Tornadoes That Have Scoured The Road Pavement | Some Past Tornadoes That Have Scoured The Road Pavement
Data from National Weather Service tornado surveys.....
December 23, 2015, near Ashland, Mississippi tornado event | Photo courtesy: NWS Memphis, TN...
MAY 22, 2011 JOPLIN, MISSOURI DEVASTATING EF-5 TORNADO:
Main steel roof support trusses were rolled like paper, and main support beams twisted or curved. Portions of trees that remained standing were debarked and denuded. In a parking lot west of the Home Depot, the asphalt was torn from its base with the chunks tossed eastward across the street. Also, asphalt was ripped up from the Walmart parking lot. Wind rowing or debris packing of heavy building and other materials were evident in several areas along the most destructive portions of the track. There were also some interesting features such as a wooden chair with four legs embedded into an exterior wood and stucco wall, and a rubber hose impaled through a tree.
Joplin Tornado NWS Survey:
Maximum EF-Scale: EF- 5
Est. Max. Wind: In Excess of 200 mph
Path Length: 22.1 Miles
Path Width: 3/4 to 1 Mile
Fatalities: 158
Injuries:1000+
Start Time: 1734 PM
End Time: 1812 PM
Approximate Beginning Pt.: 1/2 mile SW of the intersection of JJ HWY & and west 32nd street (Newton Road)
Approximate Ending Pt.: 4.8 mi. NNE of Granby, Missouri
THE JOPLIN DEVASTATING EF-5 TORNADO:
* DATE...22 May 2011
* MAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING...EF-5
* ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEED…In Excess of 200 MPH
* ESTIMATED MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH…3/4 to 1 Mile
* ESTIMATED DAMAGE PATH LENGTH...22.1 Miles
* APPROXIMATE START POINT…1/2 Mile Southwest of the Intersection of JJ Highway (South Central City Road) and West 32ND Street (Newton Road)
* APPROXIMATE END POINT…4.8 Miles North Northeast of Granby, MISSOURI
* START TIME…1734 P.M.
* END TIME…1812 P.M.
* FATALITIES…158
* INJURIES…1000+
Data: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/sgf/?n=event_2011may22_survey
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April 25–28, 2011 Tornado outbreak - Philadelphia, Mississippi Tornado
This EF-5 tornado touched down near the city of Philadelphia, Mississippi. The tornado touched down at 2:30 p.m. CDT and traveled a path of 29 miles through Neshoba, Kemper, Winston, and Noxubee counties, resulting in three fatalities and significant high end destruction. In parts of northeast Neshoba and northwest Kemper counties, there was very high end tree damage with extreme denuding and debarking of trees, which were torn from the ground and thrown. Nearby, a large area of ground was scoured out to a depth of two feet in places, and asphalt was scoured off pavement. This was the first tornado to cause F5 or EF5 damage in Mississippi since the Candlestick Park tornado of March 3, 1966. Additionally, this marks the first time since statistics have been kept that two EF5 tornadoes have been recorded on the same day in Mississippi, with the tornado in Smithville, Mississippi also rated as an EF5. The last confirmed EF5 tornado was the Parkersburg, Iowa tornado on May 25, 2008.
Neshoba/Kemper/Winston/Noxubee Counties, MS
Mississippi Tornado Outbreak Of April 25-27-2011
Courtesy: National Weather Service Jackson, Mississippi
Tornado Event Summary:This tornado caused a path of extensive damage in northeast Neshoba, extreme northwest Kemper, extreme southeast Winston, and southwest Noxubee counties. The most intense damage occurred in a several mile area from extreme northeast Neshoba county into extreme southeast Winston county. Much of the damage in the core of the tornado in this area was rated as high end EF-3 to EF-5. The three fatalities occurred in northwest Kemper County when a strapped down doublewide mobile home was thrown a distance of approximately 300 yards into a treeline, and then obliterated with the debris and framing scattered many hundreds of yards down the path. There was no indication of ground impacts between the original site of the mobile home and where it ended up to indicate that the mobile home bounced extensively as it travelled. Two traditional frame brick homes in southeast Winston county were completely leveled with only a few small parts of interior walls standing. New vehicles were thrown or rolled hundreds of yards before being wrapped into trees and left almost beyond recognition. In parts of northeast Neshoba and northwest Kemper counties, there was very high end tree damage with extensive denuding and debarking of trees, along with areas where the ground was scoured out to a depth of two feet in places, and asphalt was scoured off pavement. This marks the first EF5 tornado in Mississippi since the Candlestick Park tornado on May 3, 1966. Additionally, this marks the first time since statistics have been kept that two EF5 tornadoes have been recorded on the same day in Mississippi, with the tornado in Smithville also rated as an EF5.
