significant tornadoes to hit Moore in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including a devastating F5 tornado that would strike the following year.
2013 – A strong storm system spawned tornadoes in the Upper Midwest. An EF4 tornado caused major damage in Wayne, Nebraska, where 15 people were injured, and destroyed 2 hangars and 15 aircraft at the municipal airport. Another EF4 tornado struck near Pierson, Iowa and an EF3 tornado caused significant damage to the municipal airport at Creighton, Nebraska.
2015 – Tornadoes spawned by Typhoon Mujigae hit Guangdong, China. A multiple-vortex EF3 tornado struck Foshan where it destroyed factories, a warehouse, and metal transmission towers, killing 4 people and injuring 89. Another tornado, of unknown intensity, killed 3 people in the suburbs of Guangzhou and injured 134.

October 5

1906 – An outbreak produced strong tornadoes in parts of Louisiana and Alabama. An F3 tornado killed a family of three at a boarding house in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana and destroyed homes in Slaughter and near Zachary. Another F3 tornado killed four people and injured thirty as it destroyed homes near Ponchatoula, Louisiana.
1970 – An F4 tornado tore though Shawnee and Prague, Oklahoma. Shawnee suffered extensive damage with 564 homes, 157 businesses, and 27 other buildings damaged or destroyed. Four people in Shawnee were killed and 80 were injured. The tornado lifted and touched down again before striking Prague, leaving no time for sirens to sound.

October 6

1900 – A F3 tornado hit the northern and northwestern parts of Biwabik, Minnesota, killing ten people and injuring 70. Six people died in one family when their home was blown away northwest of town.
1941 – A tornado outbreak affected portions of Iowa and Missouri. The most significant member of the outbreak was an F3 tornado that killed four people and injured 135 on the east side of Kansas City, Missouri. One small house was carried 700 feet (200 m) and destroyed; two occupants, a mother and infant, were carried another 500 feet (150 m) and killed.
1981 – NLM CityHopper Flight 431 flew into a tornado while passing through clouds 8 minutes after takeoff from Rotterdam Airport in The Hague, Netherlands. Part of a wing detached and the plane crashed, killing all 17 passengers and crew.

October 7

1965 – A tornado outbreak affected parts of the Carolinas and Virginia. An F3 tornado (rated F1 by Thomas P. Grazulis) caused the wall of a factory to collapse, killing one worker and injuring four. The only other damage in the area consisted of downed trees.

October 8

1919 – A tornado outbreak hit Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. An F4 tornado damaged or destroyed 60 buildings in Hoisington, Kansas. Four people died and 25 were injured. Papers were carried 55 miles (89 km). An F3 tornado touched down in Arthur City, Texas, where one person died, and crossed into Oklahoma, where it killed two more people in a home northeast of Hugo.

October 9

1913 – A tornado family with members as strong as F4 killed three (possibly four) people as it passed near Broken Bow and Sargent, Oklahoma and struck Chambers, destroying entire farms.
1914 – A tornado outbreak killed at least 12 people across Kansas and Oklahoma. An F4 tornado killed at least six people on farms near Galena, Kansas and Commerce, Oklahoma. Another F4 tornado killed two people in New Albany, Kansas and an F3 tornado killed three people near Howard. One other person died in Wilson County, Kansas

October 10

1974 – An F2 tornado hit the village of Cañoncito in the Tohajiilee Indian Reservation in extreme eastern Valencia County, New Mexico (now part of Cibola County). Three trailers were destroyed, an infant was killed, and eight people were injured. Sheep were killed as well.

October 11

1970 – A small tornado outbreak impacted coastal parts of Texas and Louisiana. Two tornadoes, rated F2 and F3, struck in and near Port Arthur, Texas. The second and stronger tornado moved through Bridge City, where 19 people were injured. A trailer park suffered extensive damage, with 30 mobile homes destroyed. An F2 tornado near Calcasieu Lake killed an infant and injured its parents.

October 12

2001 – Tornadoes touched down across Texas. An F2 tornado struck Hondo, causing extensive damage, costing $18 million, and injuring at least 25 people. The worst damage was to the airport and National Guard armory. An F3 tornado hit Stonewall, Texas, where five people were injured. Six houses and seven mobile homes were destroyed and 132 structures were damaged.
2019 – A tornado spawned by Typhoon Hagibis struck Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, killing one person and injuring five.

