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« on: November 17, 2013, 02:47:06 pm »

53 million people at risk as powerful Midwest storm brings tornadoes, severe winds
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11/17/13

Fifty three million people across the United States are in harm’s way as a powerful storm system will bring tornadoes and widespread damaging wind gusts to the Midwest, the National Weather Service said Sunday afternoon.

A tornado outbreak is likely to hit the Chicago area, according to the Storm Prediction Center. The possible tornadoes are part of a storm system that is also expected to bring damaging high winds. The Weather Channel's Mike Seidel and TODAY's Dylan Dreyer report.

"We obviously have a very dangerous situation on our hands and it's just getting started," said Laura Furgione, deputy director of the National Weather Service.

She added, "Get ready now."

Parts of the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, lower-middle Mississippi Valley and Tennessee Valley are among the areas most at risk for widespread damaging winds and possible tornadoes, experts with the Weather Channel said.

Bill Bunting, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service said one tornado was already reported shortly after noon in Peoria, Ill. The National Weather Service reported that the twister was moving northeast at about 55 miles per hour.

At NBC affiliate WEEK-TV in Peoria, newscasters had to go off the air abruptly, as they realized they themselves were in the path of the twister. According to the NWS, the station’s building sustained roof damage.

In Tazewell County, central Illinois, emergency crews were responding a tornado that flattened homes in several neighborhoods. The cities with reported damage include Washington, Perkin and East Peoria, county spokeswoman Sara Sparkman told NBC News. Pictures from Washington showed an expansive trail of wood debris from homes torn apart as the twister laid waste to one neighborhood.

The Red Cross was working with the county to open up shelters in the area for families whose homes were damaged.

In Chicago, the Bears versus Baltimore Ravens game was postponed due to the weather, and the seating area at Soldier Field was evacuated, according to team officials.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn warned residents that the weather and storms across the state were “very serious.

"I urge everyone to pay attention to all weather alerts and stay home and inside if possible,” Quinn said in a statement. “Driving during these severe conditions is extremely dangerous. All residents should stay off the roads until these storms and flood warnings subside."

Weather Channel severe weather expert Greg Forbes has issued TOR:CON tornado warning values as high as 9 for portions of Illinois and Indiana – meaning there is a 70 percent chance of a tornado within 90 miles of a forecast location.

The highest threat area for tornadoes will be from eastern Illinois into Indiana, southern Michigan, western Kentucky and western Ohio.

In addition to the severe storms, strong gradient winds outside of thunderstorms could gust 70-75 mph for the Great Lakes and interior Northeast into early Monday, the National Weather Service said.

Winds and hail could cause downed trees and scattered power outages, including to areas such as Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo
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Russell Schneider, a director at the National Weather Service, warned that the storm would move rapidly and might quickly progress from one location to the next.

“Fifty three million people over ten states are at severe risk,” said Schneider.

“Do not wait for visual confirmation of the threat” he advised residents of the Midwest.

"People can fall into complacency because they don't see severe weather and tornadoes, but we do stress that they should keep a vigilant eye on the weather and have a means to hear a tornado warning because things can change very quickly," said Matt Friedlein, another meteorologist with the Weather Service, told The Associated Press.

The Weather Channel predicts the storm will diminish as it moves east through Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey, but high winds could reach as far as New York on Monday morning.
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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2013, 08:00:44 pm »

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Tornadoes rip through Midwest; five dead, dozens injured
11/17/13

Tornadoes tore through Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky on Sunday, part of a dangerous line of fast-moving storms that ripped through the Midwest, killing at least five people and injuring dozens of others.

There were three confirmed fatalities in Washington County, Ill., Jonathan Monken, director of Illinois Emergency Management Agency, said.

According to the National Weather Service, more than 70 tornadoes were reported across the region, though that figure likely includes duplicates and should be considered preliminary.

At least 10 states were in under severe weather alerts, as tornado watches were posted from Michigan to Arkansas. Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power, according to weather officials.

"We obviously have a very dangerous situation on our hands and it's just getting started," NWS deputy director Laura Furgione said during a conference call with reporters earlier Sunday.

