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Tornado outbreak of May 1968. The Tornado outbreak of May 1968 was a significant and deadly tornado outbreak that struck most of the central and southern United States from May 15 to May 16, 1968. Producing 46 tornadoes, the outbreak killed at least 72 people, including 45 in Arkansas alone. The outbreak also produced two F5 tornadoes in Iowa.
Families of victims awarded $150 million in wrongful death lawsuit against Johnson and Golden. On March 24, 1998, a school shooting occurred at Westside Middle School in unincorporated Craighead County, Arkansas near the city of Jonesboro. [1] Perpetrators 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew Golden fatally shot four students and ...
A destructive nighttime tornado, or series of tornadoes, ravaged Jonesboro, Arkansas, on May 26, injuring nearly 300 people, but surprisingly with only three deaths. [16] [28] The next day, a long-tracked, violent tornado crossed almost 140 mi (230 km) of central Alabama , obliterating most of the town of Brent , injuring about 200 people, and ...
Biography. Riley was born in Pocahontas, Arkansas, the son of a sharecropper.He learned to play the guitar from black farm workers. After four years in the Army, he first recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1955, before being persuaded by Sam Phillips to record for Sun Studios.
It was rated high-end EF4, with an estimated peak wind speed of 190 mph (310 km/h). With a confirmed death toll of 57, it was the deadliest single tornado in the United States since the Joplin, Missouri tornado on May 22, 2011, ten years earlier. A 58th fatality was the result of a heart attack while clearing debris and is listed as indirect.
Tornado outbreak of April 2, 2006. During the late afternoon and evening of April 2, 2006, a series of tornadoes broke out in the central United States. It was the second major outbreak of 2006, in the same area that suffered considerable destruction in a previous outbreak on March 11 and 12, as well as an outbreak on November 15, 2005. [3]
Jonesboro (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ n z b ʌ r ə /) is a city located on Crowley's Ridge in the northeastern corner of the U.S. State of Arkansas. Jonesboro is one of two county seats of Craighead County . In 2022, the city had an estimated population of 79,876, [4] making it the fifth-most populous city in Arkansas .
The men have been charged in connection with the deaths of three people found in a silver 2010 Dodge Charger found abandoned along Interstate 85 at an exit ramp in Union City on Jan. 13, 2013 ...