Posts Tagged ‘tornado’
Footage shot on September 14th as the remnants of Hurricane Ike…Summer Storm
Saturday, September 5th, 2009
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A severe thunderstorm prompted a tornado warning, dropped up to half-dollar size hail, dropped trees and street lights, flooded my neighborhood, and entertained the out of me! A lot of people were blaming a tornado for the damage, but I say straight line winds were the culprit. All the trees downed in my neighborhood were aimed in the same direction.
Duration : 0:3:35
Wind damage
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Trampoline lifted from my garden, over the fence and on to next door’s garage roof before finally being mangled on the floor. Must have been a mini torndao!
Duration : 0:0:57
Reinforcing a Home Against Wind Damage
Saturday, August 15th, 2009
To reduce wind damage from a hurricane or tornado, joints connecting the framing of a house are tied together from the roof down to the sill using metal straps and hardware.
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Nappanee Indiana Tornado Damage (Slideshow)
Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Nappanee Indiana Tornado Damage
Note: Damage photo locations correspond to push pin annotations in track maps.
1 - Start) Barn and house damage, mainly siding and shingles. Trees sheared and uprooted. Trampoline mangled. Weak EF0, beginning of tornado damage path.
2 - EF0 Minor damage. Grain silo piece laying in field.
3 - EF0 2 houses damaged minor. Some trees snapped. Just south of this position on highway 30 there was also a twisted large highway exit sign and a uprooted tree.
4 - EF1 11th and Elm — Numerous power poles broke or bent north on Elm, starting just south of 11th. Poles broke or down ¾ mile length north of 11th. Farm with substantial 2nd floor damage and several grain silos damaged 0.4 mile north of 11 th on Elm. EF1 to house.
5 - EF1 House damaged, west side of 1 st floor of home torn off. Lots of sheared and uprooted trees. Metal 4 car garage completely destroyed with slab remaining. Vehicles parked in garage, J.D. Gator and small Tractor, were left intact and not damaged.
6 - EF1 0.6 north of 9B on Chestnut Rd. had substantial wooded area topped and sheared. Single wide and double wide trailers on both sides of Chestnut were overturned. Some injuries to people at home during this time.
7 - EF1 Power poles bent and broke on 8th and Beech road. 1 house damaged substantially north of 8th on Beech Rd.
8 - EF0 Barn and Tree damage on Apple Rd. north of 8th road.
10 - EF2 Wide Path, 0.45 mile wide, call it half mile. House with only interior walls left standing. Exterior walls leaning inside house or thrown. Older house with rather thin walls and some concern for poor nailing of walls to foundation. Wood pole type barn with metal siding northeast of home completely destroyed with debris flung northeast. Red combine left sitting in place where barn was. Trees sheared. Metal grain bins also destroyed and unwrapped.
11 - EF2 Amish houses and barn destroyed on both sides of CR 1000W. Mainly second story and roof damage with siding damage.
12 - EF2 Several amish houses damaged. Roof/top stories heavily damaged. Barn completely destroyed. Lots of Debris .22 tenths mile wide path. This was ¼ mile east of CR 1000W on CR 1200N.
13 - EF1 Extensive roof and tree damage. Outbuildings destroyed.
14 - EF1 Woods with trees topped and broke. Several homes with substantial roof damage at 850W and CR 1350N.
15 - EF2 ½ mile wide damage path Lots of trees topped and broken on south side of Nappanee. Church heavily damaged with EF2 damage. EF1 damage to an old school and house.
16 - EF2 Area of Indiana and Jackson Streets. Substantial home and tree damage with roofs and second stories destroyed or heavily damaged.
17 - EF2 Substantial damage to new mobile homes and RVs at Fairmount Homes and VITCO factory damage.
18 - EF3 Gulfstream cinderblock building walls knocked down. Boats and vehicles in building still in place. One other building had exterior walls completely gone. High end EF2. Northeast of Gulfstream on south side of Highway 6, Taco bell and Dairy Queen sustained substantial damage. Gas station building completely leveled and a steel frame building with metal siding had siding torn off. Steel frame was intact but steel I beams were twisted and damaged.
19 - EF3 Blackstone Subdivision at CR 54 just west of CR 9 heavily damaged homes. Roofs off of several homes. 1 home had second story completely gone and exterior walls collapsed. Interior walls still standing. Direct hit in subdivision with EF3 damage. Woman was trapped in home and crawled out afterward. Only 5 minor injuries known at this time in Nappanee.
20 - EF2 Lots of structural damage to houses on both sides of CR 9. Lots of missile damage to houses. Bus moved in driveway.
21 - EF1 Several barns damaged and lots of trees snapped/uprooted. Large circulation area. Well built homes have little damage. 0.3 mile wide.
22 - EF0 Several houses had minor shingle and siding damage. Lots of trees topped off. Lots of debris. Width around 300 yds.
23 - EF1 0.6 mile north of CR 50 on CR 15. Damage to barn siding, silo roof torn off, trees twisted and snapped. Large Debris field. Little damage to house. 100 yards wide.
24 - EF0 House and barn on south side of CR 46 at CR 17 sustained some damage. Damage width 300 yards wide.
