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Large Tornado Has Hit The Capitol Of Illinois
NWS

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Illinois; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: illinois; springfield; tornado; weather
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To: mystery-ak

Holy cow! I trust you are okay? Did your home sustain any damage? Sure hope not.


741 posted on 03/13/2006 7:20:15 AM PST by conservativebabe
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To: conservativebabe

No damage...our trash cans didn't even blow over.....but it sure was scary listening to those sirens....


742 posted on 03/13/2006 7:21:45 AM PST by mystery-ak (Army Wife and Army Mother.....toughest job in the military)
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To: mystery-ak

I'll bet. Glad all is well.


743 posted on 03/13/2006 7:23:06 AM PST by conservativebabe
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To: mystery-ak
I just got up.....we spent an hour in our bathroom between 2:30am to 3:330 am with sirens blarring....what a night...

Oh wow!! We were really lucky to have missed all that.

744 posted on 03/13/2006 7:24:44 AM PST by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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To: conservativebabe; retrokitten

I want a house with a basement!....LOL


745 posted on 03/13/2006 7:26:03 AM PST by mystery-ak (Army Wife and Army Mother.....toughest job in the military)
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To: mystery-ak

Me too. We are on the 2nd floor (top) of a condo building. I get so scared when I hear these stories about roofs blowing off apartment buildings. I thank God it wasn't us.


746 posted on 03/13/2006 7:27:20 AM PST by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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To: mystery-ak

I'll bet. You know though, I always wonder how safe basements of the homes built today actually are. Many are walk-out, egress windows, etc. They don't seem deep enough like the older homes with the "storm cellars". Probably better than none at all though.


747 posted on 03/13/2006 7:29:21 AM PST by conservativebabe
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To: mystery-ak

Wow, I am glad you're ok!!

Its supposed to come through GA tonight, but they are saying it may weaken some.

I hope hope hope.


748 posted on 03/13/2006 7:30:40 AM PST by eyespysomething
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To: eyespysomething

Thank goodness that the Illinoisans are able to legally carry guns for self-protecti....what't that??? It is illegal in Illinois? Oh well, loot on, Rudolf...


749 posted on 03/13/2006 7:34:56 AM PST by szweig
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To: eyespysomething

We had a whole evening of warnings and then in the middle of the night.....Good luck to you and yours...this is nasty stuff.....right now it's very windy and we have a chance of snow tonight!....


750 posted on 03/13/2006 7:35:09 AM PST by mystery-ak (Army Wife and Army Mother.....toughest job in the military)
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To: mystery-ak

I was driving on interstate 72 in Illinois at about 3:00 am this morning. There were enormous wind/rain gusts...my car was getting pelted by debris and I had to pull over. For a second, I thought I was driving right into a tornado, and it turns out (although I didn't know it) that the area was under another tornado warning. That will get your heart beating.


751 posted on 03/13/2006 7:36:04 AM PST by dinoparty
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To: dinoparty

Glad you are okay......Springfield, Il got hit pretty bad last night.....


752 posted on 03/13/2006 7:37:51 AM PST by mystery-ak (Army Wife and Army Mother.....toughest job in the military)
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To: conservativebabe

My house is on a crawlspace, and blocks entry to the most frequent F5 killer tornado area in the US, by design. During construction, I added rebar to the footing under a porch, laid the porch block myself, filling the cores with solid concrete and more rebar, and the slab itself contains a rebar grid every six inches in both directions. The entry is a zig-zag block corridor, all concrete and rebar filled, to defeat wind laden debris.

The storms yesterday probably set some distance/sustained records. I tracked the Sedalia/Springfield tornado bearing supercell from western Missouri all the way into north central Indiana. It reminded me of accounts of the Tri-State Tornado.

The line will re-form today, the question is where. My best guess says new convection will begin along and just ahead of the dryline, from Chicago to the SW in this 11AM EST image:

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/east/latest_eastwv.jpg

The dryline is not as well defined as it was yesterday on the vapor imagery, and the computers say that lowered insolation and a shift in the jet will weaken the system, but the large scale forcing mechanisms are still in place, with the exception of the jet.

Eyes on the sky and keep your guard up.


753 posted on 03/13/2006 7:52:12 AM PST by jeffers
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To: jeffers

Oh boy! Thanks for the heads up. Let's hope it doesn't blow up again.


754 posted on 03/13/2006 7:55:25 AM PST by conservativebabe
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To: A CA Guy

The Andreas runs right through my sister's driveway, got knocked silly when you guys had the Northridge shaker


755 posted on 03/13/2006 8:51:10 AM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: silentknight

another hit after right after I left

we had quite a bit of damage in the city here

roofs off buildings in Bridgeview...flooded viaducts near me etc.


756 posted on 03/13/2006 8:52:56 AM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: Earthdweller

I was laying and listening to this and then the shocker for us...temps will drop 30 degree's here today and then snow!


757 posted on 03/13/2006 8:53:54 AM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: stlnative

hope your brother is ok?


758 posted on 03/13/2006 8:55:06 AM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: Earthdweller

at least 10 dead- 9 of those were in Missouri


759 posted on 03/13/2006 9:01:56 AM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: jeffers

You are very wise. If I ever have to live back there I will be hiring you to oversee the construction on my house.


760 posted on 03/13/2006 10:04:26 AM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked (God bless our military)
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