Die golven in de weilanden, komt dat ook door die tornadoquote:Op woensdag 25 mei 2011 08:42 schreef aloa het volgende:
7 doden. En nog steeds tornado warnings.
Violent Weather Kills 7 in Oklahoma, Kansas
quote:Dodental tornado Joplin loopt op naar 122
JOPLIN (ANP/AFP) - Het dodental als gevolg van de wervelstorm die zondag het stadje Joplin in de Amerikaanse staat Missouri heeft getroffen, is opgelopen tot 122. Dit is dinsdag (plaatselijke tijd) van officiële bronnen vernomen.
De verwondingen van 750 mensen moesten in ziekenhuizen worden behandeld.
De tornado heeft een 6,4 kilometer lang en meer dan 1 kilometer breed spoor van verwoesting achtergelaten. Het was de dodelijkste wervelstorm in de VS sinds 1953, toen een tornado in Flint in de staat Michigan 116 mensenlevens eiste.
quote:A series of storms struck Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas late Tuesday and early Wednesday, wiping out homes and businesses and killing at least nine people, emergency officials said.
A tornado, the largest and most severe of the storms, struck around midday, touching down in Caddo County, Okla., and then sweeping from the southwest to northeast corners of Canadian County, where it devastated El Reno, a town of 15,000 people about 25 miles west of downtown Oklahoma City. At least five people were killed and officials said the number could rise as search and rescue teams started to fan out across a state already battered by storms over the weekend.
Cherokee Ballard, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma state medical examiner, said four people had died in Canadian County, where a weather-monitoring site recorded winds of 151 miles per hour, The Associated Press reported. And in Chickasha, south of Oklahoma City, a woman died when a tornado hit a mobile home park, The A.P. reported.
At least 60 people were reported injured across central Oklahoma, many along the Interstate 40 corridor that runs past El Reno.
The tornado left a trail of shredded and overturned cars along I-40, destroyed livestock, set off a gas line explosion and spurred people across El Reno to evacuate their homes. Amy Brandley, the Canadian County flood plain manager, said emergency crews had only just begun to assess the damage. “Our county commissioner’s crews are out with heavy equipment clearing roads right now so search and rescues can take place,” she said.
The tornado that struck in El Reno was one of several across the state Tuesday. By 8 p.m., the National Weather Service had tornado watches in effect across 11 counties and was warning that “supercells” had developed across the central part of the state and were moving eastward. The agency posted an urgent alert on its Web site predicting an “outbreak of strong tornadoes” throughout late Tuesday.
“Plan now where you will seek shelter,” the notice advised.
In Kansas, the police said two people died when high winds threw a tree into their van around 6 p.m. near St. John, about 100 miles west of Wichita, The A.P. reported.
Arkansas officials quoted by The A.P. said one person was killed in Franklin County early Wednesday and another had died in neighboring Johnson County.
In Texas, the news agency said that funnel clouds were reported across the northern suburbs of Dallas and Fort Worth around sundown Tuesday, with brief tornado touchdowns in Corinth, Saginaw and Bedford.
Other brief tornadoes were reported near Springtown and Azle, just northwest of Fort Worth, and near Muenster, 65 miles north of Fort Worth. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
Even the National Weather Service was not immune from the danger. Earlier in the day its Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., about 20 miles south of downtown Oklahoma City, had to be evacuated as one of the day’s tornadoes approached.
Hoeveel EF4 en EF5's waren er?quote:Op woensdag 25 mei 2011 14:13 schreef aloa het volgende:
Accuweather voorspelde voor gisteren 50 tornado's
Het zijn er 47 geworden.
Ook opvallend veel hagelmeldingen van 5cm of meer
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Meestal duurt het even voordat men weet wat voor tornado het is geweestquote:
quote:Storms kill four in western Arkansas overnight, 13 total
LITTLE ROCK — Four people are reported dead and several others injured in western Arkansas after high winds and possibly tornadoes swept through Franklin and Johnson counties overnight.
In Franklin County, one person was reported dead in the Etna community and another in Denning, said Renee Preslar, spokeswoman for the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management.
In Johnson County, one person was reported dead in Strawberry and another in the Bethlehem community, she said.
Preslar said there were reports of numerous injuries, and about 20 homes in Johnson County were damaged or destroyed.
The storms were part of a front that moved through Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas Tuesday, killing at least 13.
More storms, possibly severe, are forecast for the eastern half of Arkansas today, according to the National Weather Service.
Preslar said she did not have more details about the overnight storms or damage. She said rescue crews are working in both counties today to determine if others may have been injured or killed during the storms.
The Red Cross has set up a shelter for people at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Clarksville, she said.
The storm in Johnson County caused damaged to a number of towns and communities, including Stone Hill, Ozone, Clarksville and Strawberry, she said.
Officials with the National Weather Service are expected to visit those counties today to determine whether the storms included tornadoes.
“From my standpoint a tornado is not a tornado until the weather service confirms it as a tornado … but I think everybody else is saying tornado,” Preslar said.
Also, searchers in Benton County are continuing their search today for two women and two children who were in a car that was swept away in floodwaters near the community of Galatin on Monday night, Preslar said.
“The four missing were last heard from by a family member who advised they were trapped in a car in the water,” Preslar said, adding that searchers looked for the four Tuesday but suspended the search at nightfall.
Op zich lijkt het niet heel erg groot, maar zet NL er maar eens naastquote:Op woensdag 25 mei 2011 18:41 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Hier kwamen de tornado's van afgelopen nacht uit
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Vond de verslaggeving ervan iig erg goed.. volgens mij voorkomt dat ook een berg slachtoffers. Mooie en kwalitatief hoogwaardige TV ook in Oklahoma, met die real-time analyses en geswitch naar heli en chasers..quote:Op woensdag 25 mei 2011 18:50 schreef Ceetje.. het volgende:
zie net op twitter: een chaser meldt nu een tornado aan de grond in Kansas, zie op News9 dat er op sommige plaatsen 30% tornado probability is vandaag. Wordt weer volgen vanavond vrees ik. Gelukkig dat er gisteravond niet enorm veel doden zijn gevallen, maarja, helaas is elke er een teveel
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