Posted on 02/17/2008 12:37:14 PM PST by dirtboy
At 222 PM CST... National Weather Service Doppler radar and storm spotters were tracking a large and extremely dangerous tornado. This tornado was located near Henderson... or about 9 miles southeast of Goshen... moving northeast at 45 mph.
The tornado will be near... Antioch... Brundidge and 7 miles northwest of Hamilton Crossroads by 235 PM CST... Brundidge Municipal Airport... Monticello and banks by 240 PM CST... Josie... 7 miles south of Tanyard... 8 miles southeast of Sandfield and 9 miles southwest of Boot Hill by 245 PM CST...
Statement as of 2:29 PM CST on February 17, 2008
Tornado Watch 63 remains in effect until 800 PM CST for the following locations
Al
. Alabama counties included are
Autauga Baldwin Barbour
Bullock Butler Chambers
Chilton Clarke Clay
Coffee Conecuh Coosa
Covington Crenshaw Dale
Dallas Elmore Escambia
Geneva Henry Houston
Lee Lowndes Macon
Mobile Monroe Montgomery
Pike Randolph Russell
Tallapoosa Washington Wilcox
bump to keep this thread up for the next few minutes.
Prayers for those affected.
Josie and Tanyard by 250 PM CST...
Boot Hill by 255 PM CST...
6 miles northwest of Clayton by 305 PM CST...
Comer by 315 PM CST...
Spring Hill by 320 PM CST...
Hawkinsville by 325 PM CST...
Prayers for those injured....
Prayers up.
The storm in question is the supercell SW of Columbus, GA. Classic supercell presentation - one large cell out ahead of the squall line.
Bump and prayer.
Won’t know until afterwards - F-designation is from the damaged caused. Anything F3 and up is bad news.
On the other hand, the same tornado has now been spotted on the ground in Carrollton, GA, which means that it's pointed right at the northwestern suburbs of Atlanta.
We're hearing thunder and getting spitting rain now.
God be with you all.
Not good anyway! I've got friends in Hamilton, just north of Columbus, which is right in the path of the first cell. Hope they and their farm come through this all right.
That’s a separate warning. There currently are three zones in Alabama and one in GA.
The entire Atlanta metro area has a nasty-looking line bearing down on it.
Douglas County in north central Georgia
southwestern Fulton County in north central Georgia
southeastern Carroll County in northwest Georgia
northwestern Coweta County in west central Georgia
* until 415 PM EST
* at 348 PM EST... National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado 10 miles southwest of Clem... moving northeast at 50 mph.
* Other locations in the warning include but are not limited to Whitesburg... McWhorter... Chapel HIll... Union City... Palmetto... midway and Fairburn.
And to make it worse, our family seems to attract tornadoes somehow.
The 1936 Gainesville GA tornado passed right over my mother's house (her dad got her out of bed in the middle of the night to go see it. Guess he figured if it hit them they were doomed anyhow, in a little stick-built house on a ridge). The big 1975 Atlanta tornado that wrecked the governor's mansion passed right over my parents' house. The one that hit and destroyed the Windy Hill/41 community in the late 90s passed right over our current house.
This is getting a little bit tiresome . . . .
Darn! I’ve got friends in Whitesburg, too! All the dog fanciers are down around the Newnan/Coweta area (lots of cheap agricultural land).
At 250 PM CST... a tornado was reported. This tornado was located near Autauga County Airport... or about 6 miles southwest of Prattville... moving northeast at 50 mph.
Other locations in the warning include but are not limited to Woodcrest... hunter... Catoma creek... Maxwell Air Force Base... Pinedale... Montgomery... Millbrook... Barachias... Boylston... Coosada... Wetumpka Municipal Airport... Deatsville... Madison... bob Woodruff Lake... Mitylene... Elmore... Speigner... Tallapoosa river water plant... Mount Meigs... Blue Ridge... Waugh... Wetumpka... Jordan dam... Weoka Mills... Brassell... Wallsboro... Titus... ten Cedar Estates... Ware... Dexter... Claud... central and Eclectic
Hey, as long as those monsters are passing over and missing, I would NEVER get tired of that!
Prayers for the folks in that area.
It's your carbon footprint - it's WAY above average.
Remind me to never move in next door to you ... nothing personal, mind you...
... A Tornado Warning remains in effect until 415 PM EST for southwestern Fulton... southeastern Carroll... Douglas and northwestern Coweta counties... At 401 PM EST... National Weather Service Doppler radar continued to indicate a tornado. This tornado was located near Clem... and moving northeast at 50 mph. Other locations in the warning include but are not limited to Roscoe... Hannah... Fairplay... McWhorter... Chapel HIll... Union City... Palmetto... midway and Fairburn.
