North Carolina

Hurricane Katrina also caused a tornado outbreak

Best known for being a Category 5 monster that inundated New Orleans, five dozen twisters also scoured the landscape during…

9 years ago

Tornado Digest: Fairly benign April set to go out with a bang

Last week was an active one, at least briefly. But that's mainly scored against the depth of inactivity seen recently.…

10 years ago

Tornado Digest: First half of April fairly quiet, and that may continue a while

April can be volatile, but lately it seems we talk more about lack of tornadoes and/or tornado droughts than anything…

10 years ago

North Carolina’s largest tornado outbreak – April 16, 2011

The magnitude of the Super Outbreak of 2011 often overshadows a separate historic tornado outbreak that occurred earlier in the…

11 years ago

February tornado deaths from 1950-2010

As seen in the quick-wrap of February tornado statistics, 435 people were killed by 1,441 tornadoes from 1950-2010. Additionally, an…

12 years ago

The Mississippi Valley Outbreak of 1971 and February’s only F5 tornado

Nineteen tornadoes struck from Texas to Ohio and North Carolina on February 21-22, 1971. The greatest concentration of them was…

12 years ago

Valentine’s Day Tornadoes since 1950

There have been 38 tornadoes in the United States on Valentine's Day (February 14) since modern records began in 1950.…

12 years ago