Tornado in Missouri

• SportsAndLady

  

  1/2 mile wide tornado ripping through Oklahoma right now
• vball10set

  SportsAndLady;779043 wrote:1/2 mile wide tornado ripping through Oklahoma right now

  
  good lord, what a spring....
• gorocks99

  

  Tornados all over Oklahoma right now.
  
  http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/severe-weather-tracker-may-24-25_2011-05-23
  
  TWCBreaking Large multivortex tornado reported 2 miles north of Lookeba, OK. This is is west of Oklahoma City.
  
  TWCBreaking LARGE, multivortex #tornado now near Binger, OK or 6 miles south of Hinton. TAKE COVER NOW below ground! http://wxch.nl/jyMQQi
  
  TWCBreaking Emerg. Manager: Report of #tornado damage near Sickles, OK (Caddo Co.), just west of Lookeba. Map: http://wxch.nl/jydyfj
  
  TWCBreaking Tornado on the ground just south of I-40 near mile marker 108.
• gerb131

  

  Look at this monster...
  
  http://www.kfor.com/news/livestreaming/
• Terry_Tate

  

  Numerous cars overturned on I-40 around mile marker 113. They are getting absolutely rocked right now. Unreal.
• Terry_Tate

  

  gerb131;779062 wrote:Look at this monster...
  
  http://www.kfor.com/news/livestreaming/

  
  That dude chasing that thing is nuts.
• Speedofsand

  

  gerb, I was looking for that on ustream, thanks
  
  can't pay me enough to be reporting from a car in that stuff.
• gerb131

  

  Getting bigger right now. Thing is huge.
• gorocks99

  

  Tornado warning in OKC
• karen lotz

  

  Damn, turn on the weather channel now, live footage of tornado touching down.
• gorocks99

  

  From Missouri, before and after:
  
  
• dlazz

  gerb131;779085 wrote:Getting bigger right now. Thing is huge.

  
  that's what she said
• Classyposter58

  

  Tomorrow looks like Western OH might get in on some of this
• LJ

  

  dlazz;779189 wrote:that's what she said

  
  this is true
• Sonofanump

  Dallas next.
• sonofsam

  

  SportsAndLady;779033 wrote:Before:
  
  
  
  After:
  
  

  
  FUCKING WOW...
• ts1227

  

  To the surprise of no one, Joplin tornado upgraded to EF5 after further assessment of damage

  NWS Springfield, MO wrote: PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
  559 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011
  
  ..EF-5 TORNADO CONFIRMED IN JOPLIN...
  
  THE JOPLIN TORNADO HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO AN EF-5 TORNADO.
  
  * DATE...22 MAY 2011
  * MAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING...EF-5
  * ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...IN EXCESS OF 200 MPH
  * ESTIMATED PATH WIDTH...3/4 MILE
  * FATALITIES...122
  * INJURIES...750
  
  * THIS PRELIMINARY INFORMATION WAS DETERMINED BY A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SURVEY TEAM AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT AND PUBLICATION IN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM DATA.
  
  AN EF-5 TORNADO IMPACTED A LARGE PORTION OF THE CITY OF JOPLIN. WIND SPEEDS WERE ESTIMATED IN EXCESS OF 200 MPH. THE PATH WIDTH WAS ESTIMATED AT THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE WIDE.

• Hb31187

  

  Another Tornado just touched down outside Kansas City today....jeesh
• O-Trap

  

  ts1227;779671 wrote:To the surprise of no one, Joplin tornado upgraded to EF5 after further assessment of damage

  Per the news, the Joplin tornado is now tied for the deadliest single tornado in recorded US history with a death toll of 116, but it is still possible for more to be discovered. It is tied with a tornado that touched down in Michigan back in 1953, so it is the worst since then (almost 60 years).
  
  One of my clients at work (a major church in Central Ohio) is raising funds to send 40,000 lbs. of food, bottled water, and clothing to Joplin.
• SportsAndLady

  

  There were also reports that another tornado is on a path leading directly to....you guessed it...Jopin, Missouri
• O-Trap

  

  SportsAndLady;780185 wrote:There were also reports that another tornado is on a path leading directly to....you guessed it...Jopin, Missouri

  Holy crap. What's the time frame? Is there a link?
• SportsAndLady

  

  O-Trap;780200 wrote:Holy crap. What's the time frame? Is there a link?

  
  Nevermind (I think), I just saw this tweet
  
  @BreakingNews
  Breaking News
  Spotters confirm a tornado on the ground moving toward Joplin, Mo., where a twister on Sunday killed 124 people - CNN
  
  but did not see that it was posted early tuesday morning and the tornado warning has since been lifted. Heres the link:
  
  http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/24/severe.weather/index.html
• enigmaax

  A buddy of mine had his house annihilated in Oklahoma. Can not begin to imagine what it would be like to see your town flattened. All he has really said is, "Looks like a scene out of a movie. Wow."
• gorocks99

  

  Another before and after view ... wow.
  
  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-joplin-tornado-slider,0,2395484.htmlstory
• karen lotz

  

  ^^^
  
  Unreal.