I actually do not think I have updated this website on the very massive discovery recently made for tri-state. So I will make a post on it.
Until February of this year, the largest damage gap in the path, one which we were unable to fill despite all attempts to (almost all of the other 32 gaps in the path have been filled in since the 2013 study), has had a very promising development in connecting the 174 mile path of no damage gaps and the full path in Annapolis making the possibility of a 200+ mile path plausible.
The original gap here, is about 10 miles long.
However, we have managed to find new damage locations in this gap.
They are just past Wide Ford.
These discoveries were made by unearthing an old newspaper not previously read, [Fredericktown Democrat-News | 1925-03-26 | Page 2]
The relevant passages:
“The storm of last wednesday did quite a bit of damage to buildings, timber and fences. Green Stacy’s Farm was left practically outside and all his buildings were blown down on his farm on Captain’s Creek. No one was living there.”
On the community of Faro, just over 5 miles southwest from the Central School:
“The cyclone that passed through here last week did considerable damage to buildings blowing some down, unroofing some, blowing down orchards, and lots of valuable timber was also blown down, some of the fencing being carried away. No one got hurt in the storm as far as we know of.”
Here is what i added to in my article that I will just recite here:
"Green Stacy’s farm is located just over a mile to the southeast of Faro. The discovery of these damage locations break what was originally a massive 10 mile gap through the mountains of Madison County. The damage itself was also notably significant, and also indicative of a wide tornado; about a kilometer wide. The distance of the gap between Thomas Mills Farm and the new damage points is just under 6 miles, and between Central and the Stacy farm, it is just about 4 miles.
These are still significant gaps, but the latter is very likely representing a continuous path; the tornado was already very large and powerful when tearing through Central and accounts indicate the tornado was on the ground prior to impacting the school, with a large amount of flattened trees leading to the community. The large and intense swath in Faro and alignment strongly suggests that the same tornado was likely on the ground here. For them to be separate tornadoes, the large tornado in Faro would have to shrink and weaken and a new tornado in the same heading must grow to a large size and intensity all in a very short space of time.
As for the gap between Thomas Mill’s place and Faro, this is much larger and has much less information on, but it has been greatly reduced in size. It is still not possible to confirm this as continuous, but the probability is certainly there."
For some reason I am having issues uploading photos.
