BOLIVAR, Mo. (KY3) – The National Weather Service confirmed two tornadoes hit the Bolivar, Mo. area Thursday. The two EF1 twisters hit around the noon hour. The first brief tornado hit along Killingsworth Avenue in the southern portion of the Polk County city. The second EF1 tornado hit between Bolivar and Halfway. Multiple witnesses reported…
Memorial Day Damage: Radar Confirmed Tornado in Polk County
At 6:32 PM on Monday evening, the National Weather Service issued a Tornado Warning for a storm cell moving through the city of Johnston. The National Weather Service Johnston will do a storm survey tonight and possibly into Tuesday morning to confirm damage from this storm. Rotation started to appear in radar scans just before…
Tornado Destroys More Than 170 Homes in One Texas Town
Three days after a deadly tornado tore through the East Texas town of Onalaska and nearby areas, the scope of the devastation is becoming heartbreakingly clear. 306 homes damaged. 173 completely destroyed. Three people dead. Four critically injured. “We just thank the Lord and pray and take it one day at a time,” Zachary Botley,…
Tornadoes, floods leave at least 6 dead in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana
Severe storms continued to roar across the Deep South on Thursday after floods and apparent tornadoes hit part of Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana a day earlier, killing at least 6 people and leaving thousands without power. In southern Oklahoma, a trailer worker’s body was found a quarter mile from the factory where he worked after…
Tornadoes, Storms Kill 7 Across 3 States As Dangerous Weather Moves Across South Today
A system producing severe storms continued to move across the South on Thursday after tornadoes killed at least five people and injured dozens more in Texas and Oklahoma on Wednesday. Storms in Louisiana killed at least two people. Tornado warnings have already been issued for parts of Mississippi and Alabama Thursday morning. More than 164,000…
Tornado rips through East Texas city of Onalaska, killing 3 and injuring dozens
At least three people were killed and up to 30 people were injured Wednesday as a possible tornado ripped through the small East Texas city of Onalaska, about 85 miles north of Houston. The tornado flipped cars and leveled home in several neighborhoods in Onalaska. Three people died in the storm and another 20 to…
Polk County businesses join forces to help tornado victims
POLK COUNTY, TN (WRCB) – Bar owner Michael Powers wanted to get involved when he noticed how quickly people helped after last week’s tornado. “Within a couple hours of that tornado, people were out with chain saws, out there bringing food and passing it out,” recalls Powers. He decided to offer his establishment, Dumpy’s Bar…
Tornado batters Ocoee community in Polk County
OCOEE, Tenn. — Families, volunteers and emergency responders continue to pick up the pieces in the wake of a storm that left two dead in the Ocoee community in Polk County early Wednesday morning. The National Weather Service confirmed a category EF-3 tornado, characterized by wind speeds of between 136 and 165 mph, struck the…