20 June 2008 Tornado Confirmed

The National Weather Service has confirmed that there was an EF1 Tornado in the storm that caused so much damage on Thursday, 20 June 2008. The National Weather Service in Charleston's survey of the damaged area on Friday indicated that the tornado traveled southwest from the area of the intersection of the Truman Parkway and Montgomery Crossroads to the area of the intersection of Ferguson Ave. and Whitfield Ave. It was approximately 100 yards wide and had wind speeds of 90-100 mph.

The areas with the worst damage, according to the NWS, were the areas of the Lakeview Subdivision in Sandfly (this is where Guy, K4GTM, lives - see my previous post here) and the Forest City Gun Club. Guy posted some photos of the storm and tornado damage in Lakeview on his blog:

http://k4gtm.blogspot.com/2008/06/looking-down-our-street.html
http://k4gtm.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post_2581.html
http://k4gtm.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post_361.html
http://k4gtm.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post_21.html
http://k4gtm.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post.html


Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
kf4lmt@comcast.net