34(> A TORNADO WITH SNOW. 



ice, and so darkening the air, that houses within 

 a few paces were totally invisible. 



During the summer of 1834, which was un- 

 usually sultry, tornados and hail storms of li- 

 mited extent, visited almost every state in the 

 Union, from Maine to Louisiana ; several of them 

 attended with great loss of lives and property. 

 In most cases, they pursued a course from west 

 to east. 



About the 20th of March, 1832, a tornado oc- 

 curred in the southern portion of Tennessee, lat. 

 35 N. which differed in some respects from any 

 of the preceding. 



After several remarkably warm days for the 

 season, accompanied with a southerly wind, a 

 tornado came on suddenly, without the slightest 

 warning, about seven o'clock, P.M. It excited 

 great astonishment, as the whole day had been 

 warm, serene, and clear, with the exception of 

 a slight haziness, up to the moment when the 

 crashing noise of falling timber announced the 

 approaching storm from the west. The tempe- 

 rature was immediately reduced from about 70, 

 to several degrees below 32 F. and attended 

 with a rapid fall of snow, which continued for 

 several hours; but the tornado blew with vio- 

 lence only about ten minutes. The next morn- 

 ing, the wind was cold and north westerly, and 

 continued northerly for two days. 



This storm seems to have been owing to the 



