Posted on 04/28/2014 12:56:36 PM PDT by rdl6989
AT 243 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BISSELL...OR NEAR TUPELO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
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Mountains (and other geographic features) do not offer shelter or protection from tornadoes. At the link is a tornado photographed at Sequoia National Park in 2004, at an elevation of 12,000 feet:
http://tornado.sfsu.edu/RockwellPassTornado/index.html
Gonna be a rocky evening. Not over, yet.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/alabama/weather-radar?play=1
Tornado touchdown, Athens, Al.
Debris from the Louisville tornado reportedly falling on the MSU practice field in Starkville.
God bless Louisville:
https://twitter.com/MikeOKwx/status/460901338122309633/photo/1\
Pic contains radar signature of TWO debris balls in/around Louisville.
Holy cow. SMH.
Hitting N Alabama in waves. May have to go to parent’s basement after while.
Another confirmed tornado on the ground NW of Jackson, MS. Storm system is moving northeast.
Am I reading reports correctly that TWO separate tornadoes hit in Louisville?
Just ralked to SIL in Tuscaloosa and she has her eye on the cells west of her. She barely got out with her life in 2010.
talked
Live coverage of Tornado near Huntsville AL.
http://www.waff.com/category/235564/waff-48-news-live-stream
WAPT-Jackson reports debris ball going to 7000’. Yikes.
Yes. Two hit Louisville within less than an hour from what I understand.
Wow. Prayers.
https://twitter.com/GregNordstrom/status/460911715996430336/photo/1
Supposedly one of the Louisville tornados
They have THE best coverage. thnx!
One of the tornados apparently hit the hospital in Louisville. There are also reports of ‘mass casualties’. They are asking for any registered nurses and MD’s to assist.
:(
Dear Lord. :(
Oktibbeha County Hospital (Starkville) has activated their disaster protocols to deal with the incoming injured and those from the hospital in Louisville.
Tornado on the ground near the Nissan plant in Madison county. Possible tornado on the ground headed for Jackson. And other one in Claiborne county.
Dear God, the Hinds county one looks like it’s headed for Candlestick Park.
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