MAJOR SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK UNDERWAY IN SOUTH

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/ | 4/27/2011 | NWS

[dirtboy]

PDS Tornado watch just issued for Northern Mississippi:

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0232.html

[Raven6]

Haven’t heard anyone use the phrase “mass casualties” (though it could be an accurate descriptor), but I did hear that a middle school in Tiftonia had been hit. That matches your geographical description... - Raven6

[Palladin]

I think it is true. Emergency ageny was sending special trucks up there, for bodies? (TWC)

So sad and scary and random.

[glock rocks]

Prayers.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Yeah...near Lake west point...an excellent striper fishery.
Just got word of a 3 story hotel collapsed in Catoosa County.

[Sprite518]

Anyone see this video from the University of Alabama?

http://www.weather.com/outlook/videos/raw-large-alabama-tornado-20457#20459

[onemiddleamerican]

Posting from mobile and can’t figure out how to make clickable link. Video of tornado skirting behind B-D stadium:

http://www.twitvid.com/index.php?area=video&id=4W6PU&ad=-1

[meyer]

Thanks - I think the bad one just passed. Waiting for the next one.

Chattanooga police scanner indicating that there’s a lot of areas where they have to park the car and walk in. Power lines down. Injuries to the public. Sounds like they’re right in the thick of the tornado damage.

[Vigilantcitizen]

That one was close. Wow.

[who knows what evil?]

Here is a disaster that I fear may have cost over a hundred lives, and cable news coverage is completely absent. TWC is about it...

[chuckr]

Here in Fayetteville, TN.....very scary day, spent a good part of the day in the interior closet bonding with our pets....a lot of damage and loss of life in TN valley...I would compare the experience to wearing a bulls eye and waiting for strike.....power out in Huntsville AL for 4 or 5 days due to damage at a Nuke generating plant....the true extent of damage in the TN valley is really not known.....prayers for all of us affected by this event....

[kacres]

I’m 30 miles south of Athens..not bad yet. I have a son who lives there. Nerves are on edge, and praying it by passes us.

[Tuxedo]

Here is a disaster that I fear may have cost over a hundred lives, and cable news coverage is completely absent. TWC is about it...

It involves Red States, what did you expect?

This has been an unbelievable event for the past three days.

[CedarDave]

Catoosa County EMS:

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=405

[prairiebreeze]

A three story hotel collapsed in Rome, GA with multiple victims/casualties.

[Palladin]

A 3-storey hotel collapsed near Rome, Georgia!

[caww]

That’s encouraging...sheesh am so stunned by this....the weather forcaster on 33/40 simply has amazed me...he’s been at this all day! Doesn’t he even take a bathroom break! WoW...

reported Debrie from Tuscaloosa found 150 miles away!
It’s so sad hearing the people looking for friends and family...and all the vast destruction...so many places leveled...beyond taking into ones head.

[bert]

we are getting continuous doppler radar reporting from WJHL TV
literally seeing the tornado produvcing cells as they move toward us.
The lightning is continuous and incredible.

[who knows what evil?]

Now reporting track includes GRAY!!

Gray? OMG...

[prairiebreeze]

Fox has mentioned it in the last hour. I don’t know if they did on Hannity.

[workerbee]

Thanks — heard from my aunt — she’s on watch but feels pretty sure everything is going to graze them to the northeast.