Over Two Dozen Tornadoes Strike From Plains to Southeast; Four Injured at Naval Base in Georgia
A storm system that tore from the Plains into the Southeast this weekend produced more than two dozen tornadoes and left behind a trail of destruction in several states.
Five people were injured in southeastern Georgia, including four at a nearby Naval base, when a tornado struck Camden County Sunday around 4 p.m., Action News Jax reported.
A pair of sailors at Kings Bay Naval Base were injured when they were thrown from a patrol boat and two fishermen on a close by pier suffered minor injuries, base officials reported.
Scott Bassett, a public information officer at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, told weather.com that no submarines were damaged in the storm. He said there was wind damage to a pier facility in the southeast part of the base where smaller Coast Guard vessels dock. He also said the storm knocked down utility poles and flipped vehicles.
The same system spawned an EF3 tornado Saturday that left more than 500 buildings damaged or destroyed and 26 people injured in Taylorville, Illinois. The tornado struck the town of about 11,200 residents just after 5 p.m. Saturday.
Marie Sheedy hauls salvageable items from the destroyed remains of her son Don's shop, an old train shed, as residents dig out and clean up tornado debris in Taylorville, Illinois, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018.
(Ted Schurter/The State Journal-Register via AP)
The storm system also was responsible for at least four tornadoes that caused extensive damage in Oklahoma and killed one person in a southwestern Missouri.
Fire Chief Robert Ward told KYTV that one person inside an Aurora, Missouri, motel was killed as a storm passed through. The National Weather Service confirmed an EF1 tornado in the area. An EF0 was confirmed to have hit Monett, Missouri.
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