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On June 8, 1953, the Flint-Beecher tornado struck the north side of Flint and the suburb of Beecher, marking Michigan's ...
The tornado moved in a bizarre southwest direction as its extreme winds leveled homes and hurled vehicles far from the subdivision it struck.
JARRELL, Texas — Twenty-eight years ago this week, on May 27, 1997, a catastrophic F5 tornado struck Jarrell ... causing unparalleled damage. All 38 homes in the subdivision were obliterated ...
The most powerful and deadliest tornado ever to hit the state of Iowa occurred around the Charles City area on May 15, 1968. In fact, it wasn't just one tornado, but a series of storms that absolutely ...
Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of the 1985 tornado outbreak. Flowers were placed at the memorial in Niles as the city ...
Cindy Laverty’s only experience with a tornado came from watching the musical fantasy film “The Wizard of Oz.” ...
Keystone State, including the first and only F5. This WTAE archive video shows some of the widespread damage in Pennsylvania.
The original Fujita Scale (F0–F5) was replaced in 2011 by the Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF0–EF5), which better reflects the damage caused by tornadoes. Forensic meteorologists have found that ...
Here is some of the damage from the F5 Charles City tornado. Since then, there have only been two other F5/EF5 tornadoes in Iowa. One F5 occurred in Jordan, IA on June 13, 1976. The other was the ...