Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 10, 1991 TAG: 9104100512
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-2 EDITION: EVENING
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Storms on Tuesday also played havoc with the mercury, leaving snow in parts of Michigan where days earlier people were sunbathing.
Heavy rains, twisters and high winds were also reported in North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. A rare tornado struck in Washington state.
Charles Fahrenz, 41, of Huntington, W.Va., was killed when the barn he was working in collapsed, and 4-month-old Joseph Roberts of Charleston was killed when winds knocked his grandparents' trailer down a 20-foot embankment.
More than 50 people were hospitalized in Charleston with weather-related injuries and at least 10 others were hurt at a track meet in Ripley.
The Seattle, Wash., area seldom sees a tornado, but it did Tuesday, preceded by hail as big as baseballs. The twister near Bremerton felled trees and damaged homes.
Hank Treich of the National Weather Service in Seattle said the tornado was the first he knew of in western Washington since 1970.
Thunderstorms waylaid 36 injured Gulf War veterans flying in a military transport from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. They spent the night in a suburban Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs hospital.
Golfball-sized hail cracked windshields on a Pittsburgh highway.
Tornadoes, rain and wind raked Kentucky at 70 mph. In Simpson County, National Guardsmen were called out to prevent looting. A tornado in Lawrence County destroyed five homes.
Winds blew the roof off City Hall and the post office in Liberty, Ky. Two toll booths on the Cumberland Parkway were blown over.
Michigan's Upper Peninsula got 10 inches of snow.
"It's strange because it was 80 degrees on Saturday," said Bill Mattson, an employee at Arctic Cat Snowmobiles in Marquette. "Everybody was tanning and cutting their lawns over the weekend. . . . We'd been selling motorcycles and today a few people stopped in to rent snowmobiles."
Thunderstorms rattled Ohio with winds up to 60 mph and spun off a tornado that leveled a barn, killing six cows.
Nancy Porteus of Oxford Township, Ohio, said the storm and high winds blew down a hangar that stored equipment on her family's 180-acre farm. The hangar was "drilled into the ground like toothpicks," she said.
Hundreds of trees and power lines were downed in North Carolina.
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