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Tornado Strikes Scout Camp - Large Emergency Response
NWS ^ | June 11, 2008

Posted on 06/11/2008 5:39:24 PM PDT by silentknight

A possible tornado has struck the Litle (spelling from site?) Sioux Scout Camp in Iowa. Very large response is being reported by media. Large number of injuries.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Iowa; US: Kansas; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: boyscouts; bsa; camp; iowa; kansas; nebraska; outbreak; scouts; summercamp; tornado
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To: LibertyRocks

UPDATE:

Homeland security is still confirming 4 deaths, but they have said that the previous report of 6 injuries is incorrect. The number Ch. 6 is reporting is 40 injured.

There was apparently a spotter that was caught right in the middle of this particular storm due to a glitch in his radar - he was attempting to warn the camp apparently. He said it was a “rain-wrapped” tornado - a rare one. They said that it’s very hard to recognize these types of tornados even for those trained.

Omaha Metro Number for parents - 431-9272


141 posted on 06/11/2008 7:32:07 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (The LibertyRocks Blog - http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com & http://www.LibertyRocks.us)
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To: silentknight
Prayers Up Bump

And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.- Isaiah 65:24

142 posted on 06/11/2008 7:32:09 PM PDT by txroadkill (Liberals believe that the only oppressed people in Cuba are the terrorist in GitMo)
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To: LibertyRocks
He said it was a “rain-wrapped” tornado - a rare one

Rain-wrapped tornadoes are quite common. Not sure where that comes from.

143 posted on 06/11/2008 7:33:29 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: silentknight

That’s awful!


144 posted on 06/11/2008 7:33:44 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

Some things it’s better never to have seen.


145 posted on 06/11/2008 7:35:56 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (McCain is 2008's Bob Dole...oh well, I'm sure Viagra can always use another spokesman...)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma; All

Try this one too :

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dmx


146 posted on 06/11/2008 7:37:45 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: VanShuyten

They brought some of the injured up here to Sioux City. I know the leadership and older scouts from Dakota County Nebraska were there. I know who they are, and hope they are ok. I wonder, tho, if that’s the ones they brought up to SC.


147 posted on 06/11/2008 7:38:35 PM PDT by Annie5622 (Democrats DO have a plan! They apparently plan to stay stupid.)
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To: SE Mom

Local (Lincoln, NE) news just said something like 93 campers betw. the ages of 15-18 and 24 or 25 adults there. Homeland Security in IA said 4 dead and 40 injured. One of my best friends from college lives very near there and I’m afraid one of her kids might have been there . . . damage throughout NE . . . please send prayers for anyone affected!


148 posted on 06/11/2008 7:39:15 PM PDT by homemom
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To: silentknight

Prayers for the Scouts. Mine are heading to scout camp here in Idaho next week.


149 posted on 06/11/2008 7:39:28 PM PDT by Domandred (McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
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To: SE Mom

This would be the camp right across from the KOA campground then., right?


150 posted on 06/11/2008 7:40:01 PM PDT by Annie5622 (Democrats DO have a plan! They apparently plan to stay stupid.)
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To: Strategerist

Like you, not sure they are rare, but have always heard that rain wrapped tornados do tend to be more powerful...not sure if that is right.

Glad to see our Freeper experts getting in on this thread though.


151 posted on 06/11/2008 7:40:39 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: ConorMacNessa

Prayers and bump. Thanks for your service to us jarheads, doc.


152 posted on 06/11/2008 7:40:46 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: Mr. Silverback

Prayers up for all.


153 posted on 06/11/2008 7:41:01 PM PDT by mojo114
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To: Mr. Silverback

Fervent prayers for all those affected by this disaster.

May our Lord keep them in his arms.

Thank you Mr. Silverback.


154 posted on 06/11/2008 7:42:34 PM PDT by laurenmarlowe
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To: Strategerist

Well, I’ve decided to open up my MSN browser because it seems that Ch. 6 is not very accurate in their reports - I’ve now got Action 3 open, as well as the stream from the chasers.

I would think that it was the anchors who perhaps got the wording wrong or something as far as the description.


155 posted on 06/11/2008 7:43:03 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (The LibertyRocks Blog - http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com & http://www.LibertyRocks.us)
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To: silentknight
We're a Scouting family. Our sons are 12 and 15, and if we lived in Iowa, I can well imagine they'd have been at leadership training. This is a heartbreaking situation.

Thankfully, these boys are also bound to be well trained in first aid, and those who are able are surely helping the more seriously injured Scouts and Scouters. Our Scouts are a terrific bunch of boys - helpful, resourceful, and well trained. They, and their leaders, are the ones I'd want with me in an emergency.

May God be with them and their families.

156 posted on 06/11/2008 7:43:16 PM PDT by Think free or die
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To: penelopesire

Rain-wrapped not necessarily stronger, but harder to see. Once they start pulling in rain, they usually begin to weaken. Boy Scout camps are usually poorly funded and structures are relatively primitive. An EF2 would be more than sufficient unfortunately. Rain-wrapped is dangerous as you have to rely solely on hearing it coming. They had a 12 minute warning, which is pretty good - but not many places to really hide from any storm of moderate strength.


157 posted on 06/11/2008 7:44:13 PM PDT by Tuxedo (This Species Has Amused Itself To Death)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

latest update:

000
WFUS53 KICT 120232
TORICT
KSC169-120315-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0051.080612T0232Z-080612T0315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
932 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT.

* AT 929 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF SMOLAN...OR 10 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF SALINA...MOVING EAST AT 51 MPH.

* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
ASSARIA...GYPSUM...NEW CAMBRIA...SALINA...SMOLAN...SALINA AIRPORT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW! IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3895 9736 3866 9735 3866 9786 3881 9785
3896 9760 3896 9737
TIME...MOT...LOC 0232Z 260DEG 44KT 3876 9774

$$

HOWERTON


158 posted on 06/11/2008 7:44:59 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: All

New Tornado Watch coming out now... will be in effect until 3 a.m. - gage odo mills montgomery freemont page... sorry didn’t get all the counties.

The crawl at this page has all the updates: http://www.action3news.com/default.asp


159 posted on 06/11/2008 7:46:21 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (The LibertyRocks Blog - http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com & http://www.LibertyRocks.us)
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To: mojo114; laurenmarlowe

Thank you both.

Tough to be a Scouter tonight.


160 posted on 06/11/2008 7:46:47 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.)
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