Tornado kills two in Missouri; more tornadoes on tap for today
The tropical Atlantic is quiet today, and none of the reliable models are predicting tropical cyclone formation over the next five days.
At approximately 12:15 am CDT this morning, a tornado near Paris, Missouri, killed two people when it ripped apart their mobile home and tossed them 400 feet away. At least four other tornadoes hit Missouri yesterday, and two tornadoes touched down in Texas, and one each in Louisiana and Mississippi. The driver of a Petal Water & Sewer service truck was hospitalized in Mississippi after strong winds picked up his truck and tossed it across I-59.
Another severe weather outbreak is expected today in the U.S., from the Mississippi Valley northward through the Tennessee Valley and the Great Lakes. Tornado Watches have already been posted, and today's severe weather has the potential to generate a few strong, long-track tornadoes. You can follow the outbreak today on our new interactive tornado map, which will post the tornado damage reports as they are received. The new feature also allows one to plot all the historical tornado activity back to 1950 for any region in the U.S. If you take a wunderphoto of a tornadic storm or tornado damage, and click on the "tornado" type of image flag when uploading it, our software will attempt to match your photo to the storm report for that tornado. These photos will then be available when you click on a storm report on the interactive tornado page. One of the storm reports for Missouri yesterday has several wunderphotos of the thunderstorm that spawned the tornado available, thanks to wunderphotographer Paleohebrew.
Jeff Masters
Looking west down Cervantes from Barcelona.
Reader Comments
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sounds like most of the action may be in the new york/new jersey/mid atlantic area,which should get bonedog some stormchasing.
Here in the boston area,the energy will be getting here late at night so storms should be weaker with downpours and a little thunder,a lot depends on where the jet sets up before the front moves through.
We have a little break in the rain here in pensacola but the clouds are clipping by very fast and there is barely a breeze in the tops of our pine trees. What's up with that?
Don't let your guard down,looking at radar,got some more moving in off the gulf
Going to be a rough ride for us today.
Ok I am going to buy a weather radio, for home and work!!!!
(And it's LIVE 24/7)
Link
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1021 AM CDT THU OCT 18 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1013 AM TORNADO PENSACOLA 30.42N 87.19W
10/18/2007 ESCAMBIA FL BROADCAST MEDIA
TORNADO ON GROUND NEAR DOWNTOWN PENSACOLA FROM WEAR TV
TOWERCAM.
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Baja
Just as you said, more storms coming from the gulf. We got a train of storms, over and over again.
Has anyone seen Bonedog today?
nope,not yet
A funny thing happened while I was reading, everyones avatar went to the lil' fat guy with no face for a while.
ok guys...I'm flying out to Miami tomorrow....how's my weekend look?
;)
Hey Jerry....
ok guys...I'm flying out to Miami tomorrow....how's my weekend look?
Highs in the mid to upper 80s; good chance of unsettled weather (t'storms), clearing out by Sunday.
So let me ask you: how is it that you don't have to go through security? NSA operative?
;)
"good chance of unsettled weather"....unsettled...like when you eat too much pizza and follow it up with a box of Twinkies and some Gatorade?
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1026 AM CDT THU OCT 18 2007
AREAS AFFECTED...PARTS OF NRN MS/NW AL THRU WRN AND MIDDLE
TN...WRN/CNTRL KY INTO SRN IND
CONCERNING...SEVERE POTENTIAL...WATCH POSSIBLE
VALID 181526Z - 181730Z
TRENDS ARE BEING CLOSELY MONITORED FOR AN INCREASING SEVERE THREAT
AND THE POSSIBILITY OF ONE OR MORE WATCHES...PERHAPS BY EARLY
AFTERNOON.
IN THE WAKE OF AN INITIAL SHORT WAVE IMPULSE NOW PIVOTING NORTHWARD
INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION...MID-LEVEL INHIBITION HAS BEEN WEAKENED
ABOVE A MOISTENING PRE-FRONTAL CONFLUENT SOUTHERLY FLOW REGIME TO
THE EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CYCLONE. MID-LEVELS ALREADY
APPEAR TO BE WARMING FROM THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INTO THE
WESTERN SLOPES OF THE CENTRAL/SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. HOWEVER...
LATEST RUC GUIDANCE SUGGESTS INHIBITION MAY REMAIN FAIRLY NEGLIGIBLE
ALONG AN AXIS FROM NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI THROUGH PARTS OF NORTH
CENTRAL KENTUCKY. AND...A ZONE OF MID-LEVEL MOISTENING/ LARGE-SCALE
ASCENT IS EVIDENT IN WATER VAPOR IMAGERY RAPIDLY APPROACHING THIS
REGION. ADDITIONALLY... BREAKS IN CLOUD COVER LIKELY WILL BE
SUFFICIENT TO ALLOW HEATING OF A BOUNDARY LAYER CHARACTERIZED BY
UPPER 60S/LOWER 70S SURFACE DEW POINTS.
THUS...IT SEEMS PROBABLE THAT THE RISK FOR AT LEAST SCATTERED
BOUNDARY BASED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL INCREASE THROUGH THE
18-21Z TIME FRAME. AS THIS OCCURS...SEVERE THREAT WILL INCREASE
CORRESPONDINGLY WITHIN STRONG DEEP LAYER SHEAR FAVORABLE FOR
SUPERCELLS...BETWEEN STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY POLAR AND SUBTROPICAL JET
AXES. ALTHOUGH LOW-LEVEL SHEAR MAY ONLY BE CHARACTERIZED BY WEAK
CLOCKWISE TURNING WITH HEIGHT...HODOGRAPHS BENEATH 30-40 KT
SOUTHWESTERLY 850 MB FLOW WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES...WHICH
COULD BECOME STRONG.
..KERR.. 10/18/2007
TexasYankee...I got news for you...your avatar still looks like the lil fat guy with no face...
hahahaha Sorry, no camera. that was a good one tho...:>)
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FORT WALTON BEACH...
* UNTIL NOON CDT
Now extending further north into Covington, Houston, Geneva and Coffee coutines in AL. And east from Mobile to Calhoun county FL.
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