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The tornado began southwest of the small town of Luther, Iowa a little before 3:30 pm and moved north northeast. The tornado strengthened and grew larger (at some points, more than a mile wide) as it approached US 30 just east of the intersection of IA 17. The tornado turned toward the north with the small hamlet of Jordan, Iowa in the path. A ...
Jordan was hit by a massive tornado on June 13, 1976. The tornado was rated an F5 by the National Weather Service , and the National Centers for Environmental Information (then called National Climatic Data Center) indicated that the damage path of the tornado was roughly 880 yards (800 m) or one-half mile (0.8 km) wide and 21 miles (34 km) long.
Charles Barthold. Charles Barthold is a news photographer for WHO-TV of Des Moines, Iowa, who won the 1976 Peabody Award for his film and photography of the Jordan Tornado in Jordan, Iowa. [1] [2] The film and video he shot allowed famed University of Chicago meteorologist Ted Fujita to clearly see that one of the tornadoes was an anticyclonic ...
June 13 – Savage thunderstorms roll through the state of Iowa spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5 tornado that destroys the town of Jordan, Iowa. June 16 – Francis E. Meloy, Jr., the newly appointed United States Ambassador to Lebanon, is assassinated in Beirut.
0–9. 1976 West Bloomfield tornado. 1976 Brownwood tornado. Template:1976 tornado outbreaks.
The tornado as it was impacting the Double Creek Estates. The tornado turned slightly, entering the Double Creek Estates at high-end F5 intensity. [citation needed] It grew to its maximum width, estimated to be 3 ⁄ 4 mile (1.2 km). Post-event surveys and eyewitness accounts suggested that the tornado began to slow its pace, contributing to ...
During the afternoon of May 6, 1975, at least 12 tornadoes touched down in the Upper Midwest. The costliest of these tornadoes struck parts of western Omaha, Nebraska, causing at least $150 million in damage and killing three people. It was at the time the costliest tornado in U.S. history, damaging over a thousand homes across a nearly 2,000 ...
On Aug. 11, the IOC decided that Chiles would have to return her bronze medal. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) said in a statement that it would appeal the decision. “We firmly ...