Tornado warning!

[Aratus]

in massachusetts worcester's violent twister of 1953
was a rare and horrific event! --joplin MO. just got hit
by a similar tornado. my heart goes out to everyone!

 

[acptulsa]

This is the strangest weather pattern I've ever seen. Normally, these storms build up in the Rocky Mountains and attack us here on The Great Plains. Increasingly, and especially in the last few days, these storms have been spontaneously erupting right over us and attacking anywhere from Missouri to the Carolinas. I was watching radar last evening and it looked like the jet stream was just spontaneously turning into powerful storms right on top of us. The western part of the state--the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles--is still basically in drought and the eastern portion of the state along the Arkansas border is flooding.

I don't know what it means. But I wish people would learn their tornado precautions. I still can't get over how some seven times as many people just died in Alabama as compared to the number lost in similarly powerful storms through Oklahoma City, Moore, Stroud, Chandler, Catoosa et al here in 1999.

 

[acptulsa]

Gml park your vehicle at sunset and get yourself inside

 

[acptulsa]

The sirens went off in Tulsa. Near downtown, everyone went out on their western porch to see that it was all over. But, they sound all over, and this doesn't bode especially well for the east end of town, which has just gotten the trailing-edge hail.

If we're going to feel it, now's the time. Downtown is all but immune. The east siders are the ones...

Very majestic. And boy does the old town smell fresh.

 

[acptulsa]

No injuries in Haskell. Tornado on the ground headed toward Lake Gibson.

 

[raiha]

Hi Acptulsa, I've been watching this on tv. They look massive. The one that cut an 18wheeler in half...goodness me.
Stay safe out there everyone.

 

[acptulsa]

Hey, greetings from Up Over. Not literally, fortunately.

Yeah, we're among the few nations with trucks as big as Australia's, and these things think they're toys. Down to a few cells with potential down in the southeast corner of the state. Of course, they're more dangerous at night. But our population concentration down there is Outback-like.

I think the Ozarks will break it up now, but not until Siloam Springs AR gets a pretty strong storm very soon--60-70 mph winds (90-110 kph). Official casualty count is still seven dead and sixty injured. I'm sure that will rise, but not terribly much.

 

[acptulsa]

in massachusetts worcester's violent twister of 1953
was a rare and horrific event! --joplin MO. just got hit
by a similar tornado. my heart goes out to everyone!

A news station here just did the math and determined that this is the first year to match 1953 since. 1950 is considered the 'beginning of modern tornado reporting', though I'm not sure what that means. But it's interesting you should mention the year.

Hate making history. It sucks. But sometimes you gotta do it.

 

[acptulsa]

The Ozarks aren't breaking it up completely. There was just a brief touchdown in Tonitown, AR--the apple capital of the non-Pacific Coast and the source of some of the best apple butter you ever tasted.

 

[acptulsa]

I love the sound of tornado sirens in the evening. Sounds like spring.

http://www.newson6.com/story/31605266/video-tornado-touches-down-in-owasso

 

[Zippyjuan]

 

[acptulsa]

Spring bump.

 

[acptulsa]

Here we go again!

 

[Anti Globalist]

Be safe from the tornadoes my Oklahoma friends.

 

[acptulsa]

Be safe from the tornadoes my Oklahoma friends.

Yes, thank you.

And all of you far beyond. This front doesn't look like it'll settle down any tomorrow.

And yes, it is wet.