Tornado in Shreveport, Louisiana

CNN ^ | 10/29/2009 | n/a

[Pyro7480]

CNN's on-air meteorologist reporting a tornado on the ground in Shreveport, Louisiana- local fire department calling it in.

[Pyro7480]

Breaking now...

[classified]

How bad is it?

[Chgogal]

You OK?

[WeatherGuy]

Live coverage:

http://www.ksla.com/

[mnehring]

Holy crud, that’s not far from me.

[ussc1863]

I live there and evidently it blew out a window across the street. I work in Government Plaza for the City. We were supposed to go downstairs but never heard the warning. Lights are flickering and sirens are going off but that is about it.

[mnehring]

I’m hearing that Haughton has it bad.

[DallasDeb]

My kids a a couple blocks from Haughton. In fact, until this past July, they lived in Haughton on Shadow Bend.

[ussc1863]

A house in Bossier was cut in two by a falling tree. There are two right now in Summer Grove and at Hollywood and Pierremont.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

One of my main shipping sites for Honeywell is in Shreveport.

[ussc1863]

The steeple was torn off The First Methodist Church on Texas street again. This time it landed on a car.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Yup,,,Pretty Nasty,,,It’s North of me now,,,

Knocked out power/puter,,,I was following it on NWS radar...

[TexasKate]

There are 2 what?? Hollywood & Pierremont are the same street-

[DoughtyOne]

Good luck to all the Freepers in the area. Sorry to hear about this. Hope it turns out not to be too bad.

[ETL]

Here’s an animated Doppler weather map of the U.S. from the Weather Channel website:

http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/dopplerradarusnational/index_large_animated.html

[spectre]

You guys in LA are in good hands. Jindal will handle things properly.

We're being hit with tornadoes here in southern ARkansas as well...coming in from Northern LA.

[ETL]

Here’s a zoom-in animated Doppler map of the Gulf Coast:

http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/dopplerradarusnational/southcentraldopplerradar1800_large_animated.html

[RebelTXRose]

How’s things in Benton,LA??? Radar looks bad -

my aunt & uncle aren’t answering - did get answering machine, but don’t know if it’s call notes or not.

[alancarp]

There are at least 2 tornado-warned areas. In one case, the storm is now at Laceyville, heading east of Nacogdoches, then possibly east of Garrison.

Case #2: Gary City, Carthage, and then Greenwood (and I-20) are under the gun.

[alancarp]

Lemme also add case #3 - the one this thread is based on...

That echo looks more impressive, and is now NW of Shreveport, heading to Benton and toward Spring Hill. Shreveport resident should be looking to the SW if this storm has passed them, 'cause those other two storms are also heading in your general direction.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/shv/hazards/hazards.php?pil=NEWTORSHV&vtec=0080&year=2009