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A widespread, destructive tornado outbreak affected Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska on April 27, 2002, and Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia on the following day, April 28. Generally, tornado reports were widely scattered in each state, but significant to severe ...
The 2002 La Plata tornado was an extremely powerful and fast-moving multi-vortex tornado that devastated the town of La Plata, Maryland, [3] killing 3 people and injuring 122 others. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was the costliest tornado of the tornado outbreak of April 27–28, 2002 , causing at least $115 million in damages. [ 6 ]
6.2 April 27–28. 7 May. Toggle May subsection. 7.1 May 5. 7.2 May 7. ... The Tornado Season of 2002 was a below average season with only 934 tornadoes touching down
April 27, 2002 – A brief F1 tornado touched down in St. Clair County, damaging 32 homes and an elementary school. [131] Another F1 tornado destroyed several structures and injured 2 people east of Kenner. [132]
A tornado watch has been issued for parts of western Oklahoma and northwest Texas until 1 p.m. Saturday, with the potential for tennis ball-sized hail and winds reaching up to 70 mph, per CNN.
Tornadoes of 2002. Tornado outbreak of April 27–28, 2002. 2002 La Plata tornado; Tornado outbreak of June 23, 2002; 2002 Veterans Day weekend tornado outbreak. 2002 Van Wert–Roselms tornado; Tornadoes of 2003. Tornado outbreak sequence of May 2003; 2003 Bendigo tornado; 2003 South Dakota tornado outbreak; Tornadoes of 2004. Tornado outbreak ...
English: Map of reported and confirmed tornadoes and tornado warnings by the National Weather Service during the tornado outbreak of April 27-28, 2002. Map produced in QGIS. National Weather Service warning outlines available from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet and tornado data available from the National Centers for Environmental Information.
This is a list of tornadoes which have been officially labeled as F4, EF4, IF4, or an equivalent rating during the 2000s decade. These scales – the Fujita scale, the Enhanced Fujita scale, the International Fujita scale, and the TORRO tornado intensity scale – attempt to estimate the intensity of a tornado by classifying the damage caused to natural features and man-made structures in the ...