3/8/09 NOW: MO/IL/IN

[STurner]

I am surprised no thread has been started for there have been several tornado warnings in MO/IL with some damage reported in IL. There has also been a tornado warning issued for the Springfield, Illinois area. If a thread has been started somewhere else then go ahead and disregard this one.

 

[L Kimbrel]

You had to be fast to catch this one! The front just ripped through here 25 minutes ago, moving 60+mph. Five minutes and it was on down the road. Winds sustained 40-45mph with gusts 51 and 53mph, threw some patio furniture out into the field and scared the dog, but that was it. I slept late, so didn't really know what was coming, I could just see it getting dark northwest, and the rain moving in. Now to the east, tho, looking at the back of the front, nearly unbroken line of thunderheads, the ones in line for Vincennes, Ind, and Terre Haute looking especially crisp and vigorous. That front was moving way too fast to try to catch or keep up with.

 

[Andrew Kajfasz]

You can add Ohio to this one. My county is seeming like ground zero for tornado reports right now. Trained spotters have reported multiple *different* funnel clouds.

There have been reports of touchdowns as well in central Defiance County, near Sherwood. Two trained spotters have reported a tornado that kept touching down then going back, and repeating.

And the Defiance County Emergency Manager reported a funnel cloud that touched down briefly near her house a couple miles SW of Defiance.

And a new report by the EM of a tornado touchdown on the north side of Defiance by US-24/St Rt 66 right by the Meijer Store.