Weeralarm V.S. # 7 Extreem weer - Tornado touchdown

Tientallen doden door tornado in de VS

WASHINGTON - Door een zware wervelstorm in het Middenwesten van de Verenigde Staten zijn zondag zeker dertig doden gevallen. Dit is maandag (onze tijd) vernomen van een plaatselijke lijkschouwer.

De doden vielen in de stad Joplin in de staat Missouri. Naast de doden is een onbekend aantal gewonden gevallen.
Woonhuizen, kerken en een ziekenhuis raakten beschadigd, zo meldden plaatselijke media. Mensen raakten bekneld onder het puin van hun huizen of in vernielde auto's.

Amerikaanse meteorologen bevestigden dat de wervelstorm door het centrum van de stad van zo'n 50.000 inwoners is getrokken.
Enkele weken geleden zijn in de VS 354 doden gevallen door wervelstormen.

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Wat een puinhoop.

Vandaag weer een slight risk.
Morgen een moderate risk op severe weather.

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Op maandag 23 mei 2011 13:56 schreef IkWilbert het volgende:
Op dit moment weer een heftige bui onderweg naar Joplin... hopelijk gaat ie er langs

Lijkt er recht op af te gaan. Er is nog geen tornado warning.

Indrukwekkende tornado




[ Bericht 22% gewijzigd door #ANONIEM op 23-05-2011 18:29:29 ]

Severe Weather voor vandaag is nu verhoogd naar moderate risk.

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More Severe Weather Expected Today
The area will have little time to clean up as another round of severe weather is expected again today.
A complex of severe thunderstorms tracked across Joplin and southwestern Missouri this morning producing gusty winds and hail.
Hail, 1 inch in diameter, was reported in the vicinity of Joplin Municipal Airport along with wind gusts to 36 mph.
Additional thunderstorms will develop this afternoon across the southern Plains, potentially affecting the Joplin area again.
Torrential downpours and frequent lightning associated with these thunderstorms will interfere with cleanup efforts. Localized flash flooding is likely as the ground is already saturated due to above-normal rainfall the last two months.
High winds could cause additional damage and may topple cranes which are in the city helping with the cleanup.

rest van verhaal

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Another Round of Southern Plains Severe Weather Tuesday

"The greatest threat of tornadic activity Tuesday lies from Oklahoma City... to already hard-hit Joplin, Mo."



After severe thunderstorms and tornadoes damaged parts of the southern Plains over the weekend, another round of devastating weather is on the way for Tuesday.
The same frontal boundary which is sparking severe storms from Texas to Pennsylvania today will sink ever so slightly southward by Tuesday. South of this boundary, a very warm and moist air mass remains in place, setting the stage for additional rounds of severe weather from Texas through the mid-Atlantic.
Along the end of the front, a strong low pressure system will strengthen across the southern Plains Tuesday, creating ideal conditions for dangerous storms and potential tornadoes.
The greatest threat of tornadic activity on Tuesday lies in the corridor from Oklahoma City, Okla., to Wichita, Kan., to already hard-hit Joplin, Mo.
These locations will see an elevated threat of tornadoes, hail to the size of baseballs and flash flooding from thunderstorms that develop.
Just as is happening today, the severe weather threat will also be present farther east through the Ohio Valley into the mid-Atlantic states.
Residents from Paducah, Ky., through Charleston, W.Va., to Washington, D.C., will have to be on the lookout for rapidly changing weather conditions on Tuesday.
Over the mid-Atlantic and Ohio Valley, the greatest threats will be large hail and damaging wind gusts. However, an isolated tornado or two cannot be ruled out that far east.
As with most severe weather, the greatest coverage of thunderstorms will occur during the afternoon and evening hours as the daytime heating causes the air to rise rapidly.
Anyone in these areas should expect travel delays, especially during the afternoon and evening hours. Be prepared for any detours or delays around any damage that may occur.
Check back with AccuWeather.com throughout the next few days for the latest on the ongoing severe weather. Residents are encouraged to listen to local media outlets and heed all severe weather warnings issued.

Accuweather

Deadliest U.S. tornado since 1953 rips through Joplin, Missouri, killing 89

The incredibly violent tornado season of 2011 struck another sickening blow last night, when a violent tornado carved a ½ – ¾ mile-wide path of devastation through Joplin, Missouri. At least 89 people died, hundreds were injured, and huge sections of the town virtually obliterated. Damage from the tornado is so severe that pavement was ripped from the ground, which is characteristic of a top-end EF-5 tornado with winds in excess of 200 mph. This was almost certainly a least an EF-4 tornado with winds over 166 mph, and the level of damage is so extreme that this is likely to surpass last month's Tuscaloosa-Birmingham tornado as the costliest tornado of all-time.


Figure 1. Cars stacked on top of each other in front of the heavily damaged St. Johns Regional Medical Center after the May 22, 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri. Note the pavement ripped up from the road and piled in front of the cars. Tornadoes powerful enough to rip up pavement are frequently classified as EF-5 with winds in excess of 200 mph. Image credit: Chris McCrillis, posted to Twitter.

The huge supercell thunderstorm that spawned the Joplin tornado formed over extreme southeast Kansas yesterday afternoon, along the boundary between warm, moist air flowing northwards from the Gulf of Mexico, and cold, dry air moving south from Canada. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) had put the region in its “moderate risk” region for severe weather. As the supercell moved into Southwest Missouri, it spawned the tornado that roared through Joplin at 5:45pm CDT. This storm generated other tornadoes, straight-line wind damage, and flash flooding from torrential rains that exceeded six inches as it moved east southeast across Southwest Missouri. SPC recorded 48 preliminary reports of tornadoes yesterday, bringing the 2-day total for the current outbreak to 70. A tornado also killed one person and injured 22 in Minneapolis Sunday. Separate tornadoes killed one person each in Andice, Texas and Reading, Kansas on Saturday—the first tornado deaths in the U.S. since the April 25 – 28 Super Outbreak.


Figure 2. Radar reflectivity image of the supercell thunderstorm that spawned the Joplin, Missouri tornado, ½ hour after it devastated the city (circle with the “+” symbol.)


Figure 3. Radar Doppler velocity image of the supercell thunderstorm that spawned the Joplin, Missouri tornado, ½ hour after it devastated the city (circle with the “+” symbol.)


Figure 4. Satellite image taken at 5:45pm CDT May 22, 2011, when the Joplin, Missouri tornado was occurring. Image credit: NASA/GSFC.

Deadliest tornado since 1953
Yesterday's Joplin, Missouri tornado is the deadliest single tornado in the U.S. since June 10, 1953, when 94 people died in the Worcester, Massachusetts tornado. The previous deadliest tornado in the past 50 years occurred just last month, when 65 people died in the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham EF-4 tornado in Alabama. This year's tornado death toll now stands at 455, making it the deadliest year for tornadoes in the U.S. since 1953, when 519 people died. The deadliest year was 1925, with 794 deaths. That was the year of the deadliest U.S. tornado of all-time, the great Tri-State tornado, which killed 695 people in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.



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Op maandag 23 mei 2011 19:33 schreef Disorder het volgende:

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"Torandoes" !!!!!!!

Foutje van accuweather...

Greensburg was inderdaad een klein stadje wat compleet werd verwoest. Zie de foto in de OP.
Het is een wonder dat daar toen niet meer slachtoffers bij zijn gevallen. Het lijkt wel alsof de kleinere dorpjes beter zijn voorbereid op een tornado dan een grotere stad.

[ Bericht 0% gewijzigd door #ANONIEM op 23-05-2011 23:09:41 ]