Posts Tagged ‘twister’

Sunday night’s wild and wicked weather dumped heavy rain, hail and spawned at least two  confirmed tornadoes near New Salem. Some bridges and roads in Morton County were closed Monday as creeks swelled up with runoff the morning after the storms. Tammy Lapp Harris, Morton County emergency manager, said a bridge over the Big Muddy [...]

“I don’t think we’re done counting,” Nixon told The Associated Press, adding, “I still believe that because of the size of the debris and the number of people involved that there are lives to be saved.” Crews found bodies in vehicles the storm had flipped over, torn apart and left crushed like empty cans. Triage [...]

Aren’t you glad it’s Friday? Do you want to maybe cry a little in celebration? Then check out this video, below, of Judy Pugh, whose home was destroyed by the tornadoes that swept through Tuscaloosa, Alabama on April 27. The ferocious twister left at least 39 dead in Tuscaloosa alone.

The “Cinderella dress” Delana Blevins had so looked forward to wearing to prom just needed a few alterations when the tornadoes ripped through northwest Georgia late last month, blowing it away along with the rest of the tailoring shop. All she found in the rubble was a scrap of beading from the bodice. “I was [...]

A tornado that skipped onto the grounds of a Grand Isle tourist resort spun down a path between guests’ campers and a row of occupied motel rooms Friday afternoon, doing its actual damage only after reaching the lone room that was empty. “It was crazy,” said 22-year-old Renee Vegas, whose parents own the Bridge Side [...]

The National Weather Service says it now has confirmed 16 tornadoes hit Virginia last week. The tornadoes that struck all areas of the state killed five people, including four in Washington County where the most powerful of the twisters hit. Washington County suffered two tornadoes, including one that was 18 miles long and packed winds [...]

Damage from last week’s tornadoes and storms in Jefferson County, Alabama, which is awash in debt, is far worse than initially thought and will hit the county’s sewer revenue, the county commission president said on Tuesday. The county, saddled with a $3.2 billion sewer bond debt, is struggling to avoid declaring what would be the [...]

Per the Associated Press: Preliminary government estimates say there were more tornadoes in a single day last week than any other day in U.S. history. Government analysts said Monday there were 362 tornadoes during last week’s outbreak, including a record-setting 312 in one 24-hour period. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the largest previous [...]

Per the Seattle Times: Weather scientists are retracing the footprints of this week’s monstrous tornadoes the way detectives would investigate a crime scene: talking to witnesses, watching surveillance video and taking the measurements of trees ripped from the ground. The result will be a meteorological autopsy report on the disaster, revealing how many twisters developed [...]

A tornado tore through Little Rock Air Force Base at about 8 p.m. Monday, damaging aircraft, base houses and more. Col. Mike Minihan, installation and 19th Airlift Wing commander, said in a press conference Tuesday morning that none were killed on base during Monday’s storm, and three people were treated for minor injuries. Across base, [...]