Thanks for the excellent moving map so we can see what areas are affected. It looks terrible—I’m sending up prayers for all in the affected areas.
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades!
So far, so good . . . we've gotten in the closet under the stairs a couple of times. Once my husband grabbed one of the cats, she scratched him, and he said, "You're on your own, kid," and tossed her out of the closet!
Or maybe that's just the City of Atlanta.
... A Tornado Warning remains in effect until 345 PM CST for southern Russell... southeastern Bullock... Barbour and east central Pike counties...
At 304 PM CST... a tornado was reported. This tornado was located near Mt Andrew... or about 23 miles west of Eufaula... moving northeast at 55 mph.
Other locations in the warning include but are not limited to Gaino... midway... White Oak... Comer... Batesville... Spring Hill... Lugo... Hawkinsville... Rutherford... lakepoint resort... Twin Springs and hatchechubbe
Note the forward speed of these cells - 50-60 mph.
Any freepers in the Atlanta area should be paying very close attention about now. These will also bring very strong straight winds.
bump and prayer
At 309 PM CST... a tornado was reported. This tornado was located near jacksons' gap... or about near Dadeville... moving northeast at 45 mph. The tornado will be near... Eagle Creek... Horseshoe Bend National Military Park and Horseshoe Bend by 315 PM CST...
Union Springs and Trammel Crossroads by 330 PM CST...
White Plains by 335 PM CST...
Mount Olive by 340 PM CST...
Welch and Stroud by 345 PM CST...
Ugh! Sirens going off now! This one is heading my way now. It is confirmed. tornado on the ground.
The tornado will be near... Rutledge by 320 PM CST... Luverne by 325 PM CST... Patsburg and Live Oak by 330 PM CST... 6 miles south of Petrey by 335 PM CST...
Covington Cty. here,,Looks like another line to the West of us,,Dodged the first storm by a couple miles,,yall stay safe.
Get to cover - keep safe and we’ll send prayers your way!
At 313 PM CST... a tornado was reported. This tornado was located near Comer... or about 20 miles northwest of Eufaula... moving northeast at 50 mph.
Other locations in the warning include but are not limited to Batesville... Spring Hill... Lugo... Hawkinsville... Rutherford... lakepoint resort... Twin Springs and hatchechubbe
Pike County is no longer under warning.
How am I going to tell the "freight train" sound of a tornado from the trains on the main CSX line one block away? < g >
That thing collided and blew through here last night... SE TX gulf coast. We were lucky. Praying for all of y'alls safety!
Thanks for the 411.
I do like weatherunderground. Wish they’d make a plugin for Firefox on Linux.
The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a
* Tornado Warning for... southeastern Conecuh County in south central Alabama... northern Covington County in south central Alabama... this includes the city of Andalusia... extreme east central Escambia County in south central Alabama...
* until 400 PM CST
* at 304 PM CST... local law enforcement reported a tornado near Dixie... or about 14 miles southwest of Andalusia... moving east at 50 mph.
* The tornado will be near...
Sanford by 320 PM CST...
Babbie... Opp... Eoda and Onycha by 325 PM CST...
Estothel by 330 PM CST...
Babbie,,Where we live,,heads up..
At 323 PM CST... a tornado was reported. This tornado was located near Spring Hill... or about 17 miles northwest of Georgetown... moving northeast at 50 mph.
Other locations in the warning include but are not limited to Rutherford... lakepoint resort and Twin Springs
It’s on you now. Take cover.
Hunker down. Get to safety.
* Tornado Warning for... southeastern Coosa County in east central Alabama... this includes the city of Equality... northern Elmore County in east central Alabama... western Tallapoosa County in east central Alabama... this includes the cities of... Dadeville... Alexander City...
* until 400 PM CST
* at 323 PM CST... National Weather Service Doppler radar was tracking a tornado near Wallsboro... or 6 miles northwest of Wetumpka... moving northeast at 50 mph.
* The tornado will be near... Equality and 7 miles northwest of Eclectic by 335 PM CST... 6 miles southeast of Nixburg by 340 PM CST... jacksons' gap... Jacksons Gap and Alexander City by 355 PM CST... 6 miles northwest of Dadeville by 400 PM CST...
Reporting in from northeastern Elmore county. It’s just to the north of me now, about 10 miles. It’s a miss, but I’ve got lots of friends up there....
Heavy damage reported in from Pratville, Alabama. The front of the Office Depot has been torn off. Cars turned upside down at a nextdoor parking lot. A heavy business area...
A know it’s a very redneck thing to say, but I sure pray the new Bass Pro Sports complex in Pratville is undamaged!!!!
I am keeping an eye out around Lake Martin.
We can’t reach family. Power is on though since the answering machine is still working.
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