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The tornado then intensified significantly as it moved toward northern Goshen and the Midway Trailer Court. As it neared the trailer park, Elkhart Truth reporter Paul Huffman, then reporting on severe weather, overheard a report of a tornado approaching his position on U.S. Route 33, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Midway. As Huffman and his ...
Fragments of the farmhouse were found 1 mile (1.6 km) away. The tornado passed just a few miles west of the heavily populated town of Dubuque, before entering Wisconsin, through Grant County. The tornado travelled almost the totality of Grant County, before dissipating near Muscoda, close to the Wisconsin River. A man near Lowden died of severe ...
In the wake of the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, one of the key recommendations from the U.S. Weather Bureau's storm survey team, was the establishment of a nationwide radio network that could be used to broadcast weather warnings to the general public, hospitals, key institutions, news media, schools, and the public safety community.
The last official EF5 tornado to hit the U.S. was the infamous 2013 Moore, Oklahoma, tornado. This violent tornado was on the ground for more than 40 minutes, carving a path of devastation more ...
Former WCCO Meteorologist Paul Huttner remembers the around-the-clock updates on a blustery Nov. 1 morning. "It came fast and was a shock," Huttner recalled. "We're saying that's going to be more ...
TWISTEX (a backronym for Tactical Weather-Instrumented Sampling in/near Tornadoes Experiment) was a tornado research experiment that was founded and led by Tim Samaras of Bennett, Colorado, US, that ended in the deaths of three researchers in the 2013 El Reno tornado. The experiment announced in 2015 that there were some plans for future ...
In late February 1971, a deadly tornado outbreak and record-setting blizzard happened in different parts of the South at the same time. Here's the story.
Another tornado is said to have struck Racine, Wisconsin, to the north, but has not yet been confirmed. In Roscoe, IL, about 100 miles to the west of Chicago and 15 minutes north of Rockford, a woman was killed after being crushed under a large tree that fell in her neighborhood of Chicory Ridge.