January 12, 2005
Just before midnight, a 1/2-mile-wide tornado cut a 24-mile-long path across Union County, Arkansas, moving from Junction City to 3 miles northeast of Lawson. The F3 tornado killed 2 people both 83 years old, in separate mobile homes about a mile apart. About 30 homes were destroyed. The National Weather Service has posted a survey of the storm track here, and other images here.
March 22, 2005
Just after midnight, an F3 tornado damaged or destroyed 24 buildings at Donalsonville, Seminole County, Georgia. One person died in a mobile home.
August 12, 2005
At about 4:22 PM,, an F2 tornado ripped apart the Cottonwood Mobile Home Park at Wright, Campbell Coutny, Wyoming. Two people were killed and 13 were hospitalized as forty mobile homes were destroyed. A few frame homes were unroofed. This is only the second time in history that a Wyoming tornado caused as many as two fatalities. That previous tornado was on June 25th, 1942. Never before in recorded history have there been no killer tornadoes in the United States in April, May, June and July.
August 18, 2005
An outbreak of 28 tornadoes cut across southern Wisconsin, causing about $21 million damage. An F3 destroyed a large part of Stoughton, Dane County. Along the 11 mile path, eighteen homes were destroyed and 80 others were severely damaged. A 54-year-old man was killed when the chimney collapsed into his home.
on the 29th, produced another major outbreak, but further to the east. The town
of Marengo, Crawford County, Indiana, was torn apart. This area is 35 miles
northwest of Louisville, Kentucky. An elderly man was killed when his mobile
home was overturned. Many towns had serious damage, including Indianapolis,
which may have been hit by five or more small tornadoes.
August 29, 2005
Hurricane Katrina produced an F2 tornado that cut a path through rural Carroll County, Georgia. As it passed 2 miles east of Roopville, it destroyed a large chicken house and killed a man who was checking on the birds during the storm. At least 375,000 chickens were killed in the 30 or so chicken houses that were destroyed.
September 24, 2005
Hurricane Rita spawned several tornadoes in Humphreys County, Mississippi. Six blocks on the east side of Belzoni were ripped apart. Eight miles from Belzoni, at Isola, a mobile home was overturned and a man inside was killed.
November 6, 2005
A deadly F3 tornado touched down near Smith Mills and Henderson, Kentucky, and moved to the northeast, crossing the Ohio River into Indiana. The funnel ripped through the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park on the southeast edge of Evansville, Indiana. About 225 of the park's 350 mobile homes were damaged or destroyed. Many completely disintegrated and were scattered for hundreds of yards, with bodies thrown long distances into other mobile homes and into a pond. This nightmarish event took place at what was perhaps the worst time of day, 2 o'clock in the morning. It was also the time of year when this area had never had a killer tornado. Eighteen people were killed and at least 200 injured in the mobile home park. Further to the northeast, other homes were destroyed near the north edge of Newburgh, east of Boonville and in DeGonia Springs. Four other people died in these homes. A photograph from the trailer park was found in a wooded area 80 miles to the east-northeast, in Crawford County.
November 12, 2005
Homes in nine Iowa towns were damaged or destroyed by a rash of tornadoes across the central part of the state. About 25 homes were destroyed in the town of Stratford, about 50 miles northwest of Des Moines. One person was killed and four were hospitalized. An 82-year-old woman and her daughter fled to the cellar as the tornado approached. The house collapsed onto them, killing the elderly woman and burying the daughter under what was called "at least 500 pounds of brick."
November 15, 2005
Yet another November outbreak produced about 30 tornadoes in the Ohio Valley area. A 12-mile-long path along Marshall County, Kentucky ripped apart several trailers and frame homes near Benton. A 63-year-old man was killed when his trailer was thrown 40 feet, overturned, and burned. Firefighters could not reach the scene until large trees that blocked the road were removed. Ten other people were injured.
November 27, 2005
There were two killer tornadoes in an outbreak of about 30 on November 27th, 2005. Three miles west of Briar, Ripley County, Missouri, two homes were destroyed, two homes were damaged, and one person was killed. One mile west of Plumerville, Conway County, Arkansas, a tornado destroyed a lumberyard and hurled large amounts of lumber onto I-40. At the same time, a van with 8 people was traveling westbound on the interstate. It drove into the tornado, and was thrown into the eastbound lane and overturned. One passenger, a 33-year-old man, was killed. Six children and one adult were injured.