Tornado, Simpson
- When
- May 26, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Simpson County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.700, -86.600
Tornado in Kentucky, May 26, 1965
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 26, 1965
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 26, 1965
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 26, 1965
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 26, 1965
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, May 26, 1965
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Ohio, May 26, 1965
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Indiana, May 26, 1965
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, May 26, 1965
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, May 26, 1965
- Hail in South Carolina, May 26, 1965
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 26, 1965
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 1965Every state in 1965This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kentucky, 1965
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10035972.