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« Reply #30 on: May 21, 2013, 04:58:46 pm »

Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb
5/21/13
http://news.yahoo.com/power-moore-tornado-dwarfs-hiroshima-bomb-182057287.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.

On Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service gave it the top-of-the-scale rating of EF-5 for wind speed and breadth and severity of damage. Wind speeds were estimated at between 200 and 210 mph.

Several meteorologists contacted by The Associated Press used real time measurements to calculate the energy released during the storm's life span of almost an hour. Their estimates ranged from 8 times to more than 600 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb with more experts at the high end.

The tornado at some points was 1.3 miles wide, and its path went on for 17 miles and 40 minutes. That's long for a regular tornado but not too unusual for such a violent one, said research meteorologist Harold Brooks at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla. Less than 1 percent of all U .S. tornadoes are this violent — only about 10 a year, he said.

With the third strong storm hitting Moore in 14 years, some people are wondering why Moore? It's a combination of geography, meteorology and lots of bad luck, experts said.

If you look at the climate history of tornadoes in May, you will see they cluster in a spot — maybe 100 miles wide — in central Oklahoma "and there's good reason for it," said Adam Houston, meteorology professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. That's the spot where the weather conditions of warm, moist air and strong wind shear needed for tornadoes combine in just the right balance.

The hot spot is more than just the city of Moore. Several meteorologists offer the same explanation for why that suburb seemed to be hit repeatedly by violent tornadoes: "bad luck."

Scientists know the key ingredients that go into a devastating tornado. But they are struggling to figure out why they develop in some big storms and not others. They also are still trying to determine what effects, if any, global warming has on tornadoes.
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« Reply #31 on: May 21, 2013, 07:48:46 pm »

The costs of the damage are $1b @CNN
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« Reply #32 on: May 22, 2013, 10:18:34 am »

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/22/18413039-more-storms-on-the-way-tornadoes-possible-across-swath-of-us?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=3
5/22/13
More storms on the way, tornadoes possible across swath of US

An area stretching from the lower Great Lakes to the Tennessee Valley was expected to be hit by severe thunderstorms on Wednesday, forecasters warned.

The National Weather Service said that the “primary threats” would be damaging winds and large hail, but added “isolated tornadoes will also be possible.”

“Farther south, Tuesday night thunderstorms could continue into Wednesday morning with some damaging winds and hail,” it said.

Weather.com showed a map outlining the main area of risk, which stretched from Buffalo to Charleston. It also said the main danger would be from high winds and hail, but cautioned there was a “slight risk” of tornadoes.

"Other showers and thunderstorms are possible from the remainder of the Northeast and Great Lakes into the South," it said.

"A few isolated severe thunderstorms producing damaging wind gusts and hail are possible in the lower Mississippi Valley. Showers and thunderstorms continue from the Northeast to the Southeast Thursday, although the severe threat is even lower," weather.com added.

Parts of northeast Kentucky, Ohio, southeast Michigan, western Pennsylvania and western New York were given a 3 out of 10 on Weather.com's tornado probability scale. The cities of Cincinnati, Columbus, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Buffalo were included in this risk area.

A tornado rating of 2 was given to Tennessee, most of Kentucky, much of eastern Indiana, parts of southern and eastern Michigan, eastern West Virginia, much of Pennsylvania and much of upstate New York.

Connecticut was hit by strong storms that caused some damage in northern parts of the state on Tuesday, NBCConnecticut.com reported.

A storm moved through Copake, New York, just before 5 p.m. and headed southeast through Massachusetts and along the extreme northwest corner of Connecticut, the station said. Downed trees and power lines were found in Falls Village and lightning strikes came close to homes in Cornwall.

A tree fell on cars in the high school parking lot in Falls Village. "It's just a car. We're just here to make sure all the kids were safe," said Patricia Chamberlain, superintendent, whose car was among those hit.

Thunder, lightning, high winds and hail were reported in several Conn. towns, including Salisbury, Canaan, South Windsor and Manchester.
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« Reply #33 on: May 22, 2013, 10:30:53 am »

Bible Found in OK Tornado Debris Opened to Isaiah 32:2, Providing Hope for Many
5/22/13

A Bible was found among the Oklahoma tornado debris and returned to its owner. Ironically, the Bible was opened to Isaiah, chapter 32, which reads, "A man will shall be as a an hiding place from the wind, and a cover covert from the tempest."

**Adjusted for proper KJV verse.

The Bible, which belonged to Michael Alexander and his fiancé Sheila Spurlin, was found in nearby debris by a storm chaser named Brandon Heiden. He watched helplessly as the storm tore Lance Carter's home apart, then made sure the family was okay after it was all over. Heiden was the first one to notice the Bible and took a picture of it to help it find its way back home.

Gage Ross, a Carter family friend, stopped by to help begin cleaning up; he spotted the same Bible, which was open to a telling verse in Isaiah 32: "A man will be as a hiding place from the wind, and a cover from the tempest."

"The Lord must be with us, I guess," Ross told KFOR News.

Alexander and Spurlin lived in a trailer behind Carter's property but stayed safe during the storm at a local shelter. Unfortunately, their home did not survive the storm, which leveled an entire town and killed at least 51 people, including several children.

"I got here after it passed, and I just fell to my knees," Alexander said. "It's all I could do. Everything that I owned, everything we owned was in the trailer."

However, the Bible somehow managed to survive the storm, and Alexander is incredibly grateful to have it back in his possession.

