TornadoHistoryProject.com- Based on official US historical data from 1950-2006.*  Over 49,000 tornadoes catalogued and mapped.

Welcome to the Tornado History Project!

Are you a tornado enthusiast? Do you remember a tornado from your childhood, but wonder when it happened? Do you wonder what path it took, what Fujita rating it was assigned, or if anyone was injured? If so, this site is for you!

The Tornado History Project is a searchable, sortable database of tornado statistics based on official Storm Prediction Center (SPC) tornado records from 1950-2006. Results of your search can be viewed in the form of raw data or on a Google Map. Plus, users can leave comments/share memories of any tornado in the database.

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Tor. Date

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Comment

1990-08-28

This is unfortunately one of the worst tornado incidents in Illinois history. Only to be outdone by the 1967 Oak Lawn F4...

1985-05-31

Track is pretty close on this one, at least as far as I can guess. My 2nd cousin (mother's cousin) had their house pret...

1996-06-24

Storm path should be farther north. I lived a few blocks south of the (erroneous) path in 1996, and personally visited ...

2004-09-17

Storm path is too far east on the map. Instead of passing east of Rt. 28, at least part of the tornado passed west of 2...

1984-06-07

It was an extremly hot and humid day in early June. I was laying in bed in my apartment in Madison. Shortly before midn...

1975-05-07

I was in Infantry School this day, on the Mortar ranges in North Ft Polk. We had fired during the day and had waited unt...

1988-11-15

the path for this date is inacurate. wide spread damage began five miles to the southwest. I do not remember any damage ...

2006-04-16

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxKNsM5xu68 Please note this video does not belong to me, it belongs to, ...

1974-04-03

I remember the terrible devastation of this tornado. There was a grove of medium-sized pine trees that were all bent ov...

2004-07-18

For photos of this large tornado and resulting damage: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bou/severe/jul18_tor/jul18_tor.php...

2004-04-20

Not living far from the event, at the time, I was able to intercept the low-topped supercell responsible for this tornad...

1953-05-11

Tied for most deaths in a Texas tornado (with Goliad, 1902) and a prime example of a tornado going right through a downt...

1957-04-18

I'm pretty sure this is the Perrin AFB video, probably the first color video of a tornado, and all of it's stages from b...

1991-04-26

If I'm not mistaken, this is the famous 'highway underpass' tornado. A news crew on it's way to Wichita to cover those ...

1991-04-26

Another famous tornado, probably the one most remembered in Kansas, which is saying a lot. The video of it going right ...

1973-09-25

I love the video of this tornado as it slowly wends it's way around Salina. For some reason as a kid when I'd see this ...

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Data within this database has been pulled from the Storm Prediction Center's (SPC) historical tornado data file. Thus, the data included here is only as accurate as the data in the official SPC archive.