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.
Holy cow! I trust you are okay? Did your home sustain any damage? Sure hope not.
No damage...our trash cans didn't even blow over.....but it sure was scary listening to those sirens....
I'll bet. Glad all is well.
Oh wow!! We were really lucky to have missed all that.
I want a house with a basement!....LOL
Me too. We are on the 2nd floor (top) of a condo building. I get so scared when I hear these stories about roofs blowing off apartment buildings. I thank God it wasn't us.
I'll bet. You know though, I always wonder how safe basements of the homes built today actually are. Many are walk-out, egress windows, etc. They don't seem deep enough like the older homes with the "storm cellars". Probably better than none at all though.
Wow, I am glad you're ok!!
Its supposed to come through GA tonight, but they are saying it may weaken some.
I hope hope hope.
Thank goodness that the Illinoisans are able to legally carry guns for self-protecti....what't that??? It is illegal in Illinois? Oh well, loot on, Rudolf...
We had a whole evening of warnings and then in the middle of the night.....Good luck to you and yours...this is nasty stuff.....right now it's very windy and we have a chance of snow tonight!....
I was driving on interstate 72 in Illinois at about 3:00 am this morning. There were enormous wind/rain gusts...my car was getting pelted by debris and I had to pull over. For a second, I thought I was driving right into a tornado, and it turns out (although I didn't know it) that the area was under another tornado warning. That will get your heart beating.
Glad you are okay......Springfield, Il got hit pretty bad last night.....
My house is on a crawlspace, and blocks entry to the most frequent F5 killer tornado area in the US, by design. During construction, I added rebar to the footing under a porch, laid the porch block myself, filling the cores with solid concrete and more rebar, and the slab itself contains a rebar grid every six inches in both directions. The entry is a zig-zag block corridor, all concrete and rebar filled, to defeat wind laden debris.
The storms yesterday probably set some distance/sustained records. I tracked the Sedalia/Springfield tornado bearing supercell from western Missouri all the way into north central Indiana. It reminded me of accounts of the Tri-State Tornado.
The line will re-form today, the question is where. My best guess says new convection will begin along and just ahead of the dryline, from Chicago to the SW in this 11AM EST image:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/east/latest_eastwv.jpg
The dryline is not as well defined as it was yesterday on the vapor imagery, and the computers say that lowered insolation and a shift in the jet will weaken the system, but the large scale forcing mechanisms are still in place, with the exception of the jet.
Eyes on the sky and keep your guard up.
Oh boy! Thanks for the heads up. Let's hope it doesn't blow up again.
The Andreas runs right through my sister's driveway, got knocked silly when you guys had the Northridge shaker
another hit after right after I left
we had quite a bit of damage in the city here
roofs off buildings in Bridgeview...flooded viaducts near me etc.
I was laying and listening to this and then the shocker for us...temps will drop 30 degree's here today and then snow!
hope your brother is ok?
at least 10 dead- 9 of those were in Missouri
You are very wise. If I ever have to live back there I will be hiring you to oversee the construction on my house.
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