Posted on 12/11/2021 4:07:12 AM PST by Phoenix8
A tornado and deadly storm system ripped through Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois on Friday night — destroying buildings, leaving dozens of others trapped inside buildings, and potentially killing dozens.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said the death toll is expected to rise between 50 and 70 deaths in the wake of the tornadoes and storms that ripped through the Midwest.
“We have deaths in multiple counties,” he said during a live press conference Saturday morning.
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One stayed on the ground 274 miles or something, unheard of for a winter storm. It tracked only about 50 miles from my elderly parents in Ky. 3 others were reported but the one has so much devastation the others haven’t been covered much yet.
Should be dawn in the next hour so better pictures will start to arrive.
Not sure how many can see this radar image, the tornado just ripped through Mayfield.
That block to the NE is the debris field AIRBORNE.
https://www.facebook.com/WilhiteWx/photos/a.503466803017449/4953532681344150/
Severe weather caused by man made climate change discussions in 3 2 1.. This is the normal fall tornado season. It happens. Unfortunately it’s deadly.
I think the title should say storm, not tornado.
When we first moved here about 10 years ago, a storm about this time of year took out two huge Warehouse buildings near Elizabethtown flatten them both. I had to drive through the debris on my way to work. They were both right next to the highway.
I just now saw on the news they were speculating much of the deaths happened at a warehouse/factory. The roof collapsed and they were running a full night shift.
Mother Nature is beautiful, but she is one cold hearted bitch.
It’s not winter.
Oh yeah?
“ Meteorological winter runs from Dec. 1 through the end of February. Meteorologists break the calendar up into four three-month seasons, and each season is based on the similarity of the weather. Astronomical winter is based on equinoxes and solstices.”
Counting down here, for the ‘climate change’ bull s%#t to begin!
Amazing that the meteorological calendar just happens to start on the arbitrary choice of the first day of the month once a quarter in an imperfect calendar scheme. I’ll stick with solstice and equinox based definitions. Weathermen can’t even forecast the weather the next day at times. Why should I let them arbitrarily choose the seasons?
Two places like that. Amazon warehouse in IL close to St Louis and the Mayfield place was a candle factory, also full of workers.
“Astrological Calendar” was already taken.
It’s not arbitrary, it’s based on the practicality of weather/climate in N America. Your 3 colder months are Dec-Jan-Feb…on average.
Solar heating drops considerably after the Fall Equinox around sept 21 but the thermal mass of oceans delays the effects. Same reason why cold hangs around after the solar heating starts increasing in February, the ocean act the opposite as heat sinks.
Astronomical seasons are obviously quite accurate and reliable but they don’t match practicality caused by geographical features.
Not true, even remotely.
December is the lowest month for Tornadoes in the USA.
1998-2018 saw an average of 34 per December at the lowest, followed by the 2nd lowest month February at 41. January was 3rd at 42.
Per weather.com
Wow.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Jeff_Piotrowski
Jeff has several videos up on his Twitter feed- he’s in Mayfield. He’s one of the best storm chasers in the business- his videos are outstanding.
The destruction is beyond belief.
There’s a tweet of a nurse pleading for doctors & nurses to come to Monette (AL?) because a nursing home collapsed with everyone inside.
Just awful
UPDATE: 1 fatality, 5 seriously injured in nursing home which has 86 beds. All accounted for.
Could have been so much worse.
Definitely not man made, but we are in a crazy weather pattern the last five years. Hope it evens out soon.
That tornado started touching down in Whit county AR, was up and down through 2 more counties before hitting the ground to stay Just NW of my house about 3 miles and growing stronger through the rest of AR and boot heel of MO, before our tv stopped tracking it and started watching the other 3 in our area. I live just north of Harrisburg and saw one of the later ones.
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