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A Look Back at the Widespread November 21-23, 1992 Tornado Outbreak
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🌪️ This Week In Tornado History
November 18, 1938 - Mississippi: An estimated F2 tornado skipped 38 miles from 3 miles south of Centreville, MS to Auburn. There were small homes and a few barns damaged or destroyed. A woman was killed near Centreville.
November 19, 1930 - Oklahoma: A powerful tornado, possible F4, moved NNE from 3 miles west of the Oklahoma City Limits, hitting eastern Bethany. About 1/4 of the town was damaged/destroyed. 3.5 miles NE of the Wiley Post Airport, the Camel Creek school was hit. Five students and a teacher were killed. There was a total of 23 killed from this twister.
November 20, 2004 - Texas: An F1 tornado touched down briefly six miles southeast of Victoria, TX. Several sheds were destroyed, and homes had siding blown off.
November 21, 1992 - Texas: The state of Texas had a total of 14 tornadoes during the massive November 21-23, 1992 tornado outbreak. 12 of the 14 where in the Houston County Warning area. The strongest was rated F4. It had a 30 mile path through Harris and Liberty Counties.
Twisted school bus rolled 100 yards to the east from the Christian Center parking lot. - Image from Tim Marshall.
November 22, 1992 - Mississippi: The widespread outbreak continued on this day with a significant F4 tornado that moved 40 miles through Smith, Jasper and Newton Counties in Mississippi. 20 were injured and there were no fatalities. The First Baptist Church in Sylvarena, which had been scheduled to celebrate its 125th anniversary on Nov 22 was demolished.
Image from newspapers.com.
November 23, 1992 - North Carolina: The Widespread Outbreak of November 21-23, 1992 was still ongoing during the early AM of Monday, November 23. There were two F3 tornadoes reported in NC during this time. Click the link to read about one of those events that traveled through Orange County, injuring 10 people and killing two.
Image from newspapers.com.
November 24, 1949 - Alabama: A deadly F2 tornado moved from east of Hackneyville, AL to 8 miles NE of Alexander City. Per Thomas Grazulis, “A woman and nine children died when their small home was picked up and thrown into another home over 150 yards away. Residents of the second home were injured.”
🌪️Check This Out!
One of the largest fall tornado outbreaks in the US occurred from November 21 through November 23 in 1992. We included links above to some of the summaries we have on a couple of the events from the outbreak. Per the the NOAA National Disaster Survey Report on this event, “a total of 94 tornado tracks were identified during this widespread episode which was usually intense for November.” There was a total of 6 tornadoes rated F4 and 15 rated F3. Over 600 injuries reported and twenty-six fatalities. Read more here!
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