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2019 Columbus, Mississippi, Tornado
In the early evening hours of February 23, 2019, a large and intense tornado moved through the city of Columbus, Mississippi, Columbus, located in Lowndes County, Mississippi. The tornado, which received a rating of EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, killed one person and injured 19 others during its 16-minute lifespan. The tornado was on the ground for , and produced extensive damage to trees and man-made structures. The tornado was the first to kill at least one person during the 2019 tornado season, and was one of 33 EF3-rated tornadoes in the United States that year. The tornado first touched down at 6:15 pm CDT, producing EF0 and EF-rated damage to trees as it crossed the Oak Slush Creek into downtown Columbus. It reached EF2 intensity for the first time on North 8th Avenue, beginning to deroof homes and uproot trees as it moved to the northeast. The Sims Community Center sustained a direct hit by the tornado and was destroyed; outbuildings on the property collapsed inward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Daylight Time
The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and a few Caribbean islands. In parts of that zone (20 states in the US, three provinces or territories in Canada, and several border municipalities in Mexico), the Central Time Zone is affected by two time designations yearly: Central Standard Time (CST) is observed from the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March. It is six hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and designated internationally as UTC−6. From the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November the same areas observe daylight saving time (DST), creating the designation of Central Daylight Time (CDT), which is five hours behind UTC and known internationally as UTC−5. Regions using Central Time Canada The province of Manitoba is the only province or territory in Canada that observes Central Time in all areas. The following Canadian provinces and territ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Indiana
Southern Indiana is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern third of the U.S. state of Indiana and borders the states of Illinois to the west, Kentucky to the south, and Ohio to the east. Spanning the state's southernmost 33 counties, its main population centers include Southwestern Indiana (anchored by the city of Evansville), the Louisville metropolitan area (south), and the Cincinnati metropolitan area (southeast). The region's history and geography have led to a blending of Southern and Midwestern cultures, distinct from the rest of the state. It is often considered to be part of the Upland South and the Southern influenced Lower Midwest. The Wabash forms the region's western boundary and Ohio forms the region's entire southern and the majority of its eastern boundary. Elevation ranges from around above mean sea level at the rivers' confluence to at the highest point in the Knobstone Escarpment. Southern Indiana's topography is conside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal Media Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a subsidiary of Comcast. The news division's various operations report to the president of NBC News, Rebecca Blumenstein. The NBCUniversal News Group also comprises MSNBC, the network's 24-hour liberal cable news channel, as well as business and consumer news channels CNBC and CNBC World, the Spanish language and United Kingdom-based Sky News. NBC News aired the first regularly scheduled news program in American broadcast television history on February 21, 1940. The group's broadcasts are produced and aired from 30 Rockefeller Plaza, NBCUl's headquarters in New York City. The division presides over the flagship evening newscast ''NBC Nightly News'', the world's first of its genre morning television program, ''Today (American TV program), Today'', and the longest-running television series in American hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) is an Government agency, agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information. It is a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) branch of the United States Department of Commerce, Department of Commerce, and is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, within the Washington metropolitan area. The agency was known as the United States Weather Bureau from 1891 until it adopted its current name in 1970. The NWS performs its primary task through a collection of national and regional centers, and 122 local List of National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices, Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs). As the NWS is an agency of the U.S. federal government, most of its products are in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steens, Mississippi
Steens, also known as Jamisons Mill, is an unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Mississippi. Steens is located northeast of Columbus. The ZIP Code for Steens is 39766. History Steens is located adjacent to Luxapallila Creek and is located on the former Southern Railway. In 1838, Robert Jamison founded a grist mill, store, and smithy along Luxapallila Creek near the present site of Steens. In addition, he built multiple covered bridges in the area. In 1900, the population was 26. The community once had a cotton gin and exported large amounts of lumber, fertilizer, and cotton seed. A post office operated under the name Steenston from 1884 to 1903 and under the names Steens starting in 1903. The Caledonia Combined Cycle Plant, a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant, is located on 125 acres of land near Steens. The Steens soil series is named for the community. Notable person * Bob McCrory, former relief pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles The Baltimore Orioles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississippi Highway 50
