Sentence examples for the first tornado from inspiring English sources

By 1957 the Weather Bureau was deploying weather radars, and the 1960s saw the first "tornado watches".

On Sunday, after the first tornado went over our house and before it dropped down and took lives in nearby Shawnee, I was giddy with relief; I thought it was over.

"There's just total destruction," said Michael Day, a plumbing inspector from Agawam who was driving through West Springfield shortly after the first tornado struck around 4 30 p.m. "All I can hear is ambulances.

She met a couple who had sought shelter from the first tornado at the Methodist church, and, fearing the next tornado was approaching, she and Madison returned to town.

Quite possibly, then, this era, which so congratulates itself on its self-awareness, will come to be known as the time of the Great Derangement.... On the afternoon of March 17 , 1978 when I was 21, I was stuck in the middle of the first tornado to hit Delhi in recorded meteorological history.

It was the first tornado recorded in Brooklyn since record-keeping began in 1950, said Jeffrey M. Warner, a meteorologist at Pennsylvania State University, and only the sixth recorded in New York City since 1950 and the first since a weak one touched down on Staten Island in 2003.

The bulk of rescue and repair work is done by state bodies and Fema only becomes involved when a governor asks the president for help, as Mary Fallin did on Sunday night after the first tornadoes hit.

The second tornado passed just south of a crowded Lake Waramaug State Park, the state police said.

"I don't know what this is," said Mr. Hill, whose family survived the second tornado with bruises and gashes.

The second tornado struck Brooklyn about 11 30 a.m. with a speed of 110 miles an hour and traveled about half a mile, the Weather Service said.

The minister at the church, the Rev. Ryan Rosser, said the doors were open all day long to anyone seeking shelter; indeed, there were black utility workers among the 45 or so people in the church basement during the second tornado.