Many across the nation see the Bible's recovery, and the particular passage it was opened to, as hope in the midst of the storm.

"Bible found after tornado actually opened to that scripture. Literal hope in a storm. So beautiful I could cry," tweeted Breeanne Howe.

"Real as it gets," added JuhBray. "This Bible was found in tornado debris. Opened to Isaiah 32:2."

Read more at http://global.christianpost.com/news/bible-found-in-ok-tornado-debris-opened-to-isaiah-322-providing-hope-for-many-96310/#jBewsYOHrjtYDHPG.99
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« Reply #34 on: May 22, 2013, 02:14:19 pm »

Oklahoma Tornado: 2 Devastated Elementary Schools Had No Safe Rooms
5/22/13
http://gma.yahoo.com/oklahoma-tornado-2-devastated-elementary-schools-had-no-115117882--abc-news-topstories.html

There are reinforced tornado shelters in more than 100 schools across Oklahoma, excluding the two that were devastated by a Tornado earlier this week in Moore, Okla., an emergency-management official said.

As authorities search the rubble in Moore for possible survivors and bodies, among the unanswered questions is how everyone at Briarwood Elementary School survived while several students died at Plaza Towers Elementary School. Both schools were destroyed when an EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 mph killed 24 people Monday and injured hundreds more. Six people are unaccounted for.

Some people believe those at Briarwood were more fortunate because of the school's construction.

Each grade at Briarwood is organized into four pods with a few classrooms in each pod. An opening to the outside runs through the center of the pods. Teachers said that when the walls and ceilings collapsed, they crawled through that open area and children were passed over the rubble.

Plaza Towers Elementary is more of a traditional school building with a long line of classrooms, all under one single roof. When the school collapsed, the roof and walls piled on top of one another, making it difficult for people to crawl to an outside space.

Both schools had practiced tornado drills but neither had a safe room, which could have potentially saved lives
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"You have limited amount of funds that are based on disasters we've had in the past that are used for mitigation measures and when you have limited number of funds, then you set priorities on what schools that you do want to ask for," Oklahoma Director of Emergency Management Albert Ashwood said.

More than 100 schools across Oklahoma have safe rooms and the state hopes to increase those numbers, Ashwood said.

"We're going to be looking at trying to up that number and try to get more safe rooms across schools across the state, the entire state," he said.

Metal safe rooms can be built above ground or underground and undergo rigorous tests to make sure they can sustain winds up to 250 mph. Researchers have conducted test on safe rooms to show they can withstand being hit by a car.

Moore has been trying to get federal money to subsidize residents who want to buy safe rooms. The city expressed its frustration in February on the city website, saying, "We've found that the FEMA requirements and their interpretations seem to be a constantly moving target, more so with the new wrinkles."

"If you don't have disasters, you don't have additional money for mitigation for safe rooms, but without disasters there's not a set funding source just for safe rooms," Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Craig Fugate said.

Alabama is the only state that requires all new schools to have safe rooms for students.

Many homes in the Midwest, known as Tornado Alley, don't have basements because of loose clay soil or flooding conditions. An indoor safe room might be the best option for families and schools.

"There are above-ground and below -round storm shelters that offer near absolute occupant protection from the worst-case tornado," said Ernst Kiesling, professor of civil engineering at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

Meanwhile, authorities have searched each damaged home at least once, and the goal is to conduct three searches of each location just to be sure. Moore Fire Chief Gary Bird said he was "98 percent sure" there were no more bodies or survivors in the rubble.

Classes at Moore public schools have been canceled for the remainder of the school year but graduations will continue as planned.

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to Oklahoma later today to meet with state and local officials and ensure that first responders are receiving the assistance they need.

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"Real as it gets," added JuhBray. "This Bible was found in tornado debris. Opened to Isaiah 32:2."

Hmm, interesting how people are selective in what they see. That picture also shows chapter 31 as well, but then one can understand why they pointed out just one verse, rather than mention 31, because it tickles the ears, and what is said in 31 definitely isn't something they want to talk about, starting with...

"Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are] many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!" Isaiah 31:1 (KJB)
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« Reply #36 on: May 23, 2013, 11:15:37 am »

$2B in Okla. tornado damage means hard recovery
5/23/13
http://news.yahoo.com/2b-okla-tornado-damage-means-hard-recovery-071208784.html

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — All that is left of Shayne Patteson's three-bedroom home is the tiny area where his wife hunkered down under a mattress to protect their three children when a tornado packing winds of at least 200 mph slammed through his neighborhood.

Patteson vowed to rebuild, likely in the same place, but said next time he will have an underground storm shelter.

"That is the first thing that will be going into the design of the house, is the storm shelter and the garage," he said as he looked around piles of bricks and plywood where their home once stood.

Patteson's home was among as many as 13,000 homes damaged or destroyed Monday when the twister plowed through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore. About 33,000 people were affected, officials said, though the number left homeless was still unknown because most of the displaced were believed to be staying with friends or relatives; only two dozen or so have stayed overnight at Red Cross shelters.

Officials estimated the damage could top $2 billion.

At the same time, more details emerged on the human toll, including heartbreaking stories about the final moments of some of the children who were among the 24 people killed. One elementary school was reduced to rubble when the tornado hit. Another was heavily damaged.

While anguish over the deaths was palpable as residents began to pick up their shattered neighborhoods, many remained stunned that the twister didn't take a higher human toll during its 40 minutes on the ground.

"The tornado that we're talking about is the 1 or 2 percent tornado," Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management Director Albert Ashwood said of the twister, which measured a top-of-the-scale EF5 with winds of at least 200 mph. "This is the anomaly that flattens everything to the ground."

