Posted on 03/01/2007 11:54:59 AM PST by 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.
Central Florida is really in for it...sea breeze expected to kick in around 6 pm tonight with this front...tornadoes expected all over.
Track W4 20 miles S of Columbus, MS had a vortex but now is showing hail. That one needs to be watched.
thanks, hope those reports are wrong, I am in Dothan, about 25 miles from Enterprise, haven't heard of fatalies yet...lots of concern for more storms tonight
Yep. Up...down....up....down. Sneaky petes!
These cells are entrained, running in long streams, coming out of MS toward Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, out of the Gulf toward just southeast of Mongtomery headed NE into GA, and from the Dothan area toward Columbus, GA. The same areas are getting it again and again.
Reporter just asks a student a stupid question "How difficult is it for you to see this?"...Duh...
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Vortex just popped up over Birmingham. Cell C8.
Hopefully, I won't get a chance to see my third funnel cloud today, but the stuff is starting to move into Elmore County.
Second one right behind it, I0 went tornadic again.
Newspaper lady from Enterprise says the local YMCA was hit....little kids in daycare....no reports yet about injuries.
Stay safe yawningotter.
8 fatalities in Enterprise, Al
If you've ever seen a film clip of H-13s "square dancing" (The History Channel used to show it occasionally) - that was his outfit.
He was also featured in a film clip that became a classic training aid - his sling load was rigged too short and too tightly between the skids and the load shifted all of the way to one side. He had to hover at full power with both his main and tail rotors about six inches from the ground until somebody cut the load loose, at which point he really had his hands full!
We had a tornado rip through our area December 1st of last year. It tore our supermarket and high school gymn up pretty bad and we were without power for three (very cold) days. And all of this happened while my dad was going through a major health crisis! One encounter can give one a totally new perspective. I pray for all of those folks in Enterprise.
BTW - if there are any FReepers, friends or relatives who were connected to my Dad's outfit in Vietnam (161st Aviation Company), or the 26th Transportation Company (aka the "Blue Stripers") in Germany please FReepmail me.
It looks like Dad doesn't have too many years left - he used up many of them up fighting in the Phillipines, Okinawa, Korea and Vietnam.
He still talks about Fort Rucker as if it was heaven!
Oh, no. Is this confirmed?
yes
Oh no! The 8 students??? dang....
They will not say if it is the eight students...no confirmation
I'm not sure if they are all from the HS.
If I had been at the game, I wouldn't have left either. There are some things that are more important. LOL! War Eagle!
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