Tornadoes that made Colorado history:Nov. 4, 1922: A freak late fall tornado hit a farmhouse in Lincoln County at 5 a.m., killing four and injuring 25 others, and later that morning it hit a school in the Holyoke area, killing one and injuring three.Aug. 8 m. 19 d., and 9 y. The injured include MR. and MRS. IODER, and MRS. BURKEY and two other persons, whose identity has not been established. FamilyOldPhotos   Old-Yearbooks  TexasHistoryArchives, ‹ Thurman, CO Tornado, Aug 1924 - Tornado Kills Nine, Thurman, CO Tornado, Aug 1924 - Kills 9, Injures 5 ›. The tornado is the deadliest ever recorded in South Carolina and is one of the longest-tracked observed in the state,[2] having traveled 105 miles (169 km);[1] some sources list a total path length of 135 mi (217 km),[2] including the segment in Florence County, but this is now believed to have been a separate, F3 tornado. “It wasn’t an EF5, but that’s an example of what could happen here,” Glancy said. Beginning in 1971, tornadoes in the United States were categorized on what was known as the Fujita Scale, a six-step ranking – from F0, the weakest, to F5, the strongest. This page was last edited on 18 June 2020, at 05:20. A tornado leveled only one home and damaged three others nearby. Despite their frequency, tornadoes have killed only five people in Colorado since 1950 – two people near Holyoke in 1960, two people in Holly in 2007 and one person in Windsor in 2008. Submitted by Stu Beitler. MAGGIE KUHNS and two of her children, STELLA KUHNS and DELMAR KUHNS, were among those killed at the farmhouse. Privacy Policy. Submitted by Stu Beitler. A tornado razed homes near Ellenton, one of which was completely leveled except for its central hallway. Combined, they accounted for 410 tornadoes, more than one of every five. Thurman, Colo. --- Nine persons are known to have bepen [sic] killed and five injured in a tornado which wrecked at least one farmhouse near Thurman, Colo., about 100 miles east of Denver, on Sunday, August 10. August 15, 1985 It was reported that at least two of those injured would die. The tornadoes left 114 dead and at least 1,166 injured, mostly in the Carolinas, with 76 deaths in South Carolina alone, along with 16 in Georgia and 13 in Alabama. From then on Thurman mail was re-routed to Flagler, Kit Carson County. Two may die, physicians said. That tornado, which touched down about 11:30 a.m. on May 22, 2008, was rated an EF3, and it was unusual in many respects – it hit before noon, it was a mile wide, it was on the ground for 38 miles, and it traveled from the southeast to the northwest. Note: Thurman was called Stone City for a short time. On August 10th, 1924, a large tornado developed west southwest of Thurman, Colorado around 1 pm. We don’t know what happened.”. 28 d. Yoder -- Robert Stanley Yoder and Ray Vernon Yoder, sons of Bro. Compilation, design, artwork and concept covered by copyright. Database and records searchable by surname. Those tornadoes were part of large, rotating storms known as supercells – which are much more common as you move east out of Colorado. “People shouldn’t live in fear of tornadoes.”. On August 10, 1924, a tornado ripped across Thurman, Colorado killing 10 people and causing the deadliest tornado in Colorado history. The twister struck the farmhouse of HENRY KURIS, where a number of visitors had gathered. Possible light rain in the morning and afternoon. AMOS BURKEY. Still, he said, “A tornado is pretty unlikely to be your cause of death, whether or not you live in Colorado, or in Oklahoma and Kansas, because the number of people killed every year in tornadoes, typically, is less than 100. 1924 - Colorado's deadliest tornado killed a woman and nine children in one house along its twenty-mile path east southeast of Thurman. Two EF5 twisters that hit the Oklahoma City area in late May took more than 30 lives and injured nearly 500 people – one in the town of Moore, and one near the town of El Reno that took the lives of two well-respected Colorado storm chasers. GenDisasters is a genealogy site, compiling information on the historic disasters, events, and tragic accidents our ancestors endured, as well as, information about their life and death.

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