FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — The National Weather Service in Hanford has confirmed the touch down of an EF0 tornado in Mariposa County during Saturday’s afternoon storm. Officials from the NWS surveyed the area where video was taken of a funnel cloud yesterday on Ben Hur Road, just 2 miles north of Ben Hur. Surveyors found…
Tornado touches down in Mariposa County
A tornado touched down just outside of Mariposa on Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service said. Officials from the NWS surveyed the area where a video was taken of a funnel cloud on Ben Hur Road near Beach Road, according to Meteorologist Jim Bagnall. Surveyors found branches ripped from trees and grass swirls that indicated…
Two People Injured by Tornado Die in Cuba
Havana, Feb 3 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Minister of Public Health Jose Angel Portal reported that two of the people injured during the January 27 tornado died in Havana, official sources reported on Sunday. Portal said that they died on Saturday and they were two of 13 seriously injured people as a result of the tornado…
Death toll from last week’s Havana tornado rises to 6
HAVANA — Cuban authorities say the death toll from a rare tornado that struck Havana last week has risen to six after two injured victims died in hospital. State media say Health Minister Jose Angel Portal Miranda told a meeting of government officials that two of the 13 injured people died on Saturday. The category…
Supercell: It’s the king of thunderstorms
Tornadoes are one of the most feared weather events on Earth. These quick-forming and normally short-lived cyclones tend to emerge from strongly rotating thunderstorms known as supercells. Driven by a long-lasting tower of rising air, these storms can unleash some of the fastest surface winds on Earth. Rising as much as 16.1 kilometers (10 miles)…
Huge tornado in Cuba kills 4 and injures 195
(CNN)A rare tornado that hit the Cuban capital, Havana, on Sunday night has left four people dead and 195 injured, officials said. Dramatic photos show debris covering cars and flooding in coastal zones of the city. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel visited emergency crews around the city overnight and wrote on Twitter that the damage from…
Tornado in Turkey’s Antalya leaves 2 dead, 1 missing, 10 injured
A tornado that struck Turkey’s tourism capital Antalya on Thursday left two people dead, including a 13-year-old child, one person missing and at least 11 more people injured. The tornado caused damage to many vehicles, agricultural estates and greenhouses in Kumluca and Finike districts. The injured have been transferred to Kumluca State Hospital and their…
Remembering an EF-3 tornado that devastated Clarksville, twenty years later
CLARKSVILLE, TN (WSMV) – January 22 will be remembered for devastation in Middle Tennessee. Tuesday marked 20 years since an EF-3 tornado tore through part of Clarksville. It was one of the strongest tornadoes to ever hit the state, more than 120 buildings were reduced to rubble. Several hundred more were damaged. The storm had…
Lake County storm damage caused by straight-line winds, not tornado
MASCOTTE, Fla. – Weather officials investigating Friday whether a tornado touched down in Lake County, damaging homes and toppling trees and power lines, found the weather event was not a tornado. The National Weather Service surveyed damage to homes and near a church in Mascotte on Thursday morning. “After surveying the storm damage in the…
Mascotte church cleaning up after apparent tornado
MASCOTTE — Tuscanooga Baptist Church leaders are calling it a miracle. An apparent tornado ripped through Mascotte early Thursday morning, tearing the roof off of the church’s parsonage, where a beloved retired pastor and his wife were living. The couple, James and Mary Lou Madison, survived. Now, though they’re rattled, the Madison’s are safe and…