Weeralarm VS: Ongewoon zwaar tornadoseizoen

Deadly Storm Flooding Soaks Ohio After Drenching Upper Midwest - kills 21

RUSHFORD, Minn. — A powerful storm system that swamped the upper Midwest and killed at least six people moved into Ohio on Tuesday as weary Minnesota residents returned to their water-logged homes. For many, it was a surreal scene.

Orange Xs marked buildings that had been searched for survivors. Canoes lay in the streets. At a campground in Houston County, picnic tables hung from trees.



Mud several inches deep covered streets in parts of Rushford, and some sidewalks had collapsed.

"Some people had to cut holes in their roofs to get out, the water was so deep," said Jack O'Donnell, chief deputy with the Fillmore County Sheriff's Office.

The storm was one of two systems that flooded towns in the Midwest and southern Plains over the weekend. The second, the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin, killed six people in Oklahoma, eight in Texas and one in Missouri, where up to 11 inches of rain fell in a few hours Monday.

Tuesday morning, heavy rain in Ohio caused flooding that closed a seven-mile stretch of Interstate 75 in the northwest part of the state, the Highway Patrol said.

Nearby, motorists were urged to stay out of Wyandot County because of extensive flooding caused by more than 8 inches of rain, and authorities were busy rescuing motorists from stalled cars, sheriff's Lt. Neil Riedlinger said.

Water was 3 feet deep Tuesday in downtown Carey, Ohio, and a local nursing home had to be evacuated, Riedlinger said. Firefighters in the north-central Ohio town of Bucyrus used a boat to rescue families from flooded homes.

In Minnesota, divers and the crew of a National Guard helicopter searched for Jered Lorenz, 37, whose overturned car was found lodged in the rocks along a creek near Lewiston.

Fifteen miles to the south, the National Guard controlled access to the city of Rushford, escorting residents in just long enough for them to grab pets, clothing, medicine and other emergency supplies.

Rushford City administrator Windy Block said residents may be allowed back for good Tuesday if electrical power is restored and the storm sewer works. She estimated that at least a third of the town's 1,800 residents suffered damage from the flooding of Rush Creek.

Hundreds of people fled their homes in southwestern Wisconsin as the deluge turned the countryside in Vernon, Crawford and Richland counties into bogs, drowned crops and strained dams nearly to the breaking point. Damage estimates hit nearly $30 million and were expected to keep climbing.

Southwestern Wisconsin was under another flash flood watch Tuesday night and Wednesday, with a chance of rain through Friday, said National Weather Service meteorologist Rod Swerman.

The town of Soldiers Grove, Wis., lost part of a road to flooding. In nearby Gays Mills, flooding filled downtown with waist-deep, peanut butter-colored water. Mason Evans Jr. said water was 8 feet deep in his house in Gays Mills.

"It broke me," Evans said. "I lost everything." (FOX)

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't Gaat tot nu toe net onder Michigan door, alhoewel er de laatste week wel enorme stormen en onweersbuien zijn geweest. Voor een mooi schouwspel in de lucht zit je hier op de goede plek. De onweersbuien hier zijn 'beroemd', of beter, berucht.



GRAND RAPIDS - Where there's a boom, there's a flash, and it's important to be ready.

According to the National Weather Service, lightning kills an average of 80 people each year, and injures another 300.

Even when a thunderstorm is 20 miles away, it is still possible to be injured, even killed by lightning.

Michigan is the #2 state, behind just Florida, in the nation for deaths and injuries due to lightning.

De nummer twee staat in de VS met doden dmv bliksem.

En nog meer tornadowaarschuwingen op het lokale nieuws, de dichtsbijzijnde is 15 kilometer hier vandaan.

Video van 'tornado touchdown' op het lokale nieuws.



Tornado touches down twice in Montcalm Co.

Dat was hier dus vlakbij.

Tot zo ver uw reporter ter plekke, nog een goedenavond.

Ik zag het gisteren op CNN. Hm??? In Nederland heb ik er nog niets over gelezen, terwijl het categorie 'Engeland onder water' is met tientallen doden.

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2007 15:48 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Ik zag het gisteren op CNN. Hm??? In Nederland heb ik er nog niets over gelezen, terwijl het categorie 'Engeland onder water' is met tientallen doden.

