Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
EF3 tornado: Americus, Georgia, was struck by the tornado a few minutes later WSKY-DT Tower, Camden County, NC, US March 2, 2007: Guyed steel lattice mast 230 Guy wire anchor failure Under construction. Also destroyed transmitter building. Was planned for a height of 1,036 ft (315.77 m). [23] WCFE-DT, Clinton, County, NY, US April 18, 2007
Tuesday, April 3, 1956, was a warm and humid day across most of the Midwestern U.S., the Great Lakes and the Ohio Valley.Temperatures in the areas affected by the worst of the outbreak were well into the 70s °F, approaching 80 °F (27 °C) in Michigan, with anomalously high dew points—the latter exceeding 60 °F (16 °C) near the shoreline of Lake Michigan.
The tornado injured an estimated 117 people and inflicted $17.6 million (1953 USD) on both of the towns. June 8, 1953 – A violent F4 tornado hit Temperance, killing 4 people and destroying 14 houses. The tornado caused an estimated $250,000 (1953 USD) in damages, and was one of multiple deadly tornadoes in Michigan on June 8.
Outbreak produced the Candlestick Park tornado, which was an extremely violent F5 tornado or tornado family that killed 58 people and traveled 202.5 mi (325.9 km) across Mississippi and Alabama. It is one of the longest such paths on record and one of only four official F5 tornadoes to hit Mississippi.
The tornado was one of eight tornadoes that touched down the same day in eastern lower Michigan and northwest Ohio. [4] It was also part of the larger Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak that began over Nebraska and Iowa , before moving east across the upper Great Lakes states and Ontario , and on to New York and New England causing more deadly ...
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin — a high-end classification of tornado warning — sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ground ...
A possible tornado was suspected of uprooting trees and damaging buildings, including Prairie Grove's aquatic park and baseball complex, the police department said in a statement posted on social ...
The last significant October tornado event was on October 24, 2001, when three tornadoes hit southeastern Lower Michigan, out of a total of nine in the state that day. [97] Including the 2001 tornadoes, only seven October tornadoes had been recorded in the NWS Detroit county warning area prior to the 2007 outbreak.