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Published: Saturday, July 14th, 2012 @ 5:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage ( More Entries )

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I had heard of the extensive damage to airport property, and planes parked there, but I had to see it for myself. That afternoon before my Beaufort County Commissioner meeting, I visited the airport to see and take pictures of the stated damage. Well, I took a lot of pictures.

In these woods about 70 feet on the outside of the airport fence was this battered and broken plane: Above. On the inside of the airport fence was this upside-down plane. I suppose all the tethering straps had little effect against the harsh winds of the sudden storm: Below. photos by Stan Deatherage

At the succeeding county commissioner meeting, Beaufort County's Emergency Services Coordinator John Pack updated the county commissioners that the "National Weather Service stressed that no tornadoes touched-down in the area; just gustnadoes." John also related that the Weather Service believed that "straight-line winds are the culprit in the destruction of the airport's terminal."

Straight-line wind? You be the judge of what destroyed a masonry building with steel reinforcement: Above and below. photos by Stan Deatherage

For me, I can buy the premise that most of the extreme damage from this storm was from gustnadoes - my research tells me that a gustnado is just a poorly formed tornado - but straight-line winds destroying the terminal is another matter all together. This profound damage, at this location, speaks to a very selective straight-line wind, very discriminatory in its application of its demon squall.

My example of this discriminatory wind flow is that the frame building just a few feet west of the terminal was still standing. Not only was the structure still standing, but not one shingle was lifted from its roof. An example of selective straight-line wind, or the "finger of God" from a tornado or gustnado, you be the judge.

Witness the explosive destruction of the Warren Field terminal, and look beyond it to the frame building just a few feet west: Above. Here is where the roof and the walls of the terminal building settled about 100 feet behind the devastated structure: Below. photos by Stan Deatherage

In Summation, it was a deadly storm. In all my years of living in this area of Beaufort County, I have never witnessed a storm with this much sudden, widespread force. Derechoes are generally a phenomenon that mainly occur on an irregular basis in the tornado prone Midwest. With this part of the planet in an obvious warming trend, this may not be the last of the derechoes in the Southeastern United States.