The following Photos were donated by
Mike Schwendeman. He included the following text:
"The photos were taken from the 20th
floor of Commonwealth Hall on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University in
Richmond, KY. The first two views are looking west as the tornado approaches
Richmond. Classic wall cloud formation. The storm barely missed Richmond
itself, passing just to the north where it destroyed White Hall Elementary
School and a Texaco gas station. In the west views, it has just struck a
small community in the western end of Madison County. It killed three people
there. The third photo, is a view to the north. It is about at this point it
hits the small community of Red House. There, it killed four members of a
family, and left the fifth, a teen age girl, a quadriplegic. I saw it at
about this stage from a vantage point about 4 miles to the southeast."
