Severe Weather Outbreak, Day 2 (OK TX KS MO MI for starters) - Moore, OK devastation

[dirtboy]

Tornado warnings up in Oklahoma. Watches in TX, OK, KS, MO, far NW Arkansas.

[gop4lyf]

Don’t let them get to you. You meant well.

[greeneyes]

LOL,

[Marcella]

One of his air conditioners is out and it hasn’t been replaced yet and it is a hot day today in Texas, so I don’t think the pants are on.

[catfish1957]

I am a weather bug too when it comes to hurricanes and twisters. Part of one of my earlier jobs before retirement was emergency operations and planning on the met side of the business.

I was here at FR when it was happening today. I know this is a long thread, but please look back at the radar signature at the time of the storm. In my whole life, I had never seen a more evident radar structure and track as this one. No hook to pinpoint it was needed. It looked like a mini-hurricane as it made it's eastward track.

[greeneyes]

LOL. Not sure I needed to know all that, but thanks it’s interesting and I always get a chuckle out of your referenceds to that. LOL

[Marcella]

The thing is, I’m not kidding. He will tell you the same.

[Marcella]

Oh, weather channel just said there are probably 20 more children in that school and it was rainwater that accumulated in the school that drown those other ones.

[Marcella]

Wonder why it is taking so long to get the other children out? Is there that much building material on top of them?

[greeneyes]

I know! LOL

[greeneyes]

I kinda assumed it was accumulation sort of a flash flood indoors or else in a basement when I heard about the drowning.

These are the kinds of things that just feel like a dagger in the heart. So sad, and hard to accept.

[justa-hairyape]

From what I understand the weather forecasters on the local networks were all over the storm because they were looking at the radar similar to you in real time. The first upward spinning of water (clouds) occurred sometime after 1:00 when rotation was reported in the fast developing supercell. It touched down as an F3 about 45 minutes later and became an F5 in about 1 hour and 15 minutes from first spin. That was the track and timeline that was just shown on KFOR. Was still sleeping myself out here in Central West Texas when it was forming, so you probably know more about it then me.

[Marcella]

The school didn’t have a basement.

[greeneyes]

I think I heard on the news that they need some sort of heavy duty equipment to deal with the debris. They may also have to do somesort of shoring up to allow rescue workers in.

They won’t allow the rescue workers in until they are kinda sure it is safe is a general rule I think.

[greeneyes]

Yeh, I am not suprised. I’ve heard that the ground is too hard/rocky for such.

[Marcella]

I know that but it has been hours and hours now.

I guess I need to go up there and run that place.

[TomGuy]

Walmart Emergency Center is already loading trucks and contacting ‘associates’ in impacted areas.

[Marcella]

Greta on Fox said she would give an update on the school after this commercial.

[greeneyes]

I am sure that the first responders are just as impatient and frustrated as we are.

[greeneyes]

Thanks, yeh, I am listening to Greta too.

[DJlaysitup]

I think I heard on the news that they need some sort of heavy duty equipment to deal with the debris. They may also have to do somesort of shoring up to allow rescue workers in. They won’t allow the rescue workers in until they are kinda sure it is safe is a general rule I think.

Of course that is the logical way - but if I were there I would dive into any hole on the off chance of saving a kid.