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President Barrack Obama plans to visit Alabama on Friday to view the tornado destruction and meet with Gov. Robert Bentley, other state officials and victims of the Wednesday's storms. Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox said he could not confirm if Obama would visit Tuscaloosa, one of the hardest hit areas from Wednesday's deadly tornadoes. The White House Press Office did not release the president's itinerary other than to confirm he will be in the state. The press office said President Obama spoke Thursday morning with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate about...

Storms Kill 64 Around South, Including 50 In Alabama Jay Reeves And Holbrook Mohr April 27, 2011aA tornado moves through Tuscaloosa, Ala. Wednesday, April 27, 2011. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – An emergency official says 10 more storm-related deaths have been confirmed in an Alabama county, bringing the regional death toll to 64. Mark Kelley of the Jefferson County EMA is reporting a total of 11 deaths, up from a single death disclosed there earlier in the day. Elsewhere in Alabama, severe weather has claimed 39 lives, including 15 in the hard-hit college town of Tuscaloosa. Also on Wednesday, storms killed 11...

A Sign Of Just How Quickly The Looting Will Start When The SHTFApril 27, 2011 One of our readers here at The Warning Signs forwarded me a video from the Weather Channel in which they pointed out the problem with looters in an area that was recently hit by a tornado (thanks Dan). This immediately grabbed my attention and prompted me to investigate whether this was an isolated incident or an ongoing problem in these areas. In a matter of minutes I was able to find dozens of news articles reporting the problem of looters preying on victims of the...

first of all a huge tornado outbreak is becoming likley mon-weds over a wide area..after that the big story will the flooding already rivers are very high and are in flood,the ground is soaked, both the MS river and OH river and smaller rivers. 8-12 inches of rain is forecast over a very wide area the next few days. with isolated spots picking up more local NWS discussions both public and private suggest an "epic" event. The news media will be focused on the tornado side and with being a holiday weekend most people will not be paying attention This...

RALEIGH, N.C. – A devastating storm that spawned tornadoes, flash floods and hail as big as softballs has claimed at least 45 lives across the U.S. while roaring through the South and gaining steam in North Carolina and Virginia. Emergency crews searched for victims in hard-hit swaths of North Carolina, where 62 tornadoes were reported from the worst spring storm in two decades to hit the state. Eleven people were confirmed dead in Bertie County, county manager Zee Lamb said. Another four were confirmed dead in Bladen County, bringing the state's death toll to at least 21.

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 296 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 335 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 335 PM UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. ...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION... DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL TO 2.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER... THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 75 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 65 MILES...

Excerpt - The WRF and GFS now agree on a classic dryline tornado outbreak on both Sunday and Monday across the Southern Plains. A massive uncapped warm-sector with 1500-3000 J/kg CAPEs will prevail east of the dryline forecast to exist along the eastern TX Panhandle Border by 00z Monday, with a warm front extending ENE through southeast KS. A 40-50 knot low-level jet will develop near or shortly after 00z Sunday evening, thus any discrete supercells will have a high likelihood of producing strong tornadoes from Northwest Texas across western OK into southeast KS on Sunday evening. There is a...

Early this morning, President Bush spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington D.C. In his outstanding speech (Transcript—must read!), the president talked about his time in office, “about what you and I have achieved together, what it tells us about the stakes in the year ahead, and why it is so important that we keep the White House in 2008. (Applause.)” Audience Member: “We love you, George!” President Bush: “Well, thank you. (Applause.)” From there, the president traveled to Lafayette, Tennessee to survey the damage caused by Tuesday’s tornados and to meet with the survivors as they...

Politicians using tragedy to advance an agenda has been a tried-and-true strategy. Paint the idea green and a natural catastrophe became political fodder for former Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry (Mass.). Kerry appeared on MSNBC on February 6 to discuss storms that have killed at least 50 people throughout the Southeastern United States. So, of course, Kerry used the platform to advance global warming alarmism

Enhanced F Scale for Tornado Damage An update to the the original F-scale by a team of meteorologists and wind engineers, to be implemented in the U.S. on 1 February 2007. FUJITA SCALE DERIVED EF SCALE OPERATIONAL EF SCALE F Number Fastest 1/4-mile (mph) 3 Second Gust (mph) EF Number 3 Second Gust (mph) EF Number 3 Second Gust (mph) 0 40-72 45-78 0 65-85 0 65-85 1 73-112 79-117 1 86-109 1 86-110 2 113-157 118-161 2 110-137 2 111-135 3 158-207 162-209 3 138-167 3 136-165 4 208-260 210-261 4 168-199 4 166-200 5 261-318 262-317 5...

