Much of the damage won't be revealed until daylight.
Lady actually found hailstone and dollar bill very near it.
Hail in one yard in nw Arkansas:
Posted on 03/12/2006 6:39:21 PM PST by silentknight
A large tornado has moved through Illinois and has just hit the City of Springfield. Spotters reported a large tornado moved through the city. Damage is being reported. Emergency responders are being called in from surrounding areas.
NWS reports that this was a large wedge tornado.
AT 1046 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO PRODUCING STORM. THIS TORNADO PRODUCING STORM
WAS LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
WOODLAND TO WELLINGTON...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTH
OF CLAYTONVILLE TO HOOPESTON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM IS
ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.
THIS TORNADO PRODUCING STORM WILL BE NEAR...
STOCKLAND BY 1100 PM...
You are brave!!! Great first-hand update, thanks. I just heard on KWQC about Illini. Geez, this is nasty. Galesburg is getting hit pretty good right now.
My husband's aunt lives on the north side of Lake Springfield. Anyone know about any damage to that area?
Wow, thanks for the Ping, BG. Great images, Tom.
Imagine seeing that dark thing in your rear-view mirror. And hail the size of a tennis ball - yikes!
Some sink holes being reported in Davenport now. Oh crap, Isabel Bloom and Oscar Meyer are flooding!!!!!!!
Poor Stockton, and they were just getting thru rebuilding! My folks are still in Lamar, any word on that area?(Barton County).
Short blurb on Channel 6 that the Oscar Mayer Plant is now receiving some flooding.
I don't, sorry. I hope all will be well with your husband's aunt.
I just called my parents and they're okay. (No power.) They live in a subdivision near 6th street, and south of South Grand.
My prayers go out to all in the path of these storms.
Just these intitial reports coming out of Springfield tonight are reminding me of a night here in Alabama 8 years ago when an F5 tornado hit. I pray for those in the path of these storms. I did notice that OK/AR/MO/IL was at "high risk for severe weather" today. I had never heard heard that term used before it was issued for us that day in 1998.
Not brave. Just thirsty and stupid.
(Oh well, gave me a chance to go out and play in the storm!)
Hey those log homes are tough.
Seriously, prayers for Springfield. Nashville went through that in 99.
I posted this to you on thursday, hope you're OK.
To: Bahbah
I heard on C2C a few nights ago that your area was going to be hit by some severe weather in the coming days and you MIGHT see as many as 70 tornados. That was on Monday IIRC.
426 posted on 03/09/2006 9:02:50 AM PST by varmintxer
Some pretty horrible accounts:
MONROE MO CHURCH DAMAGED...REPORT OF PEOPLE TRAPPED INSIDE.
A_R
Luckily the governor of IL lives in the city of Chicago
Bumping that link!
My SIL is in Davenport motorhome court, wonder how she fared
UGH! Luckily, indeed.
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