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Between December 28–29, 2024, a late season tornado outbreak affected the Deep South.Multiple tornadoes caused severe damage in the Greater Houston area and in Port Arthur, Texas while additional tornadoes caused damage in other states, including Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
HOUSTON – Just a couple of days after tornadoes created dramatic scenes around the greater Houston area, storms have again caused damage and at least one death Saturday on the outskirts of the ...
A confirmed tornado has left significant damage in Porter Heights, Texas, where at least five homes were heavily impacted. Emergency crews are actively conducting search and rescue operations in ...
The most powerful, or EF-5, have winds above 200 mph and usually cause catastrophic damage. The tornado that flattened a swath of Iowa in May was an EF-4 tornado, and one of the deadliest of 2024.
However, tornadoes are capable of both much shorter and much longer damage paths: one tornado was reported to have a damage path only 7 feet (2.1 m) long, while the record-holding tornado for path length—the Tri-State Tornado, which affected parts of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925—was on the ground continuously for 219 ...
The tornado continued northeast for 34.64-mile (55.75 km), before finally lifting northwest of Carl. The tornado was rated as a high-end EF3 with wind speeds estimated at 155 mph (249 km/h), reaching a peak width of 1,300 yards (1,200 m) along a 34.64-mile (55.75 km) path, remaining on the ground for 38 minutes. [11]
A tornado that touched down near Katy, Texas, on Saturday, Dec. 28, Tornadoes leave 4 dead amid severe weather outbreak across southern U.S. Skip to main content
High-end EF3 tornado damage to a home in Minden, Iowa. This very large multiple-vortex tornado touched down at 5:25 pm. CDT in central Pottawattamie County, as another EF3 tornado to its west from the same supercell was dissipating. Roughly for the next ten minutes, the tornado maintained EF0 strength, with damage limited to trees and outbuildings.