Mississippi Tornado – WOW!! [EF-4, 1.75 miles wide]

WOOD-TV ^ | 4/26/10 | Bill Steffen

[stratocaster]

The Burning Windsor band traveled north on I-55 in Holmes County, Mississippi early Saturday afternoon. The band was trying to get to Memphis for a gig Saturday night. They never realized they were driving straight into the path of an EF4 tornado! Check out this video (and make sure you click the button on the lower right to make it full scream, er, I mean full screen). The preliminary damage survey by the National Weather Service from the tornadoes in Mississippi on Saturday is nothing short of incredible. There is a continuous tornado damage path of 97 miles from west of Tullulah, Louisiana to Durant, Mississippi. That’s where they had to stop surveying for the day. The continuous track may extend for a total of 160 miles to the north of Columbus! There was one spot where the tornado was an astonishing 1.75 miles wide! The survey team found two spots where damage was rated EF4 with winds estimated to be 170 mph (in Yazoo City and in Holmes Co.).

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Batman11]

Ping

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Pong?

[LibertyRocks]

Wow! That is some incredible footage... Amazing regarding the instruments being ripped from their cases and all.

[huldah1776]

A lot of trees were lost in the Ozarks a couple of years back due to ice, but those just broken looked like Dr. Seuss trees and have come back to a point. When they were breaking it did sound like bombs were going off, and it was very moving and sometimes frightening.

[onyx]

Haley called it a monster. He’s right.

[WVNan]

Poor Yazoo City. The town got wiped off the map back in 70 or 71. We were living in Jackson, Miss. I seem to recall several tornadoes hitting the state that same day. We were fortunate that no tornadoes hit Jackson while we were living there. We did survive Camille the hurricane, which caused a tree to fall on our bedroom. Talk about jumping out of bed in a hurry......

We lived in tornado alley for many years, so I guess we were blessed not to be in the path of one. In fact, I grew up there (TN & AL)and never saw one.

[a real Sheila]

I recall reading about hundreds of people trying to get into NO with their boats after Katrina to help with the rescue, only to be turned away.

[Cedar]

Band On The Run paging Paul.

[bigredkitty1]

An F-3 tornado hit Fort Worth ten years ago. It did some significant damage and it was by no means as strong as Saturday’s twisters. The damage to a major South Plains city is not just limited to the buildings. I shudder to think of a F4 or F5 hitting Dallas during rush hour. The fatalities would be in the hundreds if not thousands.

[wastedyears]

Now how’s that for getting rocked?

[LibertyRocks]

Apparently the city has been “destroyed” several times. Just saw a link last night while searching about a fire destroying the city in 1904 (there’s an old tale about a “witch” who died 20 years earlier and said before she died she would come back in 20 years and destroy the town... Some believe it actually happened because of the witch. Apparently when they buried her they put lead chains around her grave (hoping to keep her in?), and after the fire they found the chain broken or missing a link. A good ghost story! LOL)

Anyway, I was in Tennessee for a Spring when my Mom was really ill, and the storms I went through there are still fresh in my mind over a decade later!!! One night driving from Nashville to Cookeville I literally thought I was going to be swept off the road, and the rain was SO STRONG! Another storm hit when I was at my sister’s and I thought for SURE there would be a tornado as the rain was almost horizontal and in sheets... Sure enough there was one about a mile out of town... A scary, scary night. Praise God that the only thing “hurt” in that tornado were the trees that were snapped like toothpicks (it was a relatively small tornado though — not too wide).

