06/05/10 NOW: IA,MO,IL,MI,IN,OH,PA

[MatthewCarman]

The weather is starting to get active. A tornado watch is up for central and south east Iowa and the first warning has been issued for a storm north west of Des Moines. I thought it was time for a now thread.

Ps. There is also a storm with a nice hook in Maine right now.

 

[Fred Dearborn]

Cells are firing up in front of the main line in west Il. headed into the sig. area of best shear.

 

[Jason Berner]

anyone see the line of "supercells" or what should be supercells go up? I'm a little worried the 850 shear is strong enough to be blowing the tops over too much, hurting the updrafts so I was wondering if anyone saw them go up or can see them to see what the structure looks like. I guess I am just impressed at how weak and slow these things are intensifying or non-intensifying depending on how you wanna look at it.

 

[ericjkelly]

Sitting here at the Indiana-Illinois border... watching storm after storm getting blown over. Lots of updrafts but nothing holding together. Must be really, really strong shear.

 

[Jason.Webb]

Nice Hook and Couplet showing near Elmwood and Yates City IL - cell had been producing wall cloud reports, now reports of a large elephant trunk Tornado with power flashes and debris, illinois is heating up

 

[Bill Hark]

Beautiful tornado on chasertv's stream by L.B. LaForce in Il.

Bill Hark

 

[Jeff Piotrowski]

Tornado NW of Peoria

Based on current radar tornado on the ground 4 NW of Peoria heading SE toward the north side of Peoria now.

Tornado Emergency for the city of Peoria violent tornado is heading toward the city.


Update tornado will track very close to the 474 & 74 interchange or just north of that location.

Damage is currently being reported thos tornado.

 

[Jason Persoff]

Looks like V2 got in on the action ! SPC log reports multivortex tornado in IA captured by Vortex 2. This is very exciting.

 

[Chip Redmond]

Just went through elmwood and there was alot of destruction. Hope everyone is survived. Many roofs off. Downtown completely blocked by debris...


Chip

 

[E Hale]

AT 829 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
RADAR WERE TRACKING A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO 5 MILES
NORTH OF BELLEVUE...OR 5 MILES WEST OF PEORIA. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED
THIS TORNADO MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS TORNADO IS BEING OBSERVED
BY NUMEROUS SPOTTERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT. THIS TORNADO HAS CAUSED
DAMAGE IN ELMWOOD.



From NWS in Lincoln

 

[Will Tinder]

Reports of damage in Elmwood, and a large and extremely dangerous tornado west of Peoria moving towards the city... This isn't good.

EDIT - There's was a huge lowering on Shawn Brown's feed... couldn't tell if it was in contact with the ground because of trees.

EDIT 2 - NWS Lincoln still has spotters saying the tornado is on the ground and in East Peoria...

 

[Robert Rohloff]

AZEWELL IL-WOODFORD IL-PEORIA IL-
838 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 2010
...A TORNADO EMERGENCY CONTINUES FOR THE PEORIA METROPOLITAN AREA...
A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL PEORIA...WEST
CENTRAL WOODFORD AND NORTH CENTRAL TAZEWELL COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM
CDT...
AT 834 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF PEORIA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

 

[Mikey Gribble]

It is getting really difficult to make it out, but on streaming video the mesocyclone looks amazing and in the last images I saw of the base it looked like it could produce at any minute. Between that and the current rotation showing up on radar this could most certainly be a bad deal.

 

[Brian Rogers]

Just watched tornado cross over interstate 74 in front of us near kickapoo.

 

[Jason.Webb]

New TOR issued and new couplet forming, track looks to be south of the elmwood storm

Looks to be right on top of Ellisville, IL might be the next big one