The Chicago Bears' home game against the Baltimore Ravens was temporarily halted due to severe weather in the Chicago area, and fans were evacuated from the stands at Soldier Field. Play resumed several hours later.

Washington, 145 miles southwest of Chicago, was hit particularly hard.

"I went over there immediately after the tornado, walking through the neighborhoods, and I couldn't even tell what street I was on," Washington, Ill., Alderman Tyler Gee told the Associated Press.

"I stepped outside and I heard it coming," Michael Perdun, a resident there, told the news service. "My daughter was already in the basement, so I ran downstairs and grabbed her, crouched in the laundry room and all of a sudden I could see daylight up the stairway and my house was gone. The whole neighborhood's gone. The wall of my fireplace is all that is left of my house."

Amy Paul, a spokeswoman for OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, told the Peoria Journal-Star that the hospital was treating 37 tornado victims, including seven trauma victims.

Alexandra Sutter, a reporter for central Illinois' WMBD-TV, called the damage "horrific."
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« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2013, 03:10:06 am »

Deadly storm, tornado hits Washington, Illinois



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« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2013, 11:52:27 am »

First EF4 tornado in November in Illinois
http://www.today.com/video/today/53588790?from=en-us_msnhp#53588790

More footage of damage
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/53589349?from=en-us_msnhp#53589349
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« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2013, 12:01:12 pm »

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11/18/13
How Rare was the November Midwest Tornado Outbreak?

In the wake of the deadly Midwest tornado outbreak on Sunday, many people are wondering how rare tornadoes are during November.

The short answer is that tornadoes can occur in the Midwest during any month of the year. However, the number of tornadoes diminishes substantially during the cold-weather months.

There is a secondary severe weather season that occurs during October and November, which favors the Deep South.

While rare, tornadoes reaching as far north as the Midwest and mid-Atlantic are not unheard of during November.



According to Harold Brooks, senior research scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla., "The peak of the secondary season for the United States as a whole is rather diffuse, but is centered over the middle of November."

The uptick in severe thunderstorms during October and November can be simply explained by the routine strengthening of storm systems during the autumn that are able to pull lingering warm and humid air northward from the Gulf of Mexico.



Brooks stated that this particular event had very strong winds aloft, which not only greatly increased the forward speed of the severe weather, but also added fuel to the individual storms.

According to Greg Carbin, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center, "Winds aloft over the region strengthened rapidly from 70 mph to 140 mph on Sunday."



Every decade as far back as the 1980s has brought multiple tornado outbreaks during November with a number of fatalities.

"During November there is a tornado outbreak about once every seven to eight years," Carbin stated.

"The most comparable event is probably Nov. 22, 1992, which had a large number of tornadoes in Indiana and Kentucky," Brooks said.

According to the Indianapolis National Weather Service office, the 1992 outbreak produced the largest number of November tornadoes [15] on a single day in Indiana on record.

Other significant November outbreaks have occurred during the last 12 years. The last decade brought eight tornado outbreaks. The most significant of these for the Midwest occurred in 2001 and 2002.

During the Veterans Day Outbreak of Nov. 9 to 11, 2002, there were close to 80 tornadoes that took the lives of 36 people and injured more than 300 others.

In 2001, spanning Nov. 23 to 24, there were approximately five dozen tornadoes that killed 13 people and injured more than 200 others.

November tornadoes were very rare during the 1960s and 1970s.

The preliminary count of tornadoes through Nov. 17, 2013 is 886, which is well below the most recent eight-year annual average of 1,424 through mid-November.



As bad as the event was on Sunday, it could have been worse.

"If the storm system would have tracked over the lower Mississippi Valley, closer to the source of warm and humid air, instead of the Great Lakes, we would have likely had an even greater number of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes," Carbin said.

Moving forward through the end of the month, there will likely be a few more potent storm systems developing. However, the chance that all of the necessary ingredients will come together to produce a tornado outbreak for each and every system is quite low.

For people in the Midwest, the secondary tornado season winding down through the latter half of November.

