First the Drought – Now Tornadoes!

[longknife]

Welcome home to Kansas, Dorothy.

Oops! Not Kansas? What's going on here? Another Severe Climate Change story in the Left Coast Repuplik of Caleeforn-eye-ay. Read it @ Tornadoes touch down in Northern California | Las Vegas Review-Journal

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Global Warming...has to be Manmade Climate Change, what else makes the weather change?

 

[flacaltenn]

It's rare and exciting.. But not impossible. 400 recorded over Cali history..

Tornado History Project: California

Most all Cat 0 and Cat 1.. Give me a call when they multiply and intensify... OR when they start combining with sharks...

 

[skookerasbil]

Nobody cares about California anyway.......the whole damn state is becoming a Jonestown.

 

[joshuah]

Tornado counts are at record low levels for March.

March 2014 Tornado Count Well Below Average | Weather Underground

 

[waltky]

North Carolina Infant Dies After Tornado Destroys 200 Homes...

Infant dies from storm injuries
Sunday, Apr. 27, 2014 ~ Authorities say an 11-month-old boy has died from injuries suffered when a tornado struck his home in Eastern North Carolina.

Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Julia Jarema said the boy died in the hospital Sunday, two days after his home in Edenton was destroyed in one of eight tornadoes that hit the state.

Gov. Pat McCrory toured Chowan County and said his prayers go out to the boy’s family. He also viewed damage in Beaufort County and Perquimans County, promising residents he will see what the state and federal governments can do to help.

More than a dozen people were injured and around 200 homes and businesses were destroyed or heavily damaged in Friday’s tornadoes that also struck Pitt, Halifax and Pasquotank counties. Associated Press

Read more here: Infant dies from storm injuries | CharlotteObserver.com

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Tornadoes strike central, southern US, killing 12
Apr 28,`14 -- A state official says the death toll from a tornado that tore through central Arkansas has risen to 11 people.

Matt DeCample, a spokesman for Gov. Mike Beebe, said early Monday that Sunday night's tornado that passed through several suburbs west and north of Little Rock killed five people each in Pulaski and Faulkner counties and one person in White County. A separate tornado from the same storm system moving through the central and southern United States killed one person in northeastern Oklahoma on Sunday. A broad tornado sliced through Little Rock's suburbs Sunday, killing eight people and leaving behind a miles-long path of destruction as a powerful system rumbling off the Plains provided a violent kick-start to the nation's tornado season.

The scene was the same in town after town, with emergency workers and volunteers going door-to-door to check for victims. State troopers performed the same task among the damaged and toppled 18-wheelers, cars and trucks on a two-mile stretch of Interstate 40, a major thoroughfare in and out of Arkansas' capital city. "It turned pitch black," said Mark Ausbrooks, who was at his parents' home in Mayflower when the storm arrived. "I ran and got pillows to put over our heads and ... all hell broke loose." "My parents' home, it's gone completely," he said.

Tornado damage, Sunday, April 27, 2014 in Mayflower, Ark. A powerful storm system rumbled through the central and southern United States on Sunday, spawning several tornadoes, including one in a small northeastern Oklahoma city and another that carved a path of destruction through several northern suburbs of Little Rock, Ark.

Forecasters had warned for days that violent weather would strike this weekend, ending an unusually calm weather pattern. A morning storm forced a delay at the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon and by afternoon the weather system had grown deadly, spawning a tornado that killed a person in Quapaw, Oklahoma, before moving north into Kansas and destroying dozens of homes in Baxter Springs. The twister was estimated to be three blocks wide when it struck Baxter Springs, destroying 60 to 70 homes and 20 to 25 businesses in the city of roughly 4,200 residents, according to Cherokee County, Kan., emergency manager Jason Allison.

The twister injured 25 people in Baxter Springs and one person died, but it wasn't clear if the death was related to the storm, said Kari West, a spokeswoman for the Southeast Kansas Incident Management Team. More storms are expected Monday in the South and Mississippi Valley. Matt DeCample, a spokesman for Gov. Mike Beebe, put the Arkansas death toll at eight - four in Faulkner County, three in Pulaski County and one in White County. He said Beebe's office was relying on reports confirmed through the state Department of Emergency Management.

In Arkansas, Pulaski County Sheriff's Lt. Carl Minden said three people were killed when a tornado destroyed a home near the Pulaski/Saline county line about 10 miles west of Little Rock. Minden said several others were injured at the scene. "I'm standing on the foundation of the house now. It's totally gone," Minden told The Associated Press by phone. He said other areas of the county sustained storm damage, but no other fatalities had been reported. In Mayflower, Jacci Juniel was caught away from her home after leaving to find her son as the storm approached. Her 96-year-old mother, left at home, suffered cuts when the storm blew out a window. "We had to climb over trees and power lines and under neat trees. I was just trying to get home to my mom," Juniel said.

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[Sarah G]

Tornado counts are at record low levels for March.

March 2014 Tornado Count Well Below Average | Weather Underground

Good. Hope we get zero warnings this year.

