NORTHWOOD, N.D. — Ten years ago on Saturday, one local town was changed forever. The Northwood tornado of 2007 devastated the town, causing $60 million worth of damage and killing one person. A night that residents in the town of Northwood will never for get. “You could feel it was super quiet, there was no…
VU professor recounts tornado hit from 1917
VALPARAISO —The “most intense” tornado to hit Porter County followed a path along Ind. 8 from Hebron to Kouts on May 26, 1917. The 1917 tornado, which killed five people in Porter County and today would be rated a severe EF-4 storm, was one of 63 tornadoes in one of the worst tornado outbreaks in…
DEAD, DOZENS HURT AFTER TORNADOES HIT TEXAS, SOUTH
A tornado could have crossed Interstate 20 in Canton, flipping vehicles in a dealership and damaging a building. On Monday, the National Weather Service announced that one of the EF-3 tornadoes was actually stronger, a EF-4, a category with winds close to a maximum of 200 miles per hour. The third tornado, which has been…
Weather Service rates tornado that hit Southern Illinois EF-4 in preliminary report
PADUCAH — National Weather Service in Paducah is rating a tornado that traveled from Southeast Missouri into Southern Illinois on Feb. 28 an EF-4 in a preliminary report released over the weekend. The tornado had estimated peak wind speed of 180 miles per hour and a path 50.4 miles long. The tornado killed one person…
Perryville tornado lasted more than an hour
The historical comparisons are evident. The National Weather Service’s Paducah office – which assessed the damage from the Perryville tornado – released its final storm report on Saturday. According to the NWS, the twister is not only the longest-track tornado in this region since 1981 – spending an incredible one hour and 2 minutes on…
Fat Tuesday tornado upgraded to EF-4
The Fat Tuesday tornado that hit Jackson and Franklin counties has been upgraded to an EF-4, the National Weather service has reported. That tornado started near Perryville, Missouri, where it did significant damage and killed one person, and then traveled more than 50 miles east where it finally dissolved just southeast of Christopher. It was…
Central Kansas tornado rated EF-4
ABILENE, Kan. (KAKE) – A tornado that tore through Dickinson County Wednesday evening destroyed eight homes and heavily damaged 15 to 20 more. The National Weather Service in Topeka said the tornado was an EF-4, estimating its peak wind at 180 miles-per-hour. It formed about five miles northwest of Solomon and dissipated approximately three miles…
Denning Remembers Five-Year Anniversary Of EF-4 Tornado
DENNING (KFSM)—This week, people are remembering the five-year anniversary of tornadoes that hit Franklin and Johnson Counties. “All of a sudden we heard, ‘Bam!’ and one tree went down and hit the backside of the house; and then it sounded like a train was coming over,” Sheila Helmert said. May 24 – 25, 2011 are…