Odds are against a similar setup as far north as the last over the Midwest. However, as climatology suggests, the chances are higher for severe thunderstorms over the South.
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« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2013, 10:15:35 am »

http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-central/state-state-look-midwest-tornado-outbreak-20131118
State-By-State Look at Midwest Tornado Outbreak

Published: Nov 19, 2013, 6:42 AM EST Associated Press

A tornado outbreak in the Midwest on Sunday leveled entire city blocks and tore a path of destruction across 12 states. It was an unusually large and strong storm system for November and it will take months to clean up the damage. Here's a snapshot of what happened, state by state:

Illinois
•At least six people were killed in Illinois, including an elderly man and his sister who died when a tornado struck their farmhouse in rural New Minden in southern Illinois, officials said. An EF4 tornado hit that town, survey crews concluded.
•One of the worst-hit areas was Washington, a town of 16,000 about 140 miles southwest of Chicago. Entire blocks were leveled as a confirmed EF4 tornado cut a path about an eighth of a mile wide from one side of town to the other.
•250 and 500 homes destroyed in Washington, Ill., according to the mayor.
•Several other tornadoes were confirmed northeast of Washington, according to the National Weather Service.
•7 counties declared a disaster by Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn

Indiana
•At least 10 tornadoes caused injuries and widespread damage through 12 counties.
•Gov. Mike Pence was touring some of the worst-hit areas Monday, while tens of thousands of homes remained without power.
•68,000 customers were without power across the state at the height of the storm's aftermath.
•Kokomo police say nearly three dozen people were injured when a tornado swept through Sunday.
•Indiana University Kokomo campus was closed Monday due to a power outage, according to Kokomo Police. At least one confirmed tornado hit the town.
•On Sunday night, an Amtrak train collided with a tree that had fallen onto lines near Michigan City, causing a 90-minute delay to the Chicago to Grand Rapids, Mich., service.

Ohio
•Heavy winds from storms caused damage to buildings and left tens of thousands across Ohio without power.
•The National Weather Service confirmed Monday that two tornadoes touched down in the northwest part of the state, although no significant injuries were reported.
•Wood County, in the northwestern part of the state, was among the hardest-hit areas. 
•Wood County Director of Emergency Management Brad Gilbert said two people suffered minor injuries when their house was damaged in Jerry City, about 10 miles southeast of Bowling Green.
•The county's emergency management director, Brad Gilbert, said two people were taken to a hospital to be evaluated for minor injuries after their home sustained substantial damage in Jerry City, about 10 miles southeast of Bowling Green.
•Thousands of customers were without power across northwest Ohio due to the storm.

Wisconsin
•Strong winds knocked out power to thousands in the Milwaukee area, damaged buildings and downed trees in Dodge County, and sent churchgoers scrambling into church basements for safety.
•In the town of Hustisford, cattle sheds, garages and storage sheds were damaged, said Dodge County Emergency Management Director Joseph Meagher. No injuries were immediately reported, he said.

Michigan
•Officials have confirmed two storm-related deaths in Michigan. A 21-year-old man died when his vehicle was crushed by a tree Sunday evening. A 59-year-old man in Shiawassee County was found dead and entangled in high voltage power wires after going outside late Sunday to investigate a noise.
•High winds and rain slammed into the western part of the state, downing trees and power lines and leaving more than 530,000 homes and businesses without power.
•The National Weather Service in Gaylord confirms an EF0 tornado in Otsego County yesterday, which is the farthest north there's been a tornado in Michigan in November (1950-present).
•High winds at the Mackinac Bridge prompted officials to close a 5-mile span to semi-trucks and trailers Monday.

Kentucky
•A possible tornado touched down at a uranium enrichment plant in Paducah, Ky., as strong storms moved through the state. No deaths or injuries were reported, and plant officials said no hazardous materials were released from the plant.
•Tornadoes were spotted in at least eight Kentucky counties and at least one home had its roof blown off, a spokesman for the Kentucky Emergency Management said.
•At least two homes were destroyed - one in Henderson County and another in Butler County. More than 3,000 customers lost power.

Missouri
•Severe storms slammed the eastern part of Missouri, leaving thousands without power, mostly in the St. Louis area, and destroying a mobile home in Scott County. No one was injured.
•The National Weather Service said the storm tore shingles off roofs and uprooted trees across parts of St. Louis and St. Louis County.

