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Fisherman on a summer day in 2011 at Lake Chatuge, an artificial reservoir between North Carolina and Georgia. Lake Chatuge is a man-made reservoir in Towns County, Georgia, and Clay County, North Carolina. It was formed by the Tennessee Valley Authority's construction of Chatuge Dam (then the highest earthen dam in the world) in 1942.
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Chatuge Dam is located 121 miles (195 km) above the mouth of the Hiwassee River, just north of the North Carolina-Georgia state line. Chatuge Lake extends southward for 13 miles (21 km) along the Hiwassee and eastward for roughly 6 miles (9.7 km) along Shooting Creek, which once emptied into the Hiwassee immediately upstream from the dam site.
Most of the eight tornadoes that touched down were produced by two supercell thunderstorms over North Carolina. At 12:25 a.m. EST, the National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for most of eastern North Carolina as the risk of tornadoes increased. Not long after, the first tornado of the outbreak, an EF2, touched down in South Carolina.
North Carolina: 7: 4 fatalities: Produced a long-track F4 that struck Raleigh, North Carolina, killing four people. A few other less significant tornadoes occurred as well. (3 significant, 1 violent killer) May 1989 tornado outbreak: May 5, 1989: Mid-Atlantic – Southeast U.S. 16: 7 fatalities: Produced three killer F4s in the Carolinas.
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin — a high-end classification of tornado warning — sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ground ...
It started with 10 tornadoes touching down on May 21 with the most significant one being an EF1 tornado that uprooted or snapped pine trees northeast of Raeford, North Carolina. On May 22, 14 tornadoes touched down, including an EF1 tornado that struck downtown Bowie, Texas , resulting in considerable damage to homes, businesses, trees, and ...
A tornado was also spotted in Lake County north of Chicago during the early evening hours. [151] In Wisconsin, six people suffered minor injuries after a tornado ripped through Columbia County. [152] On June 8, two tornadoes touched down in Millard, Nebraska at about 2:15 am CDT (0715 UTC) before merging into one. The EF1 and EF2 tornadoes ...