The medical examiner reported that six of the children who died at the Plaza Towers Elementary School suffocated after being buried under a mass of bricks, steel and other materials as the building collapsed. A seventh child who perished there, 8-year-old Kyle Davis, was killed instantly by an object — perhaps a large piece of stone or a beam — that fell on the back of his neck.

The first of the funerals is to take place Thursday morning, for 9-year-old Antonia Candelaria, who also died at the school.

With all of the missing now accounted for, response teams transitioned into cleanup and recovery, and authorities formally allowed residents back into the damage zone Wednesday to start the monumental task of rebuilding their lives.

Moore Mayor Glenn Lewis said Wednesday he would propose an ordinance in the next couple of days to require all new homes to have storm shelters.

The city already has some. After a massive tornado tore a near-identical path in 1999, city authorities provided incentives such as federal grant dollars to help residents cover the costs of safe rooms. This time, though, Lewis thinks it is necessary to compel people to include them in all new construction.

The scale of the destruction is also bound to lead to higher insurance premiums for homeowners, said Dan Ramsey, president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma.

"Three years of hail bombardments of apocalyptic proportions, and then this? It has to result in some give someplace," Ramsey said.

Residents clearing massive piles of debris were trying to get hold of essentials such as mobile phones and prescription drugs lost in the destruction. Cellular service providers set up mobile retail outlets and charging stations. At least one was offering free phone calls and loaner phones.

Insurance companies have also set up emergency operation centers to take calls from people trying to get prescriptions filled and handle other health care needs.

Elsewhere in town, several hundred volunteers took it upon themselves to clean the city cemetery, which was covered in debris, so it would be ready for Memorial Day. Some veterans are buried there and it's where the town's residents gather on the holiday, placing flowers and flags among the gravestones.
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« Reply #37 on: May 26, 2013, 05:27:51 pm »

Storms, Tornadoes May Sweep South Dakota, Nebraska
5/26/13
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-26/storms-tornadoes-may-sweep-south-dakota-nebraska.html?cmpid=yhoo

Severe thunderstorms and possibly tornadoes may strike parts of South Dakota and Nebraska this week, according to the U.S. Storm Prediction Center.

As many as 75,398 people live in the area, which includes Pierre, South Dakota, the state’s capital, where storms are expected to strike on May 29, the center said.

“It appears the most probable concentration for severe -- including possibly tornadic storms -- will be in the eastern part of the high Plains,” according to a bulletin from the in Norman, Oklahoma-based center, which is part of the National Weather Service.

Last week, an EF-5 tornado, the strongest on the six-step Enhanced Fujita Scale, ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, killing 24 people, including 10 children, and destroying at least 1,300 homes. The storm was part of a larger system of severe weather that spawned tornadoes from Texas to New England, as well as thunder and hail storms.

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« Reply #38 on: May 28, 2013, 01:08:32 am »

Midwest braces for more possible tornadoes
5/27/13
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/27/18524573-midwest-braces-for-more-possible-tornadoes?lite=

Americans in the Midwest begin another week bracing for severe weather, with forecasters warning of possible tornadoes for a large swath of the country -- including the suburbs of Oklahoma City that were pummeled last week.

The first three days of the week bring the possibility of tornadoes, forecasters said, but the biggest threat is on Wednesday.

The National Weather Service on Monday issued tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm watches for parts of Kansas and Nebraska that remain in effect until 1 a.m. ET. Several tornadoes were reported to the National Weather Service throughout the day in Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming, but none are believed to have caused any damage.

On Tuesday, storms packing heavy rainfall will bring the possibility of large hail, dangerous wind gusts and tornadoes to the
central U.S., according to Weather Channel meteorologist Greg Forbes.

Forbes said that the most severe threat of tornadoes will occur Wednesday, with a huge portion of the country from Texas up to North Dakota at risk. That includes Moore, Okla., where an EF5 tornado blew through last Monday and killed 24 people.

 

“A tornado outbreak is possible over the central part of the U.S. in the traditional Tornado Ally area,” said Forbes.

The predictions for potentially devastating storms follow a Memorial Day weekend full of wild weather. Three people died in powerful floods in the San Antonio, Texas, area over the weekend. Some 130 people had to be rescued during a storm that dumped more
than a foot of rain on the city in just 24 hours. Cars and a city bus were swept off the streets.

And though the start of June is less than a week away, parts of upstate New York and Vermont were buried under as much as 34 inches of snow, according to weather.com. The heavy snow brought down trees and power lines.

Temperatures in the snow-laced areas are expected to return to levels more typical of late May in coming days.

Though many throughout the country were disappointed that the weekend known as the unofficial start to summer was colder than usual, those in the Northeast will not have to wait long for things to heat up.

According to the National Weather Service, "A big warm front is forecast to lift northeast through the Ohio Valley by Wednesday afternoon."  Those from Boston to Washington, D.C., will experience summer-like temperatures that may reach up to 90 degrees come
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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/30/18632445-residents-told-to-take-cover-as-tornadoes-hit-oklahoma-again?lite
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Residents told to take cover as tornadoes hit Oklahoma again
A group of severe thunderstorms was spawning tornadoes as it moved through Oklahoma and Arkansas on Thursday evening.

Storm spotters were tracking at least two tornadoes, one that touched down near Perkins and in Ripley, causing some damage, and another was reported northeast of Cove, Okla., according to the National Weather Service. Another touched down near Oden, Arkansas.

