Tornado

hydeoutman · May 05, 2003, 06:20:31 AM

Just saw Fox News: They are stating that the twister was a number 4, which is big. Are all you Forum guys and gals okay down there if not, do you need help?

hydeoutman

DanG · May 05, 2003, 07:21:23 AM

Yikes! I hadn't heard about it till I saw this thread, and looked it up on MSNBC. We got lots of folks in that neighborhood, and I hope we hear from them soon.
Prayers go out to all the families who lost loved ones, and/or property.

Bibbyman · May 05, 2003, 08:14:44 AM

We had about 3" of rain in one big down pour Sunday morning about sunup. Flushed out all the local branches and the creek ran bank full all day.

Tornado watches out all day and into the night.

It really got to looking nasty again about sundown and got bad after dark as the storms came through that did the devastation back around Kansas City. But I could see no damage this morning so it looks like our neighborhood lucked out this time.

Bro. Noble · May 05, 2003, 09:01:00 AM

I wouldn't have even known it stormed as it was all north of us. I'm worried about a good friend in Stockton Mo. They had a lot of damage.

Noble

Larry · May 05, 2003, 11:45:48 AM

The tornados all stayed 20-30 miles south of me. We just had a little rain and some sunshine.

From the local news sounds like the twisters started real close to the Kansas/Missouri line between Kansas City and Joplin and headed east. No real telling how many there were.

Hope the best for everybody.

Fla._Deadheader · May 05, 2003, 04:22:41 PM

Glad to hear all you Missouri boys are OK. Looked pretty bad on the news today.

sawwood · May 05, 2003, 06:57:46 PM

The Tornado was north of me, but just about 2 miles from
work. We looked at the damage to day where a truck plant
use to be. Flat as a pan cake. They say it was a F4.

Sawwood

Tillaway · May 05, 2003, 07:18:41 PM

Who hasn't checked in? Arky? You still with us? Good to hear you all are all right.

Fla._Deadheader · May 06, 2003, 05:25:21 AM

Tennessee caught hell also. Anybody hear from Woodbeard, Bud man, solidwoods, J-T, or anybody else????

Bibbyman · May 06, 2003, 05:47:42 AM

Here is a link to a tornado story I posted quite some time ago.

The Tornado Moved the Well!

Bud Man · May 06, 2003, 07:38:56 AM

Nothing to report in the Memphis area but lots of tornado warnings and acompaning rains( 4-5 inches) we were lucky, not so for Jackson , which is 65 miles from me and as reported got creamed , lives and property. I'm concerned for JT cause he's near Dyersburg which got hit too. ???

Bibbyman · May 07, 2003, 05:58:05 AM

Storms again last evening. Got our slab pile and lumber moved, truck under shed, etc. before it hit. We lucked out again and the worst of it went to the south of us. Heard this morning that a little town about 30 miles south of us had 2" hail, trees blown down. A couple of counties over had three tornadoes spotted.

About 4:00 pm.

Sun broke through right at sundown and left this nice rainbow for about 10 minutes.

ElectricAl · May 07, 2003, 06:29:50 AM

Bibbyman,

Thanks for the update. We saw 50 red dots on a map showing last nights tornados. It was hard to tell how close they were to Forestry Forum Members.

Just thinking of our friends.

ElectricAl

Bro. Noble · May 07, 2003, 08:03:24 AM

The storm last night followed nearly the same path as the earlier one that did so much damage. We have a member 'EJ' who made a few posts and logs in some. He lives near El Dorado Springs which was right in the path. Hope he's OK.

Noble

Kevin_H. · May 07, 2003, 05:01:57 PM

It's my understanding that we had a couple of twisters around us last nite, I know that the warning system sounded three different times within about an hour, and we got some hail around 2" in size.

Our tornado warning lasted better than an hour, but 911 never stops, kind of weird running ambulance calls as the tornado sirens are wailing...

We had very little damage, I think just west of us, closer to the river may have had some.

The Dispatchers wanted to keep up with the storm so I went out and pulled up the NOAA web site, so they could watch the radar. Gotta love the T1 line.

ElectricAl · May 07, 2003, 08:20:05 PM

Kevin,

I have had two close calls with death during storm watch as a Volunteer Fire Fighter.

The first one was when our town got a direct hit from a Micro Burst. Basically a Micro Burst is where air pressure builds up very quickly in the atmosphere. Then the pressure is sent straight back down to earth. The winds are in the 100 to 150 mph range straight down, then the air is forced sideways along the ground in every direction.
I almost had my face sliced off by a section of aluminum siding from the fire satiation. The big wind lasted less then 15 seconds. Just long enough to crap your pants.

