| September 3, 2008 | Hurricane Gustav spawn at least 25 tornadoes as it went ashore. One of them struck a mobile home near Mamou, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana at 3:30 am. It destroyed a mobile home, killing a man and a woman. |
| July 24, 2008 | This tornado was the second most intense tornado in New Hampshire history, and its longest path ever recorded. The EF-2 tornado touched down in Deerfield, Rockingham County, about 15 miles east-southeast of Concord. It moved north-northeast for nearly 50 miles, downing thousands of trees and tearing apart more than 100 homes very rural and forested areas of 11 towns. Near the start of the path, a 57-year-old woman was killed when her house collapsed. She died protecting her 3-month-old grandson, who was uninjured. Her husband was thrown from the house as he descended stairs from the second floor. The path ended near the Maine border in Freedom. The most intense New Hampshire tornado probably hit on September 9, 1821, killing 6 people and crossing Lake Sunapee. |
| June 11, 2008 |
Three killer tornadoes were part of a 4-state outbreak. The first was an EF-3 tornado that ripped through the Little Sioux Boy Scout camp in Monona County, Iowa, 40 miles north of Omaha. Nebraska. Four scouts, ages 13 -14, were killed and at least 42 other people were injured. The deaths and most of the injuries were in a rustic cabin. The building was completely blown apart and a massive stone fireplace and chimney collapsed into the building as the scouts huddled under the tables. Many of the injuries were serious, and immediately treated by well-trained Scouts and Scout leaders. The area was under a PDS (Particularly Dangerous Situation) tornado watch for about three hours and the funnel was spotted as it approached the camp. The NWS survey is here. About an hour and a half later, a family of tornado hit northeast Kansas. One struck the town of Chapman, Dickinson County, killing a 21-year-old woman. About half the town was damaged or destroyed, including both schools. Photographs from a the NWS survey are here. The next member of the family caused $20 million damage at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Further to the northeast, Soldier, Jackson County lost 32 homes. A 62-year-old-man was killed in a mobile home east of town. |
| May 25, 2008 |
A devastating EF-5 tornado destroyed the southern and eastern half of Parkersburg, Butler County, Iowa. Five died in Parkersburg and two others were killed one mile north of New Hartford. A least 50 people were hospitalized. About 400 homes were destroyed. Paper debris was carried for more than 100 miles. NWS damage photographs are here.
Also on May 25th, an EF-3 tornado moved east across I-35E and the northern edge of Hugo in Washington County, Minnesota. It ripped apart 25 homes, killing a two-year-old child and seriously injuring the rest of the family. |
| May 23, 2008 | At 11 PM, EF-3 tornado swept a car from a dark road 13 miles east of Pratt, Kansas. A couple was found dead in the car 150 yards off the road about 12 hours after the tornado struck. There had been on their way from Colorado to a Kansas family reunion. |
| May 22, 2008 |
One person died as a tornado hit an RV park, eight miles west of Greeley, Colorado. While other people hid in a cement-block restroom, one man tried to outrun the tornado in his RV. It was torn in half and thrown 100 feet. |
| May 11, 2008 |
In Laurens County, Georgia an EF-2 tornado killed a woman and her husband as their double-wide
mobile home was destroyed, 3 miles south-southwest of Dublin. Their two grandchildren were injured.
The NWS survey is here. |
| May 10, 2008 |
A long-track EF-4 tornado moved east-southeast, destroying hundreds of homes in northeastern Oklahoma and southwest Missouri, killing 21 people and injuring more than 200. Six of the deaths were in the town of Picher, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. Pollution from lead mining had caused much of the town to be abandoned and the tornado probably caused the final blow to Picher's existence as a town. In Missouri, 12 of the 15 deaths occurred at Racine, before the funnel passed just north of Neosho, crossing Newton and Barry Counties Five people were killed in a car as they were driving to a wedding. Another died seeking shelter in a car on the side of a road. A separate EF-1 tornado killed one person in Jasper County, Missouri when a tree fell on a trailer in Avilla. The meteorology of the storm is described here. |
| May 8, 2008 |
An EF-2 tornado damaged buildings and flipped cars west of Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. One person was killed when a truck was overturned in a parking lot. |
| May 2, 2008 |
Three strong tornadoes hit central Arkansas, two of which caused a fatality. A 45-mile-long EF-3 path was cut across portions of Conway, Van Buren, and Cleburne Counties. A man and his son died in a trailer near the start of the track at Birdtown, Conway County. A 4-year-old girl died with her grandparents as a frame home was destroyed south of Bee Branch in Van Buren County.
