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This is a reverse-chronological list of oil spills that have occurred throughout the world and spill(s) that are currently ongoing. Quantities are measured in tonnes of crude oil with one tonne roughly equal to 308 US gallons , 256 Imperial gallons , 7.33 barrels , or 1165 litres .
Official records list two tornadoes as striking southern Tennessee, but Grazulis states that one of these was likely a downburst. (2–3 significant, 2 killer) [46] [45] 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak: May 25–26, 1955: Great Plains – Midwest – Mississippi Valley: 46: 102 fatalities, 593 injuries: This was one of the deadliest Plains ...
In January and February 1969, in the Santa Barbara Channel, near the city of Santa Barbara, in Southern California. It was the largest oil spill in United States waters at the time, and now ranks third after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez spills. It remains the largest oil spill to have occurred in the waters off California.
A tornado in the Florida Panhandle led to the death of one person in the state, officials confirmed. The twister cut through Escambia County on the Gulf Coast on Thursday night.
There have been three major oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico: The Ixtoc I oil spill, from June 1979 to March 1980; The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, from April 2010 to August 2010; The Taylor oil spill, from September 2004 to March 18 2022
At least 25 people were killed by violent tornadoes that touched down in Mississippi on Friday night, according to the state's emergency management agency. The twisters left behind total ...
Prior to 1950 in the United States, only significant tornadoes are listed for the number of tornadoes in outbreaks. Due to increasing detection, particularly in the U.S., numbers of counted tornadoes have increased markedly in recent decades although the number of actual tornadoes and counted significant tornadoes has not. In older events, the ...
Damage has been reported across Florida's Panhandle, especially in Lower Grand Lagoon from possible tornadoes. Videos, photos posted across social media after reported tornadoes in Florida Skip to ...