The powerful storm that went through Ripley was heading in a northeasterly direction toward Tulsa, weather.com meteorologist Tom Moore reported. There was no immediate report on the extent of the damage.

Residents in those areas as well as several others in the northeast, central and southeast parts of the state were told to take cover immediately.

"This is a life threatening situation!" the National Weather Service warning for Creek County said
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The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for numerous counties across the state, including, Creek, Lincoln, Payne and Pawnee counties.

A broad arc of central Oklahoma – southwest, north and northeast of Oklahoma City – was under a threat of tornadoes into the evening, Moore said.

The weather system was also heaving large hail producing heavy rain with possible significant flooding in several areas into Friday.

In Lawton, Okla., about 80 miles southwest of Oklahoma City, strong winds knocked down power poles and damaged at least a dozen homes, Comanche County's emergency agency reported. The Red Cross was assisting families who suffered damage.

The storm system was also hitting parts of Arkansas. A funnel cloud was reported in Oden and residents were told to seek shelter amid tornado warnings in several Arkansas counties.

"Right now we've been getting a few thunderstorms, but they're very severe supercell thunderstorms," Michael Scotten, a meteorologist with the Weather Service told The Associated Press. "The whole storm rotates, and they produce on occasion some tornadoes and heavy hail."

Severe weather was also possible for other states in the nation's midsection, including Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Meanwhile, the National Weather Service’s Albany, N.Y., office preliminarily confirmed that an EF-2 tornado with winds up to 125 mph touched down in Montgomery and Schenectady counties in upstate New York shortly before 7 p.m. on Wednesday.

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One person was reported to have been injured in the storm, which tore the roofs off many structures and damaged power lines and trees.

No details were immediately available on the injury.

Heavy rain and flooding is likely from the eastern Plains to the lower Great Lakes overnight, weather.com meteorologist Kevin Roth said. The storm system is forecast to move slowly eastward through the weekend.

Areas likely to be worst hit include Minneapolis, which is set for strong evening thunderstorms, and Kansas City, Roth said.
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5/30/13
Tornadoes touch down in Oklahoma and Arkansas

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — At least two tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma and two more hit Arkansas on Thursday as a powerful storm system moved through the middle of the country, injuring at least nine people.

The National Weather Service reported two tornadoes on the ground near Perkins and Ripley in north central Oklahoma and another west of Oden, Ark.

All nine of the injured were in Arkansas; two of the injuries were attributed to a lightning strike in Rogers. Lightning was also believed to have started a fire that destroyed two floors of a condominium building in northwestern Indiana.

Some trees, homes and power lines were damaged in Arkansas, and the National Weather Service confirmed that tornadoes touched down in Montgomery County and in Clark County. Emergency Management spokesman Tommy Jackson said first responders had trouble reaching a destroyed home where one person was hurt because a number of trees were blocking the road.

In Oklahoma, Perkins Emergency Management Director Travis Majors said there were no injuries or damage there. Ripley, about 10 miles east of Perkins, did not seem to have significant damage. The Payne County emergency management director did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

Storms also caused problems in the western Iowa town of Onawa, damaging buildings, breaking windows, tearing awnings and blowing down trees and a stoplight. National Weather Service meteorologist Dave Fobert told the Sioux City Journal that the damage apparently was caused by a thunderstorm, not a tornado.

Thursday's tornadoes were much less dangerous than the EF5 storm that struck Moore, Okla., on May 20 and killed 24 along its 17-mile path. The U.S. averages more than 1,200 tornadoes a year, but top-of-the-scale storms like the one in Moore — with winds over 200 mph — happen only about once per year. The tornado last week was the nation's first EF5 since 2011.

Some strong winds blew through Moore, in suburban Oklahoma City, on Thursday, but the weather didn't cause significant problems for crews cleaning up from last week's tornado.

This spring's tornado season got a late start, with unusually cool weather keeping funnel clouds at bay until mid-May. The season usually starts in March and then ramps up for the next couple of months.

The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., warned that there was a moderate risk of severe weather Thursday over much of eastern and central Oklahoma, with storms also possible in the rest of the central United States from Texas to Wisconsin. Flooding is also a concern in parts of Missouri, Iowa and Illinois through Sunday.

In addition to tornadoes, the storms were bringing rain and hail.

"Right now we've been getting a few thunderstorms, but they're very severe supercell thunderstorms," said Michael Scotten, a meteorologist with the National Weather Services. "The whole storm rotates, and they produce on occasion some tornadoes and heavy hail."

The severe weather threat led organizers to postpone the start of the outdoor Wakarusa Music Festival near Ozark, Ark., which will feature Widespread Panic, The Black Crowes and the rapper Snoop Lion (formerly known as Snoop Dogg). An estimated 15,000 sought shelter from lightning and wind Thursday, according to the Times Record newspaper of Fort Smith, Ark.

Of the 60 EF5 tornadoes since 1950, Oklahoma and Alabama have been struck the most, seven times each. More than half of these top-of-the-scale twisters have occurred in just five states: Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
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« Reply #42 on: May 31, 2013, 08:07:20 pm »

OKC area is getting hammered right now. sounds pretty bad and it has a lot more to go. The Lords will be done...
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« Reply #43 on: May 31, 2013, 10:21:44 pm »

OKC area is getting hammered right now. sounds pretty bad and it has a lot more to go. The Lords will be done...

