Mid-Mississippi Valley Tornado Outbreak of March 1890
- Mid-Mississippi Valley Tornado Outbreak of March 1890
The Mid-Mississippi Valley Tornado Outbreak was a major tornado outbreak occurring in the middle United States on March 27, 1890. To this day, this outbreak is still the 25th most deadly storm in U.S. history. At least 24 significant tornadoes were recorded to have spawned from this system.
The most notable of the spawned tornadoes was one measuring F4 on the Fujita scale, which visited Louisville, Kentucky. The tornado carved a path from the Parkland neighborhood all the way to Crescent Hill, destroying 766 buildings ($2 1/2 million worth of property) and killing an estimated 74 to 120 people. At least 55 of those deaths occurred when the Falls City Hall collapsed. This is one of the highest death tolls due to a single building collapse from a tornado in U.S. history.
The day after the destruction, the Louisville "Courier-Journal" labeled the tornado "the whirling tiger of the air".
Due to the fast pace of reconstruction, there was almost no sign of this tornado having occurred just one year later.
References
*cite book|title=Two Hundred Years at the Fall of the Ohio: A History of Louisville and Jefferson County|last=Yater|first=George H.|year=1987|publisher=Filson Club, Incorporated|edition=2nd edition
ee also
*Columbia Building
*History of Louisville, Kentucky
*List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
*Southern Exposition
*Super Outbreak
External links
* [http://www.louisville.edu/library/ekstrom/special/tornado/tornado.html Whirling Tigers of the Air: A Century of Louisville Tornadoes] — Historical tornado damage images and narrative from the University of Louisville Photographic Archives
* [http://www.bryansbush.com/hub.php?page=articles&layer=a0803 "The Great Cyclone of 1890: Tragedy Struck Louisville"] — Article by Civil War historian/author Bryan S. Bush
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