Posted on 04/03/2008 8:00:43 PM PDT by silentknight
TOrnado hitting the City of Little Rock - major damage reported near the city.
Reports of Target hit, mobile home park hit with fires, reports of a car dealership hit.
OMG. Prayers going up for all involved to be safe!!! :-O
Yikes........ is it widespread? My daughter is at some convention in Branson MO right now.
I guess you meant a Target Department Store had damage from the tornado...
Praying now for all in the path of the storm.
MOgirl
Prayers going up in Jesus name.
oh no. Prayers
0910 PM TORNADO LONSDALE 34.54N 92.81W
04/03/2008 GARLAND AR AIRPLANE PILOT
DEBRIS IN AIR REPORTED AT THE HWY 70/30 SPLIT NEAR
LONSDALE.
0915 PM TORNADO 2 SW BENTON 34.55N 92.60W
04/03/2008 SALINE AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
POWER LINES ARE DOWN AND AUTOMOBILE DAMAGED BY POSSIBLE
TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BENTON
0920 PM TORNADO BENTON 34.57N 92.58W
04/03/2008 SALINE AR AMATEUR RADIO
WALL CLOUD REPORTED BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR JUST EAST OF
EXIT 116 IN BENTON.
Looks like a strong thunderstorm cell on North East side of City... I don’t know if that is the tornado area or not...
Fox16 streaming feed for MS Player
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“..mobile home park hit ..”
Reports of damage in Bryant, just SW of LR. Tornado NE of city now. More storms in store tonight for LR.
KTHV stream
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Apparently the tornado has hit the airport or right at it.
Was it the Clinton Presidential Library?
National Weather Service in LR area abandoned their stations due to the storm; transferred broadcasting/services to Memphis office, per KATV announcer.
Tornado heading for Bald Knob, NE of LR.
Prayers up!
Saying on KATV that it is directly over Little Rock AFB right now.
Another time, folks. There might be people lying under wreckage right now.
National Weather Service says tornado passed overhead.
Prayers going up
KATV
Confirmation that tornado passed over NWS office in North LR.
Tornado directly over LR AFB now.
North Little Rock airport is a municipal airport, it’s different from the actual Little Rock main airport.
My husband is on that base...darn.
Keep him safe Lord Jesus
Prayers going up is right. I am streaming KATV right now on the computer. I can believe these storms were nasty — they went through south and east of the Norman area late this afternoon and it was moving very rapidly with nasty looking clouds. We had some rain but not a lot. There were tornado watches with this storm when it moved south of us. Most of the storm was moving to the NE. They were predicting late this afternoon that these storms would cause problem as they moved across OK into AR.
Prayers going up for your husband. NWS building did not take a direct hit but reporting that there is debris around. This a supercell moving ahead of the mainline of storms.
Fox16 reports sirens still going off in Jacksonville area.
Cabot next in line almost immediately.
Tornado confirmed 3 miles southwest of cabot
Thanks! Just reported a tornado on the ground three miles SW of Cabot issued two minutes ago by NWS.
Cannot get over how big these storms have become. It was a fairly narrow band when it came through this area but it looked so nasty with a lot of thunder and lightening.
Tornado confirmed 3 mi. SW of Cabot.
Looks incredibly strong on radar. I’d start digging towards the center of the earth if I were in Cabot.
Power is out in parts of Little Rock. Damage in downtown little rock near State Capital and not far from the Clinton LIEbrary..
We won't know till first light what the total damage is.
sw
That’s a large rotation on the radar — time to be a gopher. Large hail falling as well.
KATV reports Garland County under tornado warning. Rotation just south of Hot Springs.
There is another tornado warning south of Hot Springs moving NE at 50 mph. Producing a tornado in Lake Hamilton. Stay safe!
sw
Prayers.
I just watched the local news in Nashville, and had no idea of that squall line. It will be bad for a number of hours.
There was a tornado in the Little Rock area in Jan. 1999, part of a series of tornadoes across Arkansas and Tennessee which killed something like 7 people. The main thing the media was interested in was whether Chelsea’s tree house had survived.
On lake Hamilton :(
MY daughter is at Henderson in Arkadelphia. Keep me posted, I am in contact with her by IM
Prayers said. Hope all are safe.
Thank you, mojo.
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