Data at: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/?n=2011_04_25_27_neshoba_kemper_winston_noxubee
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The Andover, Kansas Tornado of 1991
The 1991 Andover, Kansas Tornado was a violent outbreak of 55 tornadoes which took place on April 26, 1991, killing 24 people and injuring hundreds more. This was the last F5 tornado that was recorded in Kansas under the old Fujita scale rating system. Trees were debarked and pavement was scoured off roads.
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Jarrell, Texas Tornado Damage - May 27, 1997
Jarrell, Texas Tornado in 1997, Jarrell Texas (40 miles north of Austin and about 100 miles north of San Antonio) had an F5 tornado that pulled up the asphalt and grass in its path. Shortly before 3:45 pm CDT on 27 May 97, a violent tornado struck portions of Jarrell, TX, killing 27 directly, and doing damage officially rated F5 on the Fujita Scale -- the most extreme level of tornado damage. This tornado blew some houses completely off the foundations and swept away the disentegrated remains. It also scoured asphalt from roads, killed and dismembered hundreds of cattle, stripped bark from trees and uprooted them, and bounced vehicles for up to half a mile from their parking places. Official report: The F5 tornado (see Appendix F, Fujita Tornado Intensity Scale) that occurred near theunincorporated community of Jarrell in Williamson County caused 27 of the 30 fatalities. Actual time of the Jarrell tornado’s development was hard to pinpoint but is believed to be between 3:15 p.m. and 3:20 p.m. Initially, the tornado was quite weak and small, probably beingno more than F0 or F1. The tornado moved slowly south-southwest, crossing into Williamson County at approximately 3:25 p.m. Shortly thereafter, the tornado explosively strengthened,becoming a multi-vortex F5 tornado before moving into the Double Creek Estates subdivision onthe west side of Jarrell at 3:40 p.m. Here, devastation was complete. The entire subdivision,consisting of approximately 38 single-family structures and several mobile homes, was destroyed.Three businesses, located adjacent to the subdivision, were also destroyed.
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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1055 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 1997
YESTERDAY...SATURDAY MAY 31ST...OFFICIALS FROM THE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE...ACCOMPANIED BY A NOAA SURVEY
TEAM...TOURED THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE PEDERNALES VALLEY TORNADO IN
SOUTHWEST TRAVIS COUNTY ON TUESDAY...MAY 27TH. Weather Service surveys tornado damage in Texas town: LARGE TREES IN AND NEAR THE TORNADO PATH WERE TOPPLED OR PULLED OUT OF THE GROUND. ... ASPHALT WAS SCOURED FROM A COUNTY ROAD IN THE PEDERNALES CANYON ... DURING THE LIFETIME OF THE PEDERNALES VALLEY TORNADO...IT DESTROYED SOME 15 HOMES...CAUSING MAJOR DAMAGE TO AN ESTIMATED 15 OTHER HOMES AND MINOR DAMAGE TO 14 HOMES. LARGE TREES IN AND NEAR THE TORNADO PATH WERE TOPPLED OR PULLED OUT OF THE GROUND...CARS AND HOME APPLIANCES WERE ALSO SCATTERED FOR SOME DISTANCE. ASPHALT WAS SCOURED FROM A COUNTY ROAD IN THE PEDERNALES CANYON SUBDIVISION. F4 DAMAGE EARLY IN ITS LIFE FROM THE TELEPHONE SWITCHING STATION JUST SOUTHWEST OF SIESTA SHORES THROUGH THE HAZY HILLS SUBDIVISION AREA. A TORNADO WARNING FOR TRAVIS COUNTY WAS ISSUED BY THE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE AT 4:09 PM CDT.
