Tornadoes leave 2 dead

November 16th, 2008 at 1:38 am by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog

A tornadic thunderstorm raced through North Carolina, leaving two dead and at least 6 injured. There were at least 7 places where tornadoes touched down along the path of the storm, with one EF2 tornado and one EF3 tornado (winds of 140 mph!).  Other severe t-storms produced scattered wind damage from the Carolinas to Connecticut.  We have now had 125 tornado fatalities in the U.S. in 2008.  We’ll be close to 1600 confirmed tornadoes for the year…possibly a new record.

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  1. Mike Geukes says:
    November 16, 2008 at 2:43 am

    Did West Michigan have a above normal year for tornadoes, the answer is yes.

    Preliminary Data for the 23 counties, show we had 9 tornadoes, the average
    is 5.3 or 5 tornadoes per year, for the NWS Grand Rapids CWA, based on 59
    years of data, going back to 1950. Michigan averages 17 tornadoes per year,
    based on 1953-2005 data.

    We had 5 tornado days, which is above average, tornado days average 3.32 or 3 tornado days for the 23 counties in the NWS Grand Rapids County Warning Area.

    West Michigan-National Weather Service Grand Rapids County Warning Area
    04-09-2008: 0042 EST: Deaths 00: Injuries: 00: F-1: Allegan, Barry
    06-08-2008: 1445 EST: Deaths 00: Injuries: 00: F-1: Eaton, Ingham
    06-08-2008: 1320 EST: Deaths 00: Injuries: 00: F-1: Osceola
    06-12-2008: 2026 EST: Deaths 00: Injuries: 00: F-1: Mason
    07-30-2008: 0217 EST: Deaths 00: Injuries: 00: F-0: Clare

    09-13-2008: 2025 EST: Deaths 00: Injuries: 00: F-1: Van Buren
    09-13-2008: 2033 EST: Deaths 00: Injuries: 00: F-0: Van Buren
    09-13-2008: 2040 EST: Deaths 00: Injuries: 00: F-0: Kalamazoo
    09-13-2008: 2100 EST: Deaths 00: Injuries: 00: F-0: Eaton

    For more West Michigan Tornado Data click on my name for the website.

    Mike

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  2. Mike Geukes says:
    November 16, 2008 at 2:54 am

    LOL, its late, the time I put in there is UTC time, here is the
    corrected time.
    09-13-2008: 1525 EST: Deaths 00: Injuries: 00: F-1: Van Buren
    09-13-2008: 1533 EST: Deaths 00: Injuries: 00: F-0: Van Buren
    09-13-2008: 1540 EST: Deaths 00: Injuries: 00: F-0: Kalamazoo
    09-13-2008: 1600 EST: Deaths 00: Injuries: 00: F-0: Eaton

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