Tornado kills two in Missouri; more tornadoes on tap for today
The tropical Atlantic is quiet today, and none of the reliable models are predicting tropical cyclone formation over the next five days.
At approximately 12:15 am CDT this morning, a tornado near Paris, Missouri, killed two people when it ripped apart their mobile home and tossed them 400 feet away. At least four other tornadoes hit Missouri yesterday, and two tornadoes touched down in Texas, and one each in Louisiana and Mississippi. The driver of a Petal Water & Sewer service truck was hospitalized in Mississippi after strong winds picked up his truck and tossed it across I-59.
Another severe weather outbreak is expected today in the U.S., from the Mississippi Valley northward through the Tennessee Valley and the Great Lakes. Tornado Watches have already been posted, and today's severe weather has the potential to generate a few strong, long-track tornadoes. You can follow the outbreak today on our new interactive tornado map, which will post the tornado damage reports as they are received. The new feature also allows one to plot all the historical tornado activity back to 1950 for any region in the U.S. If you take a wunderphoto of a tornadic storm or tornado damage, and click on the "tornado" type of image flag when uploading it, our software will attempt to match your photo to the storm report for that tornado. These photos will then be available when you click on a storm report on the interactive tornado page. One of the storm reports for Missouri yesterday has several wunderphotos of the thunderstorm that spawned the tornado available, thanks to wunderphotographer Paleohebrew.
Jeff Masters
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I'm just north of Dotahn AL and we have been getting steady drizzle all morning. My sis lives in Niceville, works in FWB at hospital, so I'm sure she is in 'emergency mode' now. They were under a warning box a little while ago, but the box has cleared out and is back over the P'cola area only now.
Since this frontal boundary was predicted to move from Missisippi, across the panhandle of FL, then across this area, and on to the NE, I wonder if the tornadic weather will head here later today. Anybody know?
I would be ready,it looks like the heavy rain is headed your way
hola folks! Whats the buzz about?
P'cola/Panama City Fl getting pounded...
For a few years I lived in Missouri and Illinois where the tornadoes were particualry nasty and have had a fear of them since. Growing up in Flordia, most tornadoes were small waterspouts that caused minor damage. Living in tornado alley gave me a healthy respect/fear of them.
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Beer tents knocked down at Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oktoberfest
Tornado, flooding seen in Missouri; high water in Iowa
(CNN) -- An apparent tornado touched down in Pensacola, Florida, Thursday as a huge storm system stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada threatened heavy rain and potentially dangerous weather.
Video from CNN affiliate WEAR showed a funnel cloud against a dark horizon in Pensacola, in the Florida panhandle near the Alabama border.
Earlier Thursday, two people died in their mobile home when high winds from a possible tornado hit northeastern Missouri, The Associated Press reported. Other tornadoes struck the southwestern part of the state but did not cause much damage, AP added.
Wednesday night, two tents were blown down at Tulsa's Oktoberfest, sending 21 people to hospitals, Tina Wells, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Emergency Medical Services Authority, told AP.
Oktoberfest organizer Michael Sanders told CNN he and about 2,000 other people went into a beer garden tent as a light rain started to fall on the festival.
"Soon as I got in there, within seconds, without warning, there was this huge gust of wind ... and the tent started collapsing," Sanders said. Watch how the storm broke up the party »
The thunderstorms damaged about 25 mobile homes and travel trailers in a mobile home park near Oologah, northeast of Tulsa, the Oologah-Talala Emergency Medical Services District said.
None of the five injuries reported was believed to be life threatening, officials said. Trees and power lines were down throughout the area.
Four victims had been in one mobile home that was destroyed, AP reported.
Wind gusts in Kingfisher County reached 86 mph, Emergency Management Director Steve Loftis told AP.
A tornado damaged six homes in a rural area near Mount Vernon, Missouri, Lawrence County Sheriff's Lt. Brad Delay told CNN. Delay said he followed the tornado in his patrol car.
About 4 inches of rain brought flash flooding and high stream levels in Kansas City, Missouri, CNN affiliate KMBC reported.
A teenage boy was swept away by water rushing through a culvert, but he managed to pull himself to safety before rescuers arrived, KMBC reported.
Flooding from the same storm system is threatening the autumn harvest in Iowa, where high water also ruined farmers' first plantings in the spring, CNN affiliate KETV in Omaha, Nebraska, reported.
The storm system was moving Thursday morning into the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. A tornado watch covered much of Indiana on Thursday morning.
The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for areas along the Gulf Coast from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Pensacola, Florida, on Thursday, but they expired with no reports of tornadoes touching down.
Something interesting that happens here too, Bone. When the winds start to pick up because a storm's moving in...the birds all start flying north. (Maybe weird..but I've seen that a bazillion times)...bird's havent moved yet
And bone? *laffs* I already went upstair and looked out my bedroom window that way...nothing unsual.
Something interesting that happens here too, Bone. When the winds start to pick up because a storm's moving in...the birds all start flying north. (Maybe weird..but I've seen that a bazillion times)...bird's havent moved yet
most dependable forcasters "animals"
yesterday I found a cell traveling at 90k and another at 80k
Somewhat refreshing, in a way.
ROFL
No word from sis in FWB. The leading edge of rain is now hitting in Barbour County AL where a friend lives.
Thanks for the good thoughts ie rain in the extreme drought area...we're getting a nice steady rain, but the heavy stuff is headed this way. Won't help the crops, but maybe it will help replenish some of the depeleted water resrervoirs if we get a LOT. (Hey, a girl can dream, can't she???)
Aubies? This morning they said a slight risk for TOMORROW.
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I know guess everyone got caught off guard
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