The Pedernales Valley, Texas, tornado damage and intensity rating survey from the Austin/San Antonio National Weather Service.
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1055 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 1997
YESTERDAY...SATURDAY MAY 31ST...OFFICIALS FROM THE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE...ACCOMPANIED BY A NOAA SURVEY
TEAM...TOURED THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE PEDERNALES VALLEY TORNADO IN
SOUTHWEST TRAVIS COUNTY ON TUESDAY...MAY 27TH. PRELIMINARY REVIEWS
BY THE TEAM INDICATE...BASED ON INITIAL GROUND OBSERVATIONS...THAT
THIS TORNADO WAS AN F3 THROUGH MOST OF ITS LIFE...WITH VERY CLEAR
F4 DAMAGE EARLY IN ITS LIFE FROM THE TELEPHONE SWITCHING STATION JUST
SOUTHWEST OF SIESTA SHORES THROUGH THE HAZY HILLS SUBDIVISION AREA.
A TORNADO WARNING FOR TRAVIS COUNTY WAS ISSUED BY THE AUSTIN/SAN
ANTONIO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE AT 4:09 PM CDT. THE PEDERNALES VALLEY TORNADO APPEARED TO TOUCH DOWN FIRST AT THE SIESTA SHORES MARINA AT LAKE TRAVIS NEAR BRIARCLIFF AROUND 4:45 PM...CAUSING SEVERE DAMAGE TO THE MARINA AND PROPERTY IN THE AREA. THE TORNADO NEXT TRACKED TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST...ENCOUNTERING AND DESTROYING A REINFORCED CONCRETE TELEPHONE SWITCHING STATION ONE MILE FROM THE MARINA...AND CAUSING MAJOR DAMAGE TO ONE HOME. IT CONTINUED IN THIS DIRECTION FOR ANOTHER MILE...CROSSING OVER TWO RIDGE LINES AND THEN DESCENDING INTO THE HAZY HILLS SUBDIVISION ABOUT 4:50 PM. IT FIRST STRUCK A MOBILE HOME...KILLING ONE MAN. THE TORNADO MOVED ACROSS A SHALLOW VALLEY AND CLIMBED AN APPROXIMATE 200 FOOT RISE...ROLLING ONE AND PERHAPS TWO VEHICLES OVER 1/4 MILE AND PUSHING THEM UP THE RISE DURING THIS TIME. THE TORNADO COMPLETELY DESTROYED ONE HOME AND SEVERELY DAMAGED SEVERAL OTHERS AS IT CONTINUED SOUTHWESTWARD BEFORE CROSSING SH71. THE TORNADO WAS ESTIMATED AT 1/4 MILE WIDE AS IT MOVED THROUGH THE HAZY HILLS SUBDIVISION. THE TORNADO CONTINUED MOVING SOUTHWESTWARD...INTO THE PEDERNALES CANYON SUBDIVISION...DESTROYING OR SEVERELY DAMAGING APPROXIMATELY 25 HOMES FINALLY DISSIPATING APPROXIMATELY 5 TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
SH71. DURING THE LIFETIME OF THE PEDERNALES VALLEY TORNADO...IT DESTROYED SOME 15 HOMES...CAUSING MAJOR DAMAGE TO AN ESTIMATED 15 OTHER HOMES AND MINOR DAMAGE TO 14 HOMES. LARGE TREES IN AND NEAR THE TORNADO PATH WERE TOPPLED OR PULLED OUT OF THE GROUND...CARS AND HOME APPLIANCES WERE ALSO SCATTERED FOR SOME DISTANCE. ASPHALT WAS SCOURED FROM A COUNTY ROAD IN THE PEDERNALES CANYON SUBDIVISION. AGAIN...IT IS EMPHASIZED THAT THIS IS A PRELIMINARY SURVEY. A MORE COMPLETE AND THOROUGH SURVEY...TO INCLUDE BOTH GROUND AND AERIAL INVESTIGATIONS AND ENGINEERING ASSESSMENTS WILL BE PUBLISHED AND MADE AVAILABLE AT A LATER DATE. THE NOAA ASSESSMENT TEAM WILL BE IN THE AUSTIN AREA THROUGH MONDAY...
