At least 10 tornadoes touched down in Iowa Monday night, according to damage assessments completed by the National Weather Service offices in Des Moines and the Quad Cities. Storm teams are still checking out other locations with damage, so the tornado total could rise. Meteorologist Andrew Ansorge says the most significant damage occurred in the…
Tornado destroys Greasy building, damages homes
ADAIR COUNTY, Okla. (KTUL) — Several buildings were damaged and at least one was destroyed after storms and a tornado ripped through the small town of Greasy Monday night. A community building in the heart of Greasy is still standing but their storage shed has major damage. People who live there said a snack bar…
Fat Tuesday tornado upgraded to EF-4
The Fat Tuesday tornado that hit Jackson and Franklin counties has been upgraded to an EF-4, the National Weather service has reported. That tornado started near Perryville, Missouri, where it did significant damage and killed one person, and then traveled more than 50 miles east where it finally dissolved just southeast of Christopher. It was…
A tornado hit Chatsworth on Wednesday
A “brief” tornado rolled through Chatsworth on Wednesday afternoon, with winds reaching 90 miles per hour that caused “significant” damage but no injuries along the three-mile path, according to the National Weather Service. The tornado was classified as EF-1, which is on the lower end of the tornado scale. Winds from an EF-1 tornado are…
Tuesday Tornadoes Claim Third Life in Illinois
A northern Illinois man has died after being struck by a tree during a powerful Midwestern storm, raising the death toll for the regional storms to four. Peoria County’s coroner says 31-year-old David A. Johnson of Ottawa died Wednesday of severe head trauma at a Peoria hospital. Harwood says Johnson was working in a backyard…
Second tornado confirmed in Tuesday storm in Arkansas; governor monitoring damage
A second tornado has been confirmed in Arkansas as part of a storm system that ripped through the state Tuesday evening, according to the National Weather Service. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Wednesday that he is monitoring damage caused by that EF-2 tornado in Kensett as well as an EF-1 tornado that struck the nearby…
1 death reported in Ottawa tornado; nursing home also damaged
BLOOMINGTON — One person was killed in Ottawa and emergency crews are looking for people trapped in rubble in the neighboring town of Naplate in the wake of a string of severe, late-winter storms that raked across northern Illinois. The National Weather Service reported a tornado touched down in Ottawa, about 70 miles north of…
In tornado-ravaged Conway, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito says it’s ‘a miracle’ no one was hurt or killed
CONWAY – Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, seeing up close the damage from Saturday’s tornado, said it was a miracle that no one was injured or killed. “We are very fortunate that no one was injured by this force of nature,” she said. The tornado, which tore through town Saturday evening, was not predicted, and residents…
Rare tornado hits Massachusetts
CONWAY, Mass. – The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado with winds up to 110 mph touched down in western Massachusetts. Meteorologists say the EF-1 tornado touched down Saturday evening in Conway in Franklin County. The weather service says most of the damage took place in Conway, with a brief touchdown in Goshen…
Wild weather hits region
PITTSTON TWP. — As Pat Popielarz watched television in her Pittston Township home Saturday afternoon a message suddenly flashed across the screen. Tornado warning. “They broke into the program and said to take shelter,” Popielarz said. “It said northeastern Luzerne County so I figured that meant here.” Popielarz went straight to the basement of her…