Yeah, watching coverage on CNN tonight - looks worse than I thought. People went to work this morning thinking it would be yet another usual day, only to be caught off guard while driving back home.

http://news.yahoo.com/2-dead-tornado-hits-oklahoma-city-area-015538099.html
2 dead when tornado hits Oklahoma City area
5/31/13

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tornadoes rolled in from the prairie and slammed Oklahoma City and its suburbs on Friday, killing a mother and baby and crumbling cars and tractor-trailers along a major interstate.

The broad storm hit during the evening rush hour, causing havoc on Interstate 40, a major artery connecting suburbs east and west of the city. To the south, winds approaching 80 mph were forecast for Moore, where a top-of-the-scale EF5 tornado killed 24 on May 20.

Floodwaters up to 4 feet deep hampered rescue attempts and frequent lightning roiled the skies well after the main threat had passed to the east.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Betsy Randolph said troopers found the bodies of a woman and an infant near their vehicle. Randolph said it's not known if the woman was driving into the storm when it hit around 7 p.m. Friday.
Emergency officials reported numerous injuries were reported in the area along I-40, and Randolph said there were toppled and wrecked cars littering the area. Troopers requested a number of ambulances at I-40 near Yukon, west of Oklahoma City.

Hail and heavy rain pelted the metro area to the point that emergency workers had trouble responding to "widespread" reports of injuries.

"We're scrambling around," said Lara O'Leary, a spokeswoman for the local ambulance agency. "There is very low visibility with the heavy rain ... so we're having trouble getting around.

"The damage is very, very widespread."

Standing water was several feet deep, and downtown Oklahoma City looked more like a hurricane had gone through than a tornado.


Tornado warnings were also posted Friday night near Tulsa and near St. Louis.

In Oklahoma, storm chasers with cameras in their cars transmitted video showing a number of funnels dropping from the supercell thunderstorm as it passed south of El Reno and into Oklahoma City just south of downtown. Police urged motorists to leave I-40 and seek a safe place.

"I'm in a car running from the tornado," said Amy Sharp, who last week pulled her fourth-grade daughter from the Plaza Towers Elementary School as a storm approached with 210 mph winds. "I'm in Norman and it just hit Yukon where I was staying" since last week's storm.

"I'm with my children who wanted their mother out of that town," Sharp said, her voice quivering with emotion.

At Will Rogers World Airport southwest of Oklahoma City, passengers were directed into underground tunnels and inbound and outbound flights were canceled.

Television cameras showed debris falling from the sky and power transformers being knocked out by high winds
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As the storm bore down on suburban Oklahoma City, Adrian Lillard, 28, of The Village, went to the basement of her mother's office building with a friend, her nieces, nephews and two dogs.

"My brother's house was in Moore, so it makes you take more immediate action," Lillard said while her young nieces played on a blanket on the floor of the parking garage. "We brought toys and snacks to try our best to keep them comfortable."

Well before Oklahoma's first thunderstorms fired up at late afternoon, the Storm Prediction Center in Norman was already forecasting a violent evening. From the Texas border to near Joplin, Mo., residents were told to keep an eye to the sky and an ear out for sirens.

Forecasters warned of a "particularly dangerous situation," with ominous language about strong tornadoes and hail the size of grapefruits — 4 inches in diameter.

Flash flooding and tornadoes killed three people in Arkansas late Thursday and early Friday. Three others were missing in floods that followed 6 inches of rain in the rugged Ouachita Mountains near Y City, 125 miles west of Little Rock.

This spring's tornado season got a late start, with unusually cool weather keeping funnel clouds at bay until mid-May. The season usually starts in March and then ramps up for the next couple of months.

Most tornadoes in the United States are relatively small. Of the 60 EF5 tornadoes to hit since 1950, Oklahoma and Alabama have been hit the most — seven times each.
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« Reply #44 on: May 31, 2013, 11:51:35 pm »

http://rt.com/usa/dangerous-tornado-friday-oklahoma-096/
Five killed, tens of thousands without power as multiple tornadoes hit Oklahoma: LIVE UPDATES
6/1/13

As many as five tornadoes were reported across Oklahoma Friday, with nearly a hundred thousand people without power following the storms. At least five people have been killed, and much of the state is now flooded.

03:47 GMT: About 80,000 people are now without electricity in Oklahoma, with 65,000 of them in the Oklahoma City area, ABC News reports. Meanwhile, the National Weather Service says no fewer than five tornadoes touched down in the state, and that number is expected to rise.
 
02:23 GMT: Two more fatalities were reported in a car in Union City and another person, according to KWTV, was found dead in El Reno. This update raises the Oklahoma death toll to five.

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http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-missouri-governor-nixon-declares-state-of-emergency-20130531,0,531132.story
5/31/13
Missouri Governor Nixon declares "State of Emergency"

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Jay Nixon tonight declared a state of emergency in Missouri as a widespread severe weather system continued to move across the state, bringing heavy rain, hail, straight-line winds, flooding and radar-indicated tornadoes. This severe weather follows several days of heavy rain throughout much of the state, leading to flooding along many streams and rivers. The severe weather threat continues tonight in parts of Missouri, and is likely to continue tomorrow for much of the state.

“Much of Missouri is experiencing dangerous severe weather tonight, on the heels of several days of heavy rain,” Gov. Nixon said. “I urge Missourians to closely monitor weather conditions, so they can take shelter or move to higher ground if needed. The risk of severe weather remains with us well into tomorrow. The state of Missouri will continue to work closely with local officials to help protect lives and property from these storms.”

