Tornados in tenn!

[Blazey]

Says we are under a warning..we never get tornados here... [img]frown.gif[/img]

[demon chloe]

youre under a warning? tornado warning?


runs to check my weather thing?


get off your puter..then

[Blazey]

Its kinda weird out here..partly sun..partly clouds..warm..not hot....weird loking..but i'm going riding...!!!..if a tornado comes..me and beau will be like toto and that gal..dorowhatever..*L..cya later chloebelle..*smooch*

[Blazey]

I just had the most wonderful day.. [img]smile.gif[/img] ..windy..cool..the leaves were all over the place...beau..me...*happy sigh*

[Blazey]

THE NATIONAL Weather Service confirmed at least five tornadoes across middle and western Tennessee, with wind speeds of up to 140 mph.
In Sumner County, Tenn., Steven Graves and his wife survived after wind rolled their mobile home 50 feet.
?The trailer bounced over and I told my wife we ought to get in the closet, and before we could get out of bed it started rolling.
I just can remember it rolling for what seemed like forever,? he told WSMV-TV of Nashville.
?I could feel the trailer crumbling apart and I remember thinking I was going to die,? said Graves, who suffered minor injuries. His wife was hospitalized but was expected to survive, authorities said.
In Montgomery County, about 40 miles northwest of Nashville, Dennis and Karen Louise Tooby were killed when the wind blew their mobile home off its foundation and hurled it into an open field across the road, officials said. Their belongings were scattered across a half-mile.
Laqueeta Forsythe, 65, was killed when her mobile home was overturned in Carroll County, about 100 miles west of Nashville, Sheriff Bendell Bartholomew said.


A Tipton County man was seriously injured when a flower shop on the Covington town square collapsed. William Mashburn was in fair condition Sunday afternoon at a Memphis hospital.

UNIVERSITY DORMITORY DAMAGED
In western Tennessee, a dormitory at Union University in Jackson and several homes in Madison County were heavily damaged. In Bells, 150 miles southwest of Nashville, a nursing home and a house were damaged, said Richard Ward, a dispatcher with the Crockett County Sheriff?s Department.
Sunday afternoon, emergency workers braced for more storm damage as another system swept through the state. Parts of more than 60 counties in middle and western Tennessee were under tornado watches, and possible tornadoes were spotted on National Weather Service radar, but no damage was reported.
The storms cut a path similar to tornadoes that devastated Clarksville and Jackson in 1999, killing 10 people, injuring 110 and damaging or destroying more than 2,100 buildings.
The severe storms Sunday knocked out power to 2,700 homes in the Clarksville area and left at least nine other people injured, two near Memphis, three in Carroll County in the west-central part of the state, and four northeast of Nashville along the Kentucky border, said Lynne Richlen, operations officer with the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.



This is less than 4 hours from me...i have been to these places.. [img]frown.gif[/img] ..i havnt ever seen a tornado..and it scares me!

[Blazey]

Did i mention i live in a mobile home... [img]confused.gif[/img]

[demon chloe]

keep your radio and flashlight handy


kirb is very scared of tornados...we had one go right over us.............. we were soo scared

[Blazey]

Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service

......IN THE MOUNTAINS... AVERY BUNCOMBE CHEROKEE CLAY GRAHAM <font color=red>HAYWOOD</font> HENDERSON JACKSON MACON MADISON MITCHELL SWAIN TRANSYLVANIA YANCEY

A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS....

omg...*sobs*

[Blazey]

I made it thru the nite...some werent so lucky...horriffic actually..all this 4 hours from me..towns are gone..ppl missing...and i was scared of some house shaking thunder and wind..makes me feel very small..in the face of what these ppl must be feeling this morning.. [img]frown.gif[/img]

A WIDE BAND of storms stretched from Louisiana to Ohio, with Tennessee and Alabama the hardest hit. The death toll included 12 in Tennessee, 10 in Alabama and five in Ohio, while 45 people were missing in the rural town of Mossy Grove, officials said.
One storm death was also reported in the town of Clark, Pa., 65 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, though officials have not confirmed that a tornado touched down there.
A tornado cut a swath five to six miles long just before 9 p.m. Sunday, killing seven people in the town about 40 miles west of Knoxville, Tenn. Emergency crews relied on ham radio operators for communication since phone lines were knocked out by the storm.

