More than 100 tornado warnings issued as Hurricane Beryl wrecked the Southeast
Over 100 tornado warnings were issued as Hurricane Beryl flooded and decimated parts of the Southeast this week, including in Lousiana which reached a single-day record for the weather-related advisories.
By the end of Monday, 110 tornado warnings had been issued, Storm Chaser Colin McCarthy said in an X post.
"Hurricane Beryl today produced one of the most prolific and significant tropical cyclone-induced tornado outbreaks in US history," McCarthy's post said.
McCarthy also detailed how Beryl accounted for the most tornado warnings issued in the U.S. in a single July day since 1986 when the advisories began being recorded. The previous record was 67 during Hurricane Cindy, according to McCarthy.
A study at Iowa State University found that Beryl produced 113 tornado warnings.
"One hundred thirteen warnings is a lot and given this happened in July, it is even more significant," said Daryl E. Herzmann, a systems analyst at Iowa State University and producer of the study.
Hurricane #Beryl today produced one of the most prolific and significant tropical cyclone-induced tornado outbreaks in US history.
An incredible 110 tornado warnings have been issued since midnight.
This is also the most tornado warnings issued in the US in a single July… pic.twitter.com/6YE9KRVWrY— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) July 9, 2024
Single-day record for tornado warnings reached in Shreveport, Louisiana coverage area
The National Weather Service (NWS) office in Shreveport, Lousiana issued 67 tornado warnings across its coverage area, which is "easily the most in a single day event," according to a post on X by the government agency.
"Today's weather events across our region in the wake of Hurricane Beryl's remnants are further proof that inland tropical impacts can also be quite extreme," the NWS's X post said.
The previous record for tornado warnings in the office's coverage area was 36 on Dec. 27, 2015, according to the X post.
Today's weather events across our region in the wake of Hurricane Beryl's remnants are further proof that inland tropical impacts can also be quite extreme. A total of 67 tornado warnings were issued across NWS Shreveport's coverage area, easily the most in a single day event. pic.twitter.com/90L9sMIxUC
— NWS Shreveport (@NWSShreveport) July 9, 2024
Other records Hurricane Beryl set
Tornado warnings are not the only feat that Beryl reached, the hurricane also became:
The earliest Category 4 and Category 5 hurricane on record.
The third-earliest Atlantic major hurricane on record.
The earliest June major hurricane that formed east of the Lesser Antilles on record.
The easternmost hurricane to form in the tropical Atlantic in June.
The strongest June hurricane by wind speed, and the strongest July hurricane by wind speed.
The first tropical storm on record to undergo rapid intensification in the Atlantic Basin during June.
The only storm to spend 4.5 days as a major hurricane
Contributing: Brandi D. Addison/ USA TODAY NETWORK and Ramon Padilla/ USA TODAY
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Hurricane Beryl broke a tornado warning record as it hit the Southeast
