[ACTUEEL] Tornado's VS #23 Nieuw seizoen van start

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Tornado devastates Tupelo

A tornado caused extensive damage in the north part of Tupelo Monday afternoon.

Residential areas along North Gloster Street, Green Street and the Lakeshire subdivision were hit, and two gas stations were reportedly destroyed.

"Obviously there has been storm damage. It's a very serious situation," Tupelo Mayor Jason Shelton said. "I am just encouraging everyone to stay inside and be weather aware. There is still a very real danger of another line coming through and people still need to be inside."

Shelton said he has heard reports of extensive damage along the busy North Gloster Street thoroughfare that connects downtown to the shopping district but said he hasn't had a chance to survey the damage yet. He has been at Fire Station No. 1 downtown where the county emergency management team has set up its headquarters.

A long-time, popular restaurant — Vanelli's — was destroyed. Vanelli's is a Greek and Italian restaurant that first opened in 1975.

An Outback restaurant reportedly also was destroyed. It is located near the Barnes Crossing in north Tupelo.

Comfort Suites, located just across Gloster from Vanelli's took extensive damage.

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NWSJacksonMS twitterde op maandag 28-04-2014 om 23:24:32 4:25 PM: MSU storm spotters report Winston County tornado may now be 3/4 mile wide. #mswx reageer retweet

04-28-14 Skip Talbot/Jennifer Brindley Tupelo, MS Tornado

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Op maandag 28 april 2014 23:39 schreef INViCTuS het volgende:
Ik denk trouwens dat het later begonnen is en het tot dusver relatief rustig is geweest door de lange en koude winter

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The quiet start to the year is no guarantee that the rest of the season will be quiet, especially considering that tornado season typically peaks in May and June. It is a function of the weather pattern that has dominated the lower 48 states since the fall, with a deep dip, or trough, in the jet stream across the Midwest and East, and a ridge of high pressure off the West Coast. The trough brought colder than usual temperatures and above-average snowfall to the East, while the ridge kept the West warmer and drier than average.

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Op dinsdag 29 april 2014 08:25 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Dodental na twee dagen staat op 26

Arkansas - minstens 15
Oklahoma -1
Iowa - 1
Mississippi - 7
Alabama - 2

Ook vandaag weer een nieuwe (moderate risk) kans op zwaar weer in die regionen

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stormchaser4850 twitterde op dinsdag 29-04-2014 om 11:29:17 DEVELOPING: ***Significant damage and possible injuries reported after radar-confirmed #tornado near Smiths Station #AL around 4 am CDT *** reageer retweet

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Widespread flooding being reported in & around metro Mobile area. Picture via @ALcomMobile

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Op dinsdag 29 april 2014 07:18 schreef aloa het volgende:
9 doden, maar dat gaat waarschijnlijk oplopen.


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http://www.usatoday.com/s(...)west-storms/8353073/

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IrishEagle twitterde op dinsdag 29-04-2014 om 15:58:11 Different perspective on the devastation at Parkwood Meadows nbrhd in Vilonia. #ARtornado (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) http://t.co/OXE2fWBbzM reageer retweet

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Torrential rain from a pair of thunderstorm clusters triggered major flash flooding along parts of the Alabama Gulf Coast and the Florida Panhandle late Tuesday and early Wednesday. Authorities blamed the flooding for one death in Pensacola, Florida.

Several homes and businesses were flooded, the Pensacola News Journal reported. Resident were stranded in cars and homes waiting for rescuers to find a way around impassable roads and others abandoned vehicles to walk to safety.

A 10-mile stretch of Interstate 10 was flooded and closed from the Alabama state line into western Florida on Wednesday morning. Several roads were also closed throughout Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.

Fire rescue crews weren't able to respond to some calls for help because of road flooding in and around Pensacola, Escambia County spokesman Bill Pearson said.

"We've had people whose homes are flooding and they've had to climb up to the attic," Pearson told The Weather Channel on Wednesday morning.

Pearson said emergency officials had described it was the worst flooding they had seen in 30 years. He cautioned that waters will continues to rise after the rain stops. "If it's a body of water, it poses a safety threat today," he said.