Schande!
Ach ja, hier is het af en toe weer teveel van het goede. Al moet ik zeggen met zulk weer kijk ik graag lokale tv.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Beleaguered residents of the flood-ravaged Midwest found fresh damage Sunday from a batch of tornado-bearing thunderstorms that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers.

Tornado warnings were issued Saturday afternoon for parts of central and southeast Ohio. Downed trees and power lines were reported in the southern part of the state, said National Weather Service meteorologist Andy Hatzos.



Flooding this past week spread across an 80-mile swath through the northwest and north central parts of the state. Gov. Ted Strickland was to tour more of the damaged areas Sunday.

"What I've tried to do and what we've all tried to do is let these folks know ... that we are working to get assistance to them as rapidly as possible," Strickland said Saturday.

Powerful storms rolling through the Upper Midwest during most of the past week caused disastrous floods from southeastern Minnesota to Ohio that were blamed for at least 18 deaths.

In southern Michigan, about 42,000 customers still lacked power Sunday, utilities said. The weather service confirmed tornadoes touched down Friday in at least six areas of the state. One of the twisters cut a path a quarter-mile wide, snapping and uprooting hundreds of trees, the weather service said.

Five people were reported injured in Michigan's Eaton County. A dozen homes were destroyed and seven were heavily damaged, Sheriff Mike Raines said.

Damage in Fenton, Mich., was extensive, Mayor Sue Osborn said Saturday. "I have seen houses that have trees go right through them," she said. Only residents were being allowed into the city, she said.

Matt McClanahan's home in Michigan's Cohoctah Township was among at least 17 destroyed by a twister.

"I've seen devastation and I've helped clean up, but I've never seen it be me," he said. "I bought a bottle of Jim Beam and it's in the house. I could really use a sip of that right now."

Power had been restored to nearly 600,000 customers in northern Illinois since Thursday's storm, but it could take days to restore power to tens of thousands more, officials said.

The storms in Illinois were responsible for at least one death, a man struck by a wind-toppled tree, officials said.



Flooding in Wisconsin destroyed 44 homes and damaged more than 1,400, most of them in the southwestern part of the state. Officials in Vernon County lifted evacuation orders Saturday evening, allowing the return of 140 residents displaced after torrential rainfall strained a number of nearby dams.

About 1,500 homes were damaged around Minnesota. Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator R. David said FEMA recovery centers should be running early this week in the three counties where President Bush declared disasters.

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Sears tower hit by multiple lightning

Severe storms injure more then 30 in Tulsa

OKLAHOMA CITY — More than 30 people were hurt and more than two dozen mobile homes and travel trailers were damaged as severe thunderstorms raked across Oklahoma on Wednesday, authorities said.

At least 30 people were injured when a strong storm moved through the Tulsa area, causing two tents to collapse during an Oktoberfest festival just before 7:30 p.m.

"There was some sort of tornado or microburst that picked up at least one of the tents and it collapsed on a large group of people," said Tulsa police Sgt. Michael Brown.

Brown said there were about 30 injuries reported, but more people left on their own to seek treatment.

"Of these, it looks like five were treated and released, 24 were transported and one was transported in critical condition," Brown said.

North of Tulsa, five people were injured and 25 mobile homes and travel trailers were damaged when a storm hit a mobile home park between Oologah and the Washington County line, the Oologah-Talala Emergency Medical Services District reported.

Four of the injured were in a mobile home that was destroyed, and the fifth was a woman who was hit by debris, officials said. None of the injuries was believed to be life threatening, officials said.

Bob Anderson, Rogers County Emergency Management director, said besides the mobile home that was destroyed, a smaller trailer was rolled over. The other units at the park appeared to have been damaged, but officials wouldn't know the extent until daylight, Anderson said.

There also were reports of crews trying to rescue people trapped between downed power lines in Woodall in Cherokee County, authorities said. Semi trucks were blown over on U.S. 69 in Pryor and at the toll gate on the Muskogee Turnpike near Coweta, according to reports.

Downed trees and power lines also were reported in Rogers and Mayes counties, authorities said.

The storms also knocked out electric power to 1,564 Oklahoma Gas and Electric customers in northeastern Oklahoma and more than 3,700 in western Arkansas, according to OG&E's Web site.

The storms were part of a powerful, spring-like system that brought heavy rain, high winds, hail and a possible tornado to Oklahoma.

