A very serious situation is unfolding today as all the necessary ingredients are coming together for a destructive tornado outbreak. Posted on 04/24/2010 9:45:34 AM PDT by mlizzy
A very serious situation is unfolding today as all the necessary ingredients are coming together for a destructive tornado outbreak.
You can follow the latest news and developments throughout the day concerning this tornado outbreak on weather.com's News and Development's page.
Several tornadoes are likely across the states of Mississippi and Alabama. Some of these tornadoes will be long-tracking, large tornadoes.
It's just not MS and AL however, adjacent states including Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee will also be under the gun for powerful tornadoes, large hail and destructive winds.
Some cities in the target zone today include Lexington (KY), Bowling Green (KY), Nashville (TN), Memphis (TN), Jackson (TN), Birmingham (AL), Tuscaloosa (AL), Jackson (MS), Meridian (MS), Tupelo (MS), Pine Bluff (AR) and Little Rock (AR).
Interactive map: Tornado outbreak radar focus
Storm Watch: The severe weather set-up
The Weather Channel and weather.com will providing continuing coverage of this dangerous day of weather.
Looks like that storm formation is going to be barreling into Jacksonville tomorrow.
Wow. This IS serious.
Where are you located?
BTW, why is a Mississippi tornado like a Arkansas divorse?
Either case, you are going to lose the double-wide!
I was stunned ab out 5 min. ago to hear Dr. Forbes at the WC express fear that Yazoo City had just been struck...he was just looking at the radar indicators...no on the ground info. He was very serious
Agreed, I was watching it. The purple on the radar wasn’t hail, it was building debris. Yazoo City, population 14,500
He saw a debris ball on the radar.
Reports coming in on the ground-Church destroyed 1 mile S of Yazoo city, buildings leveled on Highway 16.
Bump
This has been routine practice for anything tornado-related, no matter how bad, for years.
I don’t understand why it was removed from “Breaking” since it such an important issue.
Tornado Warning issued for Wilcox Co, AL
http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mob&wwa=tornado%20warning
Well, a lot of people were abusing breaking by putting every tornado watch box or warning in breaking news.
It’s difficult to convey the difference between a potentially historic outbreak like today and a sort of routine Spring day with some possible tornadoes.
But if you note the tornadoes are Muslim, Gay, or Mexican, you might have a chance to keep a thread like this in “breaking.”
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1237 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2010
MSC007-051-163-241815-
/O.CON.KJAN.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-100424T1815Z/
HOLMES MS-ATTALA MS-YAZOO MS-
1237 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2010
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN YAZOO...WESTERN ATTALA AND SOUTHEASTERN HOLMES
COUNTIES...
...THIS IS A TORNADO EMERGENCY FOR THE WARNED AREA...
AT 1236 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS AND STORM
SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS WEDGE
TORNADO. SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE HAS OCCURRED IN YAZOO CITY WITH MULTIPLE
INJURIES! THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR EBENEZER MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 55 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
FRANKLIN...GOODMAN AND LEXINGTON BY 1245 PM CDT...
MCMILLAN BY 1250 PM CDT...
DURANT...BOWLING GREEN AND SALLIS BY 1255 PM CDT...
POSSUMNECK AND WEST BY 100 PM CDT...
May God watch over and take care of you all!
tornadooutbreak is what I’d use.
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