Large Tornado Has Hit The Capitol Of Illinois

NWS

[silentknight]

A large tornado has moved through Illinois and has just hit the City of Springfield. Spotters reported a large tornado moved through the city. Damage is being reported. Emergency responders are being called in from surrounding areas.

NWS reports that this was a large wedge tornado.

[Spyder]

As a native Californian earthquakes aren't scary to me. But tornado's terrify me.

I'm with you and I grew up in the Midwest - I remember my dad driving us through Elkhart a day or two after the Palm Sunday tornado. Scary stuff. I'll admit to sort of holding my breath the 4 years I lived in California whenever I got stuck on a cloverleaf though.

So far so good here (Hawaii). We had a tsunami warning and sirens our 3rd day on Oahu in 1994. Our home is safely above any tsunami danger. Hurricanes are bad but you can prepare better than with a tornado. The only actual tornado I've ever seen though was in a field not a mile from our house here. I saw the thing below and thought what the @#$%??? Hawaii doesn't have these things!

[Reborn]

Now a tornado heading for the capital of Missouri...Jefferson City...

sigh

[DannyTN]

:"60 percent of bldgs on University of Kansas campus damaged today"

Did Kansas throw out Intelligent Design or accept it?

[conservativebabe]

Oh no! Mother Nature is on the rampage tonight. Prayers for Jefferson City. Hope they fare better than Springfield.

[2111USMC]

Damn!

Why is it that it seems every tornado system must pass through Kansas.

Guess that's why they call it part of "tornado alley".

[Strategerist]

Did Kansas throw out Intelligent Design or accept it?

I sort of thought of Quix when I posted the people trapped in a Church report. But I guess his intellectual compatriots are around.

[BurbankKarl]

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL
1113 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROMEOVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN IROQUOIS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
NORTHWESTERN BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA
NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA

* UNTIL 1145 PM CST /1245 AM EST/

* AT 1107 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6
MILES NORTH OF WATSEKA TO MILFORD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS AT 60 MPH...WHICH CAN KNOCK DOWN LIMBS AND POWER
LINES AND DAMAGE WEAK STRUCTURES.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
RAUB BY 1220 AM...
PERKINS BY 1125 PM...
ENOS BY 1130 PM...
FORESMAN BY 1135 PM...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE STORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.

[ExpatGator]

I don't know, as I have not gotten any more word from west of the lake. No word on Stockton yet. The hook was right on top of them though. Let's hope all is okay.

[bd476]

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1110 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CALLAWAY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST
* AT 1107 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 10
MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLTS SUMMIT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
55 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HOLTS SUMMIT...
LAKE MYKEE...
NEW BLOOMFIELD...
CHAMOIS...
WILLIAMSBURG...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT.
GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY
FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR
HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR
PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT
LINE WINDS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CST MONDAY
MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS AND NORTHEASTERN
MISSOURI.

LAT...LON 3863 9221 3850 9194 3861 9166 3896 9165 3904 9189

[arkady_renko]

Spotters reporting what appears to be a tornadic supercell lighting up near Peoria... Temps raising 7 to 8 degrees. What is strange is the fog. Just about 100 percent humidity.

A_R

[del4hope]

What surprising me is that these storms seem a little far north for this time of year. Usually we in the Deep South get this weather this time of year. I know because 3/15-4/15 I am always in "stay in touch with the weather" mode. We have yet to see a storm like this as of this year. Seems like the midwest is usually prone to these storms more like May to June.

I am sure it is due to the unseasonably warm weather as it was 85 degrees here today, about 10 degree above norm.

[willieroe]

Some houses in Benton County, AR, have been completely demolished --- just piles of rubble.

Why I ran across this yesterday, I'll never know....

Feb. 27, 2006 — The NOAA National Weather Service has declared Benton County, Ark., the nation's 1,000th StormReady® community.

[RushCrush]

Let's just say that his home is on my dog walk route....and sometimes I am just plain out of doggie poop bags :)

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

We get a few tornado in the Central Valley of Calfornia from time to time. But they are wanna be tornados compared to what the Midwest experiences all the time. I don't even think that they even rate as an F1. If someone from the Midwest saw it they would think that it was a dustdevil or a whirlwinds.

[conservativebabe]

Peoria what? IL?

[conservativebabe]

LOL! THAT is funny!

[peggybac]

Let's just say that his home is on my dog walk route....and sometimes I am just plain out of doggie poop bags :)

ROFLMAO

[del4hope]

ROFLMAO!

[Strategerist]

Last year Oklahoma set a record for no tornadoes at all anywhere in the state for the month of...May, I think.

You get patterns that set up that move stuff around. There's been a lot less stuff in the classic dryline areas of Central TX, Central OK the last couple of years, more in MO.

Drives the chasers crazy because MO is a bad, bad state to drive after tornadoes in, from what I gather.

[Bahbah]

I am most grateful, del.