FLASHBACK: June 2018 Laramie Tornado
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It was a day that will live in Albany County s memory for a long time. Multiple tornadoes touched down near Laramie on the evening of June 6, 2018.
County about 8 miles north of Laramie during the late afternoon on
06/06/18. The storm initially produced a tornado 3 to 4 miles
west of Highway 30. The tornado tracked east across Highway 30 and ntensified rapidly moving through mainly open fields. Numerous
wooden power poles were snapped along County Road 121, along with
several galvanized steel utility poles which were bent 90 degrees
at the base. Grass was scoured out of the ground in a wide swath
FLASHBACK: June 2018 Laramie Tornado
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It was a day that will live in Albany County s memory for a long time. Multiple tornadoes touched down near Laramie on the evening of June 6, 2018.
County about 8 miles north of Laramie during the late afternoon on
06/06/18. The storm initially produced a tornado 3 to 4 miles
west of Highway 30. The tornado tracked east across Highway 30 and ntensified rapidly moving through mainly open fields. Numerous
wooden power poles were snapped along County Road 121, along with
several galvanized steel utility poles which were bent 90 degrees
at the base. Grass was scoured out of the ground in a wide swath
for perhaps thousands of angry protestors and the law heads toward final passage. doug luzader in washington thank you so much. let s turn to weather. there is extreme weather conditions across the country. maria molina has more on storms and what else do have? tornadoes, right? we have tornadic activity had it occurring over the weekend and yesterday. significant snowfall totals. go to the tornado videos, first. we had 10 reported tornadoes across portions of the south and florida. some did produce damage. there were homes that were shifted on their foundations so the significant activity with this storm system has left behind also much colder temperatures across parts of the midwest and down into texas. first the snowfall totals incredible amounts over wisconsin, minnesota well over a foot of snow.
weekend and that really changes plans for a lot of people trying to get back from easter weekend. they ll have to fly to an airport like memphis or kansas city or even chicago. we re talking three, four hour drives just to get home. can i just ask you, with your vast experience in the field, there was a witness who said this whole thing took like 20 seconds to bring on this devastation. does that make sense to you? 20 seconds could do all this? reporter: tornadoes happen very quickly. last week we had tornadoes moving at 60, 65 miles an hour. it s just like that. you probably have seen some of the tornado videos and some youtube videos from last week where it comes by like that walgreens store in north carolina. it s gone. usually 30 seconds, 25, 30 seconds just like that and it does this kind of damage. these winds were easily over 100 miles an hour. national weather service survey teams are out right now across this area and west of town doing