Thrasher Fan Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Auburn, KY (population: 1444) and Bowling Green (population: 58067) in the path of a dangerous TOR warned storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaoPos Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Sent from my iPad HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 NE KY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Harrisburg, IL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrasher Fan Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 West Liberty, KY (pop. 3277) next in the path. There has to be a TOR on the ground right now. Looks extremely violent on SRV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrasher Fan Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 West Liberty looks to take a direct hit in the next 10 minutes. I hope they are in the safe spot already. TOR Warning just posted for them. *edit* could pass just south. too close to call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Look out West Liberty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 90 kt couplet at 1000 feet AGL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
battlebrick Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Harrisburg, IL. Holy crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrasher Fan Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 storm looks to be cycling just south of W. Liberty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 Harrisburg damage looks pretty severe. Obviously anything is highly speculative without being on site but I'd be surprised if it's less than EF3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 154 PM EST WED FEB 29 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LAWRENCE COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...YATESVILLE LAKE STATE PARK... LOUISA...BLAINE... SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 230 PM EST * AT 146 PM EST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 22 MILES WEST OF MARTHA...OR NEAR WEST LIBERTY...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CHARLEY...ULYSSES...KIAHSVILLE...DUNLOW...FORT GAY AND EAST LYNN LAKE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Harrisburg damage looks pretty severe. Obviously anything is highly speculative without being on site but I'd be surprised if it's less than EF3. This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Hen egg sized hail in the Johnson/Elliot/Morgan Cty cell that is TWed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*IndyMeso* Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 In Columbus Ohio for the week and things may get interesting tonight. Tornado Watch was issued not that long ago. Sun was out around lunch and has that "feeling" of something brewing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrasher Fan Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Good looking storm structure has developed just west of Jamestown, KY. No warnings for it....... yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackjack123 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 NWS in Paducah is holding a prss conference at 2:00pm in Harrisburg, Illinois. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrasher Fan Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Good looking storm structure has developed just west of Jamestown, KY. No warnings for it....... yet. Storm to its north very healthy with possible TOR on going. looks to split Eubank and Science Hill, KY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FSMweather Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 unconfirmed reports I am getting from Reed Timmer's facebook from a poster. STATE OF EMERGENCY has been issued for WEST LIBERTY, KENTUCKY because of a TORNADO. A Church has been flattened and some homes also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkman Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Harrisburg tornado receives initial rating of EF4. Winds ~170mph, path 200 yds. wide. https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=201202292004-KPAH-NOUS43-PNSPAH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 204 PM CST WED FEB 29 2012 ***PRELIMINARY INFORMATION ONLY...ASSESSMENT ONGOING*** THE FOLLOWING IS AN INITIAL REPORT IN...FROM A DAMAGE ASSESSMENT ONGOING FOR THE CITY OF HARRISBURG IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. * EVENT DATE - WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 29 2012 * EVENT TIME - 456 AM CST * EVENT TYPE - PRELIMINARY EF4 TORNADO * EVENT LOCATION - SOUTHERN PART OF HARRISBURG * PEAK WIND - ESTIMATED 170 MPH * AVERAGE PATH WIDTH - ESTIMATED 200 YARDS * DISCUSSION/DAMAGE - STRIP MALL NEAR WAL MART SUFFERED MAJOR DAMAGE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING DAMAGE...INJURIES AND FATALITIES WILL BE ADDED TO THIS PRELIMINARY REPORT...AS WILL PATH LENGTH. AS OF RIGHT NOW...THE LATEST IS 6 DEATHS HAVE BEEN REPORTED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeye Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 In Columbus Ohio for the week and things may get interesting tonight. Tornado Watch was issued not that long ago. Sun was out around lunch and has that "feeling" of something brewing. one of our very well known local tv mets here just posted on FB that the watch was an over reaction and there is no chance for severe here. Radar says he's right, however it's still near 70 degrees and the coldfront hasn't passed. friday looks....interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhamps10 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 I've had some time to come up with some thoughts on this morning, I've been awaken up in the middle of the night in the past for several different things, the flu, sickness, minor medical emergencies, earthquakes, friends in the hospital, but nothing prepared me for what was about to happen when something woke me up at 4:25 out of the blue, even though I live 100+ miles away from Harrisburg and grew up 65 miles from Harrisburg, it's southern Illinois, my homeland, where I've lived most of my life.. these are my people, my neighbors. When I seen the radar I thought at least they had warning, at least they had some sense of what was about to happen, even though I know it's almost 5AM, and this isn't like St Louis or Chicago or New York where you expect activity at that time, as I sat here on the couch that I am sitting on right now I thought oh God just please nobody get hurt, Then the news started to come in, buildings collapsed, people trapped, then injuries, then finally after daybreak the deaths. Living away from the southern IL tv market gave me a bit of awayness but twitter and facebook doesn't. The pictures, the Strip mall by Walmart, the neighborhood, we all had to triple check to see if it was more photos from Branson or Kansas, but I knew when I seen the stripmall that this was not just any ordinary southern Illinois tornado.. That's when it hit me the hardest, that this cell was coming into Evansville, following the exact same track as the November 2005 tornado that killed so many people.. as I sat there seeing the couplet strengthening on the Doppler radar from Evansville what came into the very same mobile home park that 3 years after the storm you could still see debris as you went down I-164, and I just sat there waiting, knowing it's done so much damage already in Illinois, could it REALLY happen again??? Then it went past, no word of damage, but then the word came in, there was just a street, I thought ok we was pretty lucky, only 1 or 2 streets or homes, then the cell fell apart... Then the news crews got to Harrisburg, you never expect to look on the tv and see flattened shopping centers and homes just 65 miles from where you spent your entire childhood, but then again.. This is Southern Illinois, were strong, we were built on the coal mines that made us strong. we WILL rebuild Harrisburg, Carrier Mills, Ridgway that was hit so hard early this morning, Will it take time?? Sure, but we will be back, better, stronger than ever before.. To conclude, a little bit of irony, This past monday a group of men from the church that I attend left Flora to spend a week helping to rebuild homes in Joplin, Little did we or they know that just 48 hours later there would be things to do much closer to home... But in the Southern Illinois spirit, there will be tons of help, tons of manpower, and tons of hugs and shoulders to cry on along the way, that's the way we are in Southern Illinois, we dust ourselves off and get back to work and clean it up.. and that's what makes me love that place so so much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye05 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Anyone else think the cell that just entered WV looks suspicious? Near Oceana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye05 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 And the one near Rainelle looks identical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernNJ Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Intense storm moving for Williamsburg KY. Funnel cloud was reported on it earlier during its path. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernNJ Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Intense storm moving for Williamsburg KY. Funnel cloud was reported on it earlier during its path. Looks as if this storm may have more than one circulation. At any rate, the folks between Carpenter and Pineville may want to be on the look-out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indystorm Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Good reflections Jhamps on the human impact of much of what we discuss in these forums. I know Harrisburg over to Marion and Carbondale well because of family in the area in prior years and it is good to remind us of our strength in situations like this. That's why I'm glad JoMo's observations of 9 months of recovery in Joplin are so helpful and inspirational on the main page of this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Can I get the cliff notes on what I missed this morning? How bad did S IN and KY take it? Sent from my ADR6400L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Really nice couplet around 5 kft east of Wheeler, KY. Not close enough to any radars to really see the low levels though. No reports of a tornado, but several severe weather reports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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