2008-02-05 DISC: TX / AR / MO / IL / KY / TN / MS

RELIMINARY STORM SURVEY INFORMATION FROM JACKSON COUNTY ALABAMA...

A PRELIMINARY STORM SURVEY OF THE DAMAGE INCURRED ACROSS JACKSON COUNTY ALABAMA HAS BEEN COMPLETED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND JACKSON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL. INITIAL FINDINGS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

* LOCATION: THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE OCCURRED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD 60 AND 177 BETWEEN THE ROSALIE AND PISGAH COMMUNITIES IN EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY.

* PATH LENGTH: STILL BEING DETERMINED
* MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH: 3/8 MILE
* ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 180 MPH
* PRELIMINARY RATING: EF-4
* FATALITIES: 1
* INJURIES: UNKNOWN

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDING A MORE COMPLETE SUMMARY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE LATER TONIGHT.

.PRELIMINARY STORM SURVEY FROM LAWRENCE COUNTY ALABAMA

A PRELIMINARY STORM SURVEY OF THE DAMAGE INCURRED ACROSS LAWRENCE COUNTY ALABAMA HAS BEEN COMPLETED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND LAWRENCE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL. INITIAL FINDINGS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

* LOCATION: THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR THE PINHOOK COMMUNITY... NEAR THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE BANKHEAD NATIONAL FOREST...AND CONTINUED AT LEAST TO THE MORGAN COUNTY LINE NEAR THE TRINITY COMMUNITY.

* PATH LENGTH: 18.7 MILES
* MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH: 1/2 MILE
* ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 150 MPH
* PRELIMINARY RATING: EF-3
* FATALITIES: 3
* INJURIES: 20-25

* SUMMARY: SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WAS SEEN IN TWO AREAS. THE FIRST... JUST SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF PINHOOK NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD 92 AND 188. THE SECOND AREA WAS NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD 94 AND 183...JUST NORTH OF ALDRIDGE GROVE...WHERE THE THREE FATALITIES OCCURRED. NUMEROUS HOMES RECEIVED SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURAL DAMAGE...INCLUDING A 2300 SQUARE FOOT / TWO STORY BRICK HOUSE...THAT WAS NEARLY LEVELED OFF ITS FOUNDATION. LARGE TREES...WITH DIAMETERS UP TO 4 FEET...WERE COMPLETELY SNAPPED WITH MANY UPROOTED.
 
Matthew Havin said:
Adding to the "we had no warning" debate......... I know most of Lawrence Co. in Alabama has no tornado warning sirens (where 3 died with the tornado just after 3 AM).
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Whether or not Lawrence County, AL, has warning sirens doesn't really matter. Tornado sirens are an outdoor warning system. You are right about one thing - its weather radios that make the difference for nighttime tornadoes.
 
Here is a grab from the live cam feed in Memphis...not the best quality but still a interesting point of view...I saved the video and I will try to post it soon.

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Information from Little Rock Arkansas weather service

First of all my heart goes out to all that lost their lives and to the families and friends of their loved ones and to all who were injured as well.

My mouth just keeps dropping every picture I see and report I found some information the NWS in Little Rock Arkansas has already put on their webspace. Nice information on the setup and radar on the event and follow up. Weather service is thinking one storm (storm #1) possibly went 120 miles with one tornado!? :eek: Here is the link:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lzk/html/svr0208.htm
 
More information

Sorry for this guess I should've found this information before I reposted and enclosed it on my other post.

Found a link to WREG in Memphis Tennessee with all sorts of amateur video of the tornadoes and there is one with the Hilton webcam capturing the tornado in Memphis previously mentioned by Khristian. Can't wait for your link Khristian looks like your grab was closer to the tornado

http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=7827071
 
I was also tracking some of these tornadic storms on GRLevel3 from California, I was totally awestruck at how many rotating cells there were embedded in that convective line, but also saddened to hear the clilmbing fatality reports. I don't know what more people can do, other than always be prepared, when an outbreak happens at night, and storms are moving at 50+ mph.
 
Does anyone know if it is normal for NWS Memphis to have absolutely no post-storm information on their main webpage? It looks like all the other offices have information posted already, including their surveys... but for Memphis it looks like you have to dig through public information statement text....
 
Scott Lincoln said:
Does anyone know if it is normal for NWS Memphis to have absolutely no post-storm information on their main webpage? It looks like all the other offices have information posted already, including their surveys... but for Memphis it looks like you have to dig through public information statement text....
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I'm not sure how long ago they put this up, but there is a link to the survey results below the point forecast map on their main page. ;)
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/meg/
So far they've posted the four PNSs, some pretty amazing pictures of the damage from their survey, and the power point of their media briefing.
 
Well, look at that. They did put up some information. I do remember looking down at that area recently and not seeing it... so I hope I'm not going blind.
 
Brian Emfinger said:
If anyone missed it...the NWS in Little Rock has released preliminary information here:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/LZK/PNSLZK

From the survey of the EF3 in Van Buren County: THERE WERE TWO INSTANCES WHERE PEOPLE WERE LOOKING FOR THEIR VEHICLES. THE VEHICLES WERE THROWN FOR A DISTANCE AND COULD NOT BE FOUND.

I'm not sure I've seen that in a report before.
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Directly above that text that Brian just posted:

"...VAN BUREN COUNTY...

THE OTHER TEAM VIEWED DAMAGE FROM AROUND SHIRLEY BACK THROUGH CLINTON AND CULPEPPER. MUCH OF THE SWATH OF DAMAGE WAS ONE HALF MILE TO A MILE WIDE...WITH THE TORNADO RATED AS AT LEAST EF3 THERE SOME CASES WHERE HOMES WERE SWEPT OFF OF THEIR FOUNDATIONS... INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE BRAND NEW HOME. "

Unbelievable. I haven't looked for or seen any damage photos from this area(other than the Atkins area), but I am sure this is at least on the upper end of the EF scale rating just by description. I am NOT sure about the home construction and material used in that area. (Single family, basement, Du-plex, etc) When I hear a brand new home swept off a foundation it really raises some eyebrows.
 
There's a second video clip of the Clinton, AR (Van Buren County, mentioned above) tornado, again on the KATV-TV/Little Rock web site.

What's interesting about this particular video is it clearly shows a horizontal tube "sprouting" out of the Clinton tornado that ends up looking much like the one in the 1991 Red Rock, OK and 2006 Marmaduke, AR/Caruthersville, MO tornadoes.

Another thing about Clinton (as if this myth needed further dispelling)...it's located in a valley surrounded by some of the largest of Arkansas' Boston Mountains (the biggest mountains in the Ozarks plateau). Didn't stop the tornado from hitting the city, or the supercell from generating more tornadic "family members" in the also very hilly counties it tracked to the northeast of Clinton.
 
Bill Meck, chief met at WLEX-18 TV in Lexington, KY said that there had been 17 tornadoes confirmed by survey so far across the state of Kentucky. That is pretty amazing. Combined with the number of touchdowns that appear to have happened across AR, MO, TN and AL, it appears this will also go down in the books as a very sizable outbreak in terms of total tornadoes as well.
 
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