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An EF0 tornado damaged Pleasant Hill Elementary School and a nearby nursing home in Pleasant Hill in Cumberland County, while three tornadoes, including two rated EF2, caused heavy damage in the Norma and Straight Fork communities in Scott County. Several homes sustained heavy damage, including a double-wide mobile home which was destroyed.
Just to the northeast, the tornado weakened to high-end EF2 intensity at the intersection of Pleasant Hill Church Road and Feather Creek Road, where a small house was completely destroyed and another house was heavily damaged and had its roof torn off.
This page documents all tornadoes confirmed by various weather forecast offices of the National Weather Service in the United States from April to June 2021. On average, there are 155 confirmed tornadoes in the United States in April, 276 confirmed tornadoes in May, and 243 confirmed tornadoes in June.
Pleasant Hill was hit by an EF2 tornado that touched down at 8:50 p.m. and traveled 7.7 miles with peak winds of 125 mph. It lasted until 9:02 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.
The Pleasant Hill tornado lasted roughly 12 minutes, with estimated max wind speeds of 125 MPH, ending around 9:12 p.m. The National Weather Service believes the rotation was at least 300 yards wide.
A tree limb slammed through a bedroom window and pierced the exterior wall of a Pleasant Hill home Friday, April 26, showering glass and twigs, the result of a fast-moving tornado that tore ...
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin — a high-end classification of tornado warning — sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ground ...
The scale ranks tornadoes from F0 to F5, with F0 being the least intense and F5 being the most intense. F4 tornadoes were estimated to have had maximum winds between 207 mph (333 km/h) and 260 mph (420 km/h) and are considered violent tornadoes, along with F5 tornadoes. [3] [nb 1]