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Aplington-Parkersburg High School sustained EF4 structural damage, and reinforced concrete light poles near the school were snapped and dragged along the ground by the tornado, indicative of extremely intense low-level inflow winds. [2] As the tornado exited at the east side of town, the tornado struck a golf course and a newly built subdivision.
The North Carolina State Climate Office at North Carolina State University reported that its Mount Mitchell weather station recorded 24.41 in (620 mm) of rainfall. The office referred to the total as "off the charts", comparing it to 16.5 in (420 mm) of rainfall being a once-in-1,000-year flood for the area.
Several large and destructive tornadoes occurred, including in Windsor, Colorado, Quinter, Kansas, Hugo, Minnesota and Parkersburg, Iowa. The Parkersburg tornado was rated an EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale with winds of 205 mph. Nine people were killed in Iowa, two in Kansas and one in each Minnesota and Colorado.
Devastating tornadoes tore across parts of eastern Nebraska and northeast Texas Friday as a multi-day severe thunderstorm event ramped up in the central United States, injuring at least three people.
The tornado moved along an unusual northwestward path, causing extensive damage to crops, outbuildings, and irrigation systems in this rural area. [22] [23] The tornado then passed east of Milliken, causing additional property damage before it struck the Missile Silo Park Campground west of Greeley, where one man was killed in his motor home ...
During his award-winning career, Dodge worked with the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Hurricane Center and Aircraft Operations Center. Dodge died on March 3, 2023 ...
Mount Airy / ˈ m aʊ n t ər i / [4] is a city in Surry County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 United States census , the city's population was 10,676. [ 5 ] As of 2020, the city is the most populous municipality in Surry County.
Parkersburg is a city in Butler County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,015 in the 2020 census , an increase from 1,870 in the 2010 census . [ 3 ] Parkersburg, although not the county seat, is the highest-populated city in Butler County.