For the second time in 40 years the Lay family is rebuilding after a tornado. The Torrington, Wyo., family who watched 5,000 acres of their grassland burn last fall is now focused on putting their ranch headquarters back together after an F2 tornado went through on June 12. “We were out in the front yard…
Rooks Co. town part of Kansas tornado history
TOPEKA–May 20 will be a day of some note for the small Kansas town of Codell in Rooks County. It was on that date exactly 100 year ago that an F3 tornado passed just east of the town. What makes this particularly memorable is that the year before, May 20, 1916, an F2 tornado passed…
It’s official: Tornado hit Stilson…Seven hurt as storm rakes area
The storm that ravaged the Stilson community in southern Bulloch County early Thursday morning was determined to be a tornado. “It was an F1 tornado with some F2 tornadic activity,” said Bulloch County Public Safety Director Ted Wynn, after spending hours with National Weather Service investigators Thursday, viewing damage caused by the storm. The twister…