October 13

2014 – A widespread outbreak produced tornadoes across the Midwestern and Southern United States. An EF2 tornado destroyed a mobile home near Ashdown, Arkansas. Two people inside were thrown; one died and another was critically injured. Three others, trapped in the debris, were also injured. An EF1 tornado moved through Tuscumbia and Sheffield, Alabama, injuring one person.

October 14

1909 – A major tornado outbreak killed at least 37 people across the Southeastern United States. An F3 tornado devastated Stantonville and Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, killing at least 24 people. Pittsburgh Landing was "wiped off the map." An F2 tornado killed at least 7 people south of Woodville and Scottsboro, Alabama with rumors of as many as 18 deaths.
1925 – A short-lived F2 tornado destroyed a small house in Comite, Louisiana. Five members of one family were killed. One child, going to school, escaped without injury.
1966 – An F5 tornado devastated Belmond, Iowa, killing 6 people and injuring 172. In Belmond, 109 homes were destroyed and 468 were damaged; 75 out of 112 businesses were damaged or destroyed. Several farms were leveled outside of town.

October 15

1957 – An F3 tornado hit Leonville, Louisiana and moved along the Atchafalaya River, killing one person and injuring nineteen. Fifteen homes were destroyed, and cars were blown from Highway 31.
2007 – Three tornadoes in the Barisal, Gopalganj and Bhola Districts of Bangladesh killed seven people and left 3,000 homeless.

October 16

1984 – Tornadoes touched down in parts of the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. An F1 tornado killed one person and injured two others when it destroyed a trailer near Trezevant, Tennessee. An F2 tornado injured three people in a trailer park near Buckhorn State Park in Wisconsin.

October 17

1091 – The earliest confirmed tornado in England struck London, killing two people and destroying 600 homes. Estimated at T8 intensity on the TORRO scale, equivalent to F4 on the Fujita scale, it may be the strongest tornado on record in the British Isles.

October 18

1990 – A tornado outbreak occurred along the United States East Coast. An F2 tornado heavily damaged and apartment complex in Reisterstown, Maryland and caused damage to 52 other homes, injuring 59 people. An F3 tornado killed one person near King William, Virginia. Another F3 tornado injured eight people in Montgomery Township, New Jersey.
2004 – A tornado outbreak affected several states along the Mississippi River. An F2 tornado severely damaged a farm near Cooter, Missouri, killing three people. Another F2 tornado injured 11 people in trailers near Sardis, Arkansas.
2007 – Tornadoes touched down across a broad area from Michigan to Florida. An EF2 damaged 100 structures in Williamston, Michigan and killed two people when it flipped their home into a pond. Another EF2 tornado killed one person and injured another in Crofton, Michigan and damage hangars at the Kalkaska airport. An EF3 tornado destroyed 12 homes and 20 other structures in Owensboro, Kentucky. A church's steeple fell into the sanctuary, which had been occupied by 125 people minutes earlier.

October 19

1958 – An F3 tornado began on Lake Okeechobee and came ashore at Pahokee, Florida before disspiating near Indiantown. Homes were leveled along the lake shore and 23 of 27 homes were destroyed in two small settlements. One person was killed and 24 were injured.

October 20

1837 – A tornado destroyed a house in Stow, Ohio. Three people died at the scene and one other died later. Chickens were found stripped of their feathers.

October 21

1999 – A long-track F3 tornado struck farmland near Heidelberg, Gauteng, South Africa, injuring 40 people and leaving 300 homeless. It reportedly sucked water from a dam and scattered it across the adjacent land. An F1 tornado near Johannesburg received more media attention.
2010 – A tornado killed six people and injured 116 in Pozo del Tigre, Formosa Province, Argentina. An estimated 30 to 40 percent of homes in the town were damaged or destroyed between the tornado and rain-induced landslides.

October 22

1954 – Three tornadoes developed in southeastern Texas. The worst of them, rated F3, followed an erratic path into Portland, where it damaged or destroyed 300 homes and trailers and injured 25 people.
1979 – A few tornadoes touched down in the Southern and Midwestern United States. An F2 tornado destroyed a trailer near Lake Chicot in Arkansas, killing a pregnant woman and injuring her husband and daughter. Another F2 tornado injured 11 people in Sulphur, Louisiana, including 7 children at the elementary school, where part of the roof collapsed.

