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The first severe weather event of 2007 was a scattered but deadly tornado event in the U.S. Gulf Coast region on January 4. Two people were killed in New Iberia, Louisiana , and 15 were injured. It was confirmed to have been an F1 tornado as all the severe damage took place to mobile homes.
The 2007 Groundhog Day tornado outbreak [2] was a localized but devastating tornado event that took place in central Florida early on February 2, 2007. Early morning temperatures had risen well above average for the season; combined with increased moisture and a powerful jet stream, this created enough instability and wind shear for thunderstorms to rotate and spawn tornadoes.
Illinois has had large tornado outbreaks in the past, including the tornado outbreak sequence of December 18–20, 1957 and the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak. Illinois is vulnerable to tornadoes with an average of 35 occurring annually, which puts much of the state at around 5 tornadoes per 10,000 square miles (30,000 km 2) annually. [1]
The tornado outbreak of February 28 – March 2, 2007 was a deadly tornado outbreak across the southern United States that began in Kansas on February 28, 2007. The severe weather spread eastward on March 1 and left a deadly mark across the southern US, particularly in Alabama and Georgia. Twenty deaths were reported; one in Missouri, nine in ...
The tornadoes were part of a larger system that wreaked havoc from Arkansas to Iowa and Illinois and moved into Tennessee by the evening. Nearly 60 preliminary tornado reports were sent to the ...
List of tornadoes in the outbreak of May 4–6, 2007; List of United States tornadoes from October to December 2007; List of United States tornadoes in April 2007; List of United States tornadoes in May 2007; List of United States tornadoes from August to September 2007; Tropical Storm Barry (2007) Tropical Storm Erin (2007) Tropical Storm Olga ...
The town of Sunfield, Illinois, about 65 miles southeast of St. Louis, was wiped out by one of the 25 tornadoes. It was later rated F5 after the Fujita scale was implemented in 1971.
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