[KarlInOhio]

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[radu]

I just missed getting caught up in #97 and #99 that night. A friend and I went riding around and left Tullahoma to head up the mountain to Sewanee, ten over to Monteagle, then back down on the interstate to wind back up in Tullahoma.
#97 crossed the highway just a few minutes after we’d passed that point. I was admiring the “light show” as we rode along, not knowing there was even a tornado warning. It was raining and a bit windy but wasn’t too bad .... then.

#99 crossed the interstate while we were still on the mountain. We saw a couple of tractor-trailers lying on their sides and I commented that there must have been a heck of a storm.

My parents were in a panic while we were gone, having seen on TV what was going on that night. They knew we had no clue and had probably been caught up in a tornado and crunched up in the car.

I drove the same route the next day and what a mess! A house we’d driven past the night before was scrubbed clean down to the foundation.

Seven people in this county died that night.

[basalt]

thats what shocked the scientists...they knew there was gonna be a outbreak of Tornadoes, but the area that was involved they couldn’t believe, fatalities from the Deep South in Alabama to Windsor, Ontario Canada. At one point, there were 16 tornadoes on the ground at the same time..like an all out attack.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Was keeping an eye on radar yesterday(with the threats posted earlier). That one cell made a similar path(toward Cincinnati) as shown on that map. Not sure it produced a tornado...but was strong for miles SW to NE(toward Xenia).

Here in Michigan our "tornado alley" seems to be in the Flint area. 70 years ago the Flint/Beecher twister (F5/261mph winds) killed 116, injured 844.

Had relatives in Lima, OH... almost seems like every time we went there in the summer...there'd be a big storm.