* 1893 – The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.

Audubon writes that while on horseback he believed the distant rumbling to be that of a tornado, “ but the animal knew better than I what was forthcoming, and instead of going faster, so nearly stopped that I remarked he placed one foot after another on the ground with as much precaution as if walking on a smooth piece of ice.

* June 8 – A deadly F5 tornado nearly destroys the town of Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing 9 people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $ 25, 000, 000 in damage.

* July 6 – The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa is nearly destroyed by a tornado ; 71 people are killed and 200 injured.

A wedge tornado, nearly a mile wide.

A tornado with a nearly cylindrical profile and relative low height is sometimes referred to as a " stovepipe " tornado.

Photographs of the Waurika, Oklahoma tornado of May 30, 1976, taken at nearly the same time by two photographers.

A tornado often occurs as this happens or shortly after ; first, a funnel cloud dips and in nearly all cases by the time it reaches halfway down, a surface swirl has already developed, signifying a tornado is on the ground before condensation connects the surface circulation to the storm.

While direct measurement of the most violent tornado wind speeds is nearly impossible, since conventional anemometers would be destroyed by the intense winds, some tornadoes have been scanned by mobile Doppler radar units, which can provide a good estimate of the tornado's winds.

The tornado caused nine deaths, injured over 121 others, and left severe damage in the city estimated at nearly $ 307, 000, 000, becoming the worst disaster in Enterprise history.

) With wind speeds between 180 and 200 miles per hour, the tornado destroyed nearly forty homes, many businesses, and one church, and damaged many other structures.

Significant additions have been made to the campus since January 1999, when a powerful tornado destroyed nearly complete new school buildings and historic residential areas surrounding the downtown area.

In the great Midwestern tornado of 1938, South Pekin was nearly wiped out.

Marengo was devastated by an F3 tornado in 2004, resulting in damage to nearly 75 percent of the town and the death of one resident.

In December 1953, a severe tornado swept across Vicksburg causing 38 deaths and destroying nearly 1, 000 buildings.

In 1880 a tornado nearly destroyed the town and the homes of the people living there, but by 1889 Licking was once again a thriving little town.

And the disaster tornado in 1880 nearly took out every house in that town people were devastated when danger struck

On April 27, 1942, a tornado swept along Pryor Creek's main street from the western edge of the business district to the eastern edge of the city, destroying nearly every building and causing extensive damage to the residential section.

On February 5, 2008 at approximately 10: 20 p. m., an EF3 tornado touched down in Lafayette and stayed on the ground with a width of approximately 3 / 4 mile and traveled for nearly, crossing the county in a northeastern direction.

Rebuilding began immediately, and by 2000, the population of Barneveld was almost exactly double what it was at the time the tornado nearly destroyed the town.

An F-3 tornado crossed the property at approximately 4: 00 p. m. CDT on April 16, 1998, missing the house and gravesite, but toppling many trees that had reportedly been planted by Jackson himself nearly 200 years earlier.

* 2004 – The U. S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado ( part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence ) that broke a width record at an astounding wide, which kills one resident.

At about 4: 10 p. m. on April 24, 1908, the city was virtually wiped out by a tornado that became commonly called " The Great Cyclone ," or " The Cyclone of 1908.

The small town was virtually wiped away on February 21, 1971 when an F5 tornado struck portions of Louisiana and Mississippi, as 36 people were left dead in rural Mississippi in the wake of the storm ; 21 of the victims were from Inverness.

In 1902, the community incorporated, but then it was almost wiped out by a tornado in 1906.

Lisa and Bart are watching TV with Grandpa, when they learn that the hotel in Dayton where Marge and Homer are supposed to be staying has been completely wiped out by a tornado.

These tornadoes are said to be " roping out ", or becoming a " rope tornado ".

This belief is partly inspired by widely-circulated video captured during the 1991 tornado outbreak near Andover, Kansas, where a news crew and several other people take shelter under an overpass on the Kansas Turnpike and safely ride out a tornado as it passes by.

One day, when a tornado blows through the town, Novalee and Americus hide in an underground shelter, but Sister is out running an errand and does not make it back in time.

On June 1, 2011, a tornado rated at EF-1, struck south of Durham, uprooting thousands of almond trees, destroying an out building and damaging a barn.

The tornado took out power and cut off water supply.

A local newspaper printed a picture of the marquee prompting rumors that a tornado had taken the theater out during a re-release of Gone with the Wind.

Buildings were flattened, power was knocked out to thousands and debris was scattered for miles after the tornado.

It helped secure rail centers during the railroad workers ' strike of 1922, helped out with the aftermath of the Poplar Bluff tornado of 1927, and worked on the Mississippi River levees during the floods of 1927 and 1937.

This storm knocked out electrical service to large parts of the city for several days and damaged a large percentage of the trees, making this event the worst natural disaster to hit the city since at least the 1986 tornado.

The tornado roped out in the town of Eden.

Approaching a hill they run into a hailstorm, Jo drives ahead of the chasers to intercept the oncoming tornado, and a telephone pole falls on the back of Bill's truck and knocks DOROTHY II out onto the road, disabling it.

This tornado was powerful enough to take out power for the entire city including this station.

The F5 tornado that struck the town of Jarrell, Texas killed 27 people out of 1319 residents.

Although missing the downtown business district the tornado moved through the residential areas of Tupelo, destroying many homes, and killing whole families who had no warning, including a whole family of 13 who tried riding the storm out in their home.

A tornado warning went out for Van Wert County at 3: 02 P. M.

In 1992, 95 tornadoes broke out in 41 hours of continuous tornado activity from November 21 to 23.

A tornado strikes Smallville, and Clark helps out by saving a man before the gas station he is in explodes.