Zo te zien zijn er duizenden huizen verwoest, dus lijkt me wel.quote:
Uh oh.quote:Op dinsdag 24 mei 2011 08:29 schreef IkWilbert het volgende:
Vandaag/Vannacht weer een high risk... die mensen is geen rust gegund daar.
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quote:Two Days Of Destructive Tornadoes
"AccuWeather.com Meteorologists are forecasting a significant tornado outbreak which could include 50 or more tornado reports..."
The tornado threat will increase across the Plains today as another round of potentially deadly storms take shape.
AccuWeather.com Meteorologists are forecasting a significant tornado outbreak today which could include 50 or more tornado reports, most of which could occur across eastern Oklahoma and eastern Kansas.
The greatest threat of tornadic activity lies in the corridor from Oklahoma City, Okla., to Wichita, Kan., to already hard-hit Joplin, Mo.
This also includes the cities of Dallas, Texas, Topeka, Kan., and Tulsa, Okla.
Any tornadoes that develop will have the to potential to be long-lived and long tracked, even more so than the tornado that destroyed Joplin.
Thunderstorms will first erupt during the afternoon hours across central Kansas, central Oklahoma and north-central Texas. These thunderstorms will quickly turn severe, producing potentially devastating tornadoes.
Although these storms will occur during the day, tornadoes may still be difficult to see. As was the case with the Joplin tornado, any of these twisters that become wrapped up with rain will be tough to distinguish.
Besides tornadoes, these storms will also bring large and damaging hail and torrential downpours which could lead to flash flooding.
Travel could also be restricted due to debris on Interstates 70, 40, 44 and 35.
These storms will then track eastward late on Tuesday afternoon into Tuesday night bringing the threat for destructive tornadoes into the middle-Mississippi River Valley for the nighttime hours.
Residents should be advised that tornadoes that occur at night are the most dangerous due to the simple fact that most people are asleep. Persons are urged to keep tuned to local media outlets during this severe weather outbreak and have a plan of action prepared should severe weather strike.
This region has been hit hard over the last several days. On Sunday, a deadly EF-4 tornado struck Joplin, Mo., while numerous areas had hail and damaging winds on Monday.
quote:Tornado in VS dodelijkste sinds 1950
(Novum/AP) - JOPLIN - Een van de tornado's die deze week door de Amerikaanse staat Missouri raasde, heeft aan 117 mensen het leven gekost. Daarmee is het de dodelijkste tornado in de Verenigde Staten sinds 1950.
Volgens de Amerikaanse meteorologische dienst stamde het vorige record uit 1953, toen 116 mensen omkwamen bij een tornado in Flint, in de staat Michigan.
Vorige maand kwamen bij een reeks tornado's in het zuiden van de Verenigde Staten meer dan 350 mensen om het leven.
quote:This year's tornado death toll now stands at 482, making it the deadliest year for tornadoes in the U.S. since 1953, when 519 people died. That year, three heavily populated cities received direct hits by violent tornadoes. Waco, Texas (114 killed), Flint, Michigan (115 killed), and Worcester, Massachusetts (89 – 94 killed) all were hit by violent F-4 or F-5 tornadoes. A similar bad tornado year occurred in 1936, when violent tornadoes hit Tupelo Mississippi (216 killed), and Gainesville, Georgia (203 killed.)
zowiezo elk stadje/dorpje. Tornado's zijn mooi om te zien, maar de verwoesting die ze teweeg brengen zie ik maar liever niet eerlijk gezegdquote:Op dinsdag 24 mei 2011 19:29 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Outbreak kansen voor vanavond en vannacht zijn weer hoog![]()
Laten we hopen dat Joplin gespaard blijft
Veel erger dan 27 april kan het toch nietquote:After reviewing the latest data & computer models, it’s very likely we’ll be seeing a historic event unfold today.
Volgens Accuweather wel.quote:
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Wunderblogquote:A violent high-end EF-4 tornado with winds of 190 – 198 mph carved a 7-mile long, ¾ to one mile-wide path of near-total destruction through Joplin beginning at 5:41pm CDT Sunday evening. In nine terrifying minutes, the tornado killed at least 116 people, injured 500 more, and obliterated huge sections of the town. Damage from the tornado is so severe that pavement was ripped from the ground, 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.
