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The tornado formed at 6:15 pm CDT in Lawrence County, Alabama and ended 73 minutes later in Madison County, Alabama, killing 28 people. [2] The tornado first touched down near the small community of Mt. Hope, [3] and then tracked into Mt. Moriah, where the tornado rapidly intensified and swept away homes and hurled fleeing vehicles, and where a family of six were killed.
Of the 59 such tornadoes since 1950 to achieve that rating, only the 1957 Sunfield, Illinois, tornado and a 1953 Vicksburg, Mississippi, tornado did so in December. But there were four other ...
From May 19–22, 1957, a tornado outbreak took place across the US Central Plains.A total of 59 tornadoes were reported from Colorado to the Mississippi Valley. [note 1] [note 2] The most destructive tornado of the severe weather event—likely part of a long-lived family—was rated at F5, the highest level, and is often called the Ruskin Heights tornado, after the site of its worst damage ...
A series of at least four tornadoes hit the Southeastern United States during March 3-4, 1966. The worst event was a violent and long-lived F5 tornado, dubbed the Candlestick Park tornado after the name of a recently opened Jackson, Mississippi shopping center that was leveled by the storm. [2]
How did you approach that from a story point of view? Tornado 1 is like the shark in "Jaws." You see it lurking in the cloud, you get glimpses, but we tried to make it mysterious and show this big ...
The deadliest tornado in modern U.S. history struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado since SPC records began in 1950. Nearly 1,000 were injured. The EF5 tornado had ...
The 1973 San Justo tornado was an extremely powerful F5 tornado which struck San Justo, a town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, on January 10, 1973. At least 63 people were reported dead and 350 were reported injured as it cut a 330-yard-wide (300 m) swath through the town.
The 1968 Tracy tornado was an extremely powerful tornado that struck Tracy, Minnesota on Thursday, June 13, 1968, at around 7:00 p.m. [1] Rated F5 on the Fujita scale, the tornado killed nine people and injured 125 others. [1] The tornado tracked nine miles (14 km) through Murray, Lyon and Redwood counties in southwestern Minnesota. It is one ...