Severe
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My Facebook feed exploded yesterday once news of actor Bill Paxton’s demise following heart surgery was made public. Bill Paxton was a well-regarded character actor who was in many famous films, including “Alien” and “Titanic” and in the HBO series “Big Love.” (Interestingly, he was in Dallas and saw President Kennedy earlier in the day…
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iWeatherNet.com has a good summary of the Southeast tornado outbreak of January 21-23, 2017 on their website. It lists the storms and provides some maps of storm tracks. This outbreak was the second deadliest in January for the Southeast in recorded history. You can view the report at https://www.iweathernet.com/thunderstorms/january-21st-23rd-tornado-outbreak-second-largest-on-record-in-southeast-u-s.
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Today marks the anniversary of one of the Southeast’s biggest tornado outbreaks in history. From This Day in Weather History’s Facebook post: “Severe thunderstorms spawned sixty tornadoes in the southeastern U.S., killing between 178 and 1200 people and causing three million dollars damage. Georgia and the Carolinas were the hardest hit by the tornado…
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This Day in History posted a story this week on an article published in the Sacramento Bee back on February 11, 1921, describing a terrible tornado which hit the Gardner Settlement near Toomsboro, east of Macon, Georgia on February 10. The tornado track was described as five miles long and half a mile wide and…
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As severe weather, including devastating tornadoes, moves across the South today (read more here), it’s eerily timely that The Seeker published a story just yesterday on the increase in tornado outbreaks in the South due to warmer weather. This year so far temperatures have been much above normal, leading to two tornado outbreaks in January…
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Although severe weather can and does happen in Georgia and the Southeast in every month of the year, spring is the season with the most events and the highest chance of occurrence. The National Weather Service is recognizing this week as Severe Weather Awareness Week and will be posting stories every day about different types…
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Each year US Tornadoes keeps a web list of all of the large tornado outbreaks that have occurred. They use a baseline of 20 tornadoes in one event to define what an outbreak is. So far 2017 has had two outbreaks, including the one on January 2 and the one January 21-23. You can come…