06/11/08: NOW: NE/IA/KS/MO

[beaudodson]

NWS reports debris ball on radar
Reports of extensive damage from Salina, Kansas into the Junction City, Kansas area. Large tornado reported.

 

[Jeff Piotrowski]

Tornado reported hit the town of Chapman Kansas

Extensive damage just been reported in the town of Chapman KS tornado heading toward NW of Junction City.

 

[Mike Smith]

Hook has gotten better defined near Ogden 0342Z. Headed for Manhattan (KSU) and St. George.

EDIT1: Tornado reported very near Ogden. Moving down 114 toward Manhattan.

 

[Eric Flescher]

dangerous cell approaching in Kansas now in 10:50 pm CDT

Ft. Riley and Manhattan, KS
Not sure if this system will reach Kansas City though

 

[Jeff Piotrowski]

Tornado

Tornado heading into Manhantan tornado on the ground.

EDIT: Tornado is hitting Manhantan NOW tornado live on tower cam www.KTKA.com the camera was just by the tornado.

 

[Mike Smith]

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1104 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008

.TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON

.DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.

..REMARKS..

1103 PM TORNADO MANHATTAN 39.18N 96.57W
06/11/2008 RILEY KS BROADCAST MEDIA

TORNADO OCCURRING IN MANHATTAN VIA CHANNEL 49 LIVE
BROADCAST OF TORNADO


What appears to be a debris ball is on the 0405Z TOP -88D tilt 1 on the east side of Manhattan near Tuttle Creek Blvd.

 

[Marc Austin]

I was noticing two pixels, one light blue, one dark red right next to one another in the center of the broader circulations. Is it possible that this may have been the tornado itself? If so, it came very near KSU from what I'm looking at on google maps. This doesn't sound good at all.

Seeing a dark orange next to a dark blue. It looks like the meso is tightening up again.

 

[Chad Cowan]

Just talked to some friends in Manhattan (.5 mi SW of campus)- sounds like their house took a direct hit. Local media said it was up to 1/4 mile wide. Large tree in the front yard uprooted and the house is caked in mud.

 

[Mike Umscheid]

This long lived tornado appeared to be in its final stages, per 88D velocity data, as it was going through Manhattan. The core damage track *might* be somewhat narrow, but that's not to say that major, major damage has just occurred through the center of town, including the campus of KSU. I experienced similar anxiety watching this thing on superres GRLevel2 at shortly after 11pm...as I did at 9:50pm 5/4/07.

 

[Mike Smith]

Looks to me like the tornado is approaching K-99 near Louisville.

Mike U.: Can you clarify your post?

 

[Marc Austin]

Just talked to some friends in Manhattan (.5 mi SW of campus)- sounds like their house took a direct hit. Local media said it was up to 1/4 mile wide. Large tree in the front yard uprooted and the house is caked in mud.

It looked like it might hit the campus. Hopefully it didn't, but if it did let's hope it wasn't terribly strong. Sounds like a bad situation. 1/4 mile tornado through a good sized town...

 

[Marc Austin]

This long lived tornado appeared to be in its final stages, per 88D velocity data, as it was going through Manhattan. The core damage track *might* be somewhat narrow, but that's not to say that major, major damage has just occurred through the center of town, including the campus of KSU. I experienced similar anxiety watching this thing on superres GRLevel2 at shortly after 11pm...as I did at 9:50pm 5/4/07.

I hope it's nothing like 5/4/07! Thanks for the update though.

 

[Brett Adair]

A friend of mine is telling me that buildings are destroyed and people are trapped just west of campus. The campus may have been grazed, but not directly hit. Still sounds like a very, very bad situation.

Update: Movie theater destroyed......Toyota dealership hit.....people trapped with a gas leak and fire nearby.

 

[Mike Umscheid]

Mike U.: Can you clarify your post?

I can be confusing 88D seemed to indicate that there may be a somewhat narrow, but very destructive path through the heart of manhattan from southwest to northeast... this is purely from 88D superres velocity interpretation. The velocity signature didn't appear to be the magnitude of something like a Greensburg signature, thankfully... in other words, I don't think we'll see a 1.7 mile wide path of devastation... but 0.25 to 0.5 miles is too much anyway... The 88D velocity couplet couldn't have taken a worse track, right through town (this is per Tiger roads stree level map + superres TWX velocity data).

 

[Mike Smith]

I can be confusing 88D seemed to indicate that there may be a somewhat narrow, but very destructive path through the heart of manhattan from southwest to northeast... this is purely from 88D superres velocity interpretation. The velocity signature didn't appear to be the magnitude of something like a Greensburg signature, thankfully... in other words, I don't think we'll see a 1.7 mile wide path of devastation... but 0.5 miles is 0.5 miles too much anyway... The 88D velocity couplet couldn't have taken a worse track, right through town (this is per Tiger roads stree level map + superres TWX velocity data).

Thanks, Mike.

And the debris ball over Tuttle Creek Blvd is a very bad sign.