Tornado Strikes Enterprise/Ft. Rucker, AL

National Weather Service ^ | March 1 2007

[Strategerist]

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 229 PM EST THU MAR 1 2007

129 PM CST THU MAR 1 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CST FOR DALE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...

AT 125 PM CST...REPORTS OF A TORNADO NORTHEAST OF ENTERPRISE CONTINUE TO BE RECEIVED. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BOWDEN TERRACE...OR ABOUT NEAR FORT RUCKER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OZARK...BLACKWELL FIELD AIRPORT...EWELL AND MARLEY HILL BY 135 PM CST... MABSON...BEAMON...BROWNS CROSSROADS AND DILL BY 140 PM CST... ASBURY AND SKIPPERVILLE BY 145 PM CST...

THIS STORMS IS STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE OR LARGER.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA.

[TonyM]

I just drove throUGH this storm a little over an hour ago on US 231 as it progressed towards East Montgomery. I was just hearing about it on the radio as I was driving home, about 20 miles east of Enterprise. THAT WAS TOO CLOSE.

[spectre]

There ARE fatalities at that school, and they are trying to sift thru the debris.for trapped people.

Cars are tossed around like toys..

Military helicopters are coming to the Rescue.

[txroadkill]

FNC reporting "school looks like a bomb was dropped on it", "8 student still trapped inside"

[Jrabbit]

Did the local Fox feed say Univ. of Alabama is in the path?? Get inside the dorms...

[Jrabbit]

WAY too close!

[dirtboy]

Is now NE of Tuscaloosa. Signature appears to be weakening a bit, but still shows a vortex.

[fatima]

CNN has live feed now at the Highschool.

[Strategerist]

I've spent very little time in Alabama but one time I was at a Speech and Debate tournament at the U of A - had to drive a student back to leave early from the Birmingham aiport - so I was coming back in an empty 12 passenger van to Tuscaloosa, knowing that there was a Tornado watch, etc. Got in a horrible hail storm and had to pull over, I had one hand on the door ready to jump out into the ditch if I thought I saw a tornado. Ditch was full of water, not sure what I would have done, but nothing is less stable in wind than an empty 12 passenger van.

[Crawdad]

There was a tornado warning in Birmingham during the Auburn/Alabama game in 1983 or 1984. No one left his seat at Legion Field.

[spectre]

MSNBC live feed too.

[Sammie42]

LOL could CNN be wrong again?? local reports are still no fatalities, 8 students still in building

[fatima]

Thanks-got it.

[TonyM]

I pulled off the road a couple of times becuase of zero visability, something I rarly have to do. Looks like we were both lucky today. I hope all the kids at Enterprise High School are as lucky.

[spectre]

I hope YOU are right..!

sw

[spectre]

So the Tornado cells don't necessarilly make touch down? Right? It could stay aloft..right?

sw

[dirtboy]

Correct.

[ladtx]

Now local radio is saying students from HS say there are fatalities. Nothing confirmed yet though.

Boll weevil circle pretty well tore up.

[Jrabbit]

Fox just reported 8 students still trapped in HS...all are alive....Thank God!

[spectre]

Good...let us pray.

sw

[SE Mom]

The tornados that tore central Florida apart a few weeks ago went, literally, over my subdivision, and did not touch down...they stay aloft...and then drop down..sometimes hop-scotching around...