The State Emergency Operations Center has been actively monitoring the storm system this week. Gov. Nixon has been receiving updates from his emergency management team, including senior officials from the Missouri Department of Public Safety, Missouri National Guard, Missouri State Highway Patrol and State Emergency Management Agency to assess the current weather situation and address local needs.

Gov. Nixon has also activated the Missouri State Emergency Operations Plan, which allows state agencies to coordinate directly with local jurisdictions to provide emergency services.
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And many think the wrath of God was only back in the Old Testament days! I beg to differ. God doesn't change, and people these days are finding that out.
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« Reply #47 on: June 01, 2013, 05:19:58 am »

Yeah, watching coverage on CNN tonight - looks worse than I thought. People went to work this morning thinking it would be yet another usual day, only to be caught off guard while driving back home.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

This is also a good reason as to why you need to be preprared for any thing.
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OKC HIT BY NEW STORMS; DEATHS...
http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-central/severe-weather-tracker-page

I-40 SLAMMED...
http://www.news9.com/story/22473229/multiple-tornadoes-reported-as-storms-tear-across-central-ok

'COWS FLY OVER HIGHWAY'...
http://www.news9.com/story/22473229/multiple-tornadoes-reported-as-storms-tear-across-central-ok

Tornadoes: Kansas, Missouri...
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AP_US_SEVERE_WEATHER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-05-31-21-22-15

Hail 'size of grapefruits'...
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/05/31/tornado-drops-down-west-of-oklahoma-city/

CHASERS TAKE DIRECT HIT
http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-central/tornado-hunt-team-takes-direct-hit-tornado-20130531
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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/01/18648500-storm-battered-oklahoma-a-war-zone-after-deadly-twisters-strike?lite
6/1/13
Storm-battered Oklahoma a 'war zone' after deadly twisters strike

The death toll jumped to nine Saturday in the aftermath of a swarm of killer twisters that tore into Oklahoma late Friday, with flash-flooding the latest fear in the shell-shocked region.

Five tornadoes — one a half-mile wide — struck the Oklahoma City area Friday evening, terrorizing communities already battered by deadly storms this spring.

The Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner told NBC News seven adults and two children are confirmed dead, including a mother and her small child. At least five people killed were in vehicles and may have been trying to flee as dark clouds gathered and warning sirens wailed, authorities said.

Hospitals in Oklahoma City reported 104 injuries, including five critical patients.

Marcus Jolly, 32, of El Reno told The Oklahoman newspaper the scene along Interstate 40 "was a war zone. There were semis turned over and skeletons of buildings remaining.”

The twisters came just 11 days after a monster tornado left 24 dead in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, where power outages were reported Friday.

Mark Wiley, meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s southern region headquarters in Fort Worth, said early Saturday that there had been five confirmed tornadoes in the Oklahoma City area on Friday and one in the Tulsa area early Saturday.

A total of 12 tornadoes hit Missouri and Illinois around St. Louis, where “numerous homes” were damaged. Wiley did not have any information about casualties there. Two twisters touched down briefly in North Dakota, but did not do any damage.

The Oklahoma City area “definitely” experienced the worst of the bad weather, Wiley said, with wind gusts of up to 90 mph, baseball-sized hail and extensive flooding.

“We have several reports of water going into homes and dozens of people having to be rescued on the streets, especially along Interstate-40,” Wiley said. “It was not a good night to be in the Oklahoma City area.”

For Saturday, Wiley said the storm was moving toward Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and East Texas, but did not “look as severe as yesterday.”

There was “still a threat of large hail, damaging winds and flooding, but the tornado threat is lower today than it was yesterday,” he said. The threat of a large tornado was “very small,” he added.

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Star of Discovery's 'Storm Chasers' show among dead in Oklahoma tornado

A star of the Discovery Channel show “Storm Chasers,” his son and a colleague have been identified as three of the 13 people killed after an outbreak of tornadoes struck the Oklahoma City area on Friday
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Tim Samaras, 55, died with his son Paul, 24, and friend Carl Young, 45, in Canadian County chasing down a tornado that wreaked havoc along Interstate 40, Fox 25 reports.

“We are deeply saddened by the loss of Tim Samaras his son Paul and their colleague Carl Young,” the Discovery Channel said in a statement to FOX411. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families.”

The channel added that it would be dedicating Sunday night's show on the tornadoes in their memory.

Meanwhile, residents in Oklahoma cleaned up after the deadly storms as searches continued for more victims.

Searchers were still working Sunday to find seven missing people, including five children.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/02/star-discovery-storm-chasers-show-among-dead-in-oklahoma-tornado-1449817980/#ixzz2V6UiQwYG
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Damaging storms moving through east, south
6/2/13

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Damaging winds flattened trees and utility wires and knocked out power in parts of northern New England on Sunday, flights were delayed in New York City and a tornado touched down in South Carolina as the East Coast weathered the remnants of violent storms that claimed 13 lives in Oklahoma.

Heavy rain, thunderstorms, high winds and hail moved through sections of the Northeast on Sunday afternoon, leaving 30,000 in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine still without power late that night. The National Weather Service issued a rare tornado warning as a line of thunderstorms raced through New Hampshire into western Maine. The weather service said a tornado warning was issued as radar indicated a possible tornado moving from Kingfield, Maine, to Bingham, Maine. The tornado was not immediately confirmed.

In northwestern South Carolina, a tornado knocked a home off its foundation and blew part of the roof off, said Taylor Jones, director of emergency management for Anderson County. Some trees were blown down and there was heavy rain, but no widespread damage. No injuries were reported.

