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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: Sammie42

8 deaths confirmed, even though he will not confirm it.


301 posted on 03/01/2007 4:55:55 PM PST by halo66
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To: Sammie42

Can you imagine what the relief workers and rescue people are thinking? This heavily made up male diva on Fox News throwing around fatality numbers like confetti....he really needs to only do stories like ANS and Brittany Spears.


302 posted on 03/01/2007 4:57:32 PM PST by Jrabbit ('scuse me??)
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To: Jrabbit

Here is a list of storm reports with confirmed fatalities from the Storm Prediction Center

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today.html


303 posted on 03/01/2007 5:00:18 PM PST by halo66
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To: halo66

yes, and local news here wouldn't confirm it until families were notified, rightfully so


304 posted on 03/01/2007 5:01:41 PM PST by Sammie42
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To: Jrabbit

LOL he's the drama queen!


305 posted on 03/01/2007 5:02:13 PM PST by Sammie42
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To: Palladin

Judging from what I'm hearing now the reports were correct, maybe even too minimal.

My heart and prayers go out for everyone involved.


306 posted on 03/01/2007 5:09:52 PM PST by jwparkerjr
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To: jwparkerjr

yes, prayers are with all the victims and families


307 posted on 03/01/2007 5:10:33 PM PST by Sammie42
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To: Crawdad

Wow, thanks a million. I've been by that place a thousand times, in the much younger years of my life, and never really knew how it came to be!

My prayers go out to that great little city. It's one of the few places I've lived where I would like to live again! I loved it there. Had a great job at the radio station, WIRB in those days, and our youngest child, our daughter, was born there at Gibson Clinic.


308 posted on 03/01/2007 5:14:43 PM PST by jwparkerjr
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To: halo66

This is so sad....just heartbreaking. The first report I heard was 8 students trapped but alive. I was praying it was true.


309 posted on 03/01/2007 6:30:08 PM PST by Jrabbit ('scuse me??)
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To: Jrabbit
Fox news just reported now 2 are dead in Georgia from a tornado strike on a hospital.

At the start of Greta's show on FNC at 10:00PM ET they reported that they still searching through the wreckage of the school and will be for a while.
310 posted on 03/01/2007 8:44:01 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: jwparkerjr

Prayers for the good people of Enterprise and the Wiregrass area of SE Alabama. You've got mail.


311 posted on 03/02/2007 3:57:25 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: Tinian

Two of our sons were born there, one at Lyster Army Hospital on Fort Rucker and the other at Flowers hospital in Enterprise. I spent two tours there besides flight school, from 1973-1977 and 1978-1982. With a tour to Korea sandwiched in between. I have many good memories of the place - met and made many good friends there. It had changed a lot when we went back for a visit a couple of years ago. I suppose the saying is true "you can never go home again".


312 posted on 03/02/2007 4:36:24 AM PST by ladtx ("It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." -- -- General Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Tinian

I forgot in my other post - praying for your Dad give him my best - from one helicopter pilot to another.


313 posted on 03/02/2007 4:38:34 AM PST by ladtx ("It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." -- -- General Douglas MacArthur)
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To: jwparkerjr

I'm 47. If I remember correctly, WIRB had a nice lady with an early morning weekday show in the mid-60's. My grandmother lived in New Brockton and listened to her faithfully.


314 posted on 03/02/2007 5:20:00 AM PST by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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To: Crawdad
Gosh I hadn't thought of her in years! I don't remember her name right off hand, but she was one of those people who are either loved or hated. She did the broadcast from her living room and it was mostly a gossip sorta thing. If she liked you she would praise you to high Heaven. If you were on her other side, uh oh! I never met her, but her segment was was on during my air shift and I used to hear a lot of her comments during breaks. Very opinionated lady!

I have only the fondest memories of Enterprise.
315 posted on 03/02/2007 5:44:20 AM PST by jwparkerjr
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Here is a video of the Enterprise tornado (NOTE: FOUL LANGUAGE)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVd0uOqd3F8


316 posted on 03/02/2007 6:55:18 AM PST by halo66
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