Spring 2020 Tornado Damage In Photos

Jonesboro Airport Tornado Damage
Courtesy of Jonesboro PD
Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • Powerful tornadoes have caused significant damage across the eastern United States over the past six weeks.
  • Airports in Louisiana and South Carolina were particularly hard hit, with numerous planes damaged or destroyed.
  • The full extent of the damage and costs is still being assessed.
  • Multiple strong storm fronts spawned the tornadoes.
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The year 2020 has been a terrible one in just about every way, so the last thing we needed was for tornadoes to cut wide swaths through the nation. But that’s just what they’ve done. Over the past six weeks or so, three super powerful storm fronts have slammed their way from North Texas to the eastern United States, leaving a path of devastation where they had been. This past week, tornadoes in Louisiana and South Carolina, both spawned by the same storm front, tore up airports in Walterboro, South Carolina, and Monroe, Louisiana. Locals captured images of the devastation. The numbers of planes damaged or destroyed are still being calculated, but the costs are high. We will update this story as more details emerge.

Isabel Goyer

A commercial pilot, Isabel Goyer has been flying for more than 40 years, with hundreds of different aircraft in her logbook and thousands of hours. An award-winning aviation writer, photographer and editor, Ms. Goyer led teams at Sport Pilot, Air Progress and Flying before coming to Plane & Pilot in 2015.
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