While these areas of damage were caused by the same storm, it is not yet known if there was a continuous path of damage, the weather service said. She said: We couldn't see anything. It had been so dense with hail that it showed up on radar as solid- just like the earth itself. As I tore through the porch, into the house and north, down the hall, the windows along the west wall exploded, one by one, to my left and just a fraction of a second behind me. I have to say that praying and getting into that closet most likely saved our lives that night. Their widows recognized each other when they met again in the same funeral home. I have a saw if you need it. I put on my rubber knee boots and we both went outside to check on external damage. Two streets down though people were not so lucky. It was June 1st of 2011 when a Tornado touched down that would affect the lives of many and take the lives of three. Safety1325 East West HighwaySilver Spring, MD 20910Comments? A woman was killed as she shielded her baby in a tub, another was killed when her R.V. I am lucky to be alive for sure. Nineteen severe hail reports were recorded in Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, West Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia. Within a few seconds we could hear a low rumble getting progressively louder. I say to my friends, I see lightning, but there is no thunder, no rain, no nothing. For 3 days before the tornado, it was incredibly windy but sunny out. A lot of people are hurting. Hearses carrying the bodies of tornado victims leave St. Gerald's after a mass funeral. Untouched and no water damage or cracks to the outside. The tornado was in our back yard! This was the scariest moment of my life and I hope nothing like this happens ever again. He was carpenter and was on his way home from working a job in Palatine. When I say involved I was literally standing in the Tornado. When I pulled in the driveway, my house was green! I ran to my son, yanked him with a one-handed grab from his crib just an instant before the window exploded, and wrapping him into my arms I scurried down to the basement and into the root cellar. The tornado picked us up with the hardwood floor and landed us 250 feet across the street! Hunoway worked in the shipping department for a Bensenville firm that manufactured steel pipes for sewers. The busy city streets worried Welser. The tornado cut a path through the woods directed behind the house, maybe 10 feet, and continued until the whole town seemed to have been torn down. Seconds later, sirens sounded. Around this time (10:50 pm approx..) the debris ball and circulation signature was clearly heading due east on Westbrook Road and was about 3 miles west of our house in the Air Hill Road area. The kicker was taking the cover off the pool and the plastic side rails looked like swiss cheese! According to the coroner and the below Facebook post, this family lost seven members. The sad thing is most of us still aren't really prepared for another one. It had been so humid that day and as the storm grew closer it had dropped temperature fast. Resident of the The Cardinal Inn in Bowling Green, Kentucky, looks at the damages done after a tornado touched down on December 11, 2021. Another had hit our roof, damaged our gutter and soffit and cartwheeled over the roof to the back yard. When I got to the Little Caesars they had run out of pizzas. Thanks to the early warnings given by the National Weather Service and the response of the officials. My first thought was why is that car in the bathroom with me. Its leading edge was as well-defined as a wall. Suddenly my friend's dad turned with a look of absolute terror and started screaming "get inside, good God get inside now!" Thats pretty common here. No rain, no breeze, just the saw rumbling and vibrating my hand. I expected to hear a train like sound but it sounded more like a fighter jet that was very angry. It was close to go quitting time. Living in Dixie Alley we get lots of storms. The lights then went out for good, but we did have a flashlight with us and I flicked it on. All NOAA. Springfield, Massachusetts is a relative stranger to the ravages of these types of storms. I stood there and tears poured down my face,not from the dislocated shoulder or pounding headache from the concussion, but from the thankfulness I felt for him for the saw and for standing outside to warn me. I asked if he and his wife, or "ole lady" as he called her,were ok. Did you encounter any technical issues? All of us do really. Looking west, I could see the sky turning a greenish brown hue and all of a sudden the trees began to bend under the strain of the wind. My dad turned on the flashlight and the rumble began to slow. On this day storms were everywhere and sirens were going off. Then it felt like the house exploded. My father went under a large wooden rack where tons of lumber was stored. I tried holding on to the hood of the truck but there was nothing to hold on to. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration I knew John Mobley as a preteen, said Cindy Mobley, Rogers wife. Golden's brother Jimmie Hembry, 82, hurried to the nursing home in the aftermath of thestorm. I survived bruised from head to toe with a broken foot and some lacerations. My father looked up and saw a "hole" in the sky and shouted "RUN!!!!". Kathryn Begay. I was literally standing inside the Tornado. We all were surprised considering it was still sunny out. On April 27 2011, a tornado outbreak struck Smithville, Mississippi. Severe storms and more than 2 dozen tornadoes hit Southeast. We were fortunate. 