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Jackson, Tennessee "UNBELIEVABLE DAMAGE"
NWS ^ | 06/04/03

Posted on 05/05/2003 2:07:37 AM PDT by Lucas1

*** 1 DEAD *** ONE FATALITY

CONFIRMED IN A SUBDIVISION THAT SUFFERED UNBELIEVABLE DAMAGE. REPORTED BY MADISON COUNTY EMA. (MEM)

Violent tornado apparently has tore through Jackson, Tennessee.


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: skywarn; tornado
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To: oyez
Is Olive Branch near Olive Hill, TN?
21 posted on 05/05/2003 6:14:37 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: smiley
Living near a major tornado struck area makes you stop and think. Live 5 miles south of the Moore (F-5+) tornado that hit on 3 May 1999. The tornado that hit the Kansas City area had that same wedge shape as the Moore tornado.

Storm trackers from the Storm Prediction Center here in Norman have been tracking these tornadoes as they go across the Country. Don't see how they get people to be storm trackers as they get right up on the tornadoes and report the strength and direction they are headed. These storm trackers have saved countless lives over the years.

Prayers go out to the people affected by this outbreak of tornadoes!
22 posted on 05/05/2003 6:17:28 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
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To: smiley
That tornado hit just before I moved. Came right down my street, took out three large trees in my yard, then apparently jumped a bit and came down to take out the "Y", Shoe Carnival and Galyans. I lived in Greenwood and spent time in the basement on at least six occasions in eight years.
23 posted on 05/05/2003 6:28:22 AM PDT by anoldafvet (Freedom isn't free, it's the most costly gift you'll ever receive.)
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To: anoldafvet
All our friends in the midwest said, "how can you move to California, they have EARTHQUAKES out there!"
24 posted on 05/05/2003 6:53:16 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: mvpel
Been there and done that too. We lived in Thousand Oaks during the Whittier quake in 1987 and several smaller ones near San Diego. While they were scary, the thing that really frightened us were the Malibu fires. We could see the fires burning all around us and the air was RED.
25 posted on 05/05/2003 7:00:48 AM PDT by anoldafvet (Freedom isn't free, it's the most costly gift you'll ever receive.)
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To: Lucas1
Ugh! I'm in SE Tenn, and we're bracing for it now. The storms always seem to do more damage in the western part of the state due to the wide open spaces. The storms and tornadoes lose some power when they slam into the mountains here. Sounds like something wicked this way comes for us though. :>(
26 posted on 05/05/2003 7:14:24 AM PDT by Space Wrangler (Now I know what it's like washing windows when you know that there are pigeons on the roof...)
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To: Mr. Mulliner; The Raven; GailA
Prayers going up for everyone devastated by the tornadoes and severe storms.
27 posted on 05/05/2003 7:30:22 AM PDT by kayak (Pray for President Bush, our troops, and our nation!)
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To: stainlessbanner
Olive Branch is in Mississippi, just across the state line from Germantown, TN. Germantown is in west Shelby county, the same country that Memphis is in. I've never heard of Olive Hill, TN. Where is it?
28 posted on 05/05/2003 8:02:27 AM PDT by OrangeDaisy
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To: OrangeDaisy
"...I've never heard of Olive Hill, TN. Where is it?...

Roughly 5 mile from the Hardin County/Wayne County line. It's on Hwy 64.
29 posted on 05/05/2003 8:20:32 AM PDT by NCC-1701 ((Good luck, happy hunting, and God-speed to the US military and our allies in this operation.))
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To: OrangeDaisy
BTW, It Olivehill, Tn. Not Olive Hill, Tn.
30 posted on 05/05/2003 8:22:08 AM PDT by NCC-1701 ((Good luck, happy hunting, and God-speed to the US military and our allies in this operation.))
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To: oyez
Any damage in Selmer Tn, I have relatives there?
31 posted on 05/05/2003 8:58:06 AM PDT by razorback-bert
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To: oyez
We're OK in Memphis. Right now ther is a massive hailstorm in Olive Branch, MS, just across the state line.

We're OK in Memphis. Right now ther is a massive hailstorm in Olive Branch, MS, just across the state line.