Storm spotters in Kingfisher County, northwest of Oklahoma City, reported seeing a tornado touch down about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday about a mile west of Kingfisher, Emergency Management Director Steve Loftis said. No damage was reported, Loftis said.

"An 86-mph wind gust came through about 8:15 this morning," he said. "And we had some localized street flooding — just the same streets that always flood when it rains. As of 2 p.m., we had close to 2.2 inches of rain."

The weather service has not confirmed the tornado.

Other high-wind reports included a 73-mph gust at Weatherford and a 62-mph gust in west Tulsa, according to the weather service.
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A tornado pummeled Pensacola, Florida, Thursday, severely damaging a church with an attached day care center, destroying homes and leaving thousands of homes and businesses without power, the mayor said.

"We had about 15 or 20 minutes notice from the weather service that Doppler radar indicated that there was, in fact, a rotation in this one severe thunderstorm," Mayor John Fogg said.

"We aren't used to tornadoes in this area."

The day care center next to the Greater Little Rock Baptist Church "took a direct hit," but the children already had been moved to a safer location, said Glenn Austin, spokesman for the Escambia County Sheriff's Office.

Video showed frantic, tearful parents rushing into the building to get their children.

Christie Fayard said she and her co-workers saw the tornado from their building about two miles away.

"We took cover. We just went to a break room and let it pass," said Fayard, who is the sister of CNN correspondent Ed Lavandera.

After the storm passed, Fayard left work and saw a vehicle overturned in a Target store parking lot.

"We had ample warning," Fayard said. "I think the local media did a great job [warning people]."

Another Pensacola resident who saw the twister pass said it made a frightening noise.

"It sounded creepy, like a bunch of cars were driving over my house," Leeann Franzonne told The Associated Press.



The tornado was spotted about 9 a.m. and dissipated about 40 minutes later, Austin said. It moved roughly from southwest to northeast, with the biggest apparent damage in the southwest, where older suburbs are located.



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Tornado's do death and destruction in Missouri, Florida and Michigan

orms that raked the Plains and Southeast on Thursday tossed a mobile home in Missouri, killing both people inside, and spawned a tornado in Florida that sent mall shoppers and children at a day care center running for cover.

The storms continued throughout the day, pelting downtown Chicago with hail during the evening rush hour and spawning tornadoes in Kentucky and Michigan as they swept eastward, officials said.

In rural northeastern Missouri, the state Highway Patrol said Kent Ensor and Kristy Secrease had sought refuge in Secrease's mobile home in Monroe County as a tornado approached. Their bodies were found about 400 feet from where the home had been.

The mobile home's frame was found three-quarters of a mile away, with debris as far as two miles away. The National Weather Service said the storm traveled a mile and had winds as high as 135 mph.

Ensor, 44, and Secrease, 25, had been dating for about a year, friends and family members said.

"Everybody knows everybody here," said Jim Lovelady, who moved to the Paris area in 1994. "This hurts."

A line of storms ripped through northern Michigan on Thursday night, destroying several homes, overturning vehicles and leaving at least one person dead, authorities said.







he 29-year-old victim was trapped inside his house after strong winds took the structure down around him, WWTV-TV in Cadillac, Mich., reported. Kalkaska County sheriff's deputies confirmed the death, and said a couple trapped in another demolished house was taken to the hospital.

National Weather Service officials said at least one and as many as five tornadoes touched down in Michigan. Outside of Lansing, seven homes in Shiawassee County were damaged and a semi-trailer traveling along Interstate 96 reportedly flipped, authorities said. Police could not immediately provide information about the driver's injuries.

A tornado Thursday morning in Pensacola, Fla., damaged the city's major shopping mall.

Eddie English Jr., a department store stock manager, said he heard the wind outside the store suddenly speed up and get louder. Then mall security guards entered the store and ordered 200 to 300 employees and shoppers into the basement.

Lindsey Lassiter, manager of the mall's Express for Men store, said water poured in from her shop's damaged ceiling. In downtown Pensacola, electricity was out and streets filled up with several inches of water from rain that began around dawn.

Greater Little Rock Baptist Church's roof was damaged, as was its day care center, said Escambia County sheriff's spokesman Glenn Austin. But the children there had been moved to safety before the tornado struck, he said.

"They heard the warnings, grabbed the kids and followed the drill," he said.

