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Recent tornado outbreaks
February
- February 3
- Five tornadoes touch down in Alabama. One EF2 tornado impacts Sawyerville, Alabama, killing one person, marking the first tornadic death of the year.
March
- March 5–7
- A tornado outbreak impacted parts of the central and southern United States with the worst impacts in Iowa. A long-track EF4 tornado, the fist violent tornado of the year, killed six people near Winterset, Iowa and an EF3 tornado killed one person near Chariton.
Tornado anniversaries
March 10
- 1876 – Several strong tornadoes struck the Midwestern United States. An F3 tornado destroyed much of Hazel Green, Wisconsin, killing 9 people and injuring 50. Homes were "ground finer than grist from the mills of the Gods" and debris was carried up to 8 mi (13 km). An F4 tornado killed 14 people across Monroe, Ralls, and Marion counties, Missouri.
- 1973 – A tornado outbreak affected parts of the Southern United States with the worst damage in Texas. An F4 tornado destroyed much of Hubbard, Texas, killing 6 people and injuring 77. An F3 tornado damaged or destroyed about 200 buildings in Burnet, Texas, injuring 40 people.
March 11
- 1917 – An F4 tornado damaged or destroyed 350 buildings on the south side of New Castle, Indiana, killing 24 people in all and injuring 110. An F3 tornado killed three people in Cincinnati.
- 1923 – An F5 tornado completely swept away about a quarter of Pinson, Tennessee, killing 20 people and injuring 70. Bodies and body parts were carried for up to a mile.
March 12
- 2006 – Fifty-five tornadoes touched down across the Midwestern United States as part of a larger outbreak sequence, killing eight people. An F3 tornado killed four people and injured 26 near Renick, Missouri, including 13 people on a bus that it overturned. An F2 tornado injured 13 people near Fordland, Missouri, including one man who was carried 1,307 ft (398 m), the greatest distance that a person has been carried by a tornado and survived.
Did you know…
- ...that the 2013 Moore tornado that struck Moore and Newcastle, Oklahoma, is the most recent EF5 tornado?
- ...that the 2021 South Moravia tornado, an EF4 tornado with winds between 207–260 mph (333–418 km/h), was the strongest tornado to hit the Czech Republic in modern history?
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The 1999 Sydney hailstorm was the costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history, causing extensive damage along the east coast of New South Wales. The storm developed south of Sydney on the afternoon of Wednesday, 14 April 1999 and struck the city's eastern suburbs, including the central business district, later that evening.
The storm dropped an estimated 500,000 tonnes of hailstones in its path. Insured damages caused by the storm were over A$1.7 billion, with the total damage bill (including uninsured damages) estimated to be around A$2.3 billion. It was the costliest in Australian history in insured damages, surpassing the A$1.1 billion in insured damages caused by the 1989 Newcastle earthquake. Lightning also claimed one life during the storm, and the event caused approximately 50 injuries. (Full article...)Topics
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