There's a few trees down in the University of Memphis area, some a foot or better in diameter, and MLG&W had to restore power in a couple of instances where trees crashing down brought power lines down with them. And there's assorted trash and garbage that had been awaiting the Monday morning trash pickup all over the place, but in all, it could have been a whole lot worse.

I recall Olive Branch as taking a pretty good hit a couple of years back, with several of the aircraft at the Olive Branch Airport ending up on their backs or smashed into each other. But there was no loss of life then as I recall.

-archy-/-

32 posted on 05/05/2003 9:04:26 AM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: PhiKapMom
Storm trackers from the Storm Prediction Center here in Norman have been tracking these tornadoes as they go across the Country. Don't see how they get people to be storm trackers as they get right up on the tornadoes and report the strength and direction they are headed. These storm trackers have saved countless lives over the years.

Many of our Severe Weather Skywarn Spotters are ham radio operators, often retired or with previous experience as police, fire department or as military radio communicators or in other emergency services. And, of course there are also meteorologists to whom tornadic winds are but a part of their job description, and whose respect for the storms is tempered with respect for their capibilities, but not overwritten by fear derived from any lack of knowledge or understanding of the conditions.


33 posted on 05/05/2003 9:13:58 AM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: razorback-bert
Any damage in Selmer Tn, I have relatives there?

I haven't heard of any major damage in McNairy County. But if I run across anything related, I'll post here and give you a FReepmail as well.

-archy-/-

34 posted on 05/05/2003 9:15:37 AM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: Space Wrangler
WFUS54 KOHX 051601
TORBNA
TNC103-117-127-051645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1101 AM CDT MON MAY 5 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE
SOUTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LEWISBURG
MOORE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LYNCHBURG

* UNTIL 1145 AM CDT
* AT 1058 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEWISBURG...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF PULASKI...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE AROUND...
8 MILES SOUTH OF LEWISBURG AT 1115 AM CDT
5 MILES NORTH OF LYNCHBURG AT 1145 AM CDT

DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME.
TAKE COVER
NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO A
BASEMENT...AN
INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY...ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

&&

LAT...LON 3514 8636 3515 8678 3532 8680 3544 8693
3553 8677 3537 8662 3532 8644 3541 8627
3538 8626 3537 8629 3533 8624

$$
STEIGERWALDT

35 posted on 05/05/2003 9:20:36 AM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: Marathoner
I graduated from North Side in '76. Lived in Belle Meade on Channing Way.

How about you?
36 posted on 05/05/2003 9:26:04 AM PDT by rootntootn
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Horrible, horrible images from MO and TN. Over a hundred buildings damaged just in Jackson, TN. Entire downtown of Pierce City, MO destroyed, bulldozers are now clearing out the brick rubble. I seriously wonder if it will ever be rebuilt.

And that's just what I was able to see when they briefly interrupted the far more important nonstop coverage of what Scott Peterson had for breakfast. If a Fox News reporter hadn't been from a neighborhood damaged in KC, I'm not sure they would have bothered covering this. Fair and Tabloid.
37 posted on 05/05/2003 9:27:07 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: archy
LYNCHBURG!!!! OH MY GOD!!!
38 posted on 05/05/2003 9:30:04 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Not to sound morbid or anything but is it me or does anyone not see these things having a bit of a miracle attached to them? A re-building process and construction jobs and growth can come into a community or a town now thanks to tornadoes. Loss of life is impossible to replace. However, in the darkness of all of this chaos the light at the end of the tunnel has to be the fact that there is now open land and property that can be re-built at the cost of FEMA and the Govt. Maybe some of these area's have been having hard times with businesses and now insurance can pay off the small business owners.

I dunno...just trying to see some good in this.

39 posted on 05/05/2003 9:35:14 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (Which one will lose? Depends on what I choose or maybe which voice...I ignore.)
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To: archy
It's on it's way here now-- we are due east of all the above mentioned counties, and it's headed right for us.
40 posted on 05/05/2003 10:04:42 AM PDT by Space Wrangler (Now I know what it's like washing windows when you know that there are pigeons on the roof...)
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