JUNE 2.
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Tornadoes in Central Georgia - March 1, 2007
On Thursday, March 1, 2007 severe thunderstorms moved across Central Georgia, producing several tornadoes that resulted in significant damage in several counties. Mobile home lifted from foundation and dropped next to road (Webster County). Tornado demolished this home in Webster County and pulled asphalt up as itup as it crossed roadway. This tornado tracked across Webster...Sumter...and Macon counties...from Chambliss to about 17 miles northeast of Americus. It was rated EF3. Path length approximately 38 miles and maximum width of one mile in Americus. Heaviest damage was in the city of Americus around the Sumter Regional Hospital. The hospital was evacuated and is not being used. Hundreds of homes...businesses and vehicles were affected with significant damage or totally destroyed. Two confirmed deaths and numerous injuries were associated with this storm in Americus. Three injuries also occurred northeast of Chambliss on East Centerpoint Road when a concrete block house and two machine shops were totally destroyed. The road in front of the house had 25 feet of asphalt ripped out. Five cows were killed in the same area. A tractor trailer was overturned and burned at the intersection of highway 520 and TV Tower Road in south Webster County. The 1600 foot Georgia Public Television tower in the same area was snapped off with only 150 feet still standing.
Data: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ffc/html/torfotos3107b.shtml
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OCTOBER 4, 1998 WATONGA, OKLAHOMA TORNADO
A video showed the very thin rope tornado ripping a piece of asphalt pavement off the road. The area the tornado went across was sparsely populated. Damage was to a vacant house, utility poles, a couple of barns and an irrigation system. No injuries reported. The tornado was described as an F2 by the NWS and traveled 12 miles on the ground. It started three miles southwest of Watonga and dissipated about 9 miles east-northeast of Watonga, Oklahoma.
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The Great Plains Tornado Outbreak of May 3, 1999
On May 3, 1999, multiple supercell thunderstorms produced many large and damaging tornadoes in central Oklahoma during the late afternoon and evening hours. Some of these storms were killers, including the twisters which moved through and/or near Dover, Shawnee, Perry and Bridge Creek, and the Moore and southern Oklahoma City metropolitan areas. Additional tornadoes also hit areas in south central Kansas, eastern Oklahoma and northern Texas, with over 70 tornadoes being observed across the region. The total tornado count makes this tornado outbreak the largest ever recorded in Oklahoma.
TTAA00 KOUN 070120
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
820 PM CDT THU MAY 6 1999
REPORT ON TORNADO DAMAGE IN GRADY AND MCCLAIN COUNTIES...
A SURVEY TEAM COMPOSED OF METEOROLOGISTS FROM THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY AND THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAVE COMPLETED INITIAL SURVEYS OF TORNADO DAMAGE FROM WEST OF CHICKASHA IN GRADY COUNTY NORTHEASTWARD TO NEWCASTLE IN MCCLAIN COUNTY. THIS REPORT INCLUDES DETAILS OF THAT PART OF THE DAMAGE TRACK ONLY UP TO THE SOUTH CANADIAN RIVER. INFORMATION ON THE DAMAGE SURVEY FOR LOCATIONS NORTHEAST OF THE SOUTH CANADIAN RIVER TO INTERSTATE 240 WERE CONTAINED WITHIN THE PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT ISSUED YESTERDAY. INFORMATION ON THE DAMAGE SURVEY FOR OKLAHOMA COUNTY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 240 WERE ISSUED IN A PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT EARLIER THIS EVENING. INFORMATION ON THE COMANCHE AND CADDO COUNTY TORNADOES FROM THIS SAME SUPERCELL STORM IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS STATEMENT. FOUR TORNADOES OCCURRED IN GRADY AND MCCLAIN COUNTIES. ALL FOUR TORNADOES WERE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SAME MESOCYCLONE... INSTEAD OF A SERIES OF "CYCLING" MESOCYCLONES THAT METEOROLOGISTS SOMETIME OBSERVE WITH LONG-TRACK SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS.
