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Who Remembers the 1989 Tornado Outbreak?
Posted on 7/3/17 at 10:30 pm
Posted on 7/3/17 at 10:30 pm
I'm sitting here with my 14 year-old son watching a show about tornadoes on The Weather Channel and started telling him about the big tornado outbreak in 1989 in and around Baton Rouge. Anyone else here remember? I believe it was in the first half of June 1989.
I was ten years old at the time and remember that day pretty well. I remember being pretty damn scared. We pulled the mattresses off of my bunk bed at we had to shelter in the hallway twice. It seemed like it lasted all damn day and was just one tornado warning after another. I don't remember the local news being on but I can remember that 8 bit weather radar on channel 2 I think it was, and the warnings being issued on that. The outbreak made the national news that night.
There is some news footage of the aftermath and one of a big tornado from that day on YouTube.
I was ten years old at the time and remember that day pretty well. I remember being pretty damn scared. We pulled the mattresses off of my bunk bed at we had to shelter in the hallway twice. It seemed like it lasted all damn day and was just one tornado warning after another. I don't remember the local news being on but I can remember that 8 bit weather radar on channel 2 I think it was, and the warnings being issued on that. The outbreak made the national news that night.
There is some news footage of the aftermath and one of a big tornado from that day on YouTube.
This post was edited on 7/3/17 at 10:32 pm
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Posted on 7/3/17 at 10:35 pm to TheFonz
We've had a couple of outbreaks in the past two years that were worse IMO.
There is a video floating around of a tornado hitting the US190 bridge in Baton Rouge from that outbreak.
I don't remember it as clearly as I do the Exxon explosion.
There is a video floating around of a tornado hitting the US190 bridge in Baton Rouge from that outbreak.
I don't remember it as clearly as I do the Exxon explosion.
This post was edited on 7/3/17 at 10:36 pm
Posted on 7/3/17 at 10:46 pm to TheFonz
Global warming.
Lets get out of here.
Lets get out of here.
Posted on 7/3/17 at 10:57 pm to TheFonz
I remember. Didn't it hit the Cedarcrest and Old Hammond Hwy area?
Posted on 7/3/17 at 10:59 pm to TheFonz
Posted on 7/3/17 at 11:56 pm to TheFonz
I was working at The NWS office in Baton Rouge that day.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 12:01 am to MottLaneKid
I remember this. I was on vacation in Houston with my parents and we saw this on the news.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 12:15 am to The Boat
1989 Donna Britt 
Posted on 7/4/17 at 1:37 am to TheFonz
One hit that plant at the foot of the old bridge and then crossed airline highway. A Co worker drove right past it.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 6:34 am to TheFonz
My house got hit by a tornado that day. Light damage, but it destroyed a fence we had built just a couple of days earlier. :(
Posted on 7/4/17 at 6:51 am to TheFonz
I think that day yall got 'naders in South LA here in Monroe we got one hell of a hail storm. Those hail stones were like grapefruits/softballs and did more damage in 30 min than anything I've ever seen.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:27 am to Barneyrb
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I think that day yall got 'naders in South LA here in Monroe we got one hell of a hail storm. Those hail stones were like grapefruits/softballs and did more damage in 30 min than anything I've ever seen.
Is this a thread about the Monroe hailstorm of 1989?
Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:40 am to TheFonz
I have no memory of this. I must have been really hammered.
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