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Tornado Strikes Enterprise/Ft. Rucker, AL
National Weather Service ^ | March 1 2007

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; tornado
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To: halo66

local news is reporting more fatalities reported in the Miller's Ferry area of Wilcox County.


241 posted on 03/01/2007 3:00:39 PM PST by del4hope
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To: del4hope

ENTERPRISE, Ala. — At least eight people are confirmed dead -- some believed to be students -- after a tornado slammed into a high school Thursday afternoon in Enterprise, Ala., emergency officials said.

State emergency management spokeswoman Yasamie Richardson said the fatalities "are in relation to the high school, but whether they are all students or some students and teachers we're not sure."


242 posted on 03/01/2007 3:01:21 PM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear.. on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: halo66

Oh No.


243 posted on 03/01/2007 3:01:43 PM PST by fatima (Shut up Murtha)
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To: Strategerist

Whoa - I just left Fort Rucker last week.... Lots of friends still there.


244 posted on 03/01/2007 3:02:51 PM PST by CheneyChick
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To: mware

How sad.


245 posted on 03/01/2007 3:03:10 PM PST by Dante3
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To: blam
re: The only statue in the world honoring an insect

Actually I think it's the only statue anywhere honoring a pest, not just the boll weevil! As I recall they wanted to honor George Washington Carver for what he did to change the area's dependence from cotton to the peanut but couldn't bring themselves to erect a statue to honor a black man. So they chose the weevil that destroyed the cotton crop and forced them to turn to peanuts.

Not sure how true that story is, but I remember hearing it when I lived there in the 1960's.
246 posted on 03/01/2007 3:03:45 PM PST by jwparkerjr
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To: CheneyChick

The reporter on CNN took shelter at Ft Rucker and said the building he was in wouldn't have withstood the tornado- it was a whopper of a storm..


247 posted on 03/01/2007 3:04:05 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: leadpenny

The owner of the Enterprise radio station I worked at in 1965 was the brother of the Mayor of Montgomery. I think his last name was James.


248 posted on 03/01/2007 3:06:32 PM PST by jwparkerjr
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To: All

MSNBC is still carrying this live..


249 posted on 03/01/2007 3:10:14 PM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife) (Duncan Hunter 08 "Will you join us"?)
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To: del4hope
My local news reported the 8 were killed in the school and 5 were killed at a Miller's Ferry trailer park. They now report a total of 11 tornadoes were in the area.
250 posted on 03/01/2007 3:11:34 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: spectre
Opps..back to Tucker.

sw

251 posted on 03/01/2007 3:12:02 PM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife) (Duncan Hunter 08 "Will you join us"?)
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To: spectre

Just heard on the weather channel there are still an unknown number of missing students...you hear that anywhere else?


252 posted on 03/01/2007 3:17:44 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Palladin

Here in Texas, we have tornado watches and warnings all the time. I can't remember the schools closing early due to anything but ice/snow storms. Scary stuff...


253 posted on 03/01/2007 3:18:12 PM PST by Jrabbit ('scuse me??)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

dang.....I guess those were the 8 kids in the gym that was reported earlier. So sad....


254 posted on 03/01/2007 3:20:48 PM PST by Jrabbit ('scuse me??)
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To: spectre

Went to an awards ceremony this am at our school and a squall line was just about to come through. I sat in my car and watched it coming wondering just how safe the school was - had my camera with me and took a picture of the sky. I guess this tragic event tells me no school, no structure is safe from these monster storms.
May God bless and comfort the families of those lost today.


255 posted on 03/01/2007 3:22:11 PM PST by daybreakcoming
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To: del4hope

Prayers up for you and everyone in this path.

We can replace stuff, not people...


256 posted on 03/01/2007 3:22:18 PM PST by pinz-n-needlez (Jack Bauer wears Tony Snow pajamas)
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To: California74
Having been very involved in the news business for a lot of years I can attest to just how worthless any of the early reports are regardless of who is giving them. There is a sort of mental illness that infects a news room when breaking news is being handled. It's like they just completely lose their heads and they are so afraid of being scooped by another outlet that they feel compelled to report anything and everything. The most they do is to try to protect themselves by saying all reports are 'unconfirmed' or 'preliminary' or some such wording.

Information coming in from reporters on the scene is just about worthless. Everyone wants to talk to a reporter, or in my case have their picture taken, and the rumors fly like leaves in the wind.

Some early reports are basically accurate, but it's a crap shoot.

I was lucky, I was at the newspaper, but we shared a building with the company-owned TV station. We could wait until pretty late in the evening (10 PM or so) before we had to go on record. Downstairs at the TV news desk it was chaos! They had a 'super' desk arrangment with editors from the three news outlets, newspaper, TV and web online, at one desk. That was one of those ideas that sounded good on paper but didn't work out as well as expected!
257 posted on 03/01/2007 3:22:19 PM PST by jwparkerjr
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To: Jrabbit

They did not close in the past. Unlike TX, we have the gulf moisture clashing with the tail end of the Appalachians. Past storms in recent years have, like today produced many fatalities, and now the authorities take these storms, especially in March and April, very seriously.


258 posted on 03/01/2007 3:23:58 PM PST by del4hope (Duncan Hunter 2008...Santorum VP)
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To: del4hope

Possible tornadoes heading for Fort Benning and Macon, GA


259 posted on 03/01/2007 3:26:15 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: jwparkerjr

http://www.geocities.com/skibbie61/weevil.html

History of the Boll Weevil Monument.


260 posted on 03/01/2007 3:34:55 PM PST by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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