Thirteen tornadoes were recorded during the early morning hours of December 3, 1978. The strongest was an F4 tornado that developed at 1:50am CT in the Central Park area of Bossier City, LA. In a summary from the NWS Shreveport, “The Bossier City tornado was spawned from a supercell thunderstorm which developed in Deep East Texas ahead of a squall line.” Per Thomas Grazulis in Significant Tornadoes, the tornado developed near the point where an F2 tornado on April 17, 1978 ended.
It moved northeast crossing I-20 and affected businesses and homes along Benton Road and Airline Drive. It then moved into a sparsely populated area east of Airline Drive and north of US-80 and into the Meadowview area.
The tornado destroyed parts of Meadowview Elementary School. Several 700 lb. I-beam structures were carried several hundred feet and then “firmly planted into the ground.” On La Don Drive, there were two fatalities. An automobile was tossed into a home killing sisters Jana Lynn and Lisa Renee Currington, ages 8 and 13 who were sleeping.
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