Severe weather April 13 & 14 2012 in Tornado Alley

[momtective]

NMK, you're due for a good solid rain/thunder event, but I'm not seeing the hooks or rotation I saw last night down Kansas way. I think it will be a nasty storm, but I don't think it's got the ability to toss a tornado.

But check your own weather service; they will have the latest and best forecasts for you; I'm no meteorologist at all, so don't take my word, all right?

Hang tight.

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Herding Cats

HC, did you hear on Drew & Cody last night when Cody first say the two tornado's... he called them "Happy Hookers." I about choked on my cola...too funny!:rolling:

 

[~n/t~]

I'm here N/T. Thanks for all of the thoughts and prayers. This was the longest night EVER. The storm alert last went off around 4:30 this morning. I was up the whole night. About 2:30 we had a huge storm hit with 70 mph winds and hail. I'd say we lost a little less than half of our wheat crop. Last year it burned up. This year was going to be the best crop ever--60 bushels an acre probably--and now half gone. Sigh. I'm thankful that's all we lost, though.

I'm exhausted.

So sorry about the crops but so glad you're ok. Try to get some rest. xoxo :hug:

 

[marlame]

Im not sure if a link to this video has been posted... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYT1DZ7udkg&feature=youtu.be

Storm chasers documented this VIOLENT "drillbit" tornado from close range near Cherokee, Oklahoma last night around 8pm. It is incredible! You can even hear the roar as the tornado moved within 100 yards of them.

Everyone stay safe...lease:

~ MarlaMe

 

[raeann]

Three truckloads of branches from the yard have been chainsawed, carried and loaded... and the fence temporarily fixed with metal fence post supports...almost back to normal. The golf course is still a disaster, though....

 

[HMSHood]

If you want to know if severe weather will be in your area.

National Weather Service
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/

National Doppler Radar
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/

Storm Prediction Center
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/

 

[momtective]

Link to video of tornado southwest of Cherokee, Oklahoma around 7:30 PM Saturday Evening. As far as we know, this tornado remained over farm land and did not result in any major damage. However, this is the storm that went on to impact Wichita, KS about two hours later.
http://texasstormchasers.com/

 

[Woe.be.gone]

I hate this. Glad to read that everyone here escaped serious damage last night. Someone posted that her husband doesn't get phased when bad weather rolls in. Her comment made me chuckle but in reality that attitude really pizzes me off about my husband. I'll be in a tizzy on the edge of my seat trying to figure out what to do when and he'll go out on the porch to try to see if there's a tornado coming toward us. Now my son takes on that same cavalier attitude. During the last threat, the dog followed me downstairs but they didn't. All I can do is pray but their actions add to my anxiety - like they're thumbing their noses at God. Stupid if you ask me and they don't care how it makes me feel - boohoo. Name a place that doesn't have tornadoes - I think I'll run away there.

 

[wfgodot]

Just read in the Oklahoman that the Woodward tornado has preliminarily been rated an EF-3.

One of those hit my hometown about 12 years ago; no fatalities, few injuries, some property damage and trees uprooted; it took a path across the railroad overpass, splitting between the senior citizen high rises at either end of the tracks but hitting neither; the most damage it did was destroy a carnival set up in an empty lot downtown, which wasn't in operation at the time. (That was a site to see, Ferris wheel on the ground, rides twisted and thrown.) Parsons was very lucky. So sorry for Woodward.

Nature is a roll of the dice.

 

[Jacie Estes]

I just got an email, in response to mine, from a local reporter in Woodward. He said that info is slow getting out and that the town is hurting. Woodward is such a beautiful town but its people are strong; they will work together and recover.

 

[Jacie Estes]

Aftermath of Woodward tornado-Picture Gallery

http://newsok.com/gallery/6026861/pictures/1696066

 

[Herding Cats]

HC, did you hear on Drew & Cody last night when Cody first say the two tornado's... he called them "Happy Hookers." I about choked on my cola...too funny!:rolling:

Yes, I did. And laughed. Poor guys - they worked so hard yesterday, and did a seriously good job...the SWAT guys had a rougher day, but they made it through too. Just glad all ended up safe.

Just so amazed at what the storm chasers do...just so amazed.

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Herding Cats

 

[Herding Cats]

Been trading emails w/ my friends in Fillmore. They are set and ready just in case, but they have close family up in Effingham (and I stayed there one Easter) on a farm. Huge, fully developed basement, so they'll be all right in case something comes from the line that's crossing through St. Louis now.

Sometimes, I wonder how I'd do in a tornado. I visited this family when they lived in Nashville, and was dancing in the dark yard, warm rain splashing on my face, just enjoying watching the wind circle through the trees.

Until my name was blasted from the house...and I looked over and saw everyone walking down (pets included) to the basement. Apparently, there was a tornado on the ground less than a mile, and there I was, dancing in the rain. LOL. Who knew??

Never did hit us, but we went and crewed the next morning on clear up. Had a ball. I love the hardiness of the south - the independence, the knowledge that neighbors will be there to help...and not just the south, but the midwest, too. It's so amazing to me...when I watch my community go looting after earthquakes instead of checking on neighbors.

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Herding Cats

 

[gitana1]

Been trading emails w/ my friends in Fillmore. They are set and ready just in case, but they have close family up in Effingham (and I stayed there one Easter) on a farm. Huge, fully developed basement, so they'll be all right in case something comes from the line that's crossing through St. Louis now.

Sometimes, I wonder how I'd do in a tornado. I visited this family when they lived in Nashville, and was dancing in the dark yard, warm rain splashing on my face, just enjoying watching the wind circle through the trees.

