Fatal tornado’s strength unusual for Colorado
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- Fatal tornado’s strength unusual for Colorado
- About 160 homes damaged by tornado
- EDITRIAL: Tornado warning: County’s count of sirens comes up…
- Johnson: Tiny town of Holly recalls fierce tornado’s blast
Fatal tornado’s strength unusual for Colorado
Colorado Springs Gazette – Mar 31, 2007
SCTT RAPPLD THE GAZETTE The tornado that devastated the southeastern Colorado town of Holly killing a mother had winds up to 165 mph as it cut a 15-mile swath of destruction through Prowers County on Wednesday night weather officials said Friday. It was the first fatal tornado in Colorado since 1960 and only the second Category 3 tornado — on the Enhanced Fujita Scale of 1-5 — to hit southern Colorado since 1995. The path of damage was 600 feet wide. “We typically don’t get these longtracking very violent tornadoes in Colorado” said Bill Fortune meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service in Pueblo… SCTT RAPPLD THE GAZETTE The tornado that devastated the southeastern Colorado town of Holly killing a mother had winds up to 165 mph as it cut a 15-mile swath of destruction through Prowers County on Wednesday night weather officials said Friday. It was the first fatal tornado in Colorado since 1960 and only the second Category 3 tornado — on the Enhanced Fujita Scale of 1-5 — to hit southern Colorado since 1995. The path of damage was 600 feet wide. “We typically don’t get these longtracking very violent tornadoes in Colorado” said Bill Fortune meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service in Pueblo.
About 160 homes damaged by tornado
Rocky Mountain News – Mar 31, 2007
Authorities said the conditions of injured victims Friday were asfollows:• Robert Eastin was flown from Prowers County MedicalCenter to Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs as his conditionworsened. He was in serious but stable condition. He and his wife Jeannie 67 hid in a bathtub during the tornadoand were thrown from their home which was destroyed. Jeannie Eastin was flown Wednesday night to St. Mary Corwin inPueblo. • n Friday afternoon Esther Truman an elderly womanwas taken by ambulance to Lamar after she fell on her front porch. • Town mayor Tom Crum 58 was treated for an eye injuryand not hospitalized.
EDITRIAL: Tornado warning: County’s count of sirens comes up…
Free with registration – Columbus Dispatch – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 31, 2007
(31-MAR-07) Columbus Dispatch (Columbus H). 31–As hio enters tornado season an estimated 165000 Franklin County residents are out of hearing range of a tornado siren when they are in their homes according to Gary Holland director.
Johnson: Tiny town of Holly recalls fierce tornado’s blast
Rocky Mountain News – Mar 31, 2007
inline –>HLLY – It was standing amid the rubble in the cold harsh light ofFriday morning simply cruel. Indiscriminate too comes to mind the way the funnel cloud skippedand hula-hooped its way through this town merely flicking away a fewroof tiles on one house while smashing to bits one two doors down. That Wednesday night’s devastating tornado even found tiny Hollypop. 997 seemingly defies the odds and logic. This is a tiny smidgenof a town a relative flyspeck on the vast rolling far-southeasternplains of Colorado. The twister touches down say one good big city block away oneither side of here and it misses everything. That only one person was killed seems an impossibility whenyou come over a rise on Highway 50 pull in and see what’s left of thetown… The twister touches down say one good big city block away oneither side of here and it misses everything. That only one person was killed seems an impossibility whenyou come over a rise on Highway 50 pull in and see what’s left of thetown. The tornado slammed virtually into the center of town spinning andwiggling straight up Gateway Park slicing some houses in half missingothers before racing farther northeast through the heart of the townblasting apart scores of homes before exhausting itself. The long rows of decades-old oaks that once graced long narrowGateway Park now stand stark and shattered as if they had simplyexploded. Pink and yellow tufts of insulation dangle along with pieces of tinroofs and garage door panels. By Friday morning an armada of front-loaders backhoes Bobcats anddump trucks has fanned out workers furiously scooping up and haulingaway large sections of shattered Holly. The whine of chain saws and gear-grinding groans of front loaders isincessant.