Posted on 04/27/2011 9:20:41 AM PDT by dirtboy
PDS Tornado watch just issued for Northern Mississippi:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0232.html
“With the cumulative being ~200 so far this season, has to be
a record.”
Not even close, I’m afraid...
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Power and comm outages have affected everyone. In some case Emergency comm equipment has been knocked out. I forget where I read it but some NWS towers have been blown out as well. Thankfully they have a good deal of overlap and that is why you see the warnings on some NWS radar but not on others.
The proffessional Storm chaser that filmed the Tuscaloosa tornado from the highway tweeted this a lttle while ago:
“BREAKING: ]Unconfirmed report out of a Tuscaloosa hospital of “hundreds” of deaths, “bodies laying everywhere!”
With the NWS [National Weather Service], sometimes Radar Sites are down because of too many Internet Hits or something. The NWS for a particular location will come up with Radar Data not available.
I ran into one tonight in Tennessee in the area that was being hit hard.
Freerepublic can handle me typing, but the NWS cannot handle people looking at radar images -- for some reason.
This probably should be fixed...
The fact that Robbins AFB NWS had mis-information is very disturbing...
Some of these computer bugs need to be looked into...
“Then:
The city of Ringgold just announced they have opened a temporary mass casuality morgue.”
Which explains the earlier call for a Mass Casualty Storage Trailer from Catoosa EMS....
Link? ..tried tornado twitter- lots of idiots there and not much news
Storm intensity from radar is not as bad at this hour, but there are still a number of tornado watch areas North of Atlanta basically going Northeast to an area West of Roanoke, Virginia...
Sure hope the intensity of these storms start to die down... There is enough damage behind these storms...
The Northern Alabama WSR-88D Doppler Radar, and 3 of the Noaa Weather Radio repeater towers in Collman, and points north, were taken out in one of the first tornados of the day.
Per the Chicago Tribune, Father Michael Pfleger has been suspended by Cardinal George of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
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Might be of interest, and a useful distraction on a night where people might be worried about loved ones in the South...
Thanks!
Leni
Pfake Pfather Pfleger: his sins have finally caught up to him.
Sounds like Rinnggold, Ga could be worse than Tuscaloosa.
From Twitter:
Ringgold: Listening to the police scanner. Multiple apt complexes, hotels, homes collapsed w/ entrapment. At least one commercial fire.
This is the Radar Site accessed via http://www.weather.gov/radar_tab.php
Normally, one can click on the National Weather Map in your area to get accurate weather info on warnings/watches...
Not tonight!
Another twitter:
Police officer in Ringgold, GA, stopped Fox 5 TV crew, indicated, “We’ve got dead people.” Sounded bad there.
I don't know if this gap will hold up, but does not appear to be much rain to the west of Asheville, South Carolina.
Some of the earlier Tornado Watches/Warnings have been dropped so that there is no longer a continuous line of tornado watches/warnings North of Atlanta [now East of that area] to almost Roanoke, Virginia. There are some gaps forming in the watch areas, which I believe is a good thing...
post a link please
Pretty astounding video of what sounds like a young man filming the tornado dangerously close...so close he scares himself as it progresses. He’s lucky he came out alive...pretty scarey encounter with the beast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ohIVzIZLuQ
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