West Moore, OK: Total Destruction from humongous tornado!!

[skookerasbil]

This is just unbelievable........

LIVE UPDATES: Tornadoes tear through counties across Okla. | KFOR.com

 

[waltky]

Rescue crews storm Ark., Okla. tornado sites...

Tornadoes kill 16 in Arkansas, 1 in Oklahoma
28 Apr.`14 — Emergency officials were searching for survivors Monday in the debris left by a powerful tornado that killed at least 16 people in Arkansas and carved an 80-mile path of destruction through suburban Little Rock.

The tornado that slammed into Vilonia, just west of the capital city, grew to about half a mile wide Sunday and was among a rash of tornadoes and strong storms that rumbled across the Midwest and South overnight. The National Weather Service warned that more tornadoes, damaging winds and very large hail would strike Monday in parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana. "We don't have a count on injuries or missing. We're trying to get a handle on the missing part," Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said during a Monday news conference. "Just looking at the damage, this may be one of the strongest we have seen."

Brandon Morris, spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management, said crews were sifting through the rubble in the hope of uncovering survivors and to assess the full extent of the damage. "Right now, the main focus is life safety," Morris said. "We're trying to make sure everyone is accounted for."

Karla Ault, a Vilonia High School volleyball coach, said she sheltered in the school gymnasium as the storm approached. After it passed, her husband told her their home was reduced to the slab on which it had sat. "I'm just kind of numb. It's just shock that you lost everything. You don't understand everything you have until you realize that all I've got now is just what I have on," Ault said. The tornado that hit Vilonia and nearby Mayflower would likely be rated as the nation's strongest twister to date this year, as it has the potential to be at least an EF3 storm, which has winds greater than 136 mph, National Weather Service meteorologist Jeff Hood said.

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U.S. storm system that killed 16 causes tornado in Mississippi
28 Apr.`14 - A ferocious storm system caused a twister in Mississippi and threatened tens of millions of people across the U.S. Southeast on Monday, a day after it spawned tornadoes that killed 16 people and tossed cars like toys in Arkansas and other states.

A tornado went through Tupelo, Mississippi in the northern part of the state at about 3 p.m. (1800 GMT), damaging hundreds of homes, downing power lines and toppling trees, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant told CNN. There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries after six instances of tornadoes touching down in the state. "It is not over. This is going to be a prolonged storm," Bryant said.

Parts of Alabama, western Georgia and Tennessee also were at risk as the storm system that produced the series of tornadoes headed east toward the Mid-Atlantic states. Rescue workers, volunteers and victims have been sifting through the rubble in the hardest-hit state of Arkansas, looking for survivors in central Faulkner County where a tornado reduced homes to splinters, snapped power lines and mangled trees.

Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe said at least 14 people died statewide in the storm that authorities said produced the first fatalities of this year's U.S. tornado season. He previously told a news conference 16 had been killed but later said there was a mistake in calculation. Nine of the victims came from the same street in the town of Vilonia, with a population of about 4,100, where a new intermediate school set to open in August was heavily damaged by a tractor trailer blown into its roof. A steel farm shop anchored to concrete was erased from the landscape.

Beebe told reporters of the capricious nature of tornadoes. He said a woman died when the door of her home's reinforced safe room collapsed, while a father and three daughters survived by seeking shelter in a bathtub that was flipped over in winds that leveled the house. One person was killed in neighboring Oklahoma and another in Iowa, state authorities said.

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After Arkansas storm deaths we ask: How bad can a tornado get?
Mon April 28, 2014 ~ It's not yet official, but forecasters suspect tornadoes caused 16 deaths Sunday; The United States has the highest number of tornadoes in the world -- 1,200 per year; The strongest tornadoes are ranked EF5, with gusts over 200 mph, winds called "incredible"; Only 59 EF5 storms have hit the U.S. since 1950; Arkansas has been spared so far

Storms tore a deadly path through at least three counties in Arkansas on Sunday evening and ripped houses, cars and forests to shreds, strewing rubble for miles.

Though it's not yet official, weather forecasters strongly suspect tornadoes are to blame for at least 14 deaths and devastating damage in the state. Two more people died in storms on Iowa and Oklahoma.

10 deadliest U.S. tornadoes

1.The "Tri-State Tornado," which killed 695 people and injured 2,027, was the deadliest tornado in U.S. history, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The tornado traveled more than 300 miles through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana on March 18, 1925, and was rated an F5, the most powerful under old Fujita scale (winds of 260-plus mph).

A tornado's shearing, twisting winds can exceed 300 mph, and though they usually last only seconds, some cyclones endure much longer, razing swaths up to a mile wide that scar landscapes for months to come and inflict tragic human losses.

The United States has the highest number of tornado occurrences in the world, with an average of 1,200 tornadoes reported each year, according to the National Weather Service.

Arkansas winds 'severe'

 

[Moonglow]

One of the main reasons I moved out of Moore, Ok....

 

[Old Rocks]

God Damnit. The weather ain't extreme. They ain't no such thing as extreme weather. It is a plot by all the scientists in the world to fool we wiser folks.

 

[skookerasbil]

God Damnit. The weather ain't extreme. They ain't no such thing as extreme weather. It is a plot by all the scientists in the world to fool we wiser folks.

I beg to differ.

Extreme weather's been going on forever actually......documented HERE >> Chronology of Extreme Weather going back to 500AD!! Big bad-ass tornado's didn't arrive with Henry Ford......real story!!