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🌪️What We are Working On…..

• Just putting the finishing touches on a new audio for Spotify! It is a reading of the Keefeton, OK F4 Tornado from May 26, 1973! Follow us on Spotify to listen! Also, if you follow us on Patreon on Free or Paid, you get access to this audio through that platform, online and on the app!

• Writing and research continues on several summaries including an update on the Lake Mattoon, IL F3 - August 21, 1977. Zach and I also started digging into another event from the 1974 Outbreak. It is a not so well known tornado out of Tennessee. More on that next week!

• Zach, Nelson and I continue to work on our Premium update for the Guin F5 that occurred on April 3, 1974. Due to crazy schedules, we will have to delay getting this done. We don’t want to rush it! Look for a release around the holidays.

🌪️ This Week In Tornado History

September 9, 2016 - Champaign County, IL: There were 6 tornadoes confirmed on September 9, 2016. Four were in the state of Illinois including the strongest – an EF2 that crossed through parts of Champaign County. The estimated peak winds were 125 mph.

September 10, 2019 - Wyoming: A large wedge tornado tracked east-southeast through central Goshen County, WY, for nearly 20 miles. Satellite tornadoes accompanied the main twister. Farm buildings were destroyed, and livestock was killed across the path. Rating: EF2.

September 11, 1885 - Ord, NE: An estimated F3 tornado moved NNW near Ord, NE. Many buildings were destroyed and two were killed in one home.

September 12, 1961 - Galveston, TX: Hurricane Carla produced tornadoes in Coastal Texas during the wee hours of the morning of September 12, 1961. One was given an F4 rating and per Thomas Grazulis, it “was probably the most intense tornado ever to hit Galveston.” Eight people were killed.

September 13, 1928 - South Dakota: Several significant tornadoes moved through parts of the Plains on this day. Thomas Grazulis gave one that pushed through Yankton and Turner Counties in South Dakota an F4 rating. The path was 30 miles. Four were killed and 19 injured. It moved to the northeast from NE of Utica, passing nine miles West of Irene. In this area, an entire farm was swept away just as the family was heading to the storm cellar. A man and his daughter were killed, along with 100 hogs and 30 cattle. At another farm, a man was “carried a mile to his death after he hid in a granary which was swept up into the tornado.” Another woman died in Davis.

September 14, 2001 - Florida: Tropical Storm Gabrielle spawned an F1 tornado in Cocoa, FL. It traveled northwest for 1.8 miles through old downtown. Several homes, trailers, and businesses were damaged.

September 15, 1912 - Onondaga County, NY: An estimated F2 tornado moved 10 miles through parts of Onondaga County, NY on this day. It moved east from near the “Long Branch” resort at the outlet of Onondaga Lakes and passed 2 miles north of the Syracuse city limits. Thomas Grazulis notes that 15 homes and approximately 100 other buildings were damaged or destroyed. 3 were killed and 40+ were injured.

🌪️Check This Out!

Check out this article from NOAA about John Park Finley, America’s first tornado forecaster! Link.

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- Jen Narramore, Owner Tornado Talk