Two tornadoes that carved into Clarksville-area neighborhoods Saturday night were 150 and 300 yards wide, and they stretched a total of 9 miles. National Weather Service officials, as well as state and local Emergency Management Agency crews, were on the ground Saturday around Clarksville assessing the damage. Meteorologist James LaRosa said the tornadoes that touched…
Family Speaks Out After Elderly Lady Dies In Tornado
LOGAN COUNTY, Ky. – A family is grieving after their loved one died when her home collapsed during a tornado. “It’s just like it flattened everything,” Tammy Brown said. Brown is devastated and in disbelief after the force of a tornado brought down her parent’s home on Dot Road. “He lost everything in 12 minutes,”…
Tornado Warning Issued Late In Logan County
LOGAN COUNTY, Ky. – A tornado warning was issued 12 minutes after a tornado hit Logan County. An elderly lady died when her home collapsed during the tornado outbreak. The EF-2 tornado touched down near the Kentucky/Tennessee border at 3:54 p.m. Saturday leaving behind a trail of destruction. “That pick up truck went 250 yards,”…
NWS confirms EF-2 tornado in Hopkinsville
A storm dropped an EF-2 tornado in Hopkinsville, damaging multiple buildings and displacing families Saturday night, according to an assessment team from the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service in Paducah said a tornado with winds 100 mph or higher caused damage to the Eagle Crossing Apartments along with two businesses on Pembroke Road,…
Tornado hits Hopkinsville apartments, displaces 140 people
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. — Several people are hurt and more than 100 people are displaced after an EF-2 tornado hits Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Just before 9 p.m. on Saturday night, Sade Richardson was inside her Calvin Drive apartment, and began to hear a noise. “I was in the living room and it was dark and I just…
NWS: 2 tornadoes touched down in Tulsa metro Sunday; 3rd tornado hit Rogers County
The National Weather Service now says there were two tornadoes that hit the Tulsa metro area Sunday. The first one, rated an EF-2, developed over a neighborhood near 36th and Harvard and moved nearly seven miles to the east into Broken Arrow with winds between 120 and 130 mph, according to the National Weather Service.…
Tornado confirmed on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
KENT ISLAND, Md. – A tornado touched down on Maryland’s Eastern Shore early Monday morning, the National Weather Service has confirmed. The NWS out of Mount Holly, New Jersey, confirmed an EF-2 tornado hit near Stevensville in Queen Anne’s County at about 1:29 a.m. Officials say the tornado had maximum winds estimated at 125 miles…
Storms produced nine tornadoes in Red River Valley
HILLSBORO — Meteorologists have confirmed storms from last week produced seven tornadoes in the Red River Valley, including one in Traill County that tracked 23 miles and reached the width of 10 football fields. Severe weather brought hail, damaging winds and, to some counties, tornadoes on July 11, downing power lines, breaking trees and causing…
Apartment building still stands after being partly destroyed from tornado one year ago
VINTON, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) – It has been one year since an EF-2 tornado ripped through an apartment building in Vinton. One of the Karr Apartment residents Paula Nelson just moved into a new apartment a few weeks ago. She was forced to move out after the tornado. Every day she’s reminded of the tornado that…
Tornado Damage Confirmed in Fairfield
As the remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy are expected to drench parts of Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia today, residents in parts of Alabama will be picking up the pieces. A powerful storm system hit Jefferson County yesterday, leaving four people injured, downing power lines and destroying buildings in the city of Fairfield. The National…