Oh man, dat kan er ook nog wel bij. En ja, Joplin was (volgens de eerste berekeningen) een EF4.quote:Op dinsdag 24 mei 2011 19:41 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
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Veel erger dan 27 april kan het toch niet
nog niet kunnen ontdekken, heb de nieuwszenders geprobeerd voor oklahoma en texas die in de OP staanquote:Op dinsdag 24 mei 2011 20:50 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Is er al ergens een live-streams van een nieuwszender daar in de regio?
david reimer heeft in z'n auto wel een radiozender op staan die over het severe weather uitzendt, maar ze noemen geen naamquote:Op dinsdag 24 mei 2011 21:03 schreef MaryMouse het volgende:
Nog niets ontdekt wat live uitzend. Ook WXK85 radio (Oklahoma City) zend nog het gewone weerbericht uit.
http://www.koco.com/video/27993584/detail.htmlquote:Op dinsdag 24 mei 2011 21:03 schreef MaryMouse het volgende:
Nog niets ontdekt wat live uitzend. Ook WXK85 radio (Oklahoma City) zend nog het gewone weerbericht uit.
quote:1500 unaccounted for in Joplin
JOPLIN, Mo. — About 1,500 people are unaccounted for in this battered city, a Fire Department official said Tuesday, as rescue workers took advantage of a few hours of sunny weather to continue searching for survivors in buildings leveled by the country’s deadliest tornado in more than 60 years. At least 117 people have died.
While the number of those unaccounted for is alarmingly high in a city with only 49,000 people — and raises the specter of a far higher death count — it may merely be a reflection of the widespread breakdown of communication systems here in the wake of Sunday’s vicious storm. Many residents who fled ahead of the tornado or survived it may be unable to notify the authorities or family members who have reported them missing.
Capt. Robert Daus of the Maryland Heights Fire District, who is helping to lead a team of about 100 St. Louis-area firefighters in search and rescue operations in Joplin, said that in addition to the 1,500 people who remain unaccounted for, an additional 500 had been injured by the tornado, which cut a three-quarter-mile-wide path through this southwestern Missouri city and damaged as many as 30 percent of its buildings.
While much of Tuesday provided a respite from the nearly unrelenting rain and wind that had hampered rescue efforts, more challenging weather may be on the way. An unusually strong weather system moving east across the Rockies is expected to mix with moist air heading north from the Gulf of Mexico, carrying with it the possibility of creating severe storms late Tuesday.
“We are expecting some violent storms to develop across Kansas and Oklahoma today bringing rain, hail and the risk of tornadoes that could move into the Joplin area this evening,” said Doug Cramer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “This is a very good set up for very big tornadoes.”
The National Weather Service said the tornado that struck the city Sunday evening had reached wind speeds of up to 198 miles per hour, just below the 201-mile-an-hour wind speed level of the most powerful category of tornadoes.
On Tuesday morning, American flags flew outside many houses in Joplin, including flags that had been draped over sections of ruined homes. When there was not enough structure of a house left behind to support a flag, flags were placed in nearby trees that had somehow managed to retain a few branches.
About one-third of the most heavily damaged sections of the city were cordoned off by the authorities on Tuesday as rescue teams with dogs combed rubble. The doors of houses that had been searched were marked with an “X.” If bodies were found inside, a number was listed under the “X.”
The authorities said they planned to complete a second sweep through the city on Tuesday, methodically examining every structure that had been damaged — at least 2,000.
On Monday, crews pulled seven people out of buildings that had collapsed, officials said. But on Tuesday, some 60 hours after the hurricane struck, no survivors had been found.
“We’re hoping to find more folks, that’s why we’re doing these searches,” said Keith Stammer, the Jasper County emergency management director.
Mr. Stammer said the city planned on conducting at least two more rounds of searches, but those would likely not take place until after the storm expected Tuesday evening had passed.
Earlier Tuesday, President Obama, who is on a state trip in Britain, said that he was monitoring the federal response to the tornado and that he planned to visit Missouri on Sunday “to talk with folks who’ve been affected, to talk to local officials about our response effort and hopefully to pray with folks and give them whatever assurance and comfort I can that the entire country is going to be behind them.”
Among the buildings that search and rescue teams were focusing on Tuesday was Hampshire Terrace, a 100-unit apartment complex with about 300 tenants, where the tornado’s fierce winds had ripped off and blown away nearly the entire second story of the two-floor building.
