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One of the Largest Fall Tornado Outbreaks Occurred in 1992!
Over $7000 Raised for the Red Cross!
Let’s start off our Thanksgiving week with a dose of tornado history!
A quick peek at this week’s newsletter:
Over $7000 raised on the Weatherpods Telethon!
A look back at a Super Outbreak twister!
An odd occurrence at a Florida construction site!
The Weatherpods Telethon benefitting the American Red Cross was a huge success! Tornado Talk owner and WeatherBrains panelist Jen Narramore, joined the rest of the brainy crew for an hour of the telethon that lasted at total of 12 hours! Over $7000 was raised for Red Cross. You can still watch the telethon and donate. Here is the link on the WeatherBrains Youtube Channel!
Here is our latest This Week In Tornado History video! A total of 15 tornadoes crossed through parts of Mississippi during the November 21-23, 1992 Widespread outbreak. This video goes through a long-track twister that went through 7 Mississippi Counties!
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🌪️ This Week In Tornado History
November 20, 1900 - Lula/Dundee, MS: What may have been a family of tornadoes that covered 90 miles moved from Coahoma County, MS to Fayette County, TN. 30 people were killed along the path. In Tunica County, several plantations were devastated at Lula and south of Dundee. 15 people were killed in these area. “Bodies were reportedly carried for a half mile.” Rating given: F4.
November 21, 1992: One of the largest fall tornado outbreaks in the United States began on this day. Per the NOAA National Disaster Survey Report about the event, 94 tornadoes occurred across 13 states. Over 600 injuries were reported and 26 fatalities.
Image from NOAA.
November 22, 2010: Caledonia, IL: Several structures were heavily damaged or destroyed in town, and metal truss towers were toppled. The tornado was rated EF2.
November 23, 1992 - Hillsborough, NC: 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. We have a summary that looks at one of those that rolled through parts of Orange County.
Image from newspapers.com.
November 24, 1949 - Tallapoosa County, AL: A deadly F2 tornado moved from east of Hackneyville, AL to 8 miles NE of Alexander City. " 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."
November 25, 1883 - Bridgeport, WI: A possible F3 tornado moved five miles through portions of Crawford County, WI. Near Bridgeport, a woman was killed in her leveled farm house.
November 26, 2001 - Henry County, TN: Ten homes and buildings were destroyed by this F3 tornado, 46 others were damaged. There were two fatalities and 12 injuries.
Image from NWS Paducah.
Twister Tales
On April 27, 2011, a devastating EF4 tornado traveled through portions of Jackson and DeKalb Counties in Alabama to Dade and Walker Counties in Georgia. The communities of Pisgah, Flat Rock, Higdon and Trenton had tremendous impacts.
We have free and premium summaries on our website detailing this event. The day started in this area with a dangerous line of storms and there was one fatality. Eight hours later, the long track and violent Flat Rock-Trenton tornado formed.
Here is an excerpt of one of the stories out of the Trenton area:
"'I’m still in shock, running on adrenaline. I didn’t expect it to do the amount of damage it did.' That is a quote from Jacob Taylor in an April 29, 2011, article in The Chattanooga Times Free Press. He and his roommate, Andy Page, lived in a second-floor unit at Village Green Apartments. They rode out the tornado in a closet, holding onto the water heater. “All you could hear was the roar – you couldn’t even hear the walls being blown away,” Jacob said. “It was over in 5 seconds. All that was left was the carpet on the floor.” The roommates lost everything they owned, but neither were injured. The men began a frantic search for their cats. After a few hours, Andy’s cat of three years, Ellie, came out of her hiding place and into her owner’s arms."
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Video of the Week
A dust devil spun up in a construction site north of Clearwater, FL on November 9, 2023. No major damage was reported! Check out this video courtesy of The Weather Channel.
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