Posted on 04/27/2011 9:20:41 AM PDT by dirtboy
Awful, simply awful
Is there a link on your Ringgold source?
Supercell with 2 confirmed tornadoes moving at 55mph toward southern Atlanta right now.
Prayers up for all the victims and all the rescuers.
Nope. Three big fundraisers in NYC tonight.
Severe communications problems all across Northern Al, North Ga, and SE Tn.
The morning storms took out Comm towers, The North Georgia Doppler, and the National Service Weather Warning Station for Northern Alabama, so the Skywarn Network was hashed right out of the box.
Alabama Emergency Management didn’t even know some towns had been hit for 9 HOURS after, because of the Comm and cell tower wreckage, as well as power and phone damages.
There is going to be a LOT of rethink about emergency communications when this is all over. Catoosa County was using HF RADIOS, because the main com and cell towers were gone.
Who, other than HAM operators, still has HF equipment set up for emergency use?
That’s 15 miles from me.
Likely Old Alabama and I-75 — that is the concentration of hotels and fast food restaurants for that exit.
Check Google Earth for that intersection.
Ping to post 405
2 reported dead from Catoosa Co.
Thank you for the link.
Bad stuff firing up in TN, West VA....Lord will this never end??
Weather Channel guys say the jet stream is bolstering this activity over the mountains (unusual, I gather) and tomorrow’s outlook is for damaging winds as far north as NY and NJ.
Looks like the International Airport is on the edge of a pretty storm...
At this point, though, it appears someone is looking out for Atlanta...
There is almost a continuous line of Tornado warning from Northern Georgia to Northern West Virginia... That is a long line of Tornado warnings...
Roanoke, Virginia and other places in Virginia appear to be in the path...
Day-um!
It’s incredible. Dr. Forbes (TWC) says it is the same supercell that hit all these different plces, from Alabama to Georgia, so far.
You would think it would’ve run out of steam by now.
link to damage reports from Chattanooga area
http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14521722
Fox5 here in Atl saying that 0 has declared Alabama a fed disaster area.
You actually have to go to Alabama or Tennessee or South Carolina to see Tornado Watches/Warning areas in Georgia.
Georgia did not show that [and one was actually Robbins AFB, which should be accurate, but was not a few minutes ago]...
NWS information from their radar websites show the storms, but not Tornado Watches/Warnings [like it normally does]...
Someone else posted this ealier.. I have found it very helpful.
(I have family and friends all over the N. Ga and Atlanta areas)
http://www.wsbtv.com/video/27695563/index.html
I was so impressed with his work at keeping people informed, and he never skipped a beat either..it was all about getting the word out...a true professional in every respect.
When I went to another live news station, in Tennesee, what a stark difference in their reporting! They were stumbling all over themselves by comparrison. Just goes to show when you hear a great newsman of any caliber, and he’s doing his work superbly, everyone else will look like gradeschool kids trying to play grown ups!
I could listen to him for hours, and did, knwoing he was telling it how it is. Pleasure to have had him at the helm there.
Power going in & out in Forsyth County.
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