Posted on 03/31/2023 9:05:17 AM PDT by janetjanet998
Rochester Indiana
A Dean’s Milk semi trailer blew into her house where she was sitting, knitting
6 lost in that town, one was a 2 month old that was swept from a mothers arms as the tried to get to cover
We lived 12 miles away and never knew it happened until an uncle in Chicago heard about the storms sweeping through and called us
Complete chaos when we got there. Hours went by before NG would let my father through to check.
She had already been moved and we’d exhausted the other possibld possible placeslaces she might have ended up.
Finally my dad and I eventually went to the local funeral home and saw 5 bodies on the garage floor, one of them covered in an unfinished afghan with her little old ladies shoes. A sight that’s still vivid in my mind 50 years later
My mother never recovered from that and took her own life 8 years late
Dang... media was focused on Xenia that day, but there were (clearly) a lot of other stories of loss. Very sad.
Just like the media was so focused on New Orleans during Katrina, they ignored the deaths in Mississippi and Alabama.
Tornado Warning issued March 31 at 1:13PM CDT until March 31 at 1:45PM CDT by NWS Little Rock AR
The National Weather Service in Little Rock has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Garland County in central Arkansas...
Southeastern Montgomery County in western Arkansas...
Northwestern Hot Spring County in southwestern Arkansas...
* Until 145 PM CDT.
* At 112 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located over Meyers, or 17 miles west of Hot Springs, moving east at 50 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado and ping pong ball size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.
Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree
damage is likely.
* Locations impacted include...
Hot Springs... Hot Springs Village... Mountain Pine... Hot Springs Memorial Field... Meyers... Jessieville... Lake Ouachita State Park... Lofton... Rockwell... Hot Springs National Park... Oaklawn Racetrack... Bonnerdale... Sunshine... Welsh... Mountain Valley... Royal... Gulpha Gorge... Pettyview... Hempwallace... Pearcy...
Wow. Heartfelt condolences. I can’t imagine what that must have been like as a young boy.
Have been hearing tragic stories about the survivors of last week's massive tornado. Many people with spine fractures, spinal cord injuries, impaled by flying debris, crushed and severed limbs, and more. Horrific injuries with extreme life-altering effects.
Catastrophic events like these tend to put most other life events into perspective.
Been to Hot Springs a few times.
Looks like just North of Hot Springs.
Right... and the radar pics suggest it’s weakening a bit. Good news for now, but it’s only the first of the day.
Meanwhile, stormchaser Reed Timmer is currently up in Illinois.
Tornado Warning for Little Rock
Hall just said this will be the most dangerous (weather) day of the last decade. :-(
first high risk in 10 years for the midwest
That (approaching) Little Rock storm had a real hook for one radar frame, and seems to be “trying” again.
That’s pretty sobering when one (that’d be me) visited the destruction in Mayfield, KY a couple weeks after that disaster, and imagines that same storm hitting a city like Little Rock...
That drone view is unbeatable. Take a position 10 miles SE of hot cell and launch that thing. That’ll be the hot new thing for the rest of this chase season.
...sounds like my viewing plans are set for the evening.
Confirmed tornado on the ground West of Little Rock.
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