4/2/06 NOW: Midwest/Southern Plains/TN and OH Valleys

[MatthewCarman]

The Storm in Warren County had Funnel Clouds according to channel 13. New tornado warning for marion and mahaska county's with a nice storm there that strengthend fast. 2 storms there both with rotation. It lookes like they are merging into 1 storm? Later.

Missouri has some nice looking storms aswell.

 

[HAltschule]

Have fun Benjamin!! Take a picture of the gust front for us. That is one heck of a bow echo developing and it looks like it is about pound St. Louis Metro area shortly!! Whew...

 

[Alex Lamers]

Just noticed...very strong and compact bow echo moving into Henry Co. Iowa with pronounced RIN. Apex of the bow approaching Rome, IA right now. 0.5º velocity picking up 71+ knot pixels and despite they are at 7000 feet I would bet a lot of that is making it to the surface. This bow echo appears capable of producing destructive winds with a good deal of clearing out ahead of it and 30-35 0-1km shear moving with it. If boundary layer can mix nicely ahead of it, I would not be surprised to see a swath of impressive wind damage northeast to around Davenport.

 

[Marc Austin]

The cell NE of Little Rock,AR mentioned before looks as though it's taking shape. Radial Velocities at all levels showing some rotation.

 

[Benjamin Sipprell]

Lake St. Louis ... we have gone green! Winds gusting (lawn furniture flying)!

EDIT: no hail yet ... mainly straight line winds gusting to 50 mph in my estimation ... branch lightning ... not seeing much cloud to ground ... just totally green looking outside.

 

[Marc Austin]

The storm near Searcy, AR NE of Little Rock is really getting organized. Latest upper radial velocity scans showing strong rotation. Looking to form a "hook-like" appendage on the SE end.

 

[Marc Austin]

Storm NE of Little Rock now tornado warned. I thought that might happen... It's beginning to get a pretty clear hook on the base reflectivity.

sorry to keep chiming in in short sentences, but amazing hook taking shape on storm NE of Little Rock near Searcy, AR.

 

[brody_clifton]

The cell NE of Little Rock,AR mentioned before looks as though it's taking shape. Radial Velocities at all levels showing some rotation.
[/b]

This cell, now near Sidon, AR, has developed a pronounced hook on its SW flank in the last two scans, with a corresponding increase in .5 degreee velocity gtg shear. Cell has been tornado warned for the past 6 minutes.

 

[MatthewCarman]

Warren County is again TOR warned with reports of funnel clouds now moving into polk county towards desmoines.

POLK TOR WARNED.

 

[Scott Lincoln]

Tornado Warning for Polk County, IA..... this is the capitol city of Des Moines....

 

[Marc Austin]

Looks like the tornado NE of LR, AR will move through or just north of Searcy, AR.

Another storm W of the TOR warned storm near Searcy,AR is beginning to show some rotation in the upper scans. Looks like it might try and form a meso in the near future and move through the same areas being impacted by the current TOR warned storm.

Tornado warning for St. Louis metro....

 

[Justin Turcotte]

St. Louis Traffic Cams

Shelf cloud moving in. Looking neat on some of the cams. Storms lining out but still some robust embedded cells with Tor Warns.

Black death approaching Macomb, IL Webcam

 

[mikegeukes]

Storm Chaser Mike Shively from chat witness the tornado that happen
in Davis County, 7 miles north of Pulaski.

IOWA TORNADOES:
0531 PM TORNADO 2 N RUNNELLS POLK COUNTY
0514 PM TORNADO RIVERSIDE WASHINGTON COUNTY
0506 PM TORNADO 2 NW HARTFORD WARREN COUNTY
0430 PM TORNADO 1 E STOCKPORT VAN BUREN COUNTY
0415 PM TORNADO 2 W KEOSAUQUA VAN BUREN COUNTY
0415 PM TORNADO 4 S FAIRFIELD JEFFERSON COUNTY
0357 PM TORNADO 7 N PULASKI DAVIS COUNTY -Mike Shively witness it
0347 PM TORNADO 3 SW BLOOMFIELD DAVIS COUNTY

MISSOURI TORNADOES:
0700 PM TORNADO CARUTHERSVILLE PEMISCOT COUNTY
0648 PM TORNADO 2 N SIKESTON SCOTT COUNTY
0635 PM TORNADO 4 N SENATH DUNKLIN COUNTY
0450 PM TORNADO 6 SW MONROE CITY MONROE COUNTY

ILLINOIS TORNADOES:
0730 PM TORNADO 3 SW SAYBROOK MCCLEAN COUNTY
0709 PM TORNADO LODGE PIATT COUNTY
0707 PM TORNADO 1 N SADORUS CHAMPAIGN COUNTY
0635 PM TORNADO WARRENSBURG MACON COUNTY
0625 PM TORNADO 1 NE NIANTIC MACON COUNTY
0613 PM TORNADO TAYLORVILLE CHRISTIAN COUNTY
0602 PM TORNADO SPRINGFIELD SANGAMON COUNTY
0600 PM TORNADO SPRINGFIELD SANGAMON COUNTY
0559 PM TORNADO CHATHAM SANGAMON COUNTY
0546 PM TORNADO LOAMI SANGAMON COUNTY
0530 PM TORNADO 1 S BLANDINSVILLE MCDONOUGH COUNTY
0530 PM TORNADO KASKASKIA RANDOLPH COUNTY
0525 PM TORNADO WELGE RANDOLPH COUNTY
0525 PM TORNADO 2 N O'FALLON ST.CLAIR COUNTY
0520 PM TORNADO 1 S GOOD HOPE MCDONOUGH COUNTY
0520 PM TORNADO O'FALLON ST. CLAIR COUNTY
0516 PM TORNADO 1 N TERRE HAUTE HENDERSON COUNTY

INDIANA TORNADOES:
0957 PM TORNADO 7 SW INDIANAPOLIS MARION COUNTY
0855 PM TORNADO 5 W ROSEDALE PARKE COUNTY


Mike

 

[Marc Austin]

Keep in mind, this line of tornado producing storms is heading in the general direction of Springfiled,IL which was hit only three weeks ago by tornadoes.

 

[Scott Olson]

MOD NOTE: There are over 16 tornado warnings right now, please make sure to provide supporting observations/information in your comments. Just pasting a tornado warning and saying 'wow' is a violation of our noise rules.

Thanks.