7:18 PM EST, Fri January 13, 2023, See the damage left after powerful storms move across Southeast. . I worked at a hardware store and although we weren't directly hit, 2 inch PVC pipe was sucked from outdoor racks and shot 14 inches into a neighboring yard. The tree sitting directly in front of me, which was relatively large, blew over like it was nothing. I cut the saw off and looked at him as he began pointing off towards the west. Annistyn died while the rest of her family survived. You dont notice things right away. Some of my other instructor colleagues saw me and came up to me and asked me if I was okay. Most of the congregation dove to the corner. He opened his arms and I hugged that man so hard he tapped my shoulder because I was squeezing him. That was the scariest drive ever. The storms marked the latest bout of severe weather to turn deadly in the US as experts point to the human-induced climate crisis as a cause for such extreme events. I grabbed his saw and noticed, like a ghost,he was gone inside. I took cover in the hallway as the train sound rumbled outside. Across the South and the central US, more than 160 damaging wind reports were recorded in Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia. We didnt get hit but poor Alabama got wrecked. A deadly EF5 tornado struck the suburbs of Oklahoma City, Okla. on Monday, taking 24 lives. I pushed and clawed my way out of the rubble, shocked angry and thankful to God that I was alive. I sighed a breath of relief hoping the twister had skipped over the shop. Selmas mayor asked residents to conserve water after outages affected treatment facilities and the storms made way for much cooler, albeit sunny, weather across the region. Instead of going to the Jewel Tea Co. Store at 5807 W. 95th St., she stopped at Fairway Super Mart first. He brought the radio and a flashlight, while my mom got some batteries and snacks. A damaged home is seen in the aftermath of severe weather Thursday near Prattville, Alabama. My mom said to keep my eyes ahead. Our ornamental pear was shattered and shredded, laying in our back yard. We were out of town when a hailstorm hit McAllen, Texas, in 2010 or 2011. I rounded the carport and flung open the door and just like I would any other day, kinda flung it behind my back to close it with three fingers, only to have it meet the wind and come back on me. Two weeks later, if I recall correctly, KOA -the local radio station- acknowledged with chagrin that they had missed the storm entirely. It was like I woke up and realized it was deadly still. Alfred drove a forklift for Caterpillar in Joliet. Out of the corner of my eye I see my pink robe sporting hero, and I do mean hero,waving both hands,one of which still clung to a beer. (KSLA) - Family and friends are getting ready to say goodbye to the mother and son victims of the tornadic storms that hit Keithville earlier this month. I was in a state of shock, knee-deep in flood water. When you live in Tornado alley it is drilled into your head what to look, feel, hear, and even smell for regarding a tornado. All the mailboxes had been sucked open and the mail was laying in the middle of the road. As storm damage blocked roads in Georgia, some students couldnt leave four middle schools south of Atlanta, their school system said Thursday night. On Dec. 13, a tornadic storm swept through Keithville, La., with possible EF-2 damage with 130-mph winds, according to the National . To make ends meet during the strike, he was working temporarily driving a taxi for an Oak Lawn cab company. Bernice was found dead with the puppy still in her arms. I agreed and since we were downstairs in our lower level anyway we got in our downstairs bath and kept the door open so we could at least track status on the TV. A MOM took a heartbreaking final snap of her daughter holding onto her favorite doll to show she was safe before a series of deadly tornadoes hit the Midwest. I went back out to the shop the next day and just cried seeing where I had crawled out from the broken pieces of the toilet under where I laid. I was watching the news. My best friends dad was standing on his truck with a pair of binoculars trying to see where it might be. My husband started to fuss with him, but you could tell Hobo was upset. His nephew Michael Hembry told CBS42: He (Jimmie) come back and he said Golden didnt make it. Cody took up a post at Mansfield and 95th Street where he helped to direct traffic until 10 p.m. There were no deaths, few were injured, but for being mobile homes, they were still holding up strong. . In the next 2-5 seconds, I saw the corner of the shop and bathroom lift up and disappear over me. I thought it was over but then my dad said, "Here it comes get ready." PleaseContact Us. Someone was definitely watching out for me. I heard things slamming my house, then the sheetrock overhead fell down and it sounded like my roof lifted and came back down. To this day I tear up realizing they thought we might not make it that day. River Region United Way. My house is white. Numerous other branches were on our deck and littering our yard. Most of the tree damage in the neighborhood had the same orientation. We lost everything! The assessor came out today (Saturday) to check out the property. Published: Dec. 22, 2022 at 10:28 AM PST. Workers survey tornado damage after extreme weather hit the region Dec. 12, 2021, in Mayfield, Ky. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images. Frustrated, I jumped in my car and headed home. His favorite pastime was puttering in the garden. Right now, the bigger threat is the flooding due to all of the rain and the rising water level of the Mississippi River. I remember looking out the window expecting to see another tornado any minute. The holes were all about 2-4 inches in diameter. Our next door neighbor had a double trunked maple tree split in two and fall into her home. We were blessed and spared that day. I could feel the back of the truck lifting. Chris Tuveng, Dallas, Texas, 2019. I remember my adrenaline even as a child being just through the roof. My back, head, and lower legs were hit the hardest. We watched, and it was obvious to me that the rotation on the storm was very strong and I mentioned that to Terry about a half minute before WHIO said the exact same thing. In the 8th grade, a tornado hit our small town and killed one man. Also part of the fence blew over top of the hood of my pickup. The deadliest spawned late Friday afternoon in Oak Lawn, where the greatest loss of life was recorded. The death toll in Kentucky includes victims from 2 months to 98 years old. All we heard was wind and the whole house was shaking, Moore told CNN, adding no one was injured. His family was his whole life.. Calascibetta was driving home from work with his son-in-law, where both were employed at a manufacturing plant. 50, of Bremen. Donations are accepted . She hadnt an enemy in the world. Clark was buried out of Our Lady of the Ridge in Chicago Ridge. That relief was short lived as in the next few seconds I heard the train sound, which actually sounded like a thrashing machine metal being chewed up, indescribable actually. Then I was hit with a force I cant describe and felt myself being lifted into the air traveling backwards at what seemed like 100 mph. Damage from what appeared to be two tornadoes preliminarily rated an EF-3 and an EF-2 were found in two parts of Spalding County, in central Georgia, according to the National Weather Service. It got so dark we couldnt see each other in the car, Roger said. As it left Laura and was heading east toward West Milton we were on the phone with my wifes sister who lives on Rangeline Road two miles south of the radar indicated path. By Friday morning, more than two dozen students were reunited with their families, Griffin-Spalding County School System said in a social media post, after they had to shelter on school grounds because storm debris had blocked roadways. Trees in their windbreak had no small branches or bark left, just bare wood, on the north and west sides of their trunks and larger branches. PLEASE note that we have permission to print your story online and let us know the town and state and the month and year of the event. During the worst of it, my parents who weren't incredibly religious started saying the Lord's prayer and telling each other and me, "I love you no matter what" over and over. His 22-year-old daughter was a Patricia Stevens model. This warning gave the precise location and direction of the sighted storm and it was barreling towards our neighborhood. The father of a blended family of nine children, John Mobley and his 19-year-old son Roger, were on their way home from Union Carbide, where both worked making car door panels at 32nd Street and California Avenue. Bernadette was in second grade and a Brownie. The violent tornado indiscriminately tore through thousands of buildings, including Saint Johns Regional Medical Center (SJRMC), several schools, and big-box stores like Home Depot and Walmart. I thought, oh no, I hope its not a tornado. The door breathed back out. Authorities there were finding more bodies Friday morning, Coroner Buster Barber said earlier. I found her a flashlight, and scoped the inside of the house. Jay Nixon says while the process of identifying tornado victims is improved, some bodies remain "unrecognizable." NWS Birmingham employees were working Saturday morning to help clean up debris left in the wake of Thursday's tornado in Selma. The Selma tornado was rated EF-2, the weather service said. Her body had already been brought to the Johnson-Phelps VFW Post, which had been set up as a temporary morgue. All Rights Reserved. Inthe later part of March 1982, I was on spring break and home by myself that whole week. The wind was going in a way that I've never seen before. My sister told me to move to the hallway with everyone else. 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Rather than destroying homes by sheer wind speed, the Jarell tornado had a sandblasting effect from the extreme ground scouring it caused, picking up a tremendous amount of dirt, sand and rocks. I remember looking out after it got dark and the pine trees glowed from the sap where the tops had been torn out. The River Region United Way has created a Disaster Relief Fund. We took off to the hospital while warnings were still being handed out like parking tickets. Jackson was the father of three adult children and boasted 11 grandchildren. Fast forward to November 11 2002, Mossy Grove, TN. Similarly, our furniture on the upper deck ended up shoved together in a pile against the south railing. There was like a brief squall with wind/heavy rain and then it got dead calm. Matthew Dale Ferguson, 50, died in his home in Bremen during the outbreak of tornadoes that ripped across Western Kentucky. The screens were pulled up out of the frames in the windows. 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