Tornadoes today: 'Rare, dire wording from forecasters'

[Newsjock]

http://www.weather.com
The Storm Prediction Center issues a "greatest threat" level for tornadoes.

http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/torcon-daily-forecast_2011-03-24
All ingredients are coming together for a dangerous tornado situation in northeast TX, south AR as a surface low forms in TX, wind shear is favorable, instability is very large, and an upper level jet stream is blasting into the area.

http://www.davidmixner.com/2011/04/massive-tornado-outbreak-today-highest-warning-levels-possible.html
After yesterday's deadly and destructive tornado outbreak, forecasters have issued the highest warnings possible for today. For the first time in years, the Weather Channel has included a 'white level' on their chart. Severe storm expert Dr. Greg Forbes has issued his first ever "9" Tor-con rating. The high level warning includes East Texas, Arkansas, Western Tennessee and Northeast Mississippi. That means there is a 90% chance that a tornado will pass within 50 miles of you in the impacted areas!

http://davidmixner.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c90b153ef015431f65f11970c-320wi

[Arugula Latte]

1. I'm sure Pat Robertson will say that Gawd is punishing that part of the country

Yeah, I'll just be holding my breath waiting for that pronouncement... :eyes:

[Poll_Blind]

2. God needs to send some of them tornados after Pat...

I love the image of Pat running from a tornado as blood diamonds fall out of his pocket, possibly causing him to slip in the sheer pool of greed and getting sucked up Heaven's Chimney.

Terra Delu, Pat!

PB

[RandySF]

3. No, they're being "tested"

If Japan or San Francisco gets hit with an earthquake, we're being punished. When floods or tornadoes strike the "Heartland", they're being "tested".

[AsahinaKimi]

13. ahah!! so thats the diffrence

Thanks Randy! :D :thumbsup:

[ladywnch]

29. yeah, those states have fallen off in their contributions to him....

[Scuba]

31. God's punishing them for Willie Gohmert.

[damntexdem]

4. Well, there's so much spin produced by conservapols around here ...

no wonder it stirs up tornadoes.

[Mnemosyne]

5. Stay safe, DUers! K&R n/t

[seabeyond]

6. our skies are getting odd, so came on to look at weather. not NE tx though. nt

[w8liftinglady]

8. Just send a posiive vibe to Henderson County... where my partner lives.

At least that the tornado misses one particular liberal Democrat's home...namely my partner.
I think it will run south of Ellis County,but NOAA lists Henderson County as a high-risk zone.

[seabeyond]

9. sigh... tis the season. always feel more comfortable once june hits. best to yawl. nt

[seabeyond]

12. just in the last ten minutes the line is really building just east of us

i really want the rain, but not the tornadoes....

[a la izquierda]

25. I think you and I are in the clear...

in the TX panhandle and central OK. Still, my husband and I mountain biking with a radio on this afternoon.

[seabeyond]

26. last couple springs has been starting after us and nailing you.

ok got it bad last year. but ya, our skies are clearing.

we have a national weather alarm, lol, how about you. gotta check to see if we have turned it on this year.

[a la izquierda]

48. My husband has one at work...

-he manages a kennel, and it's for the safety of the dogs and the workers. He calls me when the weather gets crazy, so I can round up our dogs and get 'em in a closet. THis is not an easy task :)

[Arkansas Granny]

7. I'm in West Central Arkansas. Depending on where you draw the line,

I could be in a #6 or #9 area. I guess I'll check the batteries on the radio and flashlight, put some pillows in the closet and hang on tight. Right now it seems to be a toss up as to whether we'll get blown away or wash away with all the rain we've been having.

[Hestia]

21. We are too Ark Granny - SE Ark here - DH is a utility worker so he has to go out in it

when something goes down. This is one of the worst springs I can remember. Generally, I don't get nervous with thunderstorms but this year I am. Both sisters and mom have been through the worst of it.

[Arkansas Granny]

34. This seems to be a bad year for bad storms. Stay safe.

[Yooperman]

10. How long will it be before a F5 mile wide 250 mph tornado hits

a nuclear power plant. Of course the nuclear pundits will say... "Who could have predicted this!"

Any person that believes that our nuclear plants would withstand such a hit are woefully ignorant.

Yooperman

[zappaman]

11. ummm

Which reactor are you concerned about being hit by a tornado?

[Myrina]

18. Shit, there's about half dozen in IL and TN total ...

.... and this part of the country gets its ass kicked every spring.

[Hestia]

23. Nuclear 1 near Russellville area was hit this past weekend. Houses with roofs off, trees

down, etc. It's not unlikely in London area of Ark., which had warnings last night, same storm hit Vilonia.

[Yooperman]

44. I heard about that scare....

I wish you all well with all the severe weather you guys have been getting. Here in the U.P. it snowed today. :-( But I am sure there would be many across our great country that would happily trade places.

Peace

YM

[Yooperman]

45. It's only a matter of time.....

We need to start decommissioning all nuclear plants.

That is my point of view and I hope others start understanding what we are dealing with. In my lifetime, there have been 4 nuclear disasters. We don't need anymore.