A 41-mile-long EF-2 track hit portions of Grant, Saline, Pulaski, and Lonoke Counties. One person died at Hensley in Pulaski County. The NWS survey is here. |
| March 15, 2008 |
An EF-3 tornado cut a 16-mile-long path across Polk, Floyd, and Bartow Counties in north Georgia. One person died in each of two homes that were leveled to the ground in Polk and Floyd County. About 20 homes were destroyed. The NWS survey is here:
here. |
| March 14, 2008 |
An EF-2 tornado moved east-southeast across downtown Atlanta, Georgia. It was the first known tornado ever to hit the downtown area. The funnel passed just north of the Georgia Dome, where an NCAA tournament basketball game was in overtime. Had it not gone into overtime, the streets would have been filled with the 18,000 fans. No announcement was made inside the dome. The building shook and the roof was damaged. The 6-mile-long path caused millions of dollars in damage, with one death and 30 injuries. Eight days after the tornado, the body of a 45-year-old man was found dead under a foot of bricks as rubble was being cleared at a collapsed wall in a parking lot. The NWS survey is here. |
| March 7, 2008 |
An EF-2 swept across the northern part of Lake City, Florida, damaging about 50 homes and a dozen businesses. A 62-year-old woman was killed when a tree fell on her mobile home. Another person died during cleanup. He was electrocuted while setting up a generator. |
| February 26, 2008 |
A small, weak tornado caused a tree to crash into a mobile home in Leeds, Alabama. It crushed part of the trailer and killed a 72-year-old woman as she slept on the couch. Her brother, also in the trailer, was not injured. |
| February 12, 2008 | A weak tornado formed one mile south of Independence, Tangipahoe, Louisiana. It moved eastward across the parking lot of the LSU Lallie Kemp Medical Center. During the storm, a 51-year-old woman left the hospital against the advice the hospital staff. While in the parking lot, she was picked up by the tornado and thrown into a vehicle. She died soon after in the emergency room. |
| February 5-6, 2008 | As many as 50 tornadoes struck this day, and at least 11 separate killer tornadoes caused 58 deaths in 4 states. Tennessee was the hardest hit with 32 deaths; 13 died in Arkansas, 7 in Kentucky, and 6 in Alabama. Three fork lift operators were killed as a tornado cut a swath through warehouses, factories, 120 homes and a mall in southeast Memphis. Two died in Madison County homes. The tornado then destroyed 17 buildings on the Union University campus, injuring more than 50 students, many of them trapped in dormitories. The deadliest tornado hit Sumner and Macon counties in Tennessee, killing 23 people. Three died in Hardin County, and one died in Fayette County.
Six people were killed in Alabama. A home was leveled in Lawrence County, killing a couple and their teenage son. In Jackson County, one woman was killed as her home in Pisgah was destroyed. Seven died in Kentucky. Four deaths were in Allen County. The storm may have been in the same family as the deadly Tennessee tornado. In Muhlenberg County, a couple and their daughter were killed in a mobile home. There were thirteen deaths in six different Arkansas counties. A couple and their 11-year-old daughter died in Pope County. Other fatalities were in Conway, Izard, Baxter, Stone and Van Buren Counties. |
| January 29, 2008 | An 83-year-old woman and her 57-year-old daughter were in their hilltop mobile home north of Poseyville, Indiana when it was destoyed by an EF-2 tornado. Both women died. |
| January 8, 2008 |
A 61-year-old man was killed and his wife injured as an EF-2 tornado blew apart their mobile homes near Appleton, in Pike County, Arkansas. |
| January 7, 2008 |
An EF-3 tornado passed through Greene and Webster Counties in southwest Missouri, passing north of Strafford and Marshfield. Near Strafford, an 85-year-old woman was killed when her frame home collapsed around her. Near Marshfield, two people died as a result of two mobile homes being destroyed. The first person was a 53-year-old woman. The second death occurred in a hospital, 3 weeks after the tornado, as a man died from severe injuries on his 100th birthday. |
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