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Tornado Damage in the Park

May 24, 2011 – 1:49 pm

Even the mountains couldn’t escape the historic severe weather that occurred during the “Super Outbreak” of late April. The park has had to close several trails and portions of trails on the west end of the park during clean-up. To see some of the damage on the closed trails and the path of destruction from [...]

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GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
Bad Smoke in the Smokies

May 31, 2007 – 12:30 pm

Here’s the view today from the Look Rock Webcam. Looks pretty smoky doesn’t it? It’s an 800 acre fire with a new little sister fire started, the NPS thinks, by lightning during an all-to-brief shower!! Not enough water to help, but lightning to set another fire?!? Bad luck.

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