SOUTH OF VERDEN...
THE FIRST TORNADO DEVELOPED FOUR MILES SOUTH OF VERDEN... AND QUICKLY INTENSIFIED TO A STRONG TORNADO WITH ASSOCIATED DAMAGE RATED AT THE HIGH END OF THE F3 SCALE. THE TORNADO TRACKED NORTHEAST ALONG A FOUR MILE PATH TO A POINT FIVE AND ONE HALF MILES DUE WEST OF DOWNTOWN CHICKASHA. MAXIMUM TORNADO WIDTH WAS ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF A MILE. THE TORNADO DESTROYED SEVERAL HOMES... INCLUDING ONE HOME WITH ONLY A FEW INTERIOR WALLS REMAINING. THE TORNADO ALSO DOWNED SEVERAL WOODEN HIGH TENSION POWER LINES.
NORTHWEST OF CHICKASHA /TWO TORNADOES/...
THE SECOND TORNADO DEVELOPED THREE MILES WEST-NORTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN
CHICKASHA AND IMMEDIATELY CAUSED F3 DAMAGE TO A TWO-STORY BRICK HOME. THE TORNADO THEN CROSSED U.S. ROUTE 62 ON THE EXTREME NORTHWEST EDGE OF CHICKASHA CITY LIMITS AND MOVED NORTHEAST AND STRUCK THE CHICKASHA MUNICIPAL AIRPORT COMPLEX... RESULTING IN HIGH-END F2 DAMAGE TO TWO HANGAR BUILDINGS. A WING FROM AN AIRCRAFT AT THIS AIRPORT WAS EVENTUALLY CARRIED AIRBORNE AND DROPPED IN
SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA CITY. THE TORNADO CROSSED U.S. ROUTE 81 ABOUT TWO MILES NORTH OF ITS INTERSECTION WITH U.S. ROUTE 62... DESTROYING A LARGE BUILDING. THE TORNADO CONTINUED NORTHEAST AND DISSIPATED ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH- NORTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN CHICKASHA. THE PATH LENGTH WAS 6 MILES LONG AND MAXIMUM WIDTH WAS ABOUT ONE-HALF MILE WIDE. THIS TORNADO WAS ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH A THIRD BRIEF SATELLITE TORNADO THAT ROTATED AROUND THE SOUTH AND EAST SIDE OF THE MAIN
VORTEX. DAMAGE FROM THIS SATELLITE TORNADO WAS NOT DISCOVERED...AND IS THEREFORE NOT RATED. NEAR AMBER THROUGH BRIDGE CREEK THROUGH NORTHWEST NEWCASTLE...THE FOURTH TORNADO WILL BE RECORDED AS AN F5 TORNADO - THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE RATING ON THE FUJITA SCALE OF TORNADO DAMAGE INTENSITY. TORNADOES ARE ASSIGNED A RATING BASED ON THE MAXIMUM DAMAGE INTENSITY OBSERVED... BUT ACTUAL DAMAGE OF THAT INTENSITY GENERALLY ONLY AFFECTS A VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE OF THE TOTAL DAMAGE AREA. F5 DAMAGE IN THIS CASE WAS VERY ISOLATED... BUT THE TORNADO LEFT A CONTINUOUS TRACK OF F4 DAMAGE FOR SIX AND ONE-HALF MILES IN GRADY COUNTY. THE TORNADO EVENTUALLY PRODUCED MORE AREAS OF F5 DAMAGE IN CLEVELAND COUNTY. THE TORNADO DEVELOPED ABOUT