(FORECAST: Pensacola | Mobile)

In Alabama, much of downtown Mobile was flooded and a reverse 911 was sent to residents at Fish River, near Silverhill, where water levels were at their highest for 60 years.

Baldwin County crews had been rescuing stranded people since before midnight and some were in shelters Wednesday morning, emergency management director Mitchell Sims told ai.com the flooding is historic.

"As soon as we get a water rescue team in here, they're sent back out," Sims said. "We're rescuing people from cars, from rooftops, from all over the place.

"I think we're going to be dealing with this for days," added Sims, who estimated that 12 to 17 inches of rain had fallen in 24 hours. "I don't know where the water's going to go. Everything is saturated."

Tuesday was Mobile's fifth-wettest day in 143 years, the National Weather Service said.

The thunderstorms and heavy rain are expected to continue throughout the morning in the region and could linger well into the afternoon, said Jonathan Erdman, weather.com meteorologist

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Op woensdag 30 april 2014 14:38 schreef Angry_Bird het volgende:
Aangezien het volgens mij om hetzelfde weersysteem gaat, plaats ik het toch maar even hier:

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Bron: weather.com

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Grote schade door overstromingen Florida
Overstromingen als gevolg van zware regenval hebben in het noordwesten van de Amerikaanse staat Florida zware schade aangericht. Bruggen en wegen zijn weggespoeld en veel huizen zijn ondergelopen.

De snelweg die het oosten en het westen van de staat verbindt, is tussen Fort Walton Beach en Panama City op diverse plaatsen afgesloten, meldt nieuwszender CNN.
De overstromingen hebben een 67-jarige vrouw het leven gekost. Zij reed dinsdagavond (plaatselijke tijd) een sloot in en verdronk. Rick Scott, gouverneur van Florida, heeft de noodtoestand uitgeroepen. Volgens hem zijn driehonderd mensen gered.

"Mensen hebben alles verloren, en ze hadden geen verzekering afgesloten voor overstromingen, omdat ze dachten dat ze niet in een gebied woonden waar overstromingen konden plaatsvinden", aldus Scott.

Alabama
Ook in de aangrenzende staat Alabama is sprake van wateroverlast. Het water steeg daar op sommige plaatsen zo snel dat mensen het dak van hun huis op vluchtten.
Andere delen van de Verenigde Staten werden deze week door tornado's getroffen. Daardoor kwamen zeker 34 mensen om.

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Op woensdag 30 april 2014 11:11 schreef aloa het volgende:
Volgende week dinsdag/woensdag kan ook weer heftig worden.

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Tornado outbreak death toll rises to 35
Sunday and Monday’s tornado rampage across the Midwest and Southeast U.S. brought at least five EF-3 tornadoes and one EF-4 tornado, and has claimed 35 lives. For the 24-hour period beginning at 8 am Monday, SPC logged 72 preliminary tornado reports from five states. An additional 35 preliminary tornado reports came on Sunday, bringing the two-day preliminary tornado total to 107. The deadliest tornado was an EF-3 that killed 14 people in Arkansas, ravaging the towns of Mayflower and Vilonia. Damage surveys are not yet complete, but the strongest tornado rated so far was an EF-4 with 185 mph winds that hit Louisville, Mississippi on April 28. The tornado killed nine people, carved a damage path 35 miles long and up to 3/4 mile wide, and stayed on the ground for 56 minutes. The NWS survey noted:

“THIS TORNADO PRODUCED A LARGE AREA OF EF2 TO EF4 DAMAGE ALONG ITS PATH. HUNDREDS OF STRUCTURES WERE HEAVILY DAMAGED AND THOUSANDS OF TREES WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED. THE EF4 DAMAGE CONSISTED OF SEVERAL HOMES AND APARTMENTS THAT WERE REDUCED TO SLABS...INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS THAT WERE COLLAPSED...CHICKEN HOUSES THAT WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED WITH LITTLE TRACE LEFT OF THEM...DEBARKED AND DENUDED TREES AND A COLLAPSED CELL TOWER.”

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Op donderdag 1 mei 2014 13:58 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Is hier al wat meer over bekend?