May 11, 2008
0730z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite
This vortex system was very fast moving. In less than 11 hours it traveled from the Mississippi to the Eastern Seaboard. Powerful. A lot of heat is driving that system to those dynamics/velocity/vorticity/fluid dynamics (air is fluid), hence, the tornadoes.
May 11, 2008
1830z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
For as puny as this tornado appears, the reality is noted in it's vorticity related to it's height and length. In order to support such a powerful funnel cloud over the length of this tornado the forces had to be considerable.
May 10, 2008
McAlester, Oklahoma
Photographer states :: Tornado dissipating as it is going over McAlester, OK.
May 10, 2008
McAlester, Oklahoma
Photographer states :: Another view of tornado from downtown McAlester. Here the tornado is directly overhead and it's starting to rain debris from the sky(didn't really turn out good in the picture).
May 10, 2008
McAlester, Oklahoma
Photographer states :: Another view of tornado from downtown McAlester.
May 2, 2008
Seven Dead in Arkansas
Many More Tornadoes So Far This Year, Than in 2007
DAMASCUS, Arkansas (AP) -- Residents of communities across Arkansas are spending the weekend facing the wreckage of homes torn apart by violent weather that has pushed this year's storm death toll in the state up to at least 26.
``You can see the bags under the eyes of the people who consistently over and over again are called on to respond,'' Gov. Mike Beebe said. ``That's their job and that's our job and we'll do it, no matter how many hours it takes or how many days it takes.''
Seven Arkansans were killed Friday in thunderstorms that tore up parts of four states, and two dozen or more were injured. Emergency officials initially reported eight deaths, but revised the figure downward Saturday. Meteorologists said more than 25 tornadoes may have touched down across middle America late Thursday and early Friday.
http://www.knx1070.com/Tornados-Kill-7-in-Arkansas/2118830
Teen Dead After Line of Tornadoes Hits Four States (click here)
Damage in Midwest as 19 Storms Hit; Storm System Moving East
May 2, 2008
Nineteen tornadoes swept through four Midwestern states overnight, leaving at least seven people dead, according to The Associated Press, and a string of damage to homes and buildings.
A 15-year-old girl in the northwest Arkansas town of Siloam Springs died when a tree fell through the bedroom where she was sleeping, according to The Associated Press.
Police say a 10-year-old boy was rescued from the same room and taken to an area hospital, where he was in good condition and expected to be released.
The line of storms extended through Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas and is moving toward Illinois, where thunderstorm watches are in effect....
May 8, 2008
One Death in Greensboro, North Carolina
Tornado knocks vehicles around in N. Carolina, kills 1
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Authorities were waiting for daylight early Friday so they could begin assessing the damage from a reported tornado that killed one person and injured three others in central North Carolina.
What law enforcement officers said was a tornado touched down on the outskirts of Greensboro late Thursday as severe storms swept across the Southeast, damaging homes and businesses in at least three other states.
An apparent tornado also wrecked a shopping area in Mississippi and strong winds flipped a mobile home in Alabama. In south-central Tennessee, at least four homes and a few barns were damaged.
The person killed was in a small truck that overturned in a parking lot in a parking lot west of Greensboro, said Alan Perdue, emergency services director for Guilford County. He did not have other details.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jW-BndswWuhgPAPXOK4Q6TCQsANQD90I2S6G0
May 10, 2008
Tornado wrecks central US towns
Tornadoes and severe storms have swept across the central part of the United States, causing destruction and killing at least 18 people.
A tornado severely damaged the north-eastern Oklahoma town of Picher before hitting the Missouri town of Seneca 15 miles (24km) away.
At least six people died in Picher and a total of 12 in Missouri.
An emergencies official in Picher said a 24-street area of the town had been "virtually destroyed".
Michelann Ooten warned that the death toll could climb as rescuers sifted through the rubble looking for survivors.
Television images showed overturned cars, homes ripped from their foundations and trees stripped of their leaves.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7394402.stm
Multiple twisters cut path of terror
5:00AM Monday May 12, 2008
OKLAHOMA CITY - At least 18 people were killed yesterday in Missouri and Oklahoma after tornadoes swept through the area.
There were at least 12 storm-related deaths in Missouri, 10 in Newton County on the border with Oklahoma, according to Susie Stonner of the Missouri Emergency Management Agency.
"There's a lot of wreckage and overturned vehicles," she said, adding that police had not ruled out finding more victims.
Ten of the dead were killed when a twister struck at Racine near Seneca, Missouri.
Six people were also killed in the small northeastern Oklahoma town of Picher, officials said.
"Basically a 24-block area is virtually destroyed," said Michelann Ooten, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=68&objectid=10509492
In the BBC report above, the video shows a man speaking about his experience in hearing a 'rumbling.' They ignored it until the tornado was practically on top of them, "...about 3 to 4 hundred yards away..." THAT is not being 'mindful' of ones reality in relation to the dangerous troposphere we now face in the Spring/Summer of 2008.
PERSONAL SAFETY AWARENESS in regard to weather circumstances should be a priority to people at all times. It is a matter of survival. People are far 'too comfortable' in relation to their daily lives to be UNDER-EDUCATED to the dangers persisting with volatile weather becoming a daily event.
