Tornado
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The JRM Photo Gallery: Tornado |
Manhattan was struck by a tornado on the night of 11 June 2008. One touchdown point was on campus, destroying the roofs of the SAE house and the nuclear reactor, skinning the Wind Erosion Lab, and doing extensive damage to Cardwell Hall and other buildings. More news and photos are available from the KSU Weather News, the KSU Photo Gallery, or from the Manhattan Mercury. Fuzzy video of the tornado on-campus is available from KTKA. Each thumbnail below links to an image about 950 kB in size. Don't know quite where on campus you're looking? Try the interactive campus map. | ||
 Along Denison just west of the engineering complex. |
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 Part of the SAE house roof landed across the street. |
 Note the snapped-off phone pole. |
 The roofless Sigma Alpha Epsilon house. |
 The whole campus is littered with debris; insulation, limbs and other assorted litter. |
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 Ward Hall got hit pretty hard. |
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 Between Cardwell and Burt Halls. This downed tree may have taken out our public computing lab. |
 Tree damage on the west side of Cardwell. |
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 The Cardwell loading dock and outside the JRM Lab. |
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 The nuclear reactor lost its siding. |
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 Cardwell lost its west-wing roof, the ventilation ducts and lots of windows. |
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 Tree damage was extensive. Just what we needed after this winter's ice storm damage. |
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 More roof damage on Cardwell. |
 Bizarre interior damage on the lower floors of Cardwell. |
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 To the left is first floor damage near the Physics office; above is from the basement near the shops. |
 Broken windows between Cardwell and Burt. |
 Broken window in a classroom, from the inside looking out over JRM. |
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 These cars were in the parking lot between Cardwell and the engineering complex. |
 We got lots of media attention... |
 Near the piled-up cars, lamp posts and parking meters were uprooted. |
 Outside Ward Hall; the sidewalk mural has seen better days. |
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 The remains of Cardwell's public computing lab. |
 The windows were blown out, the computers and printers soaked. |
 The PCSC is trying to salvage what they can. |
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 On the north side of campus there was enormous damage to trees. |
 This panorama of images is just behind Cardwell and Waters Halls. |
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 The sidewalk leading down the parking lots north of Cardwell and Waters. |
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 Behind Waters Hall. |
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 Vehicle flipped in the lot between Waters and Umberger Halls. |
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 Damage near the International Student Center. |
 Ya think? |
 Roof damage to Weber Arena; shots from the back side further down. |
 The Wind Erosion Lab was eroded by the wind. |
 Twisted wreckage of the Wind Erosion Lab, north of the Derby Complex. |
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 The back side of Weber Arena. |
 The ECC guys were beaming out video. |
 And did I mention that it also rained a lot? |
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 The International Student Center from the front. |
 Seaton Court lost a lot of shingles. The Student Union was closed. |
 The English building (formerly Lafene) lost a lot of trees. |
 By afternoon crews were already hard at work on Cardwell's roof. |
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