Hurricane Milton is forecast to make landfall along the West Coast of the Florida Peninsula late Wednesday night. Destructive, potentially catastrophic storm surge, very heavy rainfall and a few tornadoes along the West Coast will begin during the day Wednesday. Please continue to monitor the National Hurricane Center webpage for the latest updates. Read More >
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A line of strong showers with a few embedded thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening of December 12, 2015, across East Texas. One of these storms developed into a mini-supercell and produced a series of four tornadoes as it moved northward through Smith, Wood, Franklin, and Red River Counties in Northeast Texas. On the east side of Lindale in Smith County, over 50 homes were damaged, with two homes sustaining major damage. After the first tornado dissipated, this same storm produced another tornado just east of the Hopkins/Franklin County line. Twenty structures were damaged including four mobile homes that were destroyed and four houses which sustained major damage. Two persons were injured in one of the mobile homes. A second mini-supercell would develop later in the evening and would produce a tornado in McCurtain County in Southeast Oklahoma west of Valliant. This tornado traveled north-northeast and ended very close to Pine Creek Dam. Two persons were injured when their mobile home was destroyed, and another person was injured when their mobile was rolled by the tornado. During early morning hours of Sunday, December 13, another line of strong showers developed ahead of a cold front. Severe straight-line winds associated with this line of showers produced widespread wind damage across much of the Four State Area as it marched eastward across East Texas and through Southern Arkansas and Northern Louisiana. One area of notable damage occurred on the north side of Lufkin, TX, where 64 empty railroad cars were blown off a railroad track. Some of these were blown off a railroad overpass and onto the highway below. Storm survey crews were deployed from the National Weather Service in the days following the storms to assess the damage. Below are the results of the surveys. This information is preliminary and subject to change pending final review of the vents and publication in Storm Data. |
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TOTAL TORNADO COUNT = 5
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