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The tornado then crossed into Prince George County at F2 intensity, striking a sand and gravel company. Several cars and trucks were overturned, the second floor of a cinder-block building was destroyed, conveyor belts were twisted and overturned, and one person was killed at that location.
North Carolina recorded 12 tornadoes, the state's sixth largest outbreak in a single day, while Virginia recorded 16 tornadoes, its third-most in a 24-hour period. Overall, 97 tornadoes were confirmed, the strongest of which was a high-end EF3 tornado that heavily damaged or destroyed homes and outbuildings near Rocky Mount, Virginia. There ...
The tornado outbreak of September 24, 2001 was one of the worst tornado events to ever have directly affected the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area in the United States. [1] The outbreak occurred on Monday, September 24, 2001, and was responsible for two deaths and 57 injuries.
In the Tri-Cities area, the tornado killed four people (three in Wal-Mart and one in Prince George), injured 246, and caused an estimated $50 million in property damage. On April 28, 2008, an EF1 tornado (max. wind speeds 86-110 mph) produced a near two miles (3.2 km) long, though discontinuous, path through Colonial Heights. The tornado first ...
Some of the most notorious twisters in U.S. history were wedge tornadoes, including the EF5 that leveled Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, and the El Reno tornado, which was a jaw-dropping 2.6 ...
The May 1995 tornado outbreak sequence produced 279 tornadoes between May 6 and May 19, 1995, across the Midwestern, Southern and Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. There were three particular outbreaks during that period: those of May 7 to May 9 across the southern Great Plains , May 13–14 across the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys and ...
Multiple tornadoes touched down in the southern United States over the weekend, killing at least four people from Texas to North Carolina, amid a wintertime severe weather outbreak. As of January ...
The tornado was among at least 1,735 tornadoes that occurred across the country in 2024, according to SPC data. The total is more than 40% higher than the typical number of tornadoes seen in an ...