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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 ...
A brief F1 tornado caused minimal damage in Mason City, [42] and an F3 tornado hit the crossroads of Illinois Routes 154–150, damaging six homes and causing $250,000 (1957 USD) in damages. [43] An F2 tornado moved for 4.5 miles across Jefferson County , deroofing multiple buildings and injuring two people. [ 44 ]
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
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 ...
From 1884 to 2007, there were 47 tornadoes with school fatalities in the United States. These tornadoes killed 295. Tornado warnings began being issued in 1950 (and tornado watches in late 1952); [ 7 ] and there is a very sharp decrease in number of killer tornado events at schools after this time, as well as a large decrease in death tolls ...
The tornado then damaged a church and structures around the church. Further northeast a trucking company sustained minor building damage. It then crossed U.S. 61, where it picked up a car that was traveling south on the highway and flipped it twice, injuring the driver. Additional tree damage occurred before the tornado dissipated. [6] EF0 ...
The following is a list of the costliest tornadoes in the Americas including Canada and the United States. It includes all tornadoes that, when damage totals are adjusted for inflation, have cost at least $100 million in damages (in 2024 dollars).
The tornado outbreak of March 28–31, 2007, also known as the Late-March 2007 tornado outbreak, was a tornado outbreak that took place across the central United States. It developed in the High Plains from South Dakota to central Texas on March 28, 2007, which produced most of the tornadoes. Several more tornadoes were reported the next three ...