"It was an isolated incident," Jones said.

The weather service said thunderstorms and winds in excess of 60 mph in Vermont produced 1-inch-diameter hail and knocked down numerous trees and wires. In northern Maine, radar picked up a line of thunderstorms capable of producing quarter-sized hail and winds stronger than 70 mph. Forecasters warned of tornadoes.

The stormy weather in the New York City region shortened the Boston Red Sox-New York Yankees game to 5 ½ innings and produced backups at major airports. But by early Monday, delays that had been up to three hours had eased to 15 minutes or less at airports on the East Coast, including John F. Kennedy International, La Guardia Airport, Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, Logan International Airport in Boston and Washington National Airport outside Washington.

Patrick Herb, 34, was traveling from Dulles with his 1- and 3-year-old to his home in Wisconsin, and had his departure time for a connecting flight in Detroit moved back three times. He described the mood at Dulles as "frustration and fatigue."

"The communication is honestly one of the most frustrating parts of travel," Herb said. "I'm sort of pessimistic it will get off on time."

In other parts of the South, thunderstorms, high winds and hail rolled through as part of a slow-moving cold front. Heavy rains could spawn flash flooding in some areas, the weather service said.

Meanwhile, residents in Oklahoma cleaned up after the storms there killed 13 people, including three veteran storm chasers. Tim Samaras; his son, Paul Samaras; and Carl Young were killed Friday. The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said the men were involved in tornado research.

Jim Samaras told The Associated Press on Sunday that his brother Tim was motivated by science.

"He looked at tornadoes not for the spotlight of TV but for the scientific aspect," Jim Samaras said. "At the end of the day, he wanted to save lives and he gave the ultimate sacrifice for that."

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin toured damage in El Reno, about 30 miles from Oklahoma City. She said the death toll could rise as emergency workers continue searching flooded areas for missing residents.

The state Medical Examiner's Office spokeswoman Amy Elliott said the death toll had risen to 13 from Friday's EF3 tornado, which charged down a clogged Interstate 40 in the western suburbs. Among the dead were two children — an infant sucked out of the car with its mother and a 4-year-old boy who along with his family had sought shelter in a drainage ditch.

In Missouri, areas west of St. Louis received significant damage from an EF3 tornado Friday that packed estimated winds of 150 mph. In St. Charles County, at least 71 homes were heavily damaged and 100 had slight to moderate damage, county spokeswoman Colene McEntee said.

Northeast of St. Louis, the town of Roxana, Ill., also saw damage from an EF3 tornado. Weather service meteorologist Jayson Gosselin said it wasn't clear whether the damage in Missouri and Illinois came from the same twister or separate ones.

Five tornadoes struck the Oklahoma City metro area on Friday, the weather service said. Fallin said Sunday that 115 people were injured.

The storms formed out on the prairie west of Oklahoma City, giving residents plenty of advance notice. When told to seek shelter, many ventured out and snarled traffic across the metro area — perhaps remembering when a tornado hit Moore on May 20 and killed 24 people.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Betsy Randolph said roadways quickly became congested with the convergence of rush-hour traffic and fleeing residents.

"They had no place to go, and that's always a bad thing. They were essentially targets just waiting for a tornado to touch down," Randolph said. "I'm not sure why people do that sort of stuff, but it is very dangerous."
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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/04/18741763-oklahoma-faces-new-twister-risk-as-storms-head-across-plains?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=7
6/4/13
Oklahoma faces new twister risk as storms head across Plains

Storm-battered Oklahomans again faced the risk of severe thunderstorms and even tornadoes on Tuesday as another storm system moved through the Plains and the Mississippi Valley, forecasters said.

Weather Channel meteorologist Kevin Roth said that isolated tornadoes were possible, along with damaging wind gusts and hail.

Severe thunderstorms were possible in the east and south Plains and the Mississippi Valley on Tuesday and the south Plains and north Texas on Wednesday, Roth said.

“Hard-hit Oklahoma has the severe threat both Tuesday and Wednesday,” he added.

He said there was a tornado risk for Oklahoma City late afternoon and evening on Tuesday.

“Strong thunderstorms” were also expected to hit Kansas City on Tuesday afternoon.

The National Weather Service published a map showing a large swath of the central and eastern U.S. at risk of thunderstorms and parts of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri had a slight risk of severe storms.

“Primary threats will be large to very large hail and damaging wind gusts. Isolated tornadoes will also be possible,” the weather service said.

Residents of West Alton, Mo. were ordered to evacuate the town after a levee breach near Highway 67 that sent water gushing over the roadway, Fire Chief Richard Pender told NBC News affiliate KSDK.

A flash-flood warning was in effect for parts of McClain, Grady, and Cleveland counties in Oklahoma until 7:15 am local time, the National Weather Service reported, as heavy rainfall was expected to move through the area.

The nation's midsection has been battered by relentless storms in recent weeks. On Friday, severe weather began to sweep across through the region, leaving 21 dead from twisters, hailstorms and flash floods - most of them in Oklahoma and Missouri.

And on May 20, an EF5 tornado packing 210mph winds struck the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 23 including 7 children who died at an elementary school.
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tornado-hit-oklahoma-last-week-210031899.html
6/4/13
The Tornado That Hit Oklahoma Last Week Was A Record-Breaking 2 Miles Wide

The tornado that killed nine and injured about 50 people near Oklahoma City on Friday has been rated a top-of-the-scale EF5, the National Weather Service said Tuesday.

