Posted on 04/12/2022 3:47:08 PM PDT by EBH
Live on YouTube right now.
Large Tornado PDS
Salado Texas
Cedar Valley
particular dangerous storm (PDS)
Winds over 142 mph
tonight and tomorrow will be a long day
Aaron Tuttle is Meteorologist on Rumble that does an excellent job and goes live but mainly for OK
https://rumble.com/c/ATsWeather
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Salado TX
pop 3000
getting hit
Warnings issued for Iowa. They have storm chasers on that particular storm.
Texas storm weakened
Big tornado now in IA
Jarrell has had more than their share, two bad ones, one of which was F5. Ripped up foundations.
Iowa now has a PDS warning...
Gilmore City, Iowa live view wedge tornado
Had one in north-central AR last nite.
We got 1” hailstones in our neighborhood.
Prayers up!!
I saw pictures from yesterday of softball size hail.
Read the account of the Jarrell, Texas 1999 tornado (and Joplin, Missouri). There are multiple first person accounts from residents and experienced chasers who describe horror after horror...the initial shape it took as it assembled, “dead man walking” and the clean sweep of everything...few remains even identifiable as animal or human. It had an atmospheric pressure-wave origin, the tornado went from SE to NW as I recall.
As good as the mainline weather observer accounts are, search out some stories written a few weeks after the event if you want to curl into a ball before falling asleep. If you believe in the supernatural read about the “Butterfly People” from the Joplin tornado.
One teen who survived in a bathtub that hit the ground with him in it, humanizes the tornado, “It kept trying to tip me out of the tub while airborne”.
I always thought the suction explanations were exaggerated, that they were actually wind phenomena. But one man who lost his son through a sunroof dispelled that idea.
I was 7 during the Palm Sunday tornadoes which passed a few miles south of our Michigan home. I remember the awful tornadoes that went through NE OH and PA on May 31, 1985 because all that day in NW Ohio the sky was reddish with dust carried in high winds from the Great Plains.
I hope heaven includes tornadoes galore without loss of life or property.
Back in 97, I was working in the Dallas area while my wife was trying to sell our house in Round Rock. I was listening to coverage of the tornado that was tearing up Jarrell at that time while my wife was driving up to visit for the weekend. She called and asked nervously, “Where’s Jarrell?” I said “Better question is where are you?!” She had just entered Belton. That was a big sigh of relief!
1997
Yep.... pretty much flattened everything in it’s path.
WKTFOX44 Hail in Salado
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