25 - end Ending point of tornado just north of intersection of CR 17 and CR 46. Power lines down on north side of CR 46 with some minor structural damage to a house.
Duration : 0:5:54
Memphis Tornado Coverage
Saturday, July 18th, 2009
The 2008 Super Tuesday Tornado Outbreak was a deadly tornado outbreak affecting the Southern United States and the lower Ohio Valley from February 5–6, 2008.
In total, 82 tornadoes were confirmed. The outbreak produced several destructive tornadoes in heavily populated areas, most notably in the Memphis metropolitan area, in Jackson, Tennessee, and the northeastern end of the Nashville metropolitan area. At least 58 people were killed in the outbreak by tornadoes across four states and 18 counties, with hundreds of others injured. The outbreak was the deadliest in the U.S. since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 76 across Ohio and Pennsylvania (and also killed 12 in Ontario, Canada). It also was the deadliest tornado outbreak in both Tennessee and Kentucky since the 1974 Super Outbreak. In Arkansas, the 13 fatalities were the most since 25 were killed during the Benton, Arkansas Tornado Outbreak on March 1, 1997.
In addition to the tornadoes, the same system produced significant straight-line wind damage, hail as large as softballs, major flooding, significant freezing rain, and heavy snow across many areas of eastern North America.
Memphis area tornado
A supercell thunderstorm moved across the Tennessee and Mississippi state boundary and produced a tornado at 5:32 PM CDT (2332 UTC) in Southaven, Mississippi near Southaven High School which was heavily damaged. The tornado quickly tracked across the line into southeastern Memphis. National Weather Service officials issued a tornado emergency (the first of five in the outbreak) across most of the Memphis region and the suburbs. It produced a swath of extensive damage over residential and commercial areas.
WREG tower cameras showed the tornado tracking across the southeastern suburbs, particularly Southaven, Mississippi, with sightings of debris and power flashes. An eyewitness took pictures of the tornado. Hickory Ridge Mall suffered damage when portions of a wall and roof were destroyed. Major damage has also been reported in the Pleasant Ridge area of Germantown and the south end of Memphis. Damage was also reported at Memphis International Airport, where a hangar lost its roof, the FedEx freight terminal’s fire station suffered roof damage (FedEx service was disrupted due to flight delays and closed roads from the tornado damage in surrounding areas; the FedEx superhub suffered minimal damage), airstair trucks were thrown 100 yards (91 m), and aircraft were moved around, including a Boeing 737 being moved one foot. The airport was locked down before the tornado hit; the airport weather station’s reporting equipment recorded a gust of 73 knots (84 mph, 135 km/h). The Hardy Bottling Company facility was also damaged, which released 120,000 pounds (54,500 kg) of anhydrous ammonia into the atmosphere, although no public health impacts were reported. Electricity was also briefly cut to about 65,000 customers in Memphis.
The National Weather Service rated the tornado as an EF2. Four people in the metropolitan area are confirmed dead. Three people were killed when a warehouse collapsed in the Hickory Hill section of Memphis. A spokesperson for the state’s Emergency Management Agency also reported one fatality at the Hickory Ridge Mall, although the NWS office in Memphis has not confirmed such. 36 other people were injured in Shelby County by the tornadoes. One other death took place southeast of Hebron by a separate EF3 tornado.
Hernando Horn Lake Olive Branch Southaven Walls Memphis Lynchburg rum Eudora Lake Cormorant Lake View Mineral Wells Nesbit Pleasant Hill
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Shelby County, Tennessee
Arlington Bartlett Collierville Cordova Eads
Fisherville Germantown Lakeland Memphis
Millington
DeSoto County, Mississippi
Hernando Horn Lake Olive Branch
Southaven Walls Memphis Lynchburg rum
Eudora Lake Cormorant Lake View
Mineral Wells Nesbit Pleasant Hill
Crittenden County, Arkansas
Anthonyville Crawfordsville Earle
Edmondson Gilmore Horseshoe Lake
Jennette Jericho Marion
Sunset Turrell West Memphis
Tipton County, Tennessee
Atoka Brighton Burlison Covington
Garland Gilt Edge Mason Munford Reverie
Haywood County, Tennessee
Brownsville Nutbush Stanton
Madison County, Tennessee
Jackson Medon Three Way Pinson
Duration : 0:7:18
Wind Damage in Chester, Illinois
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
This is a video of the damage the storm left us on May 8, 2009 in Chester, Illinois.
Wind caused one tree and a giant branch, fell into the backyard. It also caused damage to the fence and the house (only the roof gutters).
If there is another video of the damage in the Randolph county area. Post a response!
Duration : 0:1:33
Farm Bureau Quick Claims Crew
Friday, May 29th, 2009
Parkersburg, Iowa, residents talk about their experience with Farm Bureau after an EF5 tornado devastated the town on May 25, 2008. See more at http://www.fbfs.com/fbfs/media/parkersburg.cfm
Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company
Western Agricultural Insurance Company
Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company
Duration : 0:2:59
Wind Damage
Monday, May 4th, 2009
Winds rip a roof halfway off a shedWind damage to neighbour’s garage roof
Saturday, March 7th, 2009
When a tornado tossed my trampoline into my neighbour’s garden it landed on his garage roof making a large hole!
Duration : 0:0:16