Strong storms that brought tornadoes, high winds, hail and rain to parts of the Midwest and South caused extensive damage in some areas but no deaths, officials said Sunday. Tornadoes were spotted in Arkansas, Illinois and Iowa as thunderstorms swept through the area Saturday. High winds and a possible tornado were also reported in Indiana.…
4 confirmed tornadoes from severe storms on Saturday
The National Weather Service offices in the Quad Cities and La Crosse, Wisconsin surveyed damage from Saturday’s storms and confirmed 4 tornadoes in the TV9 viewing area. The first tornado happened in Fayette County, near Oelwein and was rated an EF-1, with estimated wind speeds of around 107 mph. Meteorologists that surveyed the damage said…
Tornado touches down east of Oregon
Mary Ann and Rich Rhoads were watching storm updates on TV from their Oregon home Saturday night when they knew one of their rental properties on German Church Road was “in the danger zone”. “We were watching TV last night and they showed the line for German Church Road and they had this big circle…
Farms, homes damaged after EF-1 tornado near Potosi
GRANT COUNTY, Wis. (WMTV) — The National Weather Service says storms formed near a warm front on Saturday, producing brief tornadoes which caused damage north of Potosi, Wisconsin and Oelwein, Iowa. Preliminary reports from the NWS show an EF-1 tornado with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph and a path length of 6.9 miles. Officials…
EF-0 tornado confirmed in Sparta during storms early Sunday morning
The National Weather Service confirmed that an EF-0 tornado hit Sparta Sunday morning. A damage survey team found a tornado with winds up to 85 mph hit the southeast side of the city early Sunday morning. However, a very wide area of severe straight-line winds up to 95 mph caused much worse damage across the…
Tornado rips through Arkansas city, injuring 22 people
(CNN)A tornado ripped through Jonesboro, Arkansas, injuring 22 people and leaving a trail of flattened homes and buildings. Mayor Harold Perrin and other local officials said there were no deaths after the tornado touched down on Saturday in the city, about 130 miles northeast of Little Rock. Of the 22 injured people, two stayed in…
Next Week Marks the Start of the Most Dangerous Three Months for Tornadoes in the U.S.
April kicks off what is typically the most active and dangerous three-month period of the year for tornadoes in the United States. Strong tornadoes can occur in any month, as we saw in early March when 19 people were killed by an EF4 twister in Putnam County, Tennessee. But weather history shows April, May and…
Deadly gaps: Weather radar’s inability to see everything is an issue
The EF-2 tornado that touched down the night of March 14 in Elmore County was spawned by a supercell thunderstorm that formed in a weather radar gap in west central Alabama. The same storm was responsible for tornadoes in Marengo, Perry, Dallas and Autauga counties as it tracked across the midline of the state, before…
Mississippi tornado levels Dollar General store, damages other buildings
A tornado ripped through northeastern Mississippi on Tuesday evening, leveling a Dollar General store and damaging several other buildings. After the twister passed, the store in Tishomingo, about 242 milies northeast of Jackson, near the Alabama and Tennessee state lines, was a pile of rubble, video posted on social media showed. The tornado also caused…
East Nashville man survives tornado, says PTSD is real
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – “Just a horrible terrifying experience,” said Eric Peters, “My wife and I, and our two boys, somehow got out, I don’t know how. I don’t know how anybody got out of our house alive.” Peters says his wife woke him up after hearing the emergency tornado alert on her phone and…