Tennessee
•The National Weather Service on Monday confirmed that two tornadoes touched down in Middle Tennessee, causing damage to buildings.
•EF1 and EF0 tornadoes were tracked in Orlinda in Robertson County and Portland in Sumner County, respectively. Damage to roofs and windows, but no major injuries, was reported.
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11/20/13
Residents of tornado-hit Midwest city regroup amid looting

WASHINGTON, Illinois (Reuters) - Residents of a central Illinois city hit by a powerful tornado worked feverishly on Tuesday to salvage belongings from the rubble of their homes, as an over-burdened police force tried to stop looting.

Authorities doubled to 1,000 their estimate of homes damaged or destroyed in the fast-moving storm that hit Washington, a town of 15,000 located 145 miles southwest of Chicago, on Sunday. Winds reached up to 200 miles per hour (322 km per hour), and many houses were reduced to piles of sticks.

The storm system triggered multiple tornadoes on Sunday in the Midwestern United States, killing at least six people in Illinois and two in Michigan. The cost of damage is estimated at $1 billion.

Roads in and out of Washington were clogged on Tuesday with pickup trucks, which residents filled with whatever they could find that was salvageable. The sound of chainsaws cutting through fallen trees could be heard everywhere. Incidents of looting, and the threat of rain on Wednesday, added urgency to the task.

Homeowner Ken Dunston said a truck had pulled up outside his home and made off with a pile of his furniture.

"They're stealing everything they can," said Dunston. "The next time they come through here I'll grab hold of them and call the police."


Washington police department commander Greg Gordon said looters are posing a huge challenge for the local force, which has been augmented by officers from nearby Peoria and state police.

REBUILDING AFTER DISASTER

Diana Wara, 50, a professional cook, was trying to get her recipes off the hard drive of her crushed computer. All that remained of her two-story home was its foundation. Her family's four cars were destroyed, she said.

"My whole life is on that computer," she said, struggling to hold back tears. "We're all just lucky to be alive and we're going to rebuild."

She has already talked to a builder, but in the meantime, her insurance company has put up her family in an apartment, she said.

Mike Bochart, 40, was in church when the storm hit, so he and his family stayed safe, while half of his home was destroyed. He was removing what he could on Tuesday.

"Everyone has been pitching in to help, this is a good town," Bochart said. "It's going to be a long road, but we will rebuild."

Early estimates suggest that the property damage caused by the storm could reach $1 billion, with the greatest toll in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri, according to Risk Management Solutions, a Newark, California-based company that specializes in assessing the toll of storms and other disasters.

November tornado outbreaks are relatively rare this far north - they are seen only about once every 10 years in this part of the Midwest, according to Greg Carbin, meteorologist for the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center.

Rebuilding from a November storm, as opposed to a spring storm, poses different challenges, according to Terry Ruhland, spokesman for the Homebuilders Association of Greater Peoria.

One problem is that foundations that are solid now may suffer damage from winter weather while homeowners wait for construction to begin, so foundations will need to be protected, Ruhland said.

"Do I think people will step up to the plate and make historic efforts? Absolutely," Ruhland said. "But it will be very challenging due to the devastation, the weather conditions, and the volume of work needing to be done."

Washington Mayor Gary Manier asked volunteers to stay away for now to let people into their homes. But the town will need help going forward.

"We're going to be here for quite a while and we're going to need assistance," Manier said. "So please don't forget about us." He said the town has had offers of help from as far off as Italy and the Philippines, where residents are struggling to recover from their own natural disaster, Typhoon Haiyan, which authorities estimate killed more than 3,900 people after roaring ashore on November 8.

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has declared 13 counties disaster areas.

Of the six people killed in Illinois, authorities said one died in Washington and three in Brookport on the Kentucky border, where a tornado with winds up to 145 mph destroyed dozens of mobile homes and damaged dozens of houses, garages, storage buildings, businesses and other structures.

Two men died in Michigan in storm-related incidents.

Tornadoes also caused major damage in Indiana and lesser damage in Ohio, according to the National Weather Service.

(Additional reporting by Scott Malone in Boston and Kim Palmer in Cleveland; Writing by Mary Wisnieski; Editing by W Simon, Maureen Bavdek, Marguerita Choy and Gunna Dickson)
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