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They were part of what is known as a tornado family; a family that included several additional touchdowns after the Goessel storm dissipated. [ 7 ] The first tornado of the Hesston storm touched down at approximately 4:34 p.m. CDT just to the northeast of Pretty Prairie .
The average track length for a typical tornado is about 1–2 miles, but they can vary from as little as a few feet to over 100 miles. In some cases, such as the Hesston-Goessel, Kansas tornadoes of March 1990, different tornadoes of a tornado family merge, making discerning whether an event was continuous or not more difficult. [3]
As the tornado grew to its maximum width of 1.3 miles, it destroyed an adobe brick house, earning an F4 rating. As it continued, a half-mile wide swath of ground scouring and a 300 foot wide strip of asphalt scouring were noted. The tornado weakened to F2 intensity, but became a killer as it tossed a dump truck and a car containing a family of ...
In the tornado family tree, the stovepipe is the cousin to the cone tornado. The two types are similar in size but differ in shape. While the width of a cone tornado tapers as it extends downward ...
The family hunkered in their saferoom when an EF-3 tornado spawned by Hurricane Milton ripped though the western communities of Palm Beach County. Relying on faith, friends, family, strangers ...
As a deadly tornado barreled toward their home in the Mississippi Delta, Ida Cartlidge only had time to scoop up her 1-year-old son, Nolan, and hold him close. Cartlidge huddled with her husband ...
Hesston is a city in Harvey County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 3,505. [ 4 ] Large manufacturing facilities for AGCO (farm equipment) and Stanley Black & Decker (lawn mowers) are located in Hesston.
The night a tornado hit Bowling Green last year, Ginny Hensley was already on high alert. A tornado had struck her house in Glasgow, Kentucky, in 1997. On the night of Dec. 10, 2021, weather ...