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SEVERE STORMS HIT MIDWEST & SOUTHEAST
At least six people killed
Sunday, November 10, 2002 Posted: 11:28 PM EST (0428 GMT)
A house in Van Wert, Ohio, was torn open by the storm.
(CNN) -- A line of severe storms struck the United States Sunday night from Louisiana north to the Great Lakes, bringing with it numerous tornadoes that left at least six people dead and hundreds of buildings flattened.
A meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Storms Prediction Center said it was the worst outbreak of tornadoes he had seen in years.
The northwestern Ohio county of Van Wert was perhaps the hardest hit. Two people were killed there and an unknown number of others injured when severe storms struck around 3:30 p.m. ET.
"It's very, very bad," said Linda Stutz, answering phones for the Van Wert Sheriff's Department. "All through the area we have houses that are totally gone. Our cinemas -- our theater -- is completely gone. Numerous trees down, wires down, lots of roads totally blocked."
U.S. Highway 224, which runs from the southwest to the northeast through that corner of Ohio, was blocked off in Van Wert, said Dick Kimmins, a spokesman for the state's Emergency Management Agency.
As the band of weather moved northeast, it hit the town of Continental, in Putnam County, killing two people and injuring one, said NWS meteorologist Jeff Craven. Shortly afterward, what Craven said was a "possible tornado" struck Logan County, south of Putnam.
A church was leveled in Paulding County, just to the north of Van Wert, and "multiple" structures were damaged, Craven said. Storms blew down a house and injured five people outside of Grover Hill, also in Paulding County, he said.
"There's widespread damage and hail, too, but it's too numerous to mention," Craven said. "This is just totally out of control."
The EMA dispatched workers across the state after reports that around a dozen Ohio counties were hit by storms. Kimmins said they established a staging area in Van Wert for families who have damage to their homes or are missing loved ones.
Tornado in Indiana
Just across the state line in Hartford City, Indiana, a town of 7,000 about halfway between Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, a tornado took the roof off the Marsh Supermarket and brought down one of its walls around 2:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. ET), authorities said.
Three people, all adults, suffered minor injuries and were taken to Blackford County Hospital, said spokeswoman Diane Wilt. "It's really black out," Wilt said. "It's really dark for this time of the day. We're having lightning."
Several mobile home parks were damaged but no one was injured, said Officer Kevin Conley of the Hartford City Police Department. Other damage included fallen trees and debris in the roads.
Storms pound Southeast
The Southeast, particularly Alabama, was battered by storms and tornadoes Sunday night, Craven said. A tornado touched down in Fayette County, west of Birmingham, at 7:12 p.m., causing damage and injuries.
"That storm looks very, very deadly right now and will probably track up towards Huntsville and probably clip northwest Georgia," he said.
"There's a possibility of a long-track tornado into northwest Georgia from that cell, and there's another significant storm in east-central Mississippi."
State Highway 13 in Walker County, just east of Fayette County, was closed with "numerous trees down," Craven said.
"We've got a lot of major damage," said Johnny Burnett, emergency management director for Walker County. He said Carbon Hill Junior High was "blown away," many buildings were damaged, and one emergency worker was hit by a live power line.
Carbon Hill and the town of Nauvoo, in northern Walker County, were hit the worst, Burnett said.
A married couple were killed in Montgomery County, in north-central Tennessee, when their mobile home was picked up by winds, hurled 165 feet down the street, and pulverized, said Ted Denny, a spokesman for the county sheriff's department.
The 77-year-old father of one of the victims, who lived just a few doors away, heard the boom when the mobile home was destroyed and saw the remnants of it on the ground. Denny said the man was in shock.
"I'm also the senior chaplain, so I had to do a death notification," Denny said. "He pretty much knew that no one could survive."
The husband was an Australian national who owned his own welding business, and the wife was an elementary school teacher, he said. They were the only casualties in the county.
Two tornadoes were spotted in Gray, Georgia, in the central part of the state north of Macon, in central but they caused no damage and no injuries, a dispatcher with the Gray Police Department said.
Strong winds brought down trees, power lines, and at least one barn in Winston County, in east-central Mississippi, the sheriff's office said.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WEATHER/11/...orms/index.html
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