The second time I was sitting in a 1973 chevy C65 fire truck. A blast of straight line wind pushed the truck 30-40 foot on wet concrete into a ditch. I had both feet on the break peddle so I know the wheels did not turn. The truck stayed on it's wheels but I lost 1200' of fire hose out of the back. ???

I am not a fan of the wind. >:(

Kevin_H. · May 07, 2003, 09:08:15 PM

ElectricAl,
I've had a couple of those calls, You learn early on to carry an extra change of uniform... ;D

Most of mine where having to do with firearms...Let me tell this little story and then I will get this back on track...

we had a 10 year old child in a stand off with police...seems the child had a shotgun and would not let anyone close to him, we where standing by close to the scene when we heard 2 shots...the police started screaming for EMS, and running down the road with the child in their arms...

we started looking for wounds,but found nothing...come to find out, the PD had shot him with bean bags to disable him...

well after the call was done, I changed my pants and went to the store to get something for my gray hair...

Now back on track...weather channel say's we are going to get it again tomorrow...My customer called tonite and would still like to cut tomorrow...I told him I would call him in the morning and talk about it then... ;D

ElectricAl · May 07, 2003, 09:22:54 PM

Kevin,

Don't forget about the lightning that can be 20min. in front of a super cell. When we were portable a jumbo cottonwood got hit 50' from where we were sawing. We saw the wall cloud coming but no lightning.

Boom.

Everyone took off running for the barn. The sawmill sat there idleing for over an hour until I got enough currage to go shut it off. ;D

J Beyer · May 08, 2003, 10:06:39 PM

I just missed the DanG weather there. My co-driver and I picked up our load in Toronto, Canada on Friday at aobut 1830 CST and delivered it in Phoenix, AZ on Sunday at 2200 CST. We were lucky enough to be through the area before the storms hit.

Whenever I hear about a BIG DanG storm hitting anywhere, I always pray that everyone gets out safe and sound.

JB

Haytrader · May 09, 2003, 05:59:00 AM

Noble,

EJ would be Elijah Jones. I have his E mail addy so I will send him a "you OK?" note.
Another round last night. Those poor folks around OKC will think the good lord has it in for them, hitting the same area again.

ElectricAl · May 09, 2003, 07:30:21 PM

Today our local office of the National Weather Service started to broadcast storm information about a storm that will effect the central Midwest Saturday, May 10th.

Normally the NWS does not get quite as revved up, but feel there is a significant threat.

What we are looking at is storms that will produce 70 mph winds, baseball size hail, very heavy rains, and Tornados. The NWS is warning of F3 (150mph) and F4 (220mph) Tornados.
Pull up your member map and sight a line from around Larry_Copas and SawWood North East towards just south of Wades place. This line will be north of Bibbyman and Mary's place, and 40 miles south of ElectricAl and Linda's. The problem is the way I understand the NWS info Whitepe and Rick might be in the path.

Also, the NWS stated this area has not seen this magnitude of threat in the last 10 years. This is pretty strong language for them. :(

So now we wait. ???

ElectricAl

Haytrader · May 09, 2003, 08:54:28 PM

Got an E mail from EJ (Elijah Jones) stating he and his family are OK. He went on to say the town 10 miles from him was hit.
Noble, he thanked you for being concerned. (for all of us)

Jason_WI · May 09, 2003, 11:10:08 PM

Them DanG twisters are nuttin to fool with.

Back in 98 there was an F3 that was close enough to hear and close enough to have insulation and tar paper fall on our land. It was 3 miles to the north. Sounded like jet engines running with lots of rumbling from all the thunder and light'n. It was erie with the sky black as coal and hardly any wind for a while.

That thing picked up a concrete silo and shifted it off of its foundation.

Everyone used to say that large twisters are extremely rare in Door county cause of the bay and lake that surrounds the peninsula. It started as a water spout in the bay and and came right onto land and made it half way through the county before the cool air from lake michigan killed it.

Here is a link to that twister:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grb/Door.html

Jason

Fla._Deadheader · May 10, 2003, 05:01:06 AM

So far, Bud Man is the only one?? from Tenn. that has checked in. There are still about 6 others. I believe I have Solidwoods phone #. If I can find it, I will call him. No news, right now, is NOT good news?? Hope they are all OK and just lost phone service????

Bibbyman · May 10, 2003, 05:18:22 AM

Thunder here right now. Looks like the worst of it is north and west of us - between here and KC. It's heading north and east. Going to shut the PC back down for awhile.