NWS: Tornado touched down in Franklin County June 16

The National Weather Service (NWS) ruled damage sustained to a handful of rural Alexander farm buildings was the result of an EF1 tornado on June 16.

     Local officials and residents affected by the storm suspected a twister touched down between Alexander and Meservey that day, but an official ruling was delayed due to other inclement weather elsewhere throughout the state. Franklin County Emergency Management Coordinator Thomas Craighton collected information and submitted a report to the NWS for further analysis last month, and the agency reviewed the data and released the findings on its website recently.

     Craighton hadn’t heard about the NWS’s final report last week, but he said he wasn’t surpised. The tornado ripped the roof off a home, demolished a barn and also caused damage at various other farm buildings near Alexander and Meservey on June 16.

   Read the full article in the July 31 edition of the Enterprise.

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