1929 Rye Cove tornado outbreak

Weather event in the United States May 2025 February 2025 1929 Rye Cove tornado outbreak May 1–2, 1929 17 F3 30 hours, 25 minutes ≥ 42 fatalities, ≥ 323 injuries Unknown Central and Eastern United States The 1929 Rye Cove tornado outbreak was a deadly tornado outbreakAn outbreak is generally defined as a group of at least six tornadoes (the number sometimes varies slightly according to local climatology) with no more than a six-hour gap between individual tornadoes. An outbreak sequence, prior to (after) modern records that began in 1950, is defined as, at most, two (one) consecutive days without at least one significant (F2 or stronger) tornado.Schneider Russell S. Tornado Outbreak Day Sequences: Historic Events and Climatology (1875–2003) http://www.spc.noaa.gov/publications/schneider/otbrkseq.pdf Storm Prediction Center 2 February 2015 Harold E. Brooks Joseph T. Schaefer Norman, Oklahoma "nb"All damage totals are in 1929 United States dollars unless otherwise noted. "nb" that swept from southwest to northeast along the Appalachian Mountains from Oklahoma to Maryland in early May 1929. This outbreak, which killed at least 42 people and injured at least 323,Grazulis 1993 826 is notable as one of the worst to affect the states of Maryland and Virginia. It is also one of the most intense tornado outbreaks to affect Appalachia. The F2 tornado that struck Rye Cove, Virginia, is the deadliest tornado in Virginia historyGrazulis Thomas P. Grazulis Doris VIRGINIA: Tornadoes causing three or more deaths http://www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/worstts.htm#VA The Tornado Project 26 February 2014 26 April 2000 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035740/http://www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/worstts.htm 4 March 2016 McDaid Jennifer Davis Rye Cove Cyclone http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Rye_Cove_Cyclone#contrib encyclopediavirginia.org Virginia Foundation for the Humanities 14 December 2015 and tied for the thirteenth-deadliest to hit a school in the United States, with all 13 deaths in a school building.Grazulis Thomas P. Grazulis Doris The Ten Worst Tornado-Related Disasters In Schools http://www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/topten3.htm tornadoproject.com The Tornado Project 24 January 2015 Danville, Vermont Western Virginia was particularly hard hit, with additional tornadoes confirmed in Alleghany, Bath, Culpeper, Fauquier and Loudoun Counties. One of these tornadoes, near Culpeper, also destroyed a school, but the storm struck during the evening after classes had been dismissed for the day. Confirmed tornadoes 17 3 ? ? 9 5 0 0 no May 1 event F#LocationCounty Time (UTC)Path lengthDamageOklahoma F2Tucker to SE of Van Buren, ARLeFlore, Sequoyah, Sebastian (AR), Crawford (AR)201530 mi kmThis tornado first touched down close to Moffett, Oklahoma, where it injured three structures. Observers witnessed four funnel clouds passing over the south fringe of Fort Smith, Arkansas, causing damage to three factories and 17 houses. The tornado razed six houses along the shores of Hollis Lake before dissipating.Arkansas FUJethroFranklin202512 mi kmTornado-related damage reported.Henry 1929 216 F2RexVan Buren21305 mi kmThis tornado struck the entire community of Rex, tearing off roofs and damaging every structure in its path. F3W of Brinkley to N of WheatleyMonroe, St. Francis004515 mi km9 deaths – This deadly tornado struck several plantations, damaging or leveling 45 small houses, though some larger ones were razed as well, and other structures, along with crops, were reportedly damaged.Texas FUFrankstonAnderson2100unknownTornado damage reported. Sources: Grazulis, Monthly Weather Review May 2 event F#LocationCounty Time (UTC)Path lengthDamageTennessee FUW of NewportCockeunknownunknownThis first member of a tornado family developed 15 mi km on west of Newport. F2Embreeville areaWashington, Unicoi1700unknown2 deaths – This was another member of the tornado family previously listed. The tornado struck 15 mountaintop houses - with six of them leveled - near the Washington–Unicoi county line.Virginia F2NW of Gate City (Rye Cove area)Scott17554 mi km13 deaths – See section on this tornado F3S of Woodville to Flint HillRappahannock203013 mi km3 deaths – A tornado struck Woodville and destroyed several houses. One student died and 15 others were injured when a school was destroyed, with some of the students carried 200 yd m 3 on away from the school.Watson Barbara M. 7 January 2008 Sammler Bill Tornado History: Virginia Tornadoes http://www.vaemergency.gov/news/history/tornado vaemergency.gov Virginia Department of Emergency Management 24 January 2015 Richmond, Virginia https://web.archive.org/web/20140317075510/http://www.vaemergency.gov/news/history/tornado 17 March 2014 dead Two other people were killed when the tornado destroyed houses in Flint Hill. F2NE of Iron GateAlleghany, Bath230017 mi kmA tornado struck several small, rural communities, including