October 23

1934 – An F2 tornado hit Maryville, Missouri and a nearby Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp, damaging about 60 buildings in town and destroying a CCC barracks. Five people were killed and 20 were injured.

October 24

2001 – A tornado outbreak primarily affected the Great Lakes Region of the United States. An F3 tornado up to 0.75 miles (1.21 km) wide hit Crumstown, Indiana and killed one person and injured another northwest of South Bend. An F2 tornado killed one person in a trailer east of Laporte, Indiana. An F1 tornado injured 14 people when the wall of a factory in Warsaw, Indiana collapsed.
2002 – Three tornadoes struck near Corpus Christi, Texas. The worst damage was caused by an F2 tornado which caused extensive damage to Del Mar College West Campus killing one person and injuring 20. Another tornado (rated F2 by the Corpus Christi NWS office but listed as F1 in Storm Data) formed to the east and significantly damaged several buildings, injuring six people. A third tornado, rated F0, is not listed in Storm Data.

October 25

1925 – A long-track F4 tornado destroyed homes in rural communities in southern Alabama, killing 18 people and injuring 60. This included 7 deaths north of Troy. Another person was killed by an F2 tornado in Woburn, Massachusetts.
1965 – A tornado struck Vichadero, Uruguay, killing a child and injuring 12 other people.

October 26

1921 – A short lived F2 tornado hit southeastern Sacramento, California, destroying 2 homes, damaging 24 others, and injuring five people. Cars were rolled up to 100 yards (about 100 meters).
1941 – A significant tornado outbreak affected parts of Arkansas and Louisiana. An F4 tornado cut a narrow path through Hamburg, Arkansas, destroying 53 homes, killing 15 people, and injuring 75. Another F4 tornado killed four people as it destroyed 20 homes in Dardanelle, Arkansas and struck rural areas near Chickalah and Pottsville. An F2 tornado killed a man north of Mansfield, Louisiana and carried his bed a mile (1.6 km).

October 27

1913 – An unusually intense tornado outbreak struck parts of western England and Wales. The worst damage was from an F3 that hit Edwardsville, Merthyr Tydfil and Cilfynydd, killing 5 people and injuring about 100. Two F2 tornadoes caused significant damage in Runcorn and Bulkeley.

October 28

1896 – At least three strong tornadoes hit Oklahoma and Texas. An F3 tornado killed three people east of Guthrie, Oklahoma, including two who died when a post office was carried 100 yards and smashed to pieces. Another F3 tornado (possibly two tornadoes) destroyed homes and killed two people near Hartshorne, Oklahoma. An F2 tornado killed one person and injured 15 hit near Farmington, Texas and narrowly missed Sherman, which had been devastated by an F5 tornado 5 months earlier.
1978 – A strong tornado hit Morteros, Córdoba Province, Argentina, killing 6 people and injuring 64.

October 29

1942 – An F4 tornado devastated the northern half of Berryville, Arkansas, killing 29 people and injuring at least 100. It destroyed 137 buildings, completely sweeping away some homes,and left about 600 people homeless.
1974 – A tornado outbreak, in Texas and Louisiana, which had already killed two people on October 28, continued past midnight. A F3 tornado killed 2 people and injured 52 as it struck Lake Arthur, Crowley, and Maxie, Louisiana. This storm destroyed 111 homes, an apartment complex, and 95 other buildings and damaged 470 structures.

October 30

1967 – A significant tornado outbreak hit the Southeastern United States. A rain-wrapped F3 tornado came ashore at Mississippi City, Mississippi and moved through Handsboro, killing 4 people and injuring 175. Another F3 tornado injured 52 people in the Brownsville area of West Pensacola, Florida. Nine homes, two businesses, and fourteen trailers were destroyed.
1993 – An outbreak of tornadoes, all but one of which were weak, hit the Southeastern United States The one significant tornado of the outbreak, struck between Albany and Leesburg, Georgia, where it severely damaged or destroyed 42 homes. Three people were killed in the destruction of a trailer home and 27 others were injured along the path. Damage totaled $12 million.

October 31

1932 – An F2 tornado destroyed 29 small homes south of Cairo, Georgia, killing one person, injuring 30, and leaving about 100 homeless.
1934 – A complex family of tornadoes and [[microburst]s began near Gilpin, Kentucky and traveled to northern Laurel County, killing 6 people and injuring 32. A mother and four children died when their home was destroyed and caught fire.