Posted on 05/27/2019 8:24:23 PM PDT by rdl6989
TROTWOOD, Ohio (FOX19) - A tornado reportedly touched down late Monday just north of Dayton, Ohio.
A tornado watch was issued for parts of the Tri-State Monday evening. North of the FOX19 NOW viewing area, a tornado emergency was later issued around 11 p.m. after tornadic activity was detected in the Trotwood, Ohio area.
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I was just remembering stories of the old Tri-State Tornado from way back when.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7076851/Extremely-dangerous-tornado-touches-Ohio.html
Hard to understand how The Weather Channel was allowed to cease providing its 24/7 coverage a while back. You’d think they would be compelled to stay on the air, especially with this current spate of relentless tornadic activity.
My local Baltimore stations remain on throughout the duration of any active tornado warning, in the interest of public safety.
TWC also was off Directv for a spell, only to return as a part-time operation.
Directv had WeatherNation subsequent to the removal of TWC, but has since replaced that service with AccuWeather.
Neither of these channels is anywhere close to the comprehensive quality of TWC.
Finally, hope all in the path of these destructive storms stay safe!!
The tornado missed my house by 2 miles. Too close for comfort. I hope no one was killed. I saw some damage just down the road with power poles and trees over the road (Beavercreek). Power is out just up the road from my house. We won’t know the extent of the damage until morning. We dodged a bullet on this one.
You are getting old if you can remember when the weather channel had weather, NYC had music, and CNN had news. The Weather channel is just a data mining operation of big tech.
Thank God you are okay and no damage done. I still haven’t seen anything on natl. news about this.
My grandson is there.
Hope you made it through unscathed. I live in the SE suburbs and I’ve got a chainsaw and truck... happy to help if you need it.
Dayton and Montgomery County Fire and EMS scanner:
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/160/web
Other Dayton area scanners, including police, which is offline now
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/ctid/2096
Agenda-Free TV is now playing audio of Dayton City officials news conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqkNB6V-9ag
video from above news conf here https://www.whio.com/online/watch-live-coverage-event-from-whio-com/yi3BXDEpmGoUssLvshT2ZP/
Dayton newspaper https://www.daytondailynews.com/
Damn - my daughter is taking a job just north of Dayton starting next week.
This was my one worry about her moving to the area. Since the triangle between Dayton, Columbus, and Cincy have some history of issues.
I’m gonna have a hell of a time with the wife now. She’s already worked up about her being so far from home.
Prayers for those in harms way.
Prayers up for ya, Jane!
I’m in Texas, not OH.
Prayers up for all who were impacted by these terrible storms.
Well, consider this a pass and rebound the prayers up to those affected; you’ve been following this closer than me. :-)
Never much cared for the Weather Channel. Early in the Millennium we had occasion to drive from Portland, Oregon to east central Illinois in January. First day got us to a motel in Utah. Turned on the Weather Channel to get some idea about the weather eastward. They were having a snow storm in Atlanta & that was all they covered. They seem to have bought out Weather Underground and as far as I can tell, have destroyed it. They used to have good radar loops and a lot of local reporting, but that seems to have disappeared.
Once upon a time, cable news nets would cut to their local affiliates when major stories broke outside of NYC, LA or Chicago. Years ago, I remember watching CNN after a Northwest Airlines DC-9 crashed on takeoff from the airport in Detroit. The disaster occurred on a Sunday evening; obviously, CNN wasn't geared up to cover the story immediately, so they aired local coverage from WDIV-TV, the NBC affiliate in Detroit. The local reporters and anchors knew the area, had sources in the right places and did an excellent job.
No reason FNC, MSNBC and CNN couldn't have done the same thing last night. Except now is really isn't a “story” until the network has their own crew on the ground.
It was a miracle no one died in Dayton last night. A huge debris ball at 15-20K above the ground is something you rarely see, and the sign of a very powerful tornado. Local outlets, including WHIO-TV and WDTN did an outstanding job.
Last observation: could you imagine the reaction if the same storm system moved through NYC or DC? Shep Smith (minus mascara) would have been summoned from his cabana in the Hamptons and it would have been wall-to-wall coverage throughout the night. CNN would have convened its climate change panel around 2 am, to convince us (a) it's Trump's fault, and (b) tornadoes in Ohio in the late spring are a new weather phenomenon.
The CLI-FI channel is all about Global Warming/Cooling now.
One reported dead in Celina now. This is from Dayton Daily News and I don’t know if it can be linked at FR.
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