Two tornadoes tore through Henderson County on Saturday night, destroying homes and snapping trees from their trunks. Dozens were injured in the storms, some critically. At least four people were killed in Van Zandt County. East Texas Medical Center hospitals in Tyler, Athens and Cedar Creek Lake treated a total of 56 patients from the…
The ‘forgotten F5’ tornado of April 16, 1998
DEERFIELD, Tenn. – An historic tornado outbreak of at least 13 tornadoes struck Middle Tennessee on April 16, 1998. Many of these tornadoes were strong or violent and tracked long distances, killing 4 people and injuring nearly 100 people, while causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. The most infamous tornado during the outbreak…
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…