July 4-13, 2015 Outbreak Sequence

This rather large 10-day outbreak sequence produced numerous tornados throughout Tornado Alley, but also outside of Tornado Alley, including the Carolinas, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, along with even Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachussetts, and Virginia. Many of those tornados occurred during the seven-day period from 5 to 11th July, which is ironically from a Sunday to a Saturday, so it's very well known to be Tornado Week. Multiple violent "drillbit" twisters were known to have struck the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and especially Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. Very few tornados more than 300 metres wide occurred in those areas during the entire outbreak. The Carolinas were tied with being hit the worst, since North Carolina [34 tornados] and South Carolina [43 tornados] had 77 twisters, 49 fatalities [22 in South Carolina from eight tornados, and 27 in North Carolina from only five torandos]. For only 2 states, that's surprising that more fatalities occurred there than all states in Tornado Alley combined [only 24 fatalities, 14 in Texas, four in Oklahoma, two in Indiana, and one each in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Ohio]. Pennsylvania had 5 fatalities, Ohio had 25, Kentucky had nine from a state-crossing EF3 on 4 July, as Virginia and Massachussetts had one fatality in each state.

Notable Tornados [4th July]
Only one notable tornado occurred on Independence Day.

Miamisburg/West Carrollton/Cincinnati, OH/Lexington/Daniel Boone National Forest, KY "Cyclone"
This tornado touched down 3 miles northwest of Miamisburg, moving directly southeast at 65mph. It was only a pencil-like EF1 tornado at first, but quickly gained strength, immediately destroying multiple buildings. An entire store was leveled when the twister was 130mph EF2 strength. Multiple homes then got hit, completely destroyed, along with an elementary school, and multiple trailer homes were demolished, as the tornado was over 5/8 of a mile wide at the time, gaining width rapidly. The shopping centre of Austin Landing also got a total beating from the twister, as every single building got pummeled by the 140mph tornado that was now already 3/4 of a mile wide and still getting bigger. This twister was also known to be an extremely rare type of tornado, known as "anticyclonic". The tornado also then caused EF4 damage in Miamisburg in 2 subdivisions. In there, 75 homes sustained EF3+ damaged, 11 recieved EF4, and only four homes recieved any lower than EF2 damage, meaning almost 500 homes were destroyed. The giant cyclone also moved into West Carrollton, and at that point, was at its peak width of a mile wide. Massive damage was reported on several brick structures, as 3 schools and over 30 busses were entirely pummeled so badly that they almost cancelled the school year of 2015-2016! The tornado remained over open fields, then hit Sawyer Park in Cincinnati after turning a sharp turn directly south, as 301 homes were entirely destroyed, more than 900 damaged. After it left Ohio, it's official that it killed 14 people in Ohio, 11 in Miamisburg, 3 in West Carrollton, and surprisingly nobody in Cincinnati. [This is because CIncinnati had around 35 minutes to prepare for this massive storm when a tornado emergency was issued for multiple counties in Ohio and Kentucky]. At least 300 injuries were recorded from this tornado before it hit Lexington. When it did, at least 30 homes sustained massive damage, as the tornado was still at EF4 intensity. Multiple stores were flattened by the 170mph wind, and the tornado left at least 54 buildings entirely destroyed, including the University of Kentucky, which sustained $8.4 million of damage. At least $40 million in damages were caused in Lexington, eight people killed, around 40 others injured. The last fatality occurred when the tornado hit I-75, throwing a car, killing the only occupant inside. The tornado also hit the Daniel Boone National Forest, debarked 250,000 trees. It died out at 6:29 PM EDT after significantly weakening and remaining stationary for the last 40 seconds of its life.

This giant twister cut a swath of total devastation up to a mile wide and 191.14 miles long. It was responsible for leaving 23 people dead, around 350 people injured, and almost $250 million in damage.

5th July
Three notable tornados formed on that day.

Lake Wylie-Clover, SC Tornado
This thin rope tornado formed as a waterspout 11 miles west of Clover, SC, as it tracked through Lake Wylie, causing nearly minimal damage at first, but then caused significant damage to at least 12 homes, leaving 31 homes damaged. It also almost entirely destroyed a large warehouse-like summer camp building, tearing the roof, one of the four walls, and the entire 2nd story off of it. Multiple cars were also shifted and/or thrown up to 40 feet away, as one counselor got killed, 16 students injured. It took the tornado no time at all to intensify into a low-end EF2 with winds circulating up to 115mph, as the twister continued over forests, creeks, and plains for most of its remaining journey. The tornado then struck an elementary school in Clover, as the gym was entirely collapsed, 95% of the roof was caved in.