Tornadoes of 1991#November

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• January 14 – Texas (1 death)
• March 22 – Tennessee (4 deaths)
• March 22 – Kentucky (1 death)
• March 22 – Tennessee (1 death)
• March 27 – Wisconsin (1 death)
• March 27 – Ohio, Indiana (1 death)
• March 29 – Alabama (5 deaths)
• April 26 – Kansas (17 deaths)
• April 26 – Kansas (1 death)
• April 26 – Kansas (1 death)
• April 26 – Oklahoma (1 death)
• April 26 – Oklahoma (1 death)
• June 12 – New York (1 death)
• July 5 – Minnesota (1 death)
• November 29 – Missouri (2 deaths)

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Total fatalities: 39

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The tornado season of 1991 looks generally very average on paper. The spring months of March, April, May and June all saw very large numbers of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks. The fall, sometimes referred to as a "second season", was very quiet. The Andover, Kansas outbreak of April 26, 1991 was famous for its violent tornadoes, incredible video and is the signature event of this tornado season. 1991 saw one F5 tornado touch down in Kansas.

Confirmed tornado total for the entire year 1991 in the United States.

{{Tornado Chart | Total=1,132 | F0=688 | F1=295 | F2=103 | F3=39 | F4=6 | F5=1 | Enhanced=no}}

There were 29 tornadoes confirmed in the US in January.

There were 11 tornadoes confirmed in the US in February.

There were 157 tornadoes confirmed in the US in March.

An outbreak produced 23 tornadoes, with six fatalities being confirmed in Kentucky and Tennessee. An 11-year-old boy was killed in Olmstead in Logan County, Kentucky when an F2 tornado picked up a mobile home and slammed it against a tree.{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-03-23-mn-465-story.html|title=Tornadoes Kill 3 in Tennessee and Kentucky|agency=Associated Press|date=1991-03-23|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|access-date=2016-05-09}}

An outbreak produced 50 tornadoes over a two day span. An F4 tornado passed near Hutchinson, Kansas on March 26, while two people were killed by tornadoes in Wisconsin and Indiana on March 27. After only two weak F0 tornadoes touched down on March 28, another outbreak of 21 tornadoes struck the Southeastern United States on March 29.{{cite web |title=Storm Prediction Center WCM Page |url=https://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/ |website=www.spc.noaa.gov |publisher=Storm Prediction Center |access-date=21 February 2022}} An F1 tornado struck Munford, Alabama, where it destroyed several trailer homes, killing five people, four of them in one family.{{cite web|type=Report|agency=National Centers for Environmental Information|title=Storm Events Database March 29, 1991|url=https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/eventdetails.jsp?id=9981531|publisher=National Centers for Environmental Information|access-date=February 21, 2022}} An F3 tornado moved through Clarkdale, Georgia, destroying 15 townhouses, damaging 120 others, and injuring 25 people.{{cite web|type=Report|agency=National Centers for Environmental Information|title=Storm Events Database March 29, 1991|url=https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/eventdetails.jsp?id=10007562|publisher=National Centers for Environmental Information|access-date=February 21, 2022}} An F2 tornado destroyed 16 homes and heavily damaged 39 others in Ladonia, Alabama, injuring 16 people.{{cite web|type=Report|agency=National Centers for Environmental Information|title=Storm Events Database March 29, 1991|url=https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/eventdetails.jsp?id=9981533|publisher=National Centers for Environmental Information|access-date=February 21, 2022}} In all, 73 tornadoes touched down during the outbreak sequence.

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There were 204 tornadoes confirmed in the US in April.

{{Tornado chart small| F0 = 12| F1 = 13| F2 = 16| F3 = 7| F4 = 4| F5 = 1| Enhanced =no }}

{{main|1991 Andover tornado outbreak|1991 Andover tornado}}

This violent tornado outbreak of 53 tornadoes took place on April 26, 1991, killing 24 people and injuring hundreds more. The killer Andover tornado was rated F5, while four others were rated F4, including the monstrous Red Rock tornado. At the time, the Red Rock tornado generated the highest wind speeds, detected by mobile doppler radar, until the May 3, 1999, Bridge Creek-Moore F5 tornado. This is also the outbreak from which the infamous video was shot by a news crew hiding under an overpass in Kansas. This early viral video spread the myth that sheltering underneath an overpass was safer during a tornado. The television crew was hit by a F2 tornado.

There were 335 tornadoes confirmed in the US in May.

Three tornadoes formed in Lazbuddie, Texas.

An outbreak of five tornadoes struck Western and Northwestern Oklahoma. The strongest was an 800–900 yard wide F3 tornado that tracked 11.5 miles near Laverne, injuring three people. The same cell also dropped hail up to the size of grapefruits.{{Cite web|url=https://www.weather.gov/oun/|title=Norman, OK|first=NOAA|last=US Department of Commerce|website=www.weather.gov}}

There were 216 tornadoes confirmed in the US in June.

===June 14===

An F0 tornadic waterspout (starts as a tornado) reported near Lake Okeechobee, Florida created a surreal nighttime sight of a tornado and lightning while only doing minor damage. A famous photo of the event, which includes a mixture of brown and black color of the tornado accompanied with a lightning strike, was taken by Fred Smith, who was photographing the tornado from his backyard.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/tornado/Florida/1991/June/map|title=Tornado History Project: Florida in June 1991|website=www.tornadohistoryproject.com|access-date=2019-10-21}}{{dead link|date=February 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{Cite web|url=https://stormtrack.org/community/threads/who-originally-took-this-somewhat-famous-photo.16106/|title=Who Originally Took This Somewhat Famous Photo?|website=Stormtrack|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-21}}

There were 64 tornadoes confirmed in the US in July, including one in Cass County, Minnesota, on July 5, 1991. This particular tornado started as a waterspout, came ashore and destroyed a dock, uprooted trees and overturned a boat. This tornado was also featured on some tornado-themed documentaries.

There were 46 tornadoes confirmed in the US in August.

There were 26 tornadoes confirmed in the US in September.

There were 21 tornadoes confirmed in the US in October.

There were 20 tornadoes confirmed in the US in November.

An F4 tornado tore through areas near Springfield, Missouri, killing two people.

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There were 3 tornadoes confirmed in the US in December.

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• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110116224646/http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/tornado/1991 U.S. tornadoes in 1991]}} - Tornado History Project
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090521161610/http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/tornado-deaths-monthly-US.html Tornado deaths monthly]

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