Posted on 04/28/2014 4:00:18 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
At least 18 people were killed Sunday by three separate tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system that moved through the central and southern United States.
The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management confirmed early Monday that at least sixteen people had died after a tornado tore through central Arkansas, while an Oklahoma county sheriff's dispatcher reported that one person had died in the town of Quapaw, near the state's borders with Kansas and Missouri. Fox News has also confirmed that one person died when a tornado hit Keokuk County, Iowa.
The Arkansas tornado touched down about 10 miles west of Little Rock at around 7 p.m. local time and moved northeastward for at least 30 miles, the National Weather Service reported. It missed the state capital but passed through or near several of its suburbs, causing widespread damage in the communities of Mayflower and Vilonia.
According to the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management, ten of the deaths occurred in Faulkner County, where Mayflower and Vilonia are located. Five more occurred in Pulaski County, and one occurred in White County.
The tornado, which grew to be a half-mile wide, turned buildings into rubble and stripped the leaves and smaller branches off of trees.
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It’s ok to be in a vehicle if you’re driving in right angles from the storm, sometimes it’s best if you can’t find suitable shelter.
Would someone please pull HAARP’s plug?
That’s a big one!
The drama queens were out in force yesterday! We watched the storm split over Oklahoma, and go around us. We didn’t get enough rain to settle the dust, but East and west of here got clobbered.
Hopefully others will chime in with good information sites folks can turn to for real-time info that can be tailored to ones specific location before/during/after bad weather.
The Big Map to see whats out there, where it's heading.
Severe WX Warnings National WX Service Warnings-auto-updates every 2 min.
Listen in on 1st responders/trackers/others Stormchasers/Fire/Police/Emergency services, etc.
Local WX Radar with storm tracking one of many that are out there.
Plenty of Android Apps like Raindar, Scanner Radio, etc. provide good information also.
The AGW alarmists’ prayers have been answered.
You ain't from around here, are ye?
Largest recorded was 2.6 miles wide near El Reno, OK just last year.
I was referring to the width of tornado at ground level. The funnel may be 2 miles wide but the ground path is not.
They’re not all long, skinny things snaking around like Wizard Of Oz. The worst ones don’t really have that classic, recognizable form. It’s more like a black wall of boiling, swirling debris coming at you if you’re unfortunate enough to be that close. A half mile wide, a mile wide, sometimes more than that. From a distance they have a sort of wedge shape, as if a section of the storm cloud itself dropped down to the ground, and that’s not far from accurate. Some are wrapped in heavy rain which disguises them to a point, looking like a squall line. Those are almost as bad as nighttime tornadoes, you don’t really know where they are because the funnel and debris ball are obscured, and more people are injured or die because of it.
The ground path IS the recorded width of the tornado. How could it be otherwise?
To be honest, most tornadoes of appreciable size are actually a system of smaller suction vortices which swirl around a central area of circulation. But the whole system of circulation is, indeed, a tornado.
Yes it is...
Go take a look at some historical aerial photos of tornado damage, Greenfield, Kansas would be a start. The whole old downtown section was destroyed by one tornado. Eight blocks are roughly a mile.
We drove through Greensburg a few years ago, but didn’t realize that this was the place that got leveled until we were past it.....always wish we’d have stopped for a lookaround.
As to be expected, warmists are crawling out of the woodwork to blame these on global warming. In 2011 they said global warming caused the higher than average number of tornadoes. In 2012 they said global warming caused the lower than average number of tornadoes. And, of course, they said global warming caused every tornado that did form in 2012.
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