TWO MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF AMBER... CROSSED STATE HIGHWAY 92... AND QUICKLY GREW TO A VERY LARGE TORNADO AS IT PASSED EAST OF AMBER. THIS VIOLENT TORNADO MOVED NORTHEAST PARALLELING THE H.E. BAILEY TURNPIKE (INTERSTATE 44)... AND EVENTUALLY CROSSED THE SOUTH CANADIAN RIVER ONE MILE EAST OF THE TURNPIKE. THE SEGMENT OF THE PATH IN GRADY AND MCCLAIN COUNTIES WAS TWENTY-THREE MILES... AND THE TORNADO CONTINUED INTO NORTHERN CLEVELAND COUNTY AND EVENTUALLY OKLAHOMA COUNTY. THE TOTAL PATH LENGTH OF THIS TORNADO FROM AMBER TO MIDWEST CITY WAS APPROXIMATELY THIRTY-EIGHT MILES. JUST SOUTH AND EAST OF AMBER... THE TORNADO QUICKLY GREW TO CLOSE TO THREE-QUARTERS OF A MILE WIDE. ASPHALT PAVEMENT... ABOUT ONE INCH THICK... WAS PEELED FROM A SECTION OF RURAL ROAD /EW125 RD/ ABOUT FIVE MILES EAST OF STATE ROAD 92. THE FIRST DAMAGE RATED AT F4 WAS DISCOVERED ABOUT FOUR MILES EAST-NORTHEAST OF AMBER. F4 DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED CONTINUOUSLY FOR SIX AND ONE-HALF MILES... WITH ANOTHER AREA OF F4 DAMAGE ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEWCASTLE. TWO AREAS OF F5 DAMAGE WERE OBSERVED. THE FIRST WAS IN THE WILLOW CREEK ESTATES... A RURAL SUBDIVISION OF MOBILE HOMES AND SOME CONCRETE SLAB HOMES IN BRIDGE CREEK. TWO HOMES WERE FOUND COMPLETELY SWEPT FROM THEIR SLABS... AND ABOUT ONE DOZEN AUTOMOBILES WERE CARRIED ABOUT ONE-QUARTER MILE. GRASS VEGETATION IN THIS AREA WAS COMPLETELY SCOURED TO MUD... AND SMALL CEDAR TREES WERE LEFT DE-BARKED AND DEVOID OF GREENERY. THE RIDGECREST BAPTIST CHURCH WAS DESTROYED NORTHEAST OF THE FIRST F5 DAMAGE AREA. THE SECOND F5 DAMAGE WAS ONE MILE WEST OF THE COUNTY LINE IN BRIDGE CREEK... AND CONSISTED OF A CLEANLY SWEPT SLAB HOME WITH FOUNDATION ANCHOR BOLTS AND ANOTHER VEHICLE LOFTED ONE-QUARTER MILE. THE MAXIMUM WIDTH OF THE TORNADO IN BRIDGE CREEK WAS ABOUT ONE-MILE WIDE. THE TORNADO MAINTAINED A NEARLY STRAIGHT PATH TO THE
NORTHWEST OF THE TURNPIKE EXCEPT WHEN IT MADE A SLIGHT JOG TO THE RIGHT AND MOVED DIRECTLY OVER THE 16TH STREET TURNPIKE OVERPASS BEFORE RESUMING ITS ORIGINAL COURSE. THE TORNADO CONTINUED INTO THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF RURAL NEWCASTLE... AND CROSSE THE TURNPIKE AGAIN JUST NORTH OF THE U.S. 62 NEWCASTLE INTERCHANGE. AT THIS LOCATION THE TORNADO NARROWED TO ABOUT ONE-QUARTER MILE WIDE AND THE DAMAGE INTENSITY DROPPED TO F2 BEFORE IT CROSSED THE SOUTH CANADIAN RIVER INTO NORTHERN CLEVELAND COUNTY.
