Posted on 02/17/2008 12:37:14 PM PST by dirtboy
At 222 PM CST... National Weather Service Doppler radar and storm spotters were tracking a large and extremely dangerous tornado. This tornado was located near Henderson... or about 9 miles southeast of Goshen... moving northeast at 45 mph.
The tornado will be near... Antioch... Brundidge and 7 miles northwest of Hamilton Crossroads by 235 PM CST... Brundidge Municipal Airport... Monticello and banks by 240 PM CST... Josie... 7 miles south of Tanyard... 8 miles southeast of Sandfield and 9 miles southwest of Boot Hill by 245 PM CST...
Statement as of 2:29 PM CST on February 17, 2008
Tornado Watch 63 remains in effect until 800 PM CST for the following locations
Al
. Alabama counties included are
Autauga Baldwin Barbour
Bullock Butler Chambers
Chilton Clarke Clay
Coffee Conecuh Coosa
Covington Crenshaw Dale
Dallas Elmore Escambia
Geneva Henry Houston
Lee Lowndes Macon
Mobile Monroe Montgomery
Pike Randolph Russell
Tallapoosa Washington Wilcox
bump to keep this thread up for the next few minutes.
Prayers for those affected.
Josie and Tanyard by 250 PM CST...
Boot Hill by 255 PM CST...
6 miles northwest of Clayton by 305 PM CST...
Comer by 315 PM CST...
Spring Hill by 320 PM CST...
Hawkinsville by 325 PM CST...
Prayers for those injured....
Prayers up.
The storm in question is the supercell SW of Columbus, GA. Classic supercell presentation - one large cell out ahead of the squall line.
Bump and prayer.
Won’t know until afterwards - F-designation is from the damaged caused. Anything F3 and up is bad news.
On the other hand, the same tornado has now been spotted on the ground in Carrollton, GA, which means that it's pointed right at the northwestern suburbs of Atlanta.
We're hearing thunder and getting spitting rain now.
God be with you all.
Not good anyway! I've got friends in Hamilton, just north of Columbus, which is right in the path of the first cell. Hope they and their farm come through this all right.
That’s a separate warning. There currently are three zones in Alabama and one in GA.
The entire Atlanta metro area has a nasty-looking line bearing down on it.
Douglas County in north central Georgia
southwestern Fulton County in north central Georgia
southeastern Carroll County in northwest Georgia
northwestern Coweta County in west central Georgia
* until 415 PM EST
* at 348 PM EST... National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado 10 miles southwest of Clem... moving northeast at 50 mph.
* Other locations in the warning include but are not limited to Whitesburg... McWhorter... Chapel HIll... Union City... Palmetto... midway and Fairburn.
And to make it worse, our family seems to attract tornadoes somehow.
The 1936 Gainesville GA tornado passed right over my mother's house (her dad got her out of bed in the middle of the night to go see it. Guess he figured if it hit them they were doomed anyhow, in a little stick-built house on a ridge). The big 1975 Atlanta tornado that wrecked the governor's mansion passed right over my parents' house. The one that hit and destroyed the Windy Hill/41 community in the late 90s passed right over our current house.
This is getting a little bit tiresome . . . .
Darn! I’ve got friends in Whitesburg, too! All the dog fanciers are down around the Newnan/Coweta area (lots of cheap agricultural land).
At 250 PM CST... a tornado was reported. This tornado was located near Autauga County Airport... or about 6 miles southwest of Prattville... moving northeast at 50 mph.
Other locations in the warning include but are not limited to Woodcrest... hunter... Catoma creek... Maxwell Air Force Base... Pinedale... Montgomery... Millbrook... Barachias... Boylston... Coosada... Wetumpka Municipal Airport... Deatsville... Madison... bob Woodruff Lake... Mitylene... Elmore... Speigner... Tallapoosa river water plant... Mount Meigs... Blue Ridge... Waugh... Wetumpka... Jordan dam... Weoka Mills... Brassell... Wallsboro... Titus... ten Cedar Estates... Ware... Dexter... Claud... central and Eclectic
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