{"id":1585,"date":"2009-05-14T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2009-05-14T08:03:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T15:03:55","slug":"tornadoes-wreak-havoc-kill-three-in-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/tornadoes-wreak-havoc-kill-three-in-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornadoes wreak havoc, kill three in Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1586\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1586\" title=\"A tornado tears through Adair County Wednesday evening. This photograph was taken by Dr. Curtis Roof from Highway 6, facing west. The tornado traveled on a northeastern path, damaging several homes along the way. (Dr. Curtis Roof\/Kirksville Daily Express)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-05-14_063948.jpg\" alt=\"A tornado tears through Adair County Wednesday evening. This photograph was taken by Dr. Curtis Roof from Highway 6, facing west. The tornado traveled on a northeastern path, damaging several homes along the way. (Dr. Curtis Roof\/Kirksville Daily Express)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-05-14_063948.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-05-14_063948-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tornado tears through Adair County Wednesday evening. This photograph was taken by Dr. Curtis Roof from Highway 6, facing west. The tornado traveled on a northeastern path, damaging several homes along the way. (Dr. Curtis Roof\/Kirksville Daily Express)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The quiet rural area of Kirksville, Missouri was ripped apart Wednesday evening by four tornadoes that destroyed and damaged homes and claimed the lives of three people.\u00a0 The first of the series of tornadoes was reported at 5:49pm local time near this town 120 miles northeast of Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Adair County bore the brunt of the line of severe storms as they moved northeast across the nation\u2019s midsection.\u00a0 Two twisters were reported near Novinger, one near Troy Mills and the most damaging one in Kirksville.\u00a0 The Kirksville tornado destroyed at least one house and damaged 30 \u2013 40 others as well as a car dealership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two victims were killed in Adair County according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.\u00a0 No details on the circumstances or their names have been released other than to say they were tornado related.\u00a0 One woman was killed in neighboring Sullivan County when a tornado struck her mobile home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m5d14-Tornadoes-wreak-havoc-kill-three-in-Missouri\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Get complete details on the twisters and see some incredible images of the destruction on Examiner.com.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quiet rural area of Kirksville, Missouri was ripped apart Wednesday evening by four tornadoes that destroyed and damaged homes and claimed the lives of three people.\u00a0 The first of the series of tornadoes was reported at 5:49pm local time near this town 120 miles northeast of Kansas City. Adair County bore the brunt of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/tornadoes-wreak-havoc-kill-three-in-missouri\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tornadoes wreak havoc, kill three in Missouri<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[732,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}