GREG STUMPF
NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY
JAMES LADUE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE/OSF
DS
http://www.srh.weather.gov/oun/storms/19990503/pnsokc0506c.txt
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Dimmitt, Texas June 2, 1995 Tornado:
A damage survey showed the storm's violent character: one 40-meter section of asphalt roadway had been torn away, along with power lines and a few structures. This tornado struck just south of Dimmitt, TX on June 2, 1995. On 2 June 1995, strong to violent tornadoes occurred near the small towns of Friona and Dimmitt, Texas, as part of a large supercell outbreak in the Texas Panhandle and northeastern New Mexico
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GREENBAY, WISCONSIN TORNADDOES OF JUNE 23, 1994
Newsletters/07-2004 NWS GREENBAY, WI:
Sixteen tornadoes struck Wisconsin duringthe evening of June 23, 1994 the largest outbreakof twisters to hit the state since June 8,1993, when 18 tornadoes occurred. The strongest tornado in the state hit the city of Markesan in Green Lake County, wheresadly, one person was killed.
The storm wasrated F3 on the Fujita damage scale, with winds estimated near 200 mph
Five twisters affected the NWS Green Bay forecast area, producing nearly $8 million indamage. Ground surveys by NWS Green Bay meteorologists revealed one F2, two F1,and two F0 tornadoes. The hardest hit locations in the NWS Green Bay forecast area included rural sections of southeast Portageand southwest Waupaca counties, and the cities of Little Chute and Kaukauna in Outa-gamie County. Several homes and businesses sustained significant damage, somelivestock were killed, semi-trailers were up-ended, 75 feet of asphalt was scoured off a road, many trees were snapped or uprooted,and debris was strewn for miles around. Thankfully,
no one was killed or injured.
Data: PackerlandWeather News
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THE GREENSBURG, KANSAS TORNADO OF MAY 4, 2007: A massive tornado killed at least nine people and flattened almost all of a small town in Kansas on Friday. More than 60 people were injured when the tornado - said to be up to a mile wide - hit the town of Greensburg. More than 95% of the 1,500-population town was destroyed, including the hospital and schools as well as homes. The tornado that moved through Greensburg, KS the evening of 4 May 2007 destroyed much of the town. The damage was so massive that it earned the first ever EF-5 rating. The tornado damage was the first to be rated a F-5 since the Oklahoma City, OK tornado of 3 May 1999. Much of the town of Greensburg was destroyed by the tornado that had a 1.7 mile maximum path width and a 22-mile path length. The damage clearly showed how the tornado moved northeast into the southwestpart of town before turning northward, seemingly down Main St. Greensburg. Many of the homes along and west of Main St. were swept off their foundations. Included in the damage was the water tower above the “World’s Largest Hand-Dug Well,” which was estimated to be holding 55,000 gallons of water at the time of the tornado. The National Weather Service classified the Greensburg tornado as an F-5, the highest category and the first F-5 since it revised its scale this year to more comprehensively gauge damage potential, with less emphasis on wind speed. The last tornado classified as an F-5 hit the Oklahoma City area on May 3, 1999, killing 36 people. The tornado ripped out miles of fencing. Cattle were killed and scattered all over the country. New fencing has been donated and skilled volunteers will help install it, but Griffin predicts the cattle will never all be sorted.
Data from: http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/jun07/tornado61407.html
Data from: The Greensburg, KS Tornado by Daniel McCarthy NOAA Storm
Prediction Center, Norman, OK Larry Ruthi and Jeff Hutton NWS Weather
Forecast Office Dodge City, KS.
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CANDLESTICK PARK, MISSISSIPPI TORNADO OF MARCH 3, 1966:
Mississippi Violent Weather Event of MARCH 3rd 1966...
