Chris Hayes
EF5
At least 7 people have been killed by a tornado in an Evansville, Indiana mobile home park. Just got it via CNN breaking news.
Killer Tornado in Evansville, Indiana
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Josh Durkee
EF1
My home town
Jay McCoy
EF5
I am waiting for NWS to confirm but on ABC this morning they had reports of the damage path being 3/4 of a mile wide from emergency workers on the scene!!
Hitting at 2am in a trailer park is pretty well a worst case scenerio. Especially in November. Most wx people expected severe wx but I bet not many in the general public took notice even with the watches being posted.
Hitting at 2am in a trailer park is pretty well a worst case scenerio. Especially in November. Most wx people expected severe wx but I bet not many in the general public took notice even with the watches being posted.
George Tincher
EF5
A tornado touched down around 2 am in Henderson County, KY. A horse racing track was hit there and numerous horses were killed. The tornado then moved into Indiana. A trailer park in the Evansville, IN area was hit hard. So far there have been 15 reported deaths, most in the trailer park.
CNN was reporting the tornado had a damage path 3/4 mile wide with a path length of 20 miles. The video CNN was showing definately indicated major damage. I don't want to try to make any F-Scale predictions at this time, but it appeared to be a powerful, long track tornado.
There's lots of other potential wind and tornado damage in other areas too. I was watching a very strong shear couplet move right over Munfordville, KY (in Hart County) earlier this morning as well. There was damage in that town from a possible tornado, but how severe I don't know. There was also a report of damage and possible injuries in SRN IL. There's other scattered wind damage reports over the entire area.
There was a total of 27 tornado warnings issued overnight in MO, IL, IN, KY, OH and TN.
CNN was reporting the tornado had a damage path 3/4 mile wide with a path length of 20 miles. The video CNN was showing definately indicated major damage. I don't want to try to make any F-Scale predictions at this time, but it appeared to be a powerful, long track tornado.
There's lots of other potential wind and tornado damage in other areas too. I was watching a very strong shear couplet move right over Munfordville, KY (in Hart County) earlier this morning as well. There was damage in that town from a possible tornado, but how severe I don't know. There was also a report of damage and possible injuries in SRN IL. There's other scattered wind damage reports over the entire area.
There was a total of 27 tornado warnings issued overnight in MO, IL, IN, KY, OH and TN.
George Tincher
EF5
News now reporting several mobile homes were picked up by the tornado and tossed into an adjacent lake. Officials fear there are still other people trapped in the wreckage of these mobile homes.
nickgrillo
EF5
Current death toll from this tornado is 15... From the arial views shown on TV, I would judge damage to be F3/F4...
Angie Norris
EF5
MSNBC currently showing damage video...looks like strong F2, maybe weak F3...some pretty well built structures totally missing roofs, but walls are still up.
Yep, pretty much worst case scenario...middle of the night, I'm guessing pretty much rural type area, so probably little if any warning/lead time on this thing coming in, in the time of year when tornadoes are the last thing on most people's minds.
Where's the best place to find archived model runs, surface obs, etc? I was working in our forecast lab yesterday and totally missed this as far as my forecast went (the stuff further north and east for today I got). I need to look back and see what I did wrong on this one.
Angie
Yep, pretty much worst case scenario...middle of the night, I'm guessing pretty much rural type area, so probably little if any warning/lead time on this thing coming in, in the time of year when tornadoes are the last thing on most people's minds.
Where's the best place to find archived model runs, surface obs, etc? I was working in our forecast lab yesterday and totally missed this as far as my forecast went (the stuff further north and east for today I got). I need to look back and see what I did wrong on this one.
Angie
Josh Durkee
EF1
part of the same area (Newburgh) was hit by an F2 last year too.
My brother was sending me messages all night last night while it was going down.
My brother was sending me messages all night last night while it was going down.
Andrew Khan
EF5
Wow, very sad. I wonder what the F-Scale of it was? Was this the same one that started in KY?
George Tincher
EF5
Just chatted with a firefighter/spotter friend of mine who lives in Munfordville, KY and he says that the south end of that town is pretty heavily damaged as well. Fortunately, it appears there was nobody killed in that particular town though.
Angie Norris
EF5
MSNBC mentioning possible damage in TN as well. I'd guess probably in north central TN?
Looking at SPC, 8 counties reported wind damage, but Henry County has reported structural damage to 3 homes, along with trees and powerlines down. Time was 0830Z. Sounds like this would be the most likely suspect. All the other reports were just either trees or power lines down.
Angie
Looking at SPC, 8 counties reported wind damage, but Henry County has reported structural damage to 3 homes, along with trees and powerlines down. Time was 0830Z. Sounds like this would be the most likely suspect. All the other reports were just either trees or power lines down.
Angie
Michael Auker
Hart County (Munfordville) always gets hit. There seems to be a mini tornado alley through Warren, Hart, Barren, Metcalfe, Green, and Adair counties. They have had multiple strong tornadoes and fatalities over the last 10 years. Pellyton, in Adair county, got hit with an F-3 in 1997, and a F-3 and F-2 in 1998. What are the chances of that?
Brett Adair
EF5
That is a strong indication of a tornado. Folks, we had plenty of ingredients for tornadic activity and I was just telling a friend before I went to sleep that these storms were just entering the area of highest favorable shear with many different level jet maxes converging. Sad situation.
George Tincher
EF5
Yeah, that environment was pretty ripe for tornadic development. It seems that what was a line of storms actually started to break down more into individual cells as it hit that more favorable environement. Here are some of the conditions that were present in these areas:
0-1 km SRH in excess of 340 m2/s2 was observed in Louisville overnight
70 knots of H85-H7 flow
Dewpoints in the low 60's
0-1 km SRH in excess of 340 m2/s2 was observed in Louisville overnight
70 knots of H85-H7 flow
Dewpoints in the low 60's
George Tincher
EF5
Here's some updated info from the Paducah NWS office:
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