Peace,

YM

I posted this link in one of my other responses...but I think you might be interested.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0aa_1303545614

[Ship of Fools]

22. right here in tornado alley, Kansas, too

[Yooperman]

41. Any of them..... the closest to the U.P. of Michigan is I think Minnesota...

But I think any of the plants in our country are a concern.

For me.... it's just not worth the risk as we are now seeing first hand again... what a nuclear miscalculation can do.

I didn't even mention a Electromagnetic Pulse... which is a real but rare event from our sun that could shut down all electricity nation wide.

and of course the real possibility of a man made EMP bomb from an attack from an enemy of the U.S.

However,

I do feel that the tornado possibility is the most likely.

Peace.

YM

[Chris_Texas]

24. Wow.

It's always interesting when passion for a cause crosses the line into obsession.

[DCKit]

30. Totally uncalled for.

Exactly as the post you snarked at said, "who could have ever seen THIS coming?"

If the best they've got are steel buildings over the cooling/storage pools (at at Fukushima), there will be nuclear material strewn about a huge area - uranium and plutonium, not just "harmless" strontium, cesium and iodine.

But thanks for playing.

[Yooperman]

43. Thanks for understanding....

:toast:

[Yooperman]

42. I am not sure of your intended meaning...

However.... I am sure as more nuclear disasters continue to plague humankind, you will wake up.

Don't say you weren't warned. The following video is only 10 minutes long...but carries with it a powerful message for mankind. I hope you can be aware enough to understand what she is saying.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0aa_1303545614

Helen Caldicott
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Caldicott attended the Fintona Girls' School, and received her medica More..l degree in 1961 from the University of Adelaide Medical School. In 1977 she joined the staff of the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, and taught pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 1978.

In 1980, following the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, she left her medical career in order to concentrate on calling the world's attention to what she refers to as the "insanity" of the nuclear arms race and the growing reliance on nuclear power


Peace,

YM

[crickets]

27. I've had the same concern.

Welcome to DU, Yooperman! :hi:

[Yooperman]

40. Thank you... long time lurker... finally decided to post a real concern...

:toast:

[upi402]

50. 100% right. And welcome!

:fistbump:

[laundry_queen]

14. Important to remember that

there is also a moderate risk zone that extends to an even larger area. From what they just said on CNN, most of the eastern US will have some kind of severe weather today.

[hedgehog]

15. We're getting some nasty thunderstorms all the way up here near

Lake Ontario, I think from the same front. That's some power!

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

16. If You Live in Tornado/Severe Storm Country...

it's a good idea to have this site bookmarked.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html

The Severe Storm Prediction Center. I guess at least until their funding is eliminated.

[AsahinaKimi]

17. I know they are devastating but there also is

a certain kind of beauty to them.. I would love to see one, from a distance of course..

[RaleighNCDUer]

28. I saw the pics before reading the post and my first thought was

"damn, that's beautiful".

[apocalypsehow]

33. Well, I've lived through one - blew the roof off my house when I was a teenager. It was decidedly

less "beautiful" from that perspective....:hi:

[Modern_Matthew]

19. He has my area of KY rated a 7 on the Torcon for tomorrow. nt

[Warpy]

20. There will be another one on Thursday or Friday

because we're having near hurricane force winds here in NM and they're downstream.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

32. Just great. Nothing like raging winds to spread the wildfires here. nt

[Warpy]

37. And here. We haven't had much precip since late February.

All it's going to take is a cigarette butt out a car window and the whole state will go up.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

46. Just wait. Pretty soon it will only take bottle discarded on the side of the road

Or at least it will here. We're just now starting to reach really dangerous temperatures here. It's going to be a very long summer if this drought doesn't break.

[Roland99]

35. Watch out Fort Worth >>>>>>

http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KFWD/1104262100.wfus54.html


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL ELLIS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
SOUTHERN KAUFMAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
NORTHWESTERN HENDERSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 400 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF PALMER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45
MPH. SPOTTERS ARE REPORTING A ROTATING WALL CLOUD WITH THIS STORM.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
ROSSER AROUND 420 PM CDT...
GRAYS PRAIRIE AND COTTONWOOD AROUND 425 PM CDT...
OAK GROVE AND SEVEN POINTS AROUND 430 PM CDT...
KEMP AND GUN BARREL CITY AROUND 435 PM CDT...
MABANK AROUND 440 PM CDT...

THIS WILL IMPACT I-45 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 254 AND 259.

[Roland99]

36. I love this site for keeping up with the latest warnings >>>>

http://kamala.cod.edu/svr/

[AC_Mem]

38. Memphis here

Looks like we are going to have another interesting night.... wish us luck!

Annette

[Lars39]

39. Stay safe in that bulleye!

:hug: We're thinking about spending the night in the basement. :scared:

[AC_Mem]

47. I've lived in Memphis over 20 years

and I have never been in a house here that has a basement!

Be safe,
Annette

[upi402]

49. Round up the Climate Change Deniers

and stuff their asses into "Adult Scientific Study Zones" in the tornadoe bulls-eye.