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| Meteorologist George Flickinger's Storm Chasing Pictures and Southern Plains Forecasts |
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| This near softball-size hailstone had one hour to melt before I took this picture! This storm produced the large tornado in the next picture about 20 minutes later. |
| I don't know who took this picture. It was forwarded to me by a TV viewer. Notice the pieces of whatever blowing in the wind... |
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| I'm not sure what yard this trailer came from... Notice the trees and homes destroyed in the background. |
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| It's the day after the tornado, and I've been sent here by work to cover the damage clean up. I don't know what this van looked like before, but it was probably in better shape before the tornado rolled it. |
| That would be an asphalt roof tile embedded in the rubber tire. Notice how the car has also been splattered by mud from the tornado. |
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| Every downtown structure was damaged or destroyed. These buildings have suffered a partial roof collapse, and had to be wrecking balled-- they no longer exist today. |
| The near 200mph wind from this tornado toppled this train car in downtown Pierce City |
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| The brick structures didn't fare much better. This used to be an older, two-story home. |
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| This building served as a warehouse for a door supplier where you can see dozens of stacked steel doors behind the bricks. Most of the merchandise survived. |
| Most of the windows of this old Jeep were broken out, and notice parts of tree limbs inside the car. |
| The tornado did... |
| I met Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel that night. Here it looks like we actually know each other. We'll probably meet again at the next weather disaster... |
| On May 4, 2003, 94 tornadoes were recorded in 8 states including the deadly Pierce City, MO tornado which killed 7 and injured 34. The storm formed north of Tulsa, and moved east, producing a tornado in SW MO. Pictures 1, 2 are pics from the storm, and the rest of the pictures were taken as I covered the damage for the news the following day....I hate it when I get sent for these storm clean up stories...GF |
| Deadly Tornado, Pierce City MO |
