Thank you, Tom, for the details. JudyR ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] E-mail-A-Friend: BREAKING NEWS: TornadoeshitNewberry county >I live in Newbeery SC ( Tom Courtney )Vivian Markley is my cuz..... > > WLTX) - Saturday proved to be one of the worst outbreaks of severe weather > in recent years, as tornado warnings and touchdowns were reported all > across > the Midlands. > > Related Coverage: (Prosperity Woman Injured in Tornado) | (Long-Standing > Church Damage by Tornado) | (Tree Crashes Through Richland County Woman's > House) | (Tornado Does Damage Along I-26 in Calhoun County) | (Elgin Storm > Victim Says He's Lucky to Be Alive) | (75-Year-Old Woman Survives > Encounter > with Storm) > > At least one--in most cases multiple--times throughout the day, every > Midlands county has a tornado warning issued for it. As of Saturday night, > the number of tornadoes reported to the National Weather Service was six. > The tornadoes were reported in the following counties: Newberry, Kershaw, > Calhoun, Orangeburg, and two in Clarendon. > Send Us Your Storm Photos > > That number could go up. Investigators with the Weather Service will be > out > Sunday checking damage reports to see if these were indeed tornadoes, and > if > there were any more. > > Prosperity. One of the touchdowns was near the Newberry County town of > Prosperity. Heavy damage was reported all throughout that area. > Preliminary > reports from the National Weather Service say that an EF 3 tornado ripped > through > > Severe damage was reported in Kershaw County near Elgin. (Click Here for > More on the Kershaw County Destruction) It's unclear if a tornado was > responsible for that damage, but that's what officials there believe. > > Saluda County and Calhoun Counties have had possible tornado activity. The > Calhoun County twister brought down trees in the St. Matthews area near > Interstate 26. > > In Aiken County, officials there believe as many as four tornadoes could > have touched down. The National Weather Service has not confirmed that > count. > > Hail has been reported across the Midlands. Near Blythewood, there was a > report of hail 1.75 inches thick. High winds not associated with the storm > also did damage. In Northeast Richland County's Lake Carolina, downed > trees > caused damage to a number of homes. > > WLTX.com will continue to have further updates on these developments. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Judith F. Russell" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 2:39 PM > Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] E-mail-A-Friend: BREAKING NEWS: Tornadoes > hitNewberry county > > >> This looks bad for some parts of Newberry County, but not near the Quaker >> Cemetery, I don't think. >> >>> >>> >>> Comment: >>> tornado in newberry >>> >>> --- >>> >>> Story: >>> BREAKING NEWS: Tornadoes hit county >>> >>> Unconfirmed tornadoes did widespread damage across the county today. >>> >>> Damage was done from the Laurens County line on Highway 56 through >>> Prosperity and Little Mountain. >>> >>> For more of this story, click on or type the URL below: >>> >>> http://www.newberryobserver.com/articles/2008/03/15/news/news04.txt >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1330 - Release Date: 3/15/2008 > 2:36 PM > >