{"id":2728,"date":"2014-06-02T11:12:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T16:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgantn\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2017-06-20T22:13:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T03:13:33","slug":"tornadoes-in-morgan-county-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/tornadoes-in-morgan-county-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornadoes in Morgan County, 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0MORGAN COUNTY, TENNESSEE<\/span><\/i>\u00a0TORNADO – NOV. 11, 2002<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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KILLER TORNADOES HIT MORGAN COUNTY<\/span><\/i><\/b>
\n[These headlines and photos came from newspapers in the area]<\/i>
\n~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/i>
\nThe Knoxville News-Sentinal<\/span><\/i>
\nThe Roane County News<\/span><\/i>
\nMorgan County News<\/span><\/i>
\n~ ~ ~ ~<\/span><\/i>
\nTWISTER STRIKES MORGAN<\/i><\/b>-Three feared dead, many missing
\nSTORM SHATTERED LIVES<\/i><\/b>
\nTiny community of Mossy Grove grieves over deaths
\nNo. of missing drops from 120 to 14 in Morgan
\n7 confirmed dead
\n28 injured (23 hospitalized, 4 critical)
\nVictims, kin relate harrowing tale of night they won’t forget
\n24 houses-destroyed
\n12 mobile homes-destroyed
\n1 public building-destroyed
\n4 businesses-damaged
\n100 motor vehicles damaged or destroyed
\n40 out buildings-destroyed
\n4 barns-destroyed
\nWednesday:\u00a0 RECOVERY BEGINNING, Governor, federal representatives to be Morgan
\n—
\n“DISASTER AREA DECLARED”<\/i><\/b>
\nMossy Grove, Tenn – President George W. Bush declared Morgan County a federal disaster area Wednesday afternon while federal emergency officials said that aid could arrive as soon as the end of the week.<\/i><\/b>
\n——–<\/b>
\nTornado victims could receive aid within days<\/i><\/b>
\n—–
\nOld Red Kap building and the New Civic Center serve as collection centers for donations and distribution of help to the folks who were victims of the storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0MORGAN COUNTY, TENNESSEE\u00a0TORNADO – NOV. 11, 2002 \u00a0——— KILLER TORNADOES HIT MORGAN COUNTY [These headlines and photos came from newspapers in the area] ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The Knoxville News-Sentinal The Roane County News Morgan County News ~ ~ ~ ~ TWISTER STRIKES MORGAN-Three feared dead, many missing STORM SHATTERED LIVES Tiny community… Continue reading Tornadoes in Morgan County, 2002<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-misc-records","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3612,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions\/3612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}