Jessica Blackwood, 22, who had lived in Hampshire Terrace with her 2-year-old son, was not at home when the tornado hit. Her grandmother, who lived in another unit in the complex was also not home and escaped harm. But Ms. Blackwood said she is very worried about her neighbors.
“I keep hearing the count go up and I keep praying it stops,” she said. “I’m so scared one of these times I’m going to hear a name a know.”
Firefighters and cadaver-sniffing dogs have been through the building twice, officials said and have not reported finding bodies or making rescues. On Tuesday, a team of 50 firefighters planned to spend all day long going through the building’s debris.
“It’s absolutely gone. It’s a total loss,” said Rick Plush, president of the building’s management agency, the Heritage Management Corporation, based in Topeka, Kan. “You want to be optimistic, but when you see the level of devastation, you wonder if there aren’t parts of people in the rubble. We are as optimistic as we can be.”
Most of the building’s residents were low- or moderate-income families, including elderly people and families with children, said Amy Thompson, vice president of Heritage Management. About 20 percent of the tenants received federal Section 8 housing vouchers.
The company said that it had set up a special Web site and that it had established a special phone number for tenants to call, but that the whereabouts of only seven or eight tenants had been determined so far.
“When something like this happens, people scatter and I think most people are still in survival mode - making sure they have food and a place to live,” Ms. Thompson said. “Hopefully within three or four days, we’ll have heard from a lot more people.”
Als je de vernietiging ziet, valt 't me nog mee dat ongeveer 47k van de 49k het dan wel overleefd hebben..quote:
True... of ze hebben daar allemaal verdomd goeie schuilkelders. Heb het zondagnacht niet kunnen volgen, qua waarschuwingstijd etc. Maar 1500 vermisten, daar zal nog wel een heel zwikkie afgaan, maar ook het dodental zal nog wel stijgenquote:Op dinsdag 24 mei 2011 21:39 schreef Perrin het volgende:
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Als je de vernietiging ziet, valt 't me nog mee dat ongeveer 47k van de 49k het dan wel overleefd hebben..
Kende dat nog niet, zal er eens naar op zoek gaan, thx voor de tip.quote:Op dinsdag 24 mei 2011 22:02 schreef Pistol_Pete het volgende:
Zie net dit topic. Wellicht is het volgende al bij jullie bekend, zag het zo snel niet in dit topic.
Afgelopen zondag was er in de VS op Discovery een speciale uitzending van "storm chasers" naar aanleiding van dit bizarre Tornado seizoen. Uitzending heet Tornado Rampage en gaat over de grote Tornado's in Mississippi en Alabama van eerder dit seizoen. Erg indrukwekkende beelden.
thanks, ben aan het downloaden.quote:Op dinsdag 24 mei 2011 22:02 schreef Pistol_Pete het volgende:
Zie net dit topic. Wellicht is het volgende al bij jullie bekend, zag het zo snel niet in dit topic.
Afgelopen zondag was er in de VS op Discovery een speciale uitzending van "storm chasers" naar aanleiding van dit bizarre Tornado seizoen. Uitzending heet Tornado Rampage en gaat over de grote Tornado's in Mississippi en Alabama van eerder dit seizoen. Erg indrukwekkende beelden.
Thx, doch hij staat er echter in, ook al is het wat onduidelijkquote:Op dinsdag 24 mei 2011 21:28 schreef Schuifpui het volgende:
Ik kwam deze link net tegen:
Moet deze niet in de OP trouwens, de kaart Amerikaanse kaart met weeralarmen, waarschuwingen etc: http://www.weather.gov/view/largemap.php
Daar zie je dat kaartje ook.quote:Amerikaanse weerinstituut - National Weather Service
Je hebt gelijk, had er overheen gekeken.quote:Op dinsdag 24 mei 2011 22:16 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
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Thx, doch hij staat er echter in, ook al is het wat onduidelijk
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Daar zie je dat kaartje ook.
Nee was nog niet gepost hier. Wat een schade er aangericht is is hier wel erg goed zichtbaar op de fotos. Toch niet te bevattenquote:Op dinsdag 24 mei 2011 22:18 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Is deze link al eens voorbij gekomen?
ongelofelijke foto's van Joplin
http://www.dailymail.co.u(...)e-Missouri-town.html
Pff, dat spoorquote:Op dinsdag 24 mei 2011 22:18 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Is deze link al eens voorbij gekomen?
ongelofelijke foto's van Joplin
http://www.dailymail.co.u(...)e-Missouri-town.html
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