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Catastrophe Report 11
November 8th 2006 - March 5th 2007 - Bill McGuire |
Tornado outbreak - United States
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United States |
| Region: |
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Missouri, Illinois, Alabama, Georgia,
Florida, Carolinas. |
| Date: |
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28 February - 2 March 2007 |
| Event: |
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Tornado outbreak |
| Impact: |
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Damage reports remain preliminary at time of
writing, although the death toll is fixed at 20. Most fatalities
occurred in mobile homes in Alabama, Georgia and Missouri, or
at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama, where a direct hit
from an F3 tornado (wind speeds between 251 and 330 km h) killed
eight students and injured more than 50 others. Close to 400
homes were also damaged in the area. Another major tornado,
more than 1.6 km wide struck the city of Americus, Georgia,
taking two lives, destroying or damaging hundreds of homes,
and battering a hospital to such an extent that it had to be
evacuated. Loss estimates are not yet available. |
| Summary: |
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The tornado outbreak was triggered by a deep
low-pressure system over the mid west that sucked up warm, moist
air from the Gulf of Mexico. To the north, conditions were freezing,
while to the south, temperatures were in excess of 21 degrees
C. The first tornadoes were spawned across Kansas during the
night of 28 February, spreading first into Missouri, and later,
on 1 and 2 March, into Alabama and Georgia. Others were reported
from the Carolinas, Illinois, Florida, Mississippi and Kentucky.
In total, at time of writing, 62+ tornadoes had been reported,
of which 35 were confirmed. |
| Data sources: |
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February-March 2007 Tornado Outbreak, Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February-March_2007_Tornado_Outbreak
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| Additional sources:
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BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6415915.stm
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| Image: |
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Lots of good news images on web – especially
of the school in Enterprise, Alabama. Not sure about copyright
though.
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