Monday, April 18, 2011

Killer tornado outbreak 4/14-4/16

I'm going to post some links and info on the tornado outbreak that occurred over a 3 day period, April 14th-16th. It started with tornadoes in Oklahoma on the 14th, moved to an outbreak on the 15th in Mississippi and Alabama, and finally the last day was the deadly outbreak in North Carolina and Virginia.
As of this posting, 45 fatalities have been reported. Of the reported 45 fatalities, 22 occurred in North Carolina, 7 in Alabama, 7 in Arkansas, 6 in Virginia, 2 in Oklahoma and 1 in Mississippi. Tornado reports initiated from North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri and Louisiana.

Here are some of the storm surveys:
Oklahoma: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/?n=events-20110414 - tons of links at the top of this page!
another weather office: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=tsa&storyid=66688&source=0
Arkansas: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lzk/?n=svr0411b.htm
Mississippi: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/?n=2011_04_15_tor
Alabama: http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=BMX&product=PNS&issuedby=BMX
North Carolina:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/rah/news/content/20110416_raleigh_survey.pdf
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/rah/news/content/20110416_fayetteville_survey.pdf
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/rah/news/content/Damage.Photos.from.Fay.Dunn.Tornadic.Storms.pdf

Some youtube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh29Ta9YpXs&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC52No_LdKw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf5ebTswhSM&feature=player_embedded
guy sitting in his truck as the tornado passes right by. he seems to think it's not that bad as he can only see "leaves" flying around. then it hits a house and tons of debris get thrown at his truck! very lucky guy to not be injured!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgwJfoZ-12c
video taken by a 12 year old as his dad(?) drives right into the tornado! at the end you can tell one of the windows was knocked out of the car. more stupidity!!
http://www.wral.com/news/video/9456892/#/vid9456892

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