The tornado moved into the Jackson city limits, destroying the Candlestick Park shopping center and a number of homes and businesses in this same area, which is along Cooper Road near Cany Creek. Pictures from the Candlestick Park area show businesses and homes leveled to the ground, and eyewitnesses reported cars thrown more than a half of a mile and pavement scoured off of the ground. All of this is indicative of violent (F4 or F5) tornado damage. After moving through this area, the tornado passed across the Pearl River into Rankin County. Nineteen people were killed in Hinds County, most at Candlestick Park or nearby. The tornado then moved into Scott County, where some of the worst devastation appears to have taken place. The destruction was particularly catastrophic in the area north of Branch and near Forkville in northwest Scott county. Pictures and video from this area show houses destroyed to the foundation, large swaths of trees totally annihilated, and chicken houses obliterated. Eyewitnesses again reported road pavement scoured out by the force of the tornado. The tornado continued east-northeast, with additional heavy damage near the Midway community in north-central Scott county. Before moving out of Scott County, the tornado would kill 26 people in this county alone. The official track for the tornado shows a continuous, 202.5 mile track from Hinds County, Mississippi to Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. The tornado
dissipated about 7:45 p.m .near Tuscaloosa.
FROM: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/events/CandlestickPark/Overview.php
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RED ROCK OKLAHOMA TORNADO APRIL 26, 1991
The other violent tornado was the only one to strike within the NWS Norman area of responsibility, initially touching down east of Enid, about 2.5 miles east of Garber, and it is this tornado that became known as the “Red Rock” tornado. It touched down at 6:30 pm, and moved northeast about 66 miles over the next hour and a half, making this one of the longest tornado paths documented in Oklahoma. At times, the tornado was about 3/4 of a mile wide. This tornado crossed Interstate 35, but did not directly strike any towns. It got its name as it passed between the communities of Marland and Red Rock. Trees were debarked and pavement was scoured off roads.
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Tornadoes Over Central Wisconsin and the Fox Valley - June 23, 2004:
LOCATION: 3 SE BLAINE (SE PORTAGE COUNTY) TO 1.5 SW LIND CENTER (SW
WAUPACA COUNTY)
FUJITA RATING: F1-F2 (APPROX 110-120 MPH WINDS)
WIDTH: 125 YARDS
PATH LENGTH: 10 MILES (NOT CONTINUOUS)
TIME: 753-806 PM CDT
DAMAGE DESCRIPTION: THE WESTERN EDGE OF DAMAGE PATH WAS NEAR 16TH ROAD IN SE PORTAGE COUNTY, WHERE TREES WERE KNOCKED DOWN AND AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM WAS TOPPLED. THE TORNADO TRACKED EAST INTO SW WAUPACA COUNTY, MOVED JUST SOUTH OF THE INTERSECTION OF DAYTON AND SUHS ROADS, CROSSED HWY 22 AND TORE A PATH RIGHT ALONG RADLEY ROAD TO JUST EAST OF HWY K. THE TORNADO CONTINUED AN INTERMITTENT PATH FARTHER EAST, THEN DISSIPATED SOUTH OF LIND CENTER. THE WORST DAMAGE OCCURRED ALONG RADLEY ROAD, WHERE ASPHALT WAS SCOURED OFF THE ROAD, A BARN DEMOLISHED, A SHEET METAL OUTBUILDING DAMAGED, 3 SHEEP KILLED, A ROOF TORN OFF OF A HOME AND GARAGE DEMOLISHED, A SEMI TRAILER MOVED ABOUT 50 FEET AND TURNED ON ITS SIDE AND TWO HAY WAGONS BLOWN UP AGAINST TREES. THE DAMAGE PATH ENDED APPROXIMATELY 1.5 MILES SW OF LIND CENTER, WHERE NUMEROUS TREES WERE SNAPPED OFF OR UPROOTED ON A SMALL HILL. DEBRIS FROM THIS STORM WAS DROPPED AS FAR EAST AS THE FREMONT AREA.
FROM: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grb/events/062304.php
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Not asphalt, but dirt was pulled up in this April 29, 1942 tornado event.....
29 April 1942: Three entire families were killed near Oberlin, KS by an F5 tornado. Several inches of top soil were swept away from the farms. The death total was 15 and 25 were injured. The tornado dissipated near Cedar Bluff, KS.
