4/07/06 NOW: Midwest and South

[Bob Schafer]

Dave Gallaher is in Athens AL, and the right-turner on the AL/MS state line is headed right that direction on it's present track.

 

[Justin Bailey]

northern cofee county, tn cell looks like it has good rotation developing. tornado warning should be coming shortly

EDIT: tornado warning now out for warren co. just east of cofee co.

 

[Brandon Clement]

Just left the Sup that produced the tornado SW of Greenwood Ms. I was in perfect place to intercept and stopped to get gas with about 15-20 minutes to spare and ran into a redneck gas attendent that wouldn't turn the pumps on until I prepaid then couldn't work a credit card machine and then didn't turn the pump on. I ended up leaving after paying for $50 and pumping $40 just so I wouldn't get caught in the tornado and had to escape to the northeast to avoid hail. After getting caught north of the sup I got caught in traffic and new I didn't have a chance of getting back out in front. I am currently headed back west to the sups crossing into Ms. Hopefully they continue to go tornadic just after moving into Ms. So far missed 3 tors but came within 5 miles of each. Will update in a little while.

 

[B Doss]

Report of tornado on the ground on the southern edge of Louisville, KY. Other eye witness reports of funnels in the Louisville metro. Per http://2005.whas.com/main.html - listen live. Apparently NWS employees are under the gun, seeking shelter as well. Also a report of a possible building collapse with occupants trapped and EMS dispatched in southern Louisville.

 

[Bob Schafer]

I've advised Dave that the right-turner on the AL/MS line has split, and appears to maybe have a more NE track now. He is gonna head W from Decatur and go about 1/2 way to Florence. The S 1/2 of the split is exhibiting mid-upper G2G.

 

[Dave_Hilbert]

Livecast-TV from Louisville:

http://www.wlky.com/video/8540488/detail.html


WLKY-TV in Louisville just reported on TV tornado on ground and said received call from NWS in Louisville that NWS is heading to their basement. Also recieved call the tornado is crossing Moore High School parking lot.

 

[Bart_Comstock]

7 Deaths have been reported thus far and Channel 5 is doing a good job keeping their coverage updated. News channel 5 has pictures of the damage and the tornadoes posted up on there site, click here to see. They are also doing a great job updating their site.

 

[B Doss]

10 dead according to WHAS, local affiliates, and CNN - quoting Nashville officials.

 

[Dave_Hilbert]

WLKY-TV Louisville just reported spotter sees tornado at Spencer Cnty heading to Taylorsville.

 

[Shane Adams]

I've never been a fan of stations taking viewer reports of tornadoes, espeically when the storm appears to be weakening on each successive sweep. I'm trying to figure out why this guy isn't showing a velocity display, that would actually be useful to confirm the probability of viewer-reported tornadoes and to show the home viewers exactly where the rotation is. A zoomed in, pixilated shot of reflectivity is pretty much useless to illustrate the urgency IMO.

 

[Bob Schafer]

I laugh at the TV stations and their "Super-Dooper Fantastico Turbo Z-20000 Doppler Radar" all the time, partly because I don't believe I've ever yet actually seen velocity displayed on air. "Hey DOOFUS, that's not even "Doppler", it's reflectivity!"

Anyway, Dave caught a nice w/c as it passed near Athens AL....just before it went TOR warned. Oh well. Dark now, so he's heading home to Huntsville where he'll ride everything out once it gets there.

 

[B Doss]

Spotters report tornado on the ground 10 miles west of Amory, MS.

 

[Justin Bailey]

i have a feeling that all this rain is pretty much goin to kill the chances for further development into mid-tn. even though the spc just issued a new tornado watch until 4 am. we may get one or two more decent storms but the outbrake is over for middle TN

 

[Scott Olson]

Latest report is 11 dead, it appears most of those are in Sumner county. I saw the Louisville tornado on a webcam for a television station, it doesn't appear the damage was to substanial. At least from intial reports.

 

[Bob Schafer]

Recent echo tops are up to 46K feet. 00z soundings put equilibrium at about 39K. So, do we have 7K foot overshooting tops?