?IT?S MASS DESTRUCTION, DEATH?
Authorities were kept away from assessing much of the damage because toppled trees and power lines were blocking roadways, and they feared the death toll would rise as daybreak revealed the extent of the devastation.


?It?s mass destruction, death,? said Ken Morgan, an officer in nearby Oliver Springs. ?Mossy Grove is destroyed.?
Carbon Hill, Ala., was in a similar situation as a nighttime swarm of tornadoes and powerful thunderstorms belted the area and sent giant hardwood trees crashing down on small houses and mobile homes.
?I reckon about a third of the town is gone,? said Terry Murray, part of a tree crew surveying the extent of the damage.
The tornadoes flattened dozens of homes throughout the region and left tens of thousands without power. Winds hit an estimated 140 mph in Tennessee and the storms carried torrential rain and golf-ball-sized hail.

CONDITIONS RIPE FOR TORNADOES
Unseasonably high temperatures Sunday in the 80s, followed by a cold front, made conditions ripe for tornadoes, which are not unusual this time of year, said Gene Rench, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Memphis.
The injured included at least 55 people in Tennessee, 50 in Alabama and in 21 Ohio, authorities said.
Several people died as they became trapped in cars and homes, while others frantically tried to escape the churning storms.
?I heard a roar. I saw a black wall,? said Jon Cross, who was packing his cruiser to go to work as a State Highway Patrol trooper in Ohio when he saw the storm. ?I could see everything spinning. It was coming right at me.?
The storms cut a 100-mile swath through northwest Ohio farmland, doing serious damage to the town of Van Wert. Gov. Bob Taft declared a state of emergency Sunday night in Van Wert and Ottawa counties, but the storms caused problems around the state.
?It pulled everything off, set it down, then threw it in a field. It was on the ground at least a mile.?
? BRIAN FARRIS
Resident of Van Wert ?It pulled everything off, set it down, then threw it in a field,? said Brian Farris of Van Wert, who watched a tornado touch down and level a house. ?It was on the ground at least a mile.?

ALABAMA HIT HARD
In Alabama, nine people died in Walker County as a line of thunderstorms packing high winds and spinning off tornadoes rolled through the northern part of the state, said Walker County Deputy Coroner Bob Green.
Another person died in Cherokee County near the Georgia line, said Beverly Daniel, assistant director for emergency management services.
Green was at the scene where the bodies of two women were found: ?They were laying down off the side (of a road),? he said. ?It was bad, Carbon Hill had a bad time.?
In Tennessee, the tornadoes came in two waves. Late Saturday and early Sunday, twisters skipped across western and middle Tennessee, killing three people. On Sunday night another line of storms crossed the state ? this time south and east of Nashville.
Two people, including a 10-year-old boy, were killed and 15 people were injured in Coffee County when two mobile home parks, three houses and a church were damaged near Manchester on Sunday night, Sheriff Steve Graves said.
About an hour later, a tornado ripped through Mossy Grove, damaging at least a dozen houses, said Steven Hamby, director of the Morgan County emergency management center. The dead include a 4-month-old child.
?Apparently, it just dug a path,? he said.
Hamby said since phone lines were down, some of the people reported missing might be OK, but have no way of letting others know that.
The Tennessee forecast for Monday called for party sunny skies and temperatures in the high 50s. ?The rain is over for a while,? Rench said.


Its still storming here...the lightning just took a tree on my back yard...scared me silly..and i shouldnt be on here....chloe..i'll cya later..love you.. [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img]