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March 30, 2007
65 Tornadoes in Six States Kill Four People
By CHRISTINE HAUSER
Four people were killed in Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas after 65 tornadoes swept through six states on Wednesday, officials said yesterday.
Two people died when a tornado swirled through their rural neighborhood near Elmwood, Okla., a state emergency official, Dixie Parker, said. They were identified as Vance and Barbra Woodbury, a husband and wife.
The authorities spread into Beaver County on Wednesday, warning residents to take shelter and to offer assistance, Mrs. Parker said. “There was no house left,” she said. “It was demolished, and we found them in the field. One was still alive, the husband. He passed away just before the ambulance got there.”
The tornado appeared to have cut through their house, as the closest neighbors had just uprooted trees, Mrs. Parker said.
Tornadoes also struck Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska, said Patrick Slattery of the National Weather Service, with some regions pummeled by large hailstones and heavy snowfall.
“It was a big storm, a big system,” Mr. Slattery said. “The majority of these were almost in a straight north-south line along the Kansas-Nebraska border. The effects stretched from Colorado and Wyoming, with blowing snow.”
In Carbon County, Wyo., 19 inches of snow fell. Hail an inch and three-quarter inches in diameter, about the size of a golf ball, fell in the Nebraska Panhandle, he added.
In Holly, Colo., a town of 1,500 people east of Lamar, a woman and two children were found dangling in a tree on Wednesday night, County Coroner Joe Giardone said. The woman, Rosemary Rosales, 28, died of injuries. The children and at least nine other people were injured, Mr. Giardone said, with seven taken to trauma centers.
In the Texas Panhandle outside Amarillo, an oilfield worker from Oklahoma, Monte Ford, 53, was killed when the tornado hit his trailer, Tela Mange of the Public Safety Department said.
At least three people were injured in the panhandle, The Associated Press reported.
In Nebraska, houses were damaged or destroyed in Dundy and Perkins. No casualties were reported. Residents had left the areas, which are hilly in some parts but include flat farmland and grazing fields.
“One thing we can say is they are areas of low population,” said Cindy Newsham, the response and recovery division manager of the state’s Emergency Management Agency. “We can have tornadoes that go through a lot of area but don’t hit anything.”
65 Tornadoes in Six States Kill Four People
By CHRISTINE HAUSER
Four people were killed in Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas after 65 tornadoes swept through six states on Wednesday, officials said yesterday.Two people died when a tornado swirled through their rural neighborhood near Elmwood, Okla., a state emergency official, Dixie Parker, said. They were identified as Vance and Barbra Woodbury, a husband and wife.
The authorities spread into Beaver County on Wednesday, warning residents to take shelter and to offer assistance, Mrs. Parker said. “There was no house left,” she said. “It was demolished, and we found them in the field. One was still alive, the husband. He passed away just before the ambulance got there.”
The tornado appeared to have cut through their house, as the closest neighbors had just uprooted trees, Mrs. Parker said.
Tornadoes also struck Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska, said Patrick Slattery of the National Weather Service, with some regions pummeled by large hailstones and heavy snowfall.
“It was a big storm, a big system,” Mr. Slattery said. “The majority of these were almost in a straight north-south line along the Kansas-Nebraska border. The effects stretched from Colorado and Wyoming, with blowing snow.”
In Carbon County, Wyo., 19 inches of snow fell. Hail an inch and three-quarter inches in diameter, about the size of a golf ball, fell in the Nebraska Panhandle, he added.
In Holly, Colo., a town of 1,500 people east of Lamar, a woman and two children were found dangling in a tree on Wednesday night, County Coroner Joe Giardone said. The woman, Rosemary Rosales, 28, died of injuries. The children and at least nine other people were injured, Mr. Giardone said, with seven taken to trauma centers.
In the Texas Panhandle outside Amarillo, an oilfield worker from Oklahoma, Monte Ford, 53, was killed when the tornado hit his trailer, Tela Mange of the Public Safety Department said.
At least three people were injured in the panhandle, The Associated Press reported.
In Nebraska, houses were damaged or destroyed in Dundy and Perkins. No casualties were reported. Residents had left the areas, which are hilly in some parts but include flat farmland and grazing fields.
“One thing we can say is they are areas of low population,” said Cindy Newsham, the response and recovery division manager of the state’s Emergency Management Agency. “We can have tornadoes that go through a lot of area but don’t hit anything.”
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