2008-04-03 NOW OK/TX/ARK

[Jordan Hartley]

Storm SW of Little Rock is bowing out. You loop it on radar and you can clearly see this storm in the beginning stages of becoming outflow dominate. Rotation is dropping off as well. Kinda explains the linear look it has taken on in the last 20 min.

 

[Gerard Jebaily]

Anybody else see this???

0310NORTH LITTLE ROCK AIRPO PULASKI AR34839227TORNADO PASSED OVER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN NORTH LITTLE ROCK AT THE NORTH LITTLE ROCK AIRPORT. DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS SURROUNDING THE AIRPORT ON AIRPORT PROPER (LZK)

 

[Chris Sokol]

Several damage reports coming out of Arkansas. A car dealership and a Target store were damaged in Bryant, which is in Saline County. A Hancock Fabric store in Little Rock was reported damaged, as well as several homes. There was an unconfirmed report of several mobile homes that were on fire in rural parts of the area as well...not really sure why, unless they were hit and had propane tanks that ruptured.

 

[Jordan Hartley]

That storm has been moving at 70 mph. Reports coming in that the airport at Little Rock has been devestated. About 30 planes have been damaged. OMG 15 planes have been flipped. I hope no one is hurt.

Edit* ok this is the N Little Rock Airport. Fires being reported at the airport.

Did the storm in south Little Rock tighten up again and form a new hook? Im seeing new rotation.

 

[James Aydelott]

wow. incredible images. i hope the damage isn't too severe.

The Conway storm looks like a decent example of QLCS now. certainly not the magnitude of the supercell that passed through pulaski county.

 

[Karen Politte]

Jason and I just cancelled our "shelter mode". We shut ourselves in our windowless 4'x5' spare bathroom with flashlights, water, a laptop running off of battery, two cellphones, a landline phone, GRLevelX and ST. LOL. Don't forget ST. There was something pretty comforting to be said for seeing posts come in to ST for me while shelting from a TOR, LOL.

Right as that velocity image was captured, we were experiencing east winds with our external weather station. No more than about 8mph. Five minutes later, we had a WNW wind at 11mph. It was very interesting to see the circulation's wind switch in real-time on our own weather station. That's something I never thought I'd see.

Thanks to Brandon for that great velocity capture. To give you some idea of our proximity - our house is the yellow "+":

Crazy night. First it starts by calling all of our relatives in L.R. to warn them about the storm down there, and ends with the two of us taking shelter with our own TOR.

It will be interesting to see what the morning brings.

KP

 

[Chris Sokol]

Here is the LSR on that damage:

0925 PM TORNADO BRYANT 34.61N 92.49W
04/03/2008 SALINE AR LAW ENFORCEMENT

REPORTS OF DAMAGE AT HURRICANE LAKE ESTATES...ALONG WITH
FIRES STARTED. REPORTED TIME IS APPROXIMATE.

Interesting...

 

[Jordan Hartley]

Anyone else watching KATV live feed loose the feed?

 

[Karen Politte]

Several damage reports coming out of Arkansas. A car dealership and a Target store were damaged in Bryant, which is in Saline County. A Hancock Fabric store in Little Rock was reported damaged, as well as several homes. There was an unconfirmed report of several mobile homes that were on fire in rural parts of the area as well...not really sure why, unless they were hit and had propane tanks that ruptured.

True. There is a very large trailer park fire somewhere down there - whether it was due to lightning, fuel explosions or a tornado I don't know.

The Hancock Fabric store is directly across the street from a very close relative.

KARK4 here at home has been streaming damage reports, video and pictures all night long. There is some video from a police officer's vehicle from the Benton car dealership I believe where he was actually IN the Benton tornado - spectacular (grainy) video of sparks and then chunks of debris flying across the screen.

I think I'm going to take the advice of my sig., now.

KP

 

[Heidi Farrar]

Here is a live-feed from FOX16 (Arkansas, Little Rock area) http://www.fox16.com/mediacenter/lo....fox16.com&navCatId=6

KAIT-8, Jonesboro, http://www.kait8.com/default.asp which also has wall-to-wall coverage right now. Some of the same areas that suffered so badly from the flooding a few weeks ago (the Spring, White and Black Rivers, etc.) are expecting major issues again, and evacuations are in order for Hardy, AR, which is on the Spring River. It's expected to reach 16 feet tomorrow morning, which was the previous "record" before the flood a few weeks ago.

 

[James Aydelott]

no Little Rock tv web is streaming very reliably for me... darn it.

still a nice circulation moving generally toward Malvern.

still looks like we're almost QLCS instead of supercells now.

 

[Bob Schafer]

At the risk of being inappropriately flippant in what may be a serious situation:

REPORTS OF DAMAGE AT HURRICANE LAKE ESTATES...ALONG WITH FIRES STARTED. REPORTED TIME IS APPROXIMATE. (LZK)

Perhaps that should be re-named "Tornado Lake Estates".