Mississippi Highway 50 (MS 50) is a state highway in Mississippi. It generally follows an east/west track for and runs from MS 9 in Walthall, Mississippi, east to the Alabama state line east of Columbus. MS 50 serves the following Mississippi counties: Lowndes, Clay, and Webster. Route description MS 50 begins in the North Central Hills region (part of the Appalachian Foothills) in Webster County at an intersection with MS 9 in the village of Walthall. It heads east as a two-lane highway through downtown, where it has an intersection with MS 784 (Main Street), before leaving Walthall and continuing east through rural areas for a few miles to an intersection with Clarkson Road and N Sappa Road, where state maintenance ends and the road winds its way east through remote wooded areas as Old Highway 50 and Avent Road (parts of which are unpaved dirt road). The county road passes through the community of Clarkson, where it briefly turns right onto Clarkson road, before turn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luxapallila Creek
Luxapalila Creek (also spelled Luxapallila Creek) is a stream in Mississippi and Alabama in the United States. means "flying turtle" in the Choctaw language. The creek drains a watershed of and flows through Lamar County, Marion County, Fayette County and Pickens County in Alabama and Monroe County and Lowndes County in Mississippi. It runs through the Alabama cities of Winfield, Millport, |
Steel Building
A steel building is a metal structure fabricated with steel for the internal support and for exterior cladding, as opposed to steel framed buildings which generally use other materials for floors, walls, and external envelope. Steel buildings are used for a variety of purposes including storage, work spaces and living accommodation. They are classified into specific types depending on how they are used. Advantages Steel provides several advantages over other building materials, such as wood: * Steel is structurally sound and manufactured to strict specifications and tolerances. * Steel does not easily warp, buckle, twist or bend, and is therefore easy to modify and offers design flexibility. Steel is also easy to install. * Steel is Cost-effectiveness analysis, cost effective and rarely Market trend, fluctuates in price. * Steel allows for improved quality of construction and less maintenance. * With the propagation of mold and mildew in residential building, using steel minimi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NOAA
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA ) is an American scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone. The agency is part of the United States Department of Commerce and is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland. History NOAA traces its history back to multiple agencies, some of which are among the earliest in the federal government: * United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, formed in 1807 * Weather Bureau of the United States, formed in 1870 * Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, formed in 1871 (research fleet only) * Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps, formed in 1917 The most direct predecessor of NOAA was the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), into which several existing scientific agencies such as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damage Assessment Toolkit
A tornado damage survey, also known as a storm damage assessment, is a type of Land surveying, land survey that is conducted to determine the damage caused by Tornado, tornadoes, and to give them ratings on the Enhanced Fujita scale. Damage surveys have been used since the 18th century to determine tornado-caused damage, and have become increasingly common following the implementation of the Fujita scale in 1971. History Although it is unknown when damage surveys began to be used to determine structural and property damage, one of the earliest known surveys was conducted by German scientist Gottlob Burchard Genzmer in the aftermath of the 1764 Woldegk tornado. Genzmer published a detailed survey of the damage path from the tornado, which documented the 33 km (18.6 mi) long track. The study, known as the "Genzmer Report", was the first to be conducted on a single tornado. Damage surveys would become more common in the 1960s and 1970s, when Ted Fujita pioneered the Fuj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tombigbee River
The Tombigbee River is a tributary of the Mobile River, approximately 200 mi (325 km) long, in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Alabama. Together with the Alabama, it merges to form the short Mobile River before the latter empties into Mobile Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. The Tombigbee watershed encompasses much of the rural coastal plain of western Alabama and northeastern Mississippi, flowing generally southward. The river provides one of the principal routes of commercial navigation in the southern United States, as it is navigable along much of its length through locks and connected in its upper reaches to the Tennessee River via the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. The name "Tombigbee" comes from Choctaw ''itumbi ikbi'', meaning "box maker, coffin maker", from ''itumbi'', "box, coffin", and ''ikbi'', "maker". The river formed the eastern boundary of the historical Choctaw lands, from the 17th century when they coalesced as a people, to the forced Indian Removal by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
