Pictures of the Devastation from the Airport Road Tornado

Airport Road F4 Tornado (November 15, 1989)

Pictures Below Courtesy of the Huntsville Times from the book: "Huntsville Tornado November 15, 1989, 4:37 p.m. A Diary of Destruction"


Extreme Damage to a home by the tornado.	Extensive damage to Spirit Catholic Church on Airport Road.	*Extensive damage to trees and the van in the photo.*


*Extensive damage to a home in the Jones Valley area.*	*This school was tragically demolished by the tornado.*	What was left of Gates Cleaners after the tornado tore through.


Apartments significantly damaged on Breckinridge Drive.	Survivors picking through rubble to find some salvageable belongings on Toney Street.	Utter destruction seen here in the wake of the tornado.


Searchers look through the wreckage of Waterford Square Apartments the night of the tornado.	National guardsmen arrive early Thursday morning to help search for additional victims and prevent possible looting at Westbury Plaza.	This structure was severely damaged by the tornado.


Medical personnel attend to numerous people who were injured by the tornado.	*Utter destruction seen along Airport Road near Whitesburg Drive in this picture.*

*Other Pictures (Not Courtesy of the Huntsville Times)*


*Picture taken by the NWS Birmingham Storm Survey team. Portions of the Waterford Square Apartment complex were completely destroyed*	*At right, an aerial photograph* *taken by the NWS Birmingham Storm Survey team* *of the damage (for reference, the road going diagonally from lower right to top middle is Airport Road).*	Aerial picture of damage taken by NWS Birmingham employees.


Aerial picture of damage taken by NWS Birmingham employees.	Aerial picture of damage taken by NWS Birmingham employees.	Aerial picture of damage taken by NWS Birmingham employees.


Picture of damage taken by NWS Birmingham employees.	Picture of damage taken by NWS Birmingham employees.	Picture of damage taken by NWS Birmingham employees.


Picture of damage taken by NWS Birmingham employees.	Picture of damage taken by NWS Birmingham employees.	Picture of damage taken by NWS Birmingham employees.