Cleanup is still happening at McCormick’s Creek State Park nearly five months after an EF-3 tornado flattened a large portion of the park including the campground.
“We are talking in terms of years not months,” Kody Kirby, an Interpretative Naturalist at McCormick’s Creek State Park, said.Kirby said the tornado was only in the park for about a minute, but with wind speeds near 150 miles per hour the damage was vast. The tornado's path was about 400 yards wide at its widest.
The images below, provided by the Department of Natural Resources, show the devastation in the park. The campground took the brunt of the tornado’s force.
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