Tornadoes of 2014
Strong and destructive tornadoes form most frequently in the United States, Bangladesh, Brazil, and Eastern India, but they can occur almost anywhere under the right conditions.Another intrusion of warm air allowed instability to develop in mid-February, and 41 tornadoes touched down across the lower Midwest and the Southeast U.S. on February 21 and 22.This trend ended with a major outbreak that started on April 27 producing multiple strong tornadoes across the Great Plains and the South and killing 35 people.[9][10][11]A large shortwave trough progressed across the northern Plains on February 20,[12] with an associated surface low-pressure area contributing to a blizzard across Michigan and Wisconsin.[14][15] The squall line continued to push eastward into the Mid-Atlantic states on February 21, leading to numerous damaging wind reports and several tornadoes from Georgia to Maryland.A brief but strong EF2 clipped the northeast side of Fort Payne, Alabama, causing significant damage to a factory, an apartment complex, and some homes.A low pressure system tracked across the United States, producing tornadoes across California, Missouri, and across southern portions of the Eastern Seaboard.The storm system continued east over the next few days, producing several weak and short-lived tornadoes in Florida and North Carolina.[22] In advance of a compact shortwave trough and associated cold front,[23] numerous severe thunderstorms developed across central and eastern North Carolina into southern Virginia.[24]A devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripped across parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Florida in late April 2014.The event began on April 27, as multiple intense tornadoes touched down across parts of the Midwest, Ozarks, and Great Plains.A strong EF2 tornado struck Quapaw, Oklahoma and Baxter Springs, Kansas, resulting in one fatality, 37 injuries, and severe damage in both towns.A large, violent wedge tornado struck Mayflower and Vilonia, Arkansas later that evening, causing catastrophic damage and killing 16 people as numerous homes and businesses were obliterated, some of which were swept completely away.An EF3 tornado caused one fatality and major damage to many structures in Tupelo, Mississippi as well, and another EF3 struck Coxey, Alabama, destroying a mobile home park and killing two people.[29] On May 11, the upper-level low continued eastward into the Plains, providing ample wind shear for tornadoes; in preparation for the event, the Storm Prediction Center issued a Moderate risk for severe weather.A large multiple-vortex EF3 tornado passed near the town of Sutton, Nebraska, causing considerable damage to farm properties and flattening an unanchored farmhouse.The event began on June 16, when a cyclic supercell thunderstorm produced a violent EF4 tornado that devastated the small town of Pilger, Nebraska.[44] The same parent supercell also produced two other large EF4 tornadoes that passed near the towns of Stanton and Wakefield, sweeping away multiple farm homes and lofting vehicles for hundreds of yards through the air.Significant damage to homes, an apartment building, the University of Wisconsin–Platteville campus, a gas station, power lines, and many trees occurred throughout Platteville.[46] Later that day, an EF3 tornado tossed several cars, obliterated a mobile home, and swept away a one-room schoolhouse in a rural area near the Custer National Forest in Montana.A massive and slow-moving EF3 wedge tornado occurred near Coleridge, Nebraska as well, scouring farm fields, and destroying a few farmsteads and a dehydration plant.A severe thunderstorm warning was issued for Smithfield in neighboring Madison County; however, an EF2 tornado began at 7:02 p.m. EDT, lasting three minutes on the ground, less than the required time for a rotational scan.[57] In Maryland, the same storm system caused 42,000 people to lose power, and at a church, it killed one child and injured eight more in a damaging wind event.On the 27th, the weather system produced a low-end EF3 tornado that struck the small community of Speedwell, Tennessee, where several homes were destroyed and numerous trees were downed.[74] A small severe weather outbreak took place across the Deep South during the overnight and morning hours, mainly across the Florida Panhandle and Southwest Georgia.[85] Further to the northeast, numerous metal-frame warehouse structures and storage units were destroyed as the tornado paralleled and eventually crossed Highway 98 in southern Columbia.Several power poles were snapped, and a strip mall, home health center, and a large industrial building were heavily damaged at EF2 intensity as well in this area.Additional tornadoes touched down across parts of France later that day, the strongest of which was an F2(T4) that was on the ground for 12.8 km and caused considerable damage in the town of Halluin, injuring three people.[92][93][91] A violent EF4 stovepipe tornado moved through sparsely populated areas near Khashaat, Mongolia and impacted several farms, completely leveling or sweeping away a few homes and killing livestock.A tornado capsized a boat in the Paraguay River near the city of Porto Murtinho, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul; 3 people died and 11 went missing.
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