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🌪️What We are Working On…..

• Our latest Spotify audio is available! We share the story of the Keefeton, OK F4 Tornado - May 26, 1973! Please give us a follow and check out a new way to learn about tornado history!

• Writing and research continues on several summaries! I spent several hours on Saturday trying to find the location of a mobile home park for one of the summaries! 🙃 - We do our best to get the history right and it can take awhile. Our goal is to release a new summary and a couple of updates over the next few weeks. And the larger Guin Premium Update over the holidays!

🌪️ This Week In Tornado History

September 16, 1946 - Sidney, MT: An F2 tornado moved north near Sidney, MT. A small house were destroyed and there were three injuries.

September 17, 2004 - Virginia: The largest tornado outbreak in Virginia history swept across the state. Per the Storm Prediction Center, 38 tornadoes formed across Virginia. This outbreak was spawned by the remnants of Hurricane Ivan, a former Category 5 storm that decimated portions of the Caribbean and Gulf Coast. Officially, the most powerful of the Virginia portion of the event was an F3 that struck Remington, VA. However, this summary shows a tornado in Stanardsville was likely even stronger. We have a Premium Summary about this twister. Exclusive to Patreon members!

September 18, 1923 - Oklahoma: An estimated F2 tornado moved four miles from 8 miles NW of Olustee, OK, passing through the farming community of “Prairie Hill”. The school and also two homes were destroyed. There was one injury.

September 19, 1947 - Apalachicola, FL: This was a hurricane-spawned tornado. Thomas Grazulis in Significant Tornadoes gave this twister an F3 rating. There were 2 fatalities and 100 injuries.

September 20, 2002 - Central Indiana: An F3 tornado tracked for 112 miles through central Indiana. It passed through the southern and eastern sides of the Indianapolis Metro. Extensive damage occurred to homes, businesses, and schools. There were 130 injuries, but no fatalities.

September 21, 1894 - Minnesota/Iowa: An intense outbreak occurred across parts of Minnesota and Iowa. Thomas Grazulis documents eight tornadoes. He gave three of these and F4 rating and one and rated one an F5. He denotes as well these were probably tornado families. The F5 traveled 50 miles in Kossuth, Hancock and Winnebator Counties in Iowa and ending in Faribault, MN. 14 were killed and 100 injured. Grazulis documents that 10 farms in Kossuth County “were entirely leveled and swept away, with five or more having little left to show that a farm once existed on the site.”

September 22, 2001 - Clay County, NE: An F3 tornado tracked for eight miles across Clay County, NE. The tornado damaged three farmsteads in an area bounded by Clay Center, Edgar and Ong.

🌪️Check This Out!

Researchers at the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) have published a study in the August issue of Monthly Weather Review comparing tornado intensity estimates determined by damage and by weather radar. Their conclusion is that radar-based estimates of near-ground wind speeds in tornadoes are frequently higher than estimates derived from damage using the EF scale. (NOAA Research)

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