Coronation, Sitlington, and Nimrod Hall where it damaged or destroyed at least 13 farms and small houses near the Cowpasture River. F2Near HamiltonLoudoun00302 mi kmA tornado destroyed at least one house and numerous barns. A brick church and other structures were damaged. F3Lagrange to near CatlettCulpeper, Fauquier010018 mi km6+ deaths – A tornado struck a small house at Lagrange, killing two people inside. Four - possibly five - people were killed in two houses that were destroyed, and six other houses were damaged or destroyed in Weaversville. The tornado also destroyed a large, fourteen-room, brick structure.Ohio F2Galloway area to ColumbusFranklin200010 mi km2 deaths – A tornado tore the roofs off several houses as it passed between Galloway and Columbus; in Columbus, the tornado leveled a gas station and killed two people when it partially destroyed a jail.Florida F2Jacksonville areaDuval21202 mi km1 death – A tornado struck Jacksonville Heights and Ortega, on the south side of the Jacksonville, where it destroyed seven houses, damaged 15 others, and killed one person in a barn.West Virginia F2Morgantown areaMonongalia21204 mi kmA tornado struck the Evansdale and Riverside portions of Morgantown where it demolished 35 houses and caused minor damage to 200 others in addition to multiple factories. Fifteen people reportedly incurred serious injuries occurred.Maryland F3NW of Adamstown to near TaneytownFrederick, Carroll003033 mi km2 deaths – A skipping tornado killed a couple as it leveled a farmhouse 3 mi km west of Frederick. Six other homes were damaged with some of them being unroofed. F3Near Laytonsville to BrookevilleMontgomery, Howard023010 mi km4 deaths– A tornado destroyed six farmhouses, killing three people in one of the leveled houses. A fourth person died on the second floor of a house that was torn off during the storm.Source: Grazulis, Monthly Weather Review Rye Cove, Virginia Rye Cove, Virginia F2 13 fatalities, 100 injuries US$100,000 (1929) At 12:55 p.m. (EDT), as many as 155 students were attending classes at Rye Cove High School, near the town of Clinchport, when a strong thunderstorm approached from the southwest and produced a tornado just 0.5 mi km 2 on away.The Cyclone of Rye Cove: Twister Wrecks Rye Cove School Kingsport Times May 2, 1929 Kingsport, Tennessee As the tornado - referred to as a “dark cloud”Thirteen Killed When Tornado Destroys Rye Cove High School Building Thursday Afternoon Scott County News May 9, 1929 - approached the school, it intensified and tore the roofs off many structures. Strong winds lofted lumber for hundreds of yards, leaving pieces lodged in trees. Next to the school, the tornado struck a log house that was built in the 1850s, picking up the entire structure and carrying some of its furniture up to 4 mi km 2 on away. A teacher at the seven-room, wooden school heard the wind increasing outside but did not alert her students. Moments later, the tornado struck, reportedly causing it to “explode” and violently spread debris over a wide area. The powerful storm killed one teacher and 12 students, carrying their bodies up to 75 yd m 2 on from the school’s limestone foundation. After the devastation at the school, the 0.25 mi km 2 on-wide tornado destroyed five farmhouses before lifting. The legacy of the tornado lived on in local folkloreClark Amy D. June 1, 2021 The Cyclone of Rye Cove https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-113-summer-2021/the-cyclone-of-rye-cove 2024-05-17 Oxford American en as A. P. Carter of the Carter Family, having visited the storm-stricken area and assisted in relief efforts, immediately recorded a song about the storm.Deathly Lyrics: "The Cyclone of Rye Cove" http://www.blueridgeinstitute.org/ballads/ryecove.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/19990224031156/http://www.blueridgeinstitute.org/ballads/ryecove.html February 24, 1999 24 January 2015 blueridgeinstitute.org Blue Ridge Institute & Museum Ferrum, Virginia See also List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks References Bibliography Clark, Amy D. (June, 2021). The Cyclone of Rye Cove. Oxford American Magazine. Grazulis Thomas 1993 Significant Tornadoes 1680–1991: A Chronology and Analysis of Events Environmental Films St. Johnsbury, Vermont 1-879362-03-1 Henry Alfred J. https://web.archive.org/web/20050127092134/http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/057/mwr-057-05-0216.pdf 1929 Severe Local Storms http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/057/mwr-057-05-0216.pdf Monthly Weather Review 57 5 United States Weather Bureau 216–7 10.1175/1520-0493(1929)57<216:SLSM>2.0.CO;2 January 27, 2005 1929MWRv...57..216. free Notes nb Category:F3, EF3 and IF3 tornadoes 1929-05-01, Rye Cove 05-01 Tornado Outbreak, Rye Cove, Virginia Category:Tornadoes in Kentucky Category:Tornadoes in Maryland Category:Tornadoes in Tennessee Category:Tornadoes in Virginia Category:Tornadoes in West Virginia Rye Cove Tornado Outbreak, 1929 Tornado, 05-01 Tornado, 01, Rye Cove 1929-05-01