Only three weeks before a major outbreak would hit the Mississippi Delta, a small but devastating tornado event would occur. In the blink of an eye, a dedicated city of Grenada police officer lost his entire family. We had the honor to interview that police officer, Christopher Columbus Hankins, for an update to this summary.
On This Day: July 12! An F2 tornado hits 3 farms near Boyceville & Downing in WI in 1927, an F2 moves from Sleepy Hollow, NY through North Greenwich, CT in 2006, and the “Right Turn Derecho” occurred in 1995! Get your daily dose of history!
On This Day: March 21! An F3 tornado near Lumber City, GA in 1888, The highest crest of the Connecticut River occurred in 1936 and Twitter was founded! Get your daily dose of history!
On This Day: March 20! An F3 tornado hits Camilla, GA in 2003, Great Britain’s strongest wind gust occurred in 1986 and the KFC food chain was founded! Get your daily dose of history!
Hi Members! Happy New Year! It was a very busy end to 2021 and 2022 and started off just as hectic! It is all good stuff as we continue to focus in on telling the best tornado history summaries we can! A few things to announce: 1. Nelson Tucker has Read more…
It was Saturday morning, October 3, 1992. Many residents in Pinellas Park were quietly making their way through their Saturday chores or working on home projects. Retired couples were watching their favorite shows in their recliners or playing cards in the front rooms of their mobile homes. Little did they know that unexpected severe thunderstorms were about to erupt across their little corner of west-central Florida. Five tornadoes were produced in the Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg area that morning. Two of the twisters caused fatalities. This summary details the strongest and most deadly tornado to occur on this day.
Hi members! It has been awhile since I have posted in here! It has been very busy. My goal is to write a post in here once a month to keep everyone updated on everything Tornado Talk! Since September, we have released two new summaries and two major updates to Read more…
Hi members! Wanted to touch base this week and ask for some feedback! Feel free to comment on this post and let us know what you think about the following: Did you like our Super Outbreak series? What do you think of the new daily blog? As we look to Read more…
Hi members! Wanted to send a quick note and make sure you all have seen the new daily history blog!! We are really enjoying putting together these snippets of events from the past and covering more than just tornadoes. Although….that is still our favorite part! What do you think? Would Read more…
Hi members! After a few months of research, interviewing, organizing, writing, reviewing, re-writing, collaboration, image search, map creation, website work and final reviews…..The Tuscaloosa-Birmingham series is complete! I am overwhelmingly proud of Nick and Nelson and their hard work with this. COUNTLESS hours went into this and they were very Read more…