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Tornado outbreak: Duration: October 17–19, 2007: Tornadoes confirmed: 63: Max. rating 1: EF3 tornado: Duration of tornado outbreak 2 ~40 hours: Fatalities: 5 deaths, 28 injuries (+58 non-tornadic) Damage: $54.2 million (2007 USD) [1] Areas affected: Central and Southern United States
Truck being crushed by a tree during the Brooklyn tornado on August 8, 2007. An EF2 tornado struck New York City at 6:30 am EDT (10:30 UTC) on August 8. The hardest-hit area was the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn, where many trees—as much as 40% of the trees in Sunset Park were knocked down and several homes and buildings lost part of their roofs ...
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]
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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 ...
Clockwise from top: The tornado, as seen at EF5 intensity in Greensburg; the photographer was located 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Greensburg. At this point, the tornado has taken on a large "wedge" shape, [note 1] a heavily damaged house in Greensburg, a radar image of the supercell that produced the tornado, disaster recovery workers clearing debris from Greensburg, damage to downtown ...
On Dec. 18, 1957, 67 years ago today, an outbreak of strong tornadoes tore through southern Illinois and eastern Missouri. The town of Sunfield, Illinois, about 65 miles southeast of St. Louis ...
Video of the tornado that caused the collapse entering Belvidere [7]. A historic severe weather event occurred on March 31 across northern Illinois. [8] Having expected severe conditions on March 31, the Storm Prediction Center outlined a rare high risk convective outlook, the highest risk category, for two areas that morning; a southern area including much of Arkansas, Mississippi, and ...