Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1886 — Tornado Points Located. [ARTICLE]

Tornado Points Located.

In a report to the French Academy of Sciences of the 172 tornadoes recorded in the United States in 1884, Mons. Faye considers it established that there is a definite portion of an area of low barometer most favorable to tornadoes. The Signal Service reporters are now endeavoring to determine this “dangerous octant” still more accurately. A memorable day in the history of tornadoes was February 19, 1884, when no less than forty-five were recorded in the Southeastern States, attended with a loss of 800 lives, 2,500 injured, 10,000 houses and buildings destroyed, and 15,000 people left homeless.