It also had a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles, double the size of the 1.3-mile-wide tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma last month.

The National Weather Service posted thus graphic to its website illustrating the path of the huge tornado.

EF5 tornadoes are extremely rare, and the Oklahoma City area seems to have bad luck with them. On May 3, 1999, an EF5 tornado hit the same area and killed 46 people. The Moore tornado last month killed 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes.

The death toll was lower for Friday's tornado because the area it hit wasn't as heavily populated as Moore, which is about 11 miles south of Oklahoma City. El Reno, where the EF5 tornado hit on May 31, is about 30 miles west of Oklahoma City.

There have been only eight tornadoes rated an EF5 in Oklahoma since 1950, meaning a quarter of them have hit near Oklahoma City in the past two weeks alone, according to a tweet from a Weather Channel meteorologist.
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« Reply #54 on: June 05, 2013, 05:10:47 pm »

From what I understand, even in very bad economies(like we're in now), insurance companies still do well. However, when natural disasters start to increase more and more(as we're seeing in recent years) in this current collapsing of the economy, I think they will end up folding too.

http://local.msn.com/tornado-related-claims-already-top-250-million-dollars-in-oklahoma
Tornado-related claims already top $250M in Okla.
6/5/13

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma insurance officials say tornado-related insurance claims from the twisters on May 19 and 20 that tore through Moore and several neighboring communities already represent insured losses of nearly $250 million.

Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak said Tuesday there have been more than 32,400 insurance claims filed since May 19, including nearly 14,000 homeowner claims, 17,000 auto claims and 724 commercial property claims.

Insurance officials say the numbers don't reflect damage incurred during a separate series of tornadoes on Friday, including one west of the Oklahoma City that was upgraded this week to an EF5 tornado. The damages from Friday's tornado aren't expected to be as significant, since it tracked mostly through a rural area between El Reno and Union City.

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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/13/18931005-scrap-metal-tvs-love-seats-17-alleged-looters-nabbed-in-tornado-hit-moore-okla?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=6
6/13/13
Scrap metal, TVs, love seats: 17 alleged looters nabbed in tornado-hit Moore, Okla.

OKLAHOMA CITY - Officials in tornado-stricken Oklahoma cities are now dealing with looters who are stealing items ranging from copper wire to jewelry.

Moore police spokesman Jeremy Lewis and Mayor Glenn Lewis said 17 arrests have been made on misdemeanor charges of looting in Moore since the May 20 EF5 tornado hit.

"We are seeing people take everything from copper to pipes to scrap metal to all kinds of electronics," Lewis said. "It's a misdemeanor crime and not a crime we usually have to deal with."

Jon Fisher's home was flattened in the May 20 storm that killed 24 people and his neighborhood has been among those targeted by looters, mostly homes on the edge of damaged areas.

"The houses are still standing and looters are kicking in doors and taking TVs and appliances," Fisher said. "They arrested two guys in my neighborhood the night of the tornado who were carrying out a love seat and couch."

Fisher said his insurance company told him to remove all valuables from his house as fast as possible, particularly items with sentimental value or those not easily replaced.

Moore police also dealt with looters after another massive EF5 tornado struck the city in 1999.

In May, police immediately set up positions and checked identification of people trying to enter locked-down tornado-damaged areas. The Oklahoma Insurance Commission also issued badges to assessors and workers to make them easily identified when working in damaged neighborhoods.

Three Virginia men - Steven Corky Daniels, 36; Steve Costello, 44 and Justin Wagner, 25 - were among those arrested for looting copper wire and scrap metal in Moore.

Maria Lopez, 30, of Norman, Oklahoma, was charged with disturbing a disaster area on May 30 in Moore after neighbors reported seeing her and her children sort through rubble.

Alleged looters closer to home were also arrested. Moore Police arrested Moore resident Edward Dean McDonald on May 29 on misdemeanor looting charges.

Shawnee police said they have made no looting arrests since a tornado struck that town on May 19.

Moore City Manager Steve Eddy said crime is not as widespread as some may think.

"We learned from the first tornado, and we have officers in that area 24/7," Eddy said. "We have no tolerance for it. We're not going to shoot them on sight or anything, but we will arrest anyone suspected of it."

On May 31, a second EF5 tornado near El Reno, Oklahoma, and severe storms left 21 people dead.
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http://news.yahoo.com/line-storms-brings-wind-hail-tornadoes-sd-235627249.html
Line of storms brings wind, hail, tornadoes to SD
6/21/13

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Several homes were damaged and an entire county was without power Friday after a fast-moving line of strong storms moved through northeast South Dakota, bringing several tornadoes and golf-ball-sized hail.

The National Weather Service said tornadoes touched down in Clark, Hamlin, Spink and Kingsbury counties.

Hamlin County Sheriff Chad Schlotterbeck said the whole county was without power Friday evening, and the fire department was going door to door to assess the extent of damage. The county has about 6,000 residents.

"We've got homes destroyed," Schlotterbeck said. "We've got trees down."

Jim Scarlett, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Aberdeen, said the damage in Hamlin County appears to have been caused by a tornado, but the office was still assessing the result of the storm system.

Scarlett said there were also reports of heavy wind damage in Hamlin County around Castlewood and in Deuel County near Clear Lake. He had heard no reports of injuries as of yet.

"The town of Clear Lake just got devastated with wind damage," he said.

Power was knocked out and trees and branches were downed in parts of Huron Friday. Wind damage, street flooding and power outages were also reported around Brookings and Watertown.
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