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2011 New England tornado outbreak. On June 1, 2011, a total of six tornadoes touched down in both western Massachusetts and western Maine. The strongest was a long-track, high-end EF3 tornado that caused significant damage to the city of Springfield, Massachusetts as well as several adjacent cities and towns.
In Springfield, a Valvoline Instant Oil Change station on Memorial Boulevard and Blackpatch Road sustained heavy damage, in an area that was strewn with downed power lines.
In Robertson County, Springfield took the brunt of the damage and 5,800 homes remained without power early Sunday. "Our Wartrace substation took a direct hit from the storm and sustained ...
Officials also reported heavy damage in downtown Springfield. Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell urged residents to be "extremely careful in Nashville right now, especially in areas where the ...
Tennessee took the brunt of the outbreak with multiple damaging tornadoes touching down including a high-end EF1 tornado that damaged a National Guard Armory site near Dresden, a long-tracked, intense EF3 tornado that caused heavy damage in northwestern portion of Clarksville, and a strong EF2 tornado that prompted a tornado emergency for the ...
The 2011 Joplin tornado was a large and devastating multiple-vortex tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, United States, on the evening of Sunday, May 22, 2011.Part of a larger late-May tornado outbreak, the EF5 tornado began just west of Joplin and intensified very quickly, reaching a maximum width of nearly one mile (1.6 km) during its path through the southern part of the city.
The Tornado outbreak sequence of March 9–13, 2006 was an early season and long lasting tornado outbreak sequence in the central United States that started on the morning of March 9 and continued for over four days until the evening of March 13. The outbreak produced 99 confirmed tornadoes, which killed a total of 10 people.
SPC storm reports for November 17, showing the extent of the tornado outbreak and subsequent wind event. With the overall upper-level system expected to track eastward across the United States High Plains on November 17, the SPC issued a slight risk for severe thunderstorm activity for an area surrounding the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, valid for the early morning hours ...