WOW Whata Storm

[cincygreg]

Anyone else see or hear that thing?
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Anyone have any damage from it?

Storm syrens were going off over here for a while. Wind was kicking pretty nasty along with the rain

[cincygreg]

KInda long, but that was a wicked storm.

Updated: 9:02 a.m. ET April 3, 2006
NEWBERN, Tenn. - Severe thunderstorms packing tornadoes and softball-sized hail left a path of destruction across six Midwestern states, killing at least 23 people.

Nineteen deaths were reported in western Tennessee, including a family of four. In Missouri, strong winds were blamed for at least three deaths.

The Sunday storms caused a clothing store to collapse in Illinois, overturned mobile homes in several states, and pelted thousands of concertgoers with rain in downtown Indianapolis. Power was knocked out to at least 300,000 customers in Illinois, Missouri and Indiana.

Half a dozen tornadoes and softball-sized hail were reported in northeast Arkansas, where about half of the town of Marmaduke had evacuated because of gas leaks and other concerns, police said.

In Tennessee, eight deaths were reported near Newbern in Dyer County and three in Bradford in neighboring Gibson County, said Kurt Pickering, spokesman for the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. Emergency officials reported another four early Monday.

Floods and tornadoes
A twister carved a path through a cluster of homes near the Jimmy Dean Foods plant north of Newbern, where several victims died. The plant, which makes breakfast sausages and other food products, also sustained some damage, a security guard said.


In Fayette County, just east of Memphis, home was thrown from its foundation, a grain silo destroyed and a mobile home overturned, The Tennessean reported.

The National Weather Service in Memphis preliminarily reported tornadoes in five counties in West Tennessee ? Dyer, Carroll, Haywood, Gibson and Fayette ? and officials said the storms caused extensive damage to buildings.

In Missouri, strong winds were blamed for at least three deaths. A 42-year-old man was killed when winds knocked over his mobile home near Circle City, Stoddard County Sheriff Carl Hefner said. A second death was reported in Braggadocio in Pemiscot County, the state emergency management office said, but no details were available.

Another man was killed when a tree fell on him as he walked along a trail in Castlewood State Park near Ballwin in St. Louis County, a spokeswoman for St. Louis County police told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

A state of emergency was declared in the southeast Missouri city of Caruthersville after a tornado caused heavy damage there. Details of the damage weren?t available.

High winds caused an Illinois clothing store to collapse in Fairview Heights, east of St. Louis, killing a 54-year-old man, police Capt. Nick Gailius said.

Search for victims
Emergency crews were searching the rubble for any additional victims, their progress slowed by a gas leak, Gailius said. Others were injured in the collapse, he said.

A Kentucky county declared a state of emergency early Monday after rescue workers struggled to get to rural areas because of power lines and trees that blocked roadways.

?We?re concerned that there?s a lot of hidden back roads that are hard to get to,? said Matt Snorton, Christian County?s emergency management director.

He said at least three dozen people were injured in what officials believe was a tornado. At least 30 people sought medical care at the emergency room in Hopkinsville, he said, and a couple were considered seriously injured.

Severe thunderstorms also struck Indianapolis as thousands of fans departed a free John Mellencamp concert that was part of the NCAA?s Final Four weekend. Concertgoers scrambled for cover as tornado sirens sounded and sheets of heavy rain lashed the sidewalks and streets, according to television reports.

Meteorologists were also trying to confirm reports of a tornado in downtown Indianapolis.

In Ohio, the storms ripped off the roof and chimney from a home in Warren County northeast of Cincinnati. Downed trees and power lines were widespread.

?In every county in southwest Ohio, there has been some type of damage,? said Myron Padgett, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wilmington.

[reason]

With my new windows, I did not hear a thing.

So if a storm ever comes through and kills me, I won't know what happened to me, as I'll be in a sound slumber.

[Beachcomber]

I read this morning that the national weather service estimates that 63 tornados ripped thru the midwest last night. Most extensive damages were caused in Tennessee, but I have never considered TN to be in the "midwest" it's in the south IMHO.

I was watching the 10:00 news and saw the huge band of thunderstorms in Indiana and knew you all would be getting them next. Luckily damages weren't even worse. 23 people killed in one night, that's highly unusual.

[cincygreg]

And it was over as soon as it started. Syrens went off around 11:00, storm passed through around 11:15 and the worst of it was over by about 11:45

Oh, hi GL!
What's shakin bacon?

[Raven Soul]

The storm yesterday sure did back a wallup! Some downed tree limbs, nothing major, but wow!

[LanDroid]

I had to chop a tree down as a result of that storm. I strutted around with a manly swagger for two days afterwards. [img]graemlins/smarty.gif[/img] (And to save someone else the trouble: instead of my normal gay swish.)

[reason]

Around 4pm Friday, Butler County was put under a tornado warning. A couple thousand people in my building were funneled down to the basement for a couple hours, where the hallways - I found - are not equipped to ventilate for so many people.

Even more fun was watching people on their cell phones, whipping themselves into a frenzy with information from the outside that all turned out to be true.

In a half an hour in the basement, I "learned" that:

Not one but TWO tornados were heading toward "Forest Fair".

There was a tornado on the ground in Colerain Twp.

One woman at least couldn't handle the stress and was reduced to tears.

The warning was lifted, so I left around 4:55, heading south down Winton Road in Greenhills. Got caught in the most helacious hail and rain storm. Scared the shit out of me.