Posted on 03/12/2006 6:39:21 PM PST by 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.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN TEXAS COUNTY IN MISSOURI.
SOUTHEAST LACLEDE COUNTY IN MISSOURI.
* UNTIL 1230 AM CST.
OKC News said 69 tornadoes have been on the ground and more expected throughout the night.
* AT 1134 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARTVILLE...OR 18 MILES EAST
OF MARSHFIELD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN
TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN LACLEDE COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF
COMPETITION...LYNCHBURG...PLATO AND ROBY.\
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE ACROSS
AREAS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI.
Didn't mean to correct you. I remember that one, one of my roommates from college was from Olgesby and I remember his parents house had some damage, but nothing like what happened to the poor people in that tavern. Good luck tonight, prayers for everyone in the path of these storms.
You related to the DR. Bovenmyer's in Davenport?
Thought you'd be on this
More cells are popping up in OK, near Muskogee, near Tulsa. There could be more rough weather through the night in eastern OK.
Geesh. And in looks like St. Louis is about to be under the gun.
Been following it on the weather forum all day. ;-)
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MORGAN COUNTY IN MISSOURI.
* UNTIL 1215 AM CST.
* AT 1138 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR STOVER...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
VERSAILLES...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 75 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN MORGAN
COUNTY.
Coulda warned me ;)
WOW! So Lawrence got hit bad? Wonder if Kansas basketball team is going to be staying in Dallas to practice since that is where they play their first games?
I grew up in Iowa and remember seeing 1 tornado, of course there were many but I only saw one, but this outbreak is so crazy.
This Michigan girl would have been doing the same thing. I commuted 55 miles each way from Ft. Sill (hubby's post) to Wichita Falls (where I worked) every day. Driving home one day I could see the thunderheads ahead of me. When I heard the sirens were going off in Lawton I pulled into the first commercial strip I found and asked the guy if I could hang out there till the storms passed. He seemed rather bored by all the excitement, just said, "Sure... you're not from around here, are you?"
I should have. :(
Looks like you have some busy hours ahead. You are far enough north that you seem to be missing the worst of the discrete cells, but you should watch all that stuff forming in front of the main line.
I have lost track here. In our last house, we had to chainsaw our way out of the neighborhood 3 times in the six years we lived there. I just make sure that I buy houses with a basement that has an interior room in the basement. LOL
North Texas and Souteastern Oklahoma freepers may want to pay attention to the weather now. An hour ago nothing was on the Dallas radar, but since then a big line of thunderstorms have developed from northeast of Denison to west of Denton, and looks to be soon forming down to at least south of Weatherford. That line is where the cold front and dry line are converging, and everthing east of there could see storms.
I remember one when I was a kid (I'm 37 now) that passed right over my grandma's house. It hadn't yet touched ground but eventually did less than a mile away. We huddled in her basement and the walls just shook. All her jarred veggies from canning were rattling and hopping around on the shelves, just like in the movies. Crazy scary!
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