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…
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…
Storm surveys add tornadoes in Humphreys and Cumberland Counties
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The National Weather Service continued surveying storm damage and confirmed two new areas of tornado damage. The first was in Humphreys County. This is a continuation of the path of the EF-2 tornado already confirmed in Benton County. It moved into across the Tennessee River into Humphreys County northwest of Waverly…
Tennessee tornadoes’ death toll was tied to a lack of warning, awareness and readiness
At least 24 are dead in the wake of Tuesday morning’s terrible Tennessee tornadoes. They carved a long scar across Middle Tennessee in the dead of night, racking up a large death toll in the process. While downtown Nashville was hit hard, the town of Cookeville — about 80 miles east of the state capital…