Jack Cullen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, confirmed that a tornado touched down shortly before noon.

High winds injured three people in Arkansas on Wednesday, the state Department of Emergency Management said. A tornado also destroyed five mobile homes and damaged four houses, state and weather officials said.

The severe weather continued into the night. Thunderstorms injured four people in a mobile home west of Louisville, Ky., said Capt. Jeff Jones of the Daviess County Sheriff's Office. The nature of their injuries was not immediately available.

Four more people were hurt when a mobile home in Sebree, Ky., collapsed because of strong winds, state police said. Their injuries appeared to be minor, Webster County Sheriff Frankie Springfield told The Gleaner of Henderson, Ky.

Possible tornadoes were also reported Thursday night in Illinois and Indiana. Winds reached 80 mph in New Amsterdam, Ind., said Larry Dattilo of the National Weather Service.

A sudden downpour belted downtown Chicago just as people left work, sending commuters scurrying into buildings to avoid strong winds, hail and horizontal rain. The city's two major airports reported delays of two hours.

An 11-year-old boy was in stable condition after being struck by lightning, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.

To the West, a separate system brought the season's first big storm to coastal Washington, where a falling tree injured a woman and more than 220,000 customers lost power at the height of the storm. A gust of 62 mph was reported in Spanaway, said Weather Service meteorologist Carl Cerniglia.

The night before in Tulsa, Okla., more than 7,000 people were at the Oktoberfest festival when the tents collapsed. Five of those hurt remained hospitalized Thursday, and three were in serious condition with head injuries, concussions and lacerations, said Tina Wells, spokeswoman for the Emergency Medical Services Authority.

North of Tulsa, five people were injured and 25 mobile homes and travel trailers were damaged when the storm hit a mobile home park between Oologah and the Washington County line, the Oologah-Talala Emergency Medical Services District reported. None of the injuries was believed to be life-threatening, officials said.

Weet niet of het in dit topic hoort, maar Georgia heeft de noodtoestand afgekondigd ivm aanhoudende droogte...

tornado's

het meest spectaculaire/ bizarre weer wat we in NL zien is dat de zon vol schijnt, maar het toch teringkoud is. Dat is toch zeker 2 į 3 dagen t geval geweest deze zomer

voor de rest jammer dat het een oud topic is

NEW ORLEANS — The Army Corps of Engineers closed a gate on a suburban canal as heavy rains lashed the flood-prone city, raising fears that climbing waters threatened to top the walls holding them back.

After more than 8 inches of rain fell on parts of New Orleans by late afternoon, Mayor Ray Nagin shut City Hall early, and schools also closed. People were asked to stay indoors until the flood potential subsided. More rain was expected overnight.

The Harvey Canal in Jefferson Parish was one of several in the area placed under new safety guidelines after Hurricane Katrina's flood waters breached two New Orleans canals in August 2005, causing catastrophic flooding.

The corps has worked to strengthen the canal, about five miles from downtown, but engineers worried that water being driven into it might lead to flooding. The area around the canal includes homes and businesses.

Unlike the canal walls that broke during Katrina, the walls on the Harvey Canal are not considered at threat of being breached by rising waters, said Chris Accardo, the corps' operations chief.

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Hurricane Force Winds Cut Power to Thousands in Pacific Northwest

SEATTLE — Winds gusting at hurricane force in some places Monday left more than 125,000 customers without electricity across the Pacific Northwest and blew the roof off an Oregon firehouse, authorities said.

Winds higher than 70 mph blew trees and branches onto power lines and cut electricity to roughly 85,000 customers in Washington, mostly in the western part of the state.

The region's largest utility, Puget Sound Energy, had about 37,000 customers in the dark in nine counties, spokeswoman Christina Mills said. In Oregon, more than 43,000 customers lost power, utilities reported.

Gusts reported by the National Weather Service by noon included 71 mph at Hoquiam in western Washington and 41 at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

The roof blew off the fire station in Gearhart in western Oregon. Cape Meares, on Oregon's north coast, registered a gust of 92 mph, the National Weather Service reported.

Utilities generally consider one home or business a customer, so the number of individuals without power could be much higher.

Fog, rain and sleet led rescue teams to call off intensive efforts to find University of Oregon mathematics professor Daming Xu, 63, believed to be missing in the foothills of the Cascade Range. He was last seen Nov. 4.

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