I’ve actually seen a few funnel clouds in my life... One that was horizontal in the sky still — very strange sight (that was in No. Illinois), and snapped a picture of a really rare one in Colorado when living outside of Denver... I’ll have to upload the pic I got to Photobucket because I’ve described it a few times now! LOL

Have seen the green skies more than a few times growing up in Illinois as well. The CLOSEST we’ve been to a tornado though was only a couple (2?) years ago here in Wausau. It followed the WI river for a bit, and caused damage only a couple blocks away from us. There was no warning on that one really although hubby and I were watching the skies and the speed of the clouds behind the neighbor’s house were UNBELIEVABLE (imagine fluffy white clouds preceding the black ones, and moving at the speed of cars in a NASCAR race) — that’s when we yelled at the kids to get the heck into the basement. Praise God no-one was killed in that particular tornado — if it hadn’t followed the river for a while it would have gone right through downtown Wausau. That particular one was a “hopper” and skipped downtown only to touch down again on the North side of town...

There have been a few others up here in the years since I’ve moved. I knew there were a few every year, but with the exception of this year, there are more than I would have imagined. There have been several that have hit farms and such — with amazing stories of survival accompanying them... As I said, I knew tornadoes hit Northern Wisconsin as my husband’s family’s farm got hit back in the 1920s (pics at the Historical society up here). I just had no idea there were so many.

My only experience besides while in TN in “tornado alley” was when I was four and we visited one of my mom’s relatives who were farmers in Oklahoma. Pretty much RIGHT after we arrived my aunt taught me what to do if they had a tornado while we were there... Showed me where the storm cellar was in the backyard (away from the house itself) - probably closer than I remember. I clearly remember her describing how a tornado “like the one in the Wizard of Oz” went right through their fields the year or so before (this was 1976, so come to think of it I could probably look it up and figure out where in OK I was! LOL).

Anyway, that’s more than enough about me! LOL

I really feel for the folks down there right now. I can’t imagine what they are going through... My prayers for them all continue — especially those who are not only grieving the loss of their property, but the loss of their loved ones... especially the children who passed on. My heart aches for them!

[Marathoner]

That was the one that hit while a big crowd was watching a college basketball game (SEC conference playoff I think) in the Georgia Dome or the Philips Center, I can’t remember which.

That would have been the GA Dome. I remember that an Alabama player hit a three point shot at the buzzer to send that game into OT, when the tornado hit. That shot was credited with saving perhaps up to hundreds of lives (some of the crowd would have been leaving the Dome when the tornado hit if the game had not gone into OT).

[BuckeyeTexan]

I spoke with Carol, the church secretary of First Baptist Church in Yazoo City, MS regarding donations for tornado victims. She said people may send checks to:

First Baptist Church
328 Grand Avenue
Yazoo City, MS 39194
662.746.2471
David Bryant, Pastor

Working with other pastors in the area, Pastor David Bryant will distribute the funds they receive directly to the tornado victims.

[zeugma]

bfl

[zeugma]

bfl

[vetvetdoug]

Look up the Tupelo Tornado of 1936. The largest death toll from a tornado was from that one. I knew a couple of folks that were in the National Guard from here that were rushed to Tupelo after that tornado and the described the dead being found everywhere. Tupelo was almost leveled. The only F-5 ever to hit Mississippi was near Columbus, Ms. This tornado that went from Yazoo City across the state followed almost the same path.

[LibertyRocks]

Will do... I’ve heard of it referenced in the last day — probably because of the track this one took like you pointed out. This one that just hit was on the ground for a LONG, LONG time, and the width??? I just can’t comprehend it myself...

[Outership]

LOL is that from the Romeble?

The correct verse is:

I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. - Luke 13:3

Nowhere in the Bible does Christ teach that works need to be performed to earn salvation. “Penance” is a work.

Salvation is not earned, it is a free gift from God that none of us could ever be worthy of no matter what we do. It is given to us if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead.

We have this offer from God because Christ suffered the punishment for our sins with His death. He took our place. The wages of sin is death and greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

Christ tells us to repent. Repent means to turn away from sin, to do it no more. As sinfilled fallen people we will not be able to fully obey this command, but God can see our hearts and the intent that exists there. If we are doing our very best, He will know. Even Paul remarked that he does what he does not want to do.

Romans 7:14-25

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

[ArrogantBustard]

I posted the correct verse.

Deal with it.