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The tornado grew to 710 yards (0.65 km) near Holcomb Road, where it damaged several homes and blew in the doors of the Heritage Propane building. [6] Near Poplar Springs, the tornado hit a home with two occupants, blowing open a door that a man stood by, causing him to fall down the basement stairs where the second occupant was sheltering.
Dhaval Naik, who said he works with the man whose house was demolished, said three people, including a child, were in the basement when the tornado hit. They got out safely.
Basements, or the lowest, most-interior rooms of a building, are the safest place to be during a tornado. But when this one hit the Slatten home, the brothers were running to an upper floor to ...
A little more than an hour had passed Tuesday after a tornado hit June and Larry Handsacker’s house off of 650th Avenue near Nevada, and their family was already on the scene, pulling valued ...
The house's occupants took refuge in a storm pit situated nearby, and while left unharmed, the tornado partially exposed the storm pit, causing soil to be drawn up and removed from around the entrance. The force of the tornado caused another underground storm shelter to heave upwards slightly. [14]
A house along the periphery of the circulation sustained minor damage, and some power poles were pushed over as well. The tornado then crossed into Pemiscot County west of Steele at high-end EF2 intensity, snapping and denuding trees, downing power poles, heavily damaging a couple of homes, and tossing a pickup truck. [33]
The April 3, 1974, national tornado outbreak destroyed hundreds of homes in Louisville, with an EF4 twister that hit the city, and killed more than 330 people in the U.S. Fortunately, the April 2 ...
The tornado was the first F5 or EF5 tornado in Iowa since one hit Jordan on June 13, 1976, and the second deadliest in Iowa since official record-keeping began in 1950. The deadliest tornado affected the Charles City area on May 15, 1968, and killed 13 while producing F5 damage. [ 12 ]