Friday’s wind damage estimated at $2 million

The straight-line winds that went through Jefferson Friday evening caused an estimated $2 million in damage according to Greene County emergency management director Dennis Morlan. Morlan agrees with the National Weather Service that it wasn’t a tornado that caused damage in the two blocks either side of McKinley Street from Vine St west to Grimmell Road. He explained it as…

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Twisting storm causes damage in north central Jefferson

What meteorologist John McLaughlin called a “twisting storm” passed through Jefferson shortly after 6 pm last night, causing damage in roughly two blocks on both sides of the Union Pacific railroad tracks from just east of the Highway 4 overpass to N. West St. Genesis Development, Dagit Auction, Casey’s General Store and the former Wahl-McAtee Tire and Service Center were…

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