 

[flacaltenn]

I'm sitting here waiting on the tornado sirens to go off this afternoon, and trying to keep my yard drains open after 5 inches of rain..

I swear the first person who makes today's tornado threat about GWarning is gonna get negged..

 

[mamooth]

Drought is correlated with lower tornado levels, since the big moist air masses aid tornado formation. That's why it's been a low-tornado year so far, even counting the recent outbreak, because of the very dry conditions over the western half of tornado alley.

 

[Old Rocks]

And that is about to change.

 

[flacaltenn]

And that is about to change.

GoldiRocks, the Oracle of Porridge, has spoken. Too cool, too hot, and just right....

 

[Howey]

North Carolina Infant Dies After Tornado Destroys 200 Homes...

Infant dies from storm injuries
Sunday, Apr. 27, 2014 ~ Authorities say an 11-month-old boy has died from injuries suffered when a tornado struck his home in Eastern North Carolina.

Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Julia Jarema said the boy died in the hospital Sunday, two days after his home in Edenton was destroyed in one of eight tornadoes that hit the state.

Gov. Pat McCrory toured Chowan County and said his prayers go out to the boy’s family. He also viewed damage in Beaufort County and Perquimans County, promising residents he will see what the state and federal governments can do to help.

More than a dozen people were injured and around 200 homes and businesses were destroyed or heavily damaged in Friday’s tornadoes that also struck Pitt, Halifax and Pasquotank counties. Associated Press

Read more here: Infant dies from storm injuries | CharlotteObserver.com

See also:

Tornadoes strike central, southern US, killing 12
Apr 28,`14 -- A state official says the death toll from a tornado that tore through central Arkansas has risen to 11 people.

Matt DeCample, a spokesman for Gov. Mike Beebe, said early Monday that Sunday night's tornado that passed through several suburbs west and north of Little Rock killed five people each in Pulaski and Faulkner counties and one person in White County. A separate tornado from the same storm system moving through the central and southern United States killed one person in northeastern Oklahoma on Sunday. A broad tornado sliced through Little Rock's suburbs Sunday, killing eight people and leaving behind a miles-long path of destruction as a powerful system rumbling off the Plains provided a violent kick-start to the nation's tornado season.

The scene was the same in town after town, with emergency workers and volunteers going door-to-door to check for victims. State troopers performed the same task among the damaged and toppled 18-wheelers, cars and trucks on a two-mile stretch of Interstate 40, a major thoroughfare in and out of Arkansas' capital city. "It turned pitch black," said Mark Ausbrooks, who was at his parents' home in Mayflower when the storm arrived. "I ran and got pillows to put over our heads and ... all hell broke loose." "My parents' home, it's gone completely," he said.

Tornado damage, Sunday, April 27, 2014 in Mayflower, Ark. A powerful storm system rumbled through the central and southern United States on Sunday, spawning several tornadoes, including one in a small northeastern Oklahoma city and another that carved a path of destruction through several northern suburbs of Little Rock, Ark.

Forecasters had warned for days that violent weather would strike this weekend, ending an unusually calm weather pattern. A morning storm forced a delay at the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon and by afternoon the weather system had grown deadly, spawning a tornado that killed a person in Quapaw, Oklahoma, before moving north into Kansas and destroying dozens of homes in Baxter Springs. The twister was estimated to be three blocks wide when it struck Baxter Springs, destroying 60 to 70 homes and 20 to 25 businesses in the city of roughly 4,200 residents, according to Cherokee County, Kan., emergency manager Jason Allison.

The twister injured 25 people in Baxter Springs and one person died, but it wasn't clear if the death was related to the storm, said Kari West, a spokeswoman for the Southeast Kansas Incident Management Team. More storms are expected Monday in the South and Mississippi Valley. Matt DeCample, a spokesman for Gov. Mike Beebe, put the Arkansas death toll at eight - four in Faulkner County, three in Pulaski County and one in White County. He said Beebe's office was relying on reports confirmed through the state Department of Emergency Management.

In Arkansas, Pulaski County Sheriff's Lt. Carl Minden said three people were killed when a tornado destroyed a home near the Pulaski/Saline county line about 10 miles west of Little Rock. Minden said several others were injured at the scene. "I'm standing on the foundation of the house now. It's totally gone," Minden told The Associated Press by phone. He said other areas of the county sustained storm damage, but no other fatalities had been reported. In Mayflower, Jacci Juniel was caught away from her home after leaving to find her son as the storm approached. Her 96-year-old mother, left at home, suffered cuts when the storm blew out a window. "We had to climb over trees and power lines and under neat trees. I was just trying to get home to my mom," Juniel said.

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God must not be happy with all those red states, huh?

 

[whitehall]

Why not blame it on Bush? The east coast was in a drought for about a decade. Now the middle Atlantic states are doing pretty well rain wise. Weather patterns change don't they?

 

[skookerasbil]

Springtime in the Midwest United States!


duh



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