Tornado History from 1923 to 2018!

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We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving holiday and didn’t get too stuffed 🙂 - Let’s look at our newsletter STUFFED with tornado history!

A quick peek at what’s in store this week:

  • A long-track tornado strikes Raleigh, NC in 1988.

  • A 2011 Super Outbreak story!

  • History from Alabama!

     

📽️ Here is our latest This Week In Tornado History Video! A devastating F4 tornado made its way across five North Carolina counties on November 28, 1988. The tornado began at 1am EST in Umstead National Park in the NW part of Raleigh. It ended almost two hours later, two miles NW of Jackson in Northampton County. It had an 83-mile track that was almost continuous.

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🌪️ This Week In Tornado History

November 27, 1994 - Germantown, TN: Overall, 28 homes were destroyed and 300 were damaged. Houston High School and a church had significant damage. Thirty utility poles and several trees were blown down. Two mobile homes in Fayette County were destroyed. There were three fatalities.

Image from newspapers.com

November 28, 1923 - Terrebonne Parish, LA: A possible F2 tornado moved two miles through parts of Terrebonne Parish, LA. 25 homes and a new school were destroyed. Four family members were killed when their small home was demolished. A fifth death occurred when a houseboat overturned. A 12-year-old girl drowned.

November 29, 2010: Atlanta, LA: This EF4 completely destroyed a large, well-built two-story house. A mobile home was thrown 300 yards into a wooded area and destroyed.

November 30, 2016 - Rosalie-Ider, AL: Just after midnight on November 30, 2016, an EF3 tornado crossed through parts of Jackson and DeKalb Counties in Alabama. This was one of 39 tornadoes, during a 2-day outbreak. There was significant damage in the towns of Rosalie and Ider. Sadly, four people were killed.

Image from NWS Huntsville.

December 1, 1942 - Goldmine, GA: A possible F2 moved through the “Goldmine” community in southeastern Hart County, GA. Every building was damaged or unroofed. The high school gym was leveled.

December 2, 2018 - St. Marys, GA: An EF3 tornado struck the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay near St. Marys, GA. A docked coast guard vessel recorded a 144 mph wind gust as the twister passed over. Four injuries were reported.

December 3, 1978 - Bossier City, LA: Thirteen tornadoes were recorded during the early morning hours of December 3, 1978. The strongest was an F4 tornado that developed at 1:50am CT in the Central Park area of Bossier City, LA. Our detailed summary about this event which includes notes from Ted Fujita’s report on this event.

Image from NWS Shreveport.

Twister Tales

Our friend Johnny Parker from Smithville, MS contributed an article to our website about his experience with the April 27, 2011 that hit his town and his home. Here is a snippet of his story:

"'The tornado lasted no more than 10 seconds. Miraculously, we all got up and walked out of our house, which was now severely damaged. I walked out to what used to be our front porch. It was now covered with bricks and all manner of debris. What I saw was complete devastation. The only word that can describe how I felt was shock. It was hard to absorb what had just happened."

Read Johnny’s story and many more from the outbreak on our website!

Article of the Week

This week’s article comes from our friend Bill Murray on alabamawx.com. He takes us through the history of a deadly train wreck on Thanksgiving Day in 1951 in Alabama. Sunny weather was a factor!

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