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The tornado outbreak of September 24, 2001 was one of the worst tornado events to ever have directly affected the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area in the United States. [1] The outbreak occurred on Monday, September 24, 2001, and was responsible for two deaths and 57 injuries.
116 people died when an F5 tornado tore through Flint, Michigan, on June 8, 1953. The tornado was about half a mile wide and was on the ground for 27 miles. Of the 116 fatalities, 113 occurred ...
The tornado retained this intensity as it caused sporadic damage across rural Alabama, destroying numerous homes and debarking trees. It dissipated south of Red Hill, after being on the ground for over two hours. The tornado was the second tornado of at least EF3 intensity to hit Cordova on April 27, and the town was devastated by both.
In total, this tornado killed 72 people, all in Alabama. This made it the deadliest single tornado ever to strike the state of Alabama as well as (at the time) the deadliest in the United States since a 1955 tornado in Udall, Kansas killed 80 people – the 2011 Joplin tornado a month later killed 158. The path of the tornado was 132 miles (212 ...
Carolyn Benton, a 47-year-old restaurant manager who doted on her three kids, was the lone fatality in Friday's storms that spawned tornadoes in Tallahassee. 'She loved serving': Family mourns mom ...
The tornado, known as the Greensburg EF5 or GT in later studies, [note 2] tracked 28.8 miles (46.3 km) through the area, killing at least ten people and injuring sixty-three others. The tornado was the first to be rated EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale after the retirement of the original Fujita scale in the United States on February 1, 2007. [3]
One person died Tuesday when a tornado ripped through the small city of Westmoreland in northeastern Kansas, destroying houses, RVs and outbuildings, authorities said. Pottawatomie County ...
However, another F2 tornado on May 3, 1999, killed one individual, proving that tornadoes of any intensity are capable of killing people harboring under overpasses. In addition to the fatalities, many people who survived these tornadoes nonetheless suffered graphic injuries and sometimes permanent disabilities.