Tornado in Kentucky, July 23, 1997

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$2,000

Crop damage

$2,000

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.

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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.

• Flash Flooding and Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, July 23, 19973 deaths · 4 injured · $14 million · 5 events
• Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 23 to 27, 19971 death · 8 injured · $1.4 million · F2 · 11 events
• Flash Flood in Colorado, July 23, 19971 death · $200,000 · 1 event
• Lightning Strike in Arkansas, July 23, 19971 death · 2 injured · 1 event
• Flooding in North Dakota, July 23, 1997$8.0 million · 2 events
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in South Carolina, July 23 to 24, 19972 injured · $635,000 · F1 · 10 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 23, 1997$1.0 million · 1.75 in hail · 4 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 23 to 27, 1997$775,000 · 1.75 in hail · 5 events
• Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 23, 1997$216,000 · 8 events
• Lightning Strike in Nebraska, July 23, 1997$100,000 · 1 event
• Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 23, 1997$75,000 · 1 event
• Flash Flooding in West Virginia, July 23, 1997$40,000 · 2 events

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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: 5611854.