Northwest Tennessee 2006 Tornado Memorial - Dyer County, TN
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N 36° 07.945 W 089° 25.631
16S E 281589 N 4001364
Memorial to those from Dyer County who perished in the F3 tornado that devastated the Newbern, Tennessee area. The tornado hit between 7:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. CDT. Many of those killed were at the Sara Lee Foods plant in Newbern.
Waymark Code: WM3K53
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 04/14/2008
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The April 2, 2006 Tornado Outbreak was a series of tornadoes that occurred during the late afternoon and evening of April 2, 2006 in the central United States. It was the second major outbreak of 2006, in the same area that suffered considerable destruction in a previous outbreak on March 11 and March 12, as well as an outbreak on November 15, 2005. The most notable tornadoes of the outbreak struck northeastern Arkansas, the Missouri Bootheel and West Tennessee, where several communities - including Marmaduke, Arkansas, Caruthersville, Missouri and Newbern, Tennessee suffered devastating damage from several tornadoes triggered from a supercell. In total, sixty-six tornadoes touched down across seven states, which is the most in a single day in 2006. In addition, there were over 850 total severe weather reports, including many reports of straight-line winds exceeding hurricane force and hail as large as softballs, which caused significant additional damage in a nine-state region.
The outbreak was a deadly one; there were a total of twenty-seven tornado-related deaths plus two other deaths from straight-line winds. It was the deadliest tornado outbreak in the United States since the May 2003 Tornado Outbreak Sequence in the first week of May 2003, which killed forty-eight people. Twenty-five of those deaths were caused by a single supercell thunderstorm which produced damaging and long lived tornadoes from north central Arkansas into northwest Tennessee. 72 homes completely destroyed and another 182 homes damaged in the Newbern area.
In memory of those who perished in the April 2, 2006 tornado:
Jerry Lamar Ables
Stacy Ables
Sid Bruce
Estelle Horner Hickman
William Travis Hickman
Doreen Ina Hartell Hunt
Tyler Forbes Keierleber
Janie O'brien King
Jeremy Jackson Price
Jodi Price
Eddie Paul Sherron
Vicky S. Sherron
Lukas Allen Simpson
Wanda Taylor
Williams Taylor
Eldy Cardoza Ureste
Disaster Date: 04/02/2006
Memorial Sponsors: Local residents
Disaster Type: Natural
Relevant Website: [Web Link]
Date of dedication: Not listed
Parking Coordinates: Not Listed
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