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Witnesses recalled that the tornado's massive funnel resembled black smoke and was accompanied by smaller multiple vortices. [8] Others reported seeing fireballs within the debris of the tornado. [9] Beecher High School was heavily damaged as it was directly struck. The tornado's path also came close to the North Flint Drive-in theater. Patrons ...
A brief tornado was spotted aloft southwest of Greensburg, Kansas. [11] April 29. Several buildings were damaged by a tornado in Lake Charles, Louisiana that just barely missed the Weather Bureau office at the Lake Charles Airport. [11] Two tornadoes were spotted near Dighton, Kansas: Tornado moved northeastward southwest of Dighton, causing no ...
The worst tornado was a 600 yd (550 m) wide F5 tornado that struck Fort Rice, North Dakota (although some experts like Grazulis dispute this, claiming that it was an F4 tornado; Grazulis did rate the tornado F5 later on). The tornado completely leveled a church and threw car parts up to .5 miles (0.80 km).
The 1953 Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak, which included the incredibly deadly Flint-Beecher tornado, produced seven tornadoes in northern Ohio. Henry, Wood, Sandusky, Erie, Lorain and Cuyahoga ...
See pictures, videos of storm damage around Lexington and Kentucky. Monica Kast. April 2, 2024 at 9:11 AM. ... The tornado in Jefferson County had wind speeds of 100 miles per hour.
Tornado outbreak sequence of April 28 – May 2, 1953; 1953 Waco tornado outbreak; Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence; 1953 Flint–Beecher tornado; Tornado outbreak of March 12–15, 1953; Tornado outbreak of May 29, 1953; Tornado outbreak of June 27, 1953; Tornado outbreak sequence of December 1–6, 1953
The “Airport Road Tornado” occurred near the Redstone Arsenal at 4:30 p.m. and then raced northeast through Madison County. It produced an 18.5-mile-long damage path and at its peak, produced ...
The Flint-Beecher F5 tornado produced the last 100+ death toll for a single tornado in US history until the 2011 Joplin tornado. An F4 tornado that struck Worcester, Massachusetts, killed 94 people and may have reached F5 status as well. (26 significant, 6 violent, 7 killer) [36] [37] Tornado outbreak of June 27, 1953: June 27, 1953: North ...