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius expressed concern Monday that rescue and recovery efforts after tornado-packed storms were being strained because much-needed equipment is in Iraq. Federal officials arrived Monday in Greensburg to survey the damage. The weekend storms killed 11 people in Kansas -- including nine in Greensburg

GREENSBURG, Kan. — A fresh wave of tornadoes ripped through southwest Kansas on Saturday evening, a day after a tornado destroyed this town, killing nine and injuring dozens more. The National Weather Service said it had received reports "well into the double digits" of twisters touching down in six counties. Among them were a series of half-mile wide "wedge" tornadoes — similar to the one that devastated Greensburg on Friday night, meteorologist Mike Umscheid said. "We're going to expect quite a lot of damage," he said. The twisters were reported just after emergency crews called off the search for more...

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Developing - multiple funnel clouds spotted east of Fort Worth, tornado/CD sirens going off. Big nasty storm system heading this way. Quarter size hail reported. Live feed of radar: http://kxas.weatherplus.com/liveradar/9643426/detail.html

President Bush expressed his condolences to all those that lost their homes and loved ones in the series of deadly tornados that struck the Southeast and Midwest yesterday. He plans to visit these areas and meet with families and officials tomorrow. Today, the president traveled to Indiana where he spoke at an elementary school about the No Child Left Behind program. (Transcript) He later traveled to Kentucky to attend a fundraiser for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and a dinner for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. (Transcript) First Lady Laura Bush was in Hawaii today to unveil the name for...

SPC AC 231619 DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1019 AM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 VALID 231630Z - 241200Z ...THERE IS A MDT RISK OF SVR TSTMS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KS...WESTERN AND CENTRAL OK...AND NORTHWEST TX...... ...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS CENTRAL NEB INTO CENTRAL TX... VIGOROUS TROUGH INLAND THIS AM SWRN U.S. ON TRACK TO IMPACT THE SRN PLAINS...PARTICULARLY TONIGHT. MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TIMING AND LOCATION OF SURFACE CYCLOGENESIS WITH LOW DEVELOPING SERN CO THIS AFTERNOON AND THEN DEEPENING RAPIDLY TONIGHT...

As Germany decides to send Tornado reconnaissance jets to Afghanistan, is this the beginning of a slippery slope that will see German troops getting involved in combat duty in the volatile south? German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet agreed on Wednesday to send six Tornado reconnaissance jets to Afghanistan to assist its NATO allies in fighting a resurgent Taliban. The mission has to be approved by the German parliament, the Bundestag, in March and then the jets could be on their way to Afghanistan by April. The government has been quick to rule out the use of the planes, which are...

Hurricane winds rip apart nailed-together walls, and earthquakes shake houses so violently that a nailhead can pull straight through a piece of plywood. Since we can’t stop natural disasters, Bostitch engineer Ed Sutt has dedicated his career to designing a better nail. The result is the HurriQuake, and it has the perfect combination of features to withstand nature’s darker moods. The bottom section is circled with angled barbs that resist pulling out in wind gusts up to 170 mph. This “ring shank” stops halfway up to leave the middle of the nail, which endures the most punishment during an earthquake,...

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NEWBURGH, Ind. -- Nine days after Judy Lopez's home was seriously damaged by a tornado, her 93-year-old father's home about 50 miles to the south was destroyed by another twister. "Talk about a double-whammy," Lopez, a school secretary, said Thursday. Lopez's home in Newburgh was seriously damaged by the Nov. 6 tornado that killed 23 people in the Evansville area. She suffered some cuts, but was otherwise uninjured. Since the tornado, she has been staying with her grown children in Evansville. On Tuesday, another tornado struck Madisonville, Ky., destroying the home of her father and stepmother, Buck and Betty Egbert....