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A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, [ 1 ] although the word cyclone is used in meteorology to name a weather system with a low-pressure area in the ...
26 injuries. Tornadoes affected six different states, with Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma receiving most of the tornadoes. A tornado struck downtown Sabetha, Kansas, and a series of tornadoes struck the North Oklahoma City area. (3 significant) Upper Great Lakes severe weather outbreak of August 23, 1998.
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At least three deaths are being blamed on a suspected tornado in Ohio as another line of severe storms swept across the state on Thursday. Authorities in Logan County are dealing with a mass ...
A powerful storm tore through Garner, N.C., Sunday afternoon, Dec. 10, 2023. The NWS confirmed that an EF-1 tornado, with peak winds at 110 mph, did hit Garner between 12:28 and 12:32 p.m.
Dramatic before and after satellite photos of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, tornado.Before photos were taken on Dec. 27, 2022. After photos were taken on March 26, 2023. (Satellite image ©2023 Maxar ...
From May 4–6, 2007, a major and damaging tornado outbreak significantly affected portions of the Central United States.The most destructive tornado in the outbreak occurred on the evening of May 4 in western Kansas, where about 95% of the city of Greensburg in Kiowa County was destroyed by an EF5 tornado, the first of the new Enhanced Fujita Scale and such intensity since the 1999 Bridge ...
On May 27, 1997, an extremely violent multi-vortex tornado struck the community of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people and injuring a further 12. [1] The tornado caused $40.1 million (1997 USD) in damages and was the subject of multiple well-known photographs, earning the tornado the nickname of the "Dead Man Walking ". [2]