Until my name was blasted from the house...and I looked over and saw everyone walking down (pets included) to the basement. Apparently, there was a tornado on the ground less than a mile, and there I was, dancing in the rain. LOL. Who knew??

Never did hit us, but we went and crewed the next morning on clear up. Had a ball. I love the hardiness of the south - the independence, the knowledge that neighbors will be there to help...and not just the south, but the midwest, too. It's so amazing to me...when I watch my community go looting after earthquakes instead of checking on neighbors.

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Herding Cats

To be fair, I'm from Southern Calif. too and I don't recall one instance of looting after an earthquake here. Did I miss something? But I will admit that the sense of community is more pronounced in other parts of the country. California is a migratory place. Almost everyone here is from somewhere else or going somewhere else. Many people do not know their neighbors. It's a shame.

ETA: There was looting after the 1908 earthquake in San Fran. (I looked it up!) But I remember people helping one another during the Whittier Narrows quake, Northridge, Loma Prieta, etc.

 

[wfgodot]

In Joplin, after the mega-tornado, there were, I'd say, minor instances of looting. I've read about arrests in several cases.

 

[eileenhawkeye]

Southern Iowa has a 50-60% chance of a tornado tonight. My city is in the red area on the maps. I'm from NJ so I'm not too familiar with them, but today, it was very sticky outside. But yeah, it hasn't started raining yet.

 

[Herding Cats]

To be fair, I'm from Southern Calif. too and I don't recall one instance of looting after an earthquake here. Did I miss something? But I will admit that the sense of community is more pronounced in other parts of the country. California is a migratory place. Almost everyone here is from somewhere else or going somewhere else. Many people do not know their neighbors. It's a shame.

ETA: There was looting after the 1908 earthquake in San Fran. (I looked it up!) But I remember people helping one another during the Whittier Narrows quake, Northridge, Loma Prieta, etc.

I'm from here, too. And I clearly remember looting going on in the Northridge one most particularly, but others as well. Maybe it was the neighborhood I lived in. I also remember paying $20 for two D batteries for a neighbor's child's humidifyer. Things like that don't leave you, you know? I remember being so scared from the quake, and so scared at what insanity was going on from those around me...

And yes, I do remember people helping each other, too. The duality and the contrast was there indeed. Again, maybe it was my neighborhood (long since left) at the time, but man, it was upsetting.

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Herding Cats

 

[momtective]

Pretty strong storms over us here in East Texas...no watches or warnings that I'm aware of though but the 50 ft. oak tree outside my bedroom window makes me very uncomfortable with weather like this.

ETA Spoke too soon...we are now under a significant weather advisory...A significant weather advisory is one step below a severe t-storm warning. :woot:

 

[gitana1]

I'm from here, too. And I clearly remember looting going on in the Northridge one most particularly, but others as well. Maybe it was the neighborhood I lived in. I also remember paying $20 for two D batteries for a neighbor's child's humidifyer. Things like that don't leave you, you know? I remember being so scared from the quake, and so scared at what insanity was going on from those around me...

And yes, I do remember people helping each other, too. The duality and the contrast was there indeed. Again, maybe it was my neighborhood (long since left) at the time, but man, it was upsetting.

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Herding Cats

That's kind of strange. Are you sure they weren't just rumors?

Why Was There Virtually No Looting After the Earthquake?

February 06, 1994|David D.. Dotson | David D. Dotson is former assistant chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.
In the weeks since Los Angeles re-earned its country-music name, "Shakytown," one statistic has pleasantly surprised many, including the police. Looting has been virtually absent in the wake of the Northridge earthquake. Official Los Angeles Police Department stats for such arrests remain fewer than 10.

http://articles.latimes.com/1994-02-06/opinion/op-19644_1_northridge-earthquake

 

[momtective]

Tree is still standing and all is well here...just extremely soaked.

 

[raeann]

Well, interesting night....the power pole that was broken along the main road to our neighborhood finally decided to crash down at around 5:30 last evening!!!! End of electricity that had only gone out for 30 minutes DURING the tornado! This morning, still no power and they are saying 12 to 24 hours more. (Going to get those fridges cleaned out after all this week!!!)

Gave up on hoping to have internet or television around midnight and went to sleep....2:30 am someone with a flashlight is pounding on my front door over and over and over very loudly..... husband FINALLY awakes to go to door>>>FIRE DEPARTMENT responding because the battery backup on the security/fire alarm finally expired and triggered the alarm! >>>>fire department is just a block away, so they say no worries we know the power is out and leave>>>> 3:00 am back trying to sleep and the alarm company starts calling, apparently they don't believe fire department that all is well. They want our code number etc. then instruct how on to go down to the control box( in a pitch black dark room of course) and disconnect the TWO backup batteries. Got that done, but then too wide awake to sleep and cell phone is now at 30% and I am afraid we will miss getting up at 6 am. SOOO, I go release the automatic garage door, lift it up and go drive around for an hour to charge my phone back up! I got gas.....did a few loops around on my OWN kind of neighborhood watch, as the street lights are all out and the neighborhood has been on the Sunday afternoon tour for on-lookers at all the tree damage. (NO, I was NOT armed, although I did follow a car for a bit after it pulled into a neighbors driveway, saw me, backed out real quick and took off.) I stopped following when it entered another well lit up neighborhood. I figured I was either scaring someone innocent to death following them, or scared a burglar enough to make them not come back!

Anyway, am now at my friendly neighborhood Dillon's/Kroger using their internet and drinking my Starbucks. Can't even go get groceries cause I have only a luke warm fridge to put them in! Guess I'm stuck getting cat litter and gardening supplies......those jobs I can do without electricity!

HOPE all your nights were good, and your day is looking better than mine!