Siberian Express

June 16th was the busy up here previous to the squall hitting your area. Minnesota had a total of 27 tornadoes including an F 5 (Minnesota's last F or EF 5), one F 4 and six F 3's. Overall the 15th though the 18th was one of the larger tornado outbreaks. That was a powerful system that brought the cold.

Here's another pic......Glad you're OK JoMo... 'Sam Clausen has captured a remarkable collection of photos from the Joplin tornado - available on Facebook here (you probably need a FB account to see these). He writes: "The wall of a nearby store was littered with trash including this chair. (Concrete wall)"...'

Wow, I knew that the injuries included blunt force, etc.....but, the way this sounds it was even worse. "Efforts to pin down the number of missing have been complicated by factors including multiple reports of the same missing person, or survivors who found shelter without contacting friends who reached out to police. Sometimes the police have only a first name. "Obviously, there's not a whole lot you can do with that information," Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven Anderson said Thursday. Alabama officials are declining to say how many people could be missing statewide, and are now even keeping mum about the state's official death toll as it re-examines the tally. They reduced the figure from 250 to 236 on Monday after accounting for a gruesome fact of the storm: Some victims had been counted more than once because parts of their bodies were found in more than one place. The work of finding answers for families of the missing falls largely on the search and rescue teams combing the ruins of entire communities that were ripped from their foundations and thrown across hollows and hills on April 27. In Tuscaloosa, officials say at least 41 people were killed when an EF-4 tornado with winds up to 190 mph mowed down some of the city's most densely populated neighborhoods."

wow that ABC 33/40 sky camera vid is unreal