My God. 2+mile-wide, F-5 tornado on the ground in southern Mississippi NOW:

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[TwilightZone]

1. You can't tell an F5 by looking at it.

Scale is determined after the fact, based on the level of damage.

[catbyte]

6. EF-5 damage is being reported in Soso.

[TwilightZone]

11. By whom?

Sorry, but "JayCutlerWrld" is not a valid source, and 160 people died in Joplin. Worse than Joplin, before preliminary reports are even in?

Hyperbole like that is *not* helpful. It's dangerous enough without making shit up.

[localroger]

15. Doppler radar gives both size and windspeed

The only thing it doesn't tell you is whether the funnel has touched the ground. If it's touched the ground, you can tell the level of destruction. And if it's two miles wide, it's touched the ground.

[brush]

25. Isn't it by wind speed?

[TwilightZone]

36. No, it's by damage.

As noted in the comments at the link below, radar can only estimate wind speed. The official ratings are based on damage indicators.

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[CatMor]

2. OMG .... that looks so deadly.

[Yonnie3]

3. Watching the Weather channel

Radar looks scary.

Birmingham now.

[OKNancy]

4. Laurel Ms. Anyone watch HomeTown in HGTV

I do often when Trump comes on TV. I turn to HGTV and go about my business.
I hope the homes there are safe

[Freedomofspeech]

7. I do..

Love that couple...looks like a poor town.

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. Oh, no! They had tornado damage not too long ago.

[Yonnie3]

5. Text of latest warning

605
WFUS54 KJAN 122206 RRA
TORJAN
MSC023-061-122300-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0038.200412T2206Z-200412T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
506 PM CDT SUN APR 12 2020

..TORNADO EMERGENCY FOR LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
CLARKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT.

* AT 506 PM CDT, A CONFIRMED LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO WAS
OBSERVED NEAR HEIDELBERG, OR 10 MILES EAST OF STRINGER, MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

TORNADO EMERGENCY FOR LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA. THIS IS A
PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW!

HAZARD...DEADLY TORNADO.

SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED TORNADO.

IMPACT...YOU ARE IN A LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION. FLYING DEBRIS
MAY BE DEADLY TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT SHELTER. MOBILE
HOMES WILL BE DESTROYED. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO HOMES,
BUSINESSES, AND VEHICLES IS LIKELY AND COMPLETE
DESTRUCTION IS POSSIBLE.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
VERNON AROUND 510 PM CDT.
PAULDING AROUND 515 PM CDT.
BARNETT AND GOODWATER AROUND 520 PM CDT.
ORANGE AROUND 525 PM CDT.
QUITMAN AND STONEWALL AROUND 535 PM CDT.
MIDDLETON, SABLE AND SYKES AROUND 545 PM CDT.
SNELL AROUND 555 PM CDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
PACHUTA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT, A LARGE, EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY
TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE, TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE
TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID
WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME, A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS.. MOVE TO THE
CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.



LAT...LON 3218 8844 3217 8844 3203 8846 3187 8891
3198 8891 3188 8913 3196 8919 3223 8875
3223 8843
TIME...MOT...LOC 2206Z 231DEG 46KT 3187 8909

TORNADO...OBSERVED
TORNADO DAMAGE THREAT...CATASTROPHIC
HAIL...1.00IN

[malaise]

8. There have been warnings about these

since Friday
Stay safe folks

[SheltieLover]

14. Even WAPO did article about this a few days ago!

[Lucinda]

9. KNR

[sarcasmo]

10. The 2020 nightmare continues.

[Dirty Socialist]

12. The 1974 Xenia, OH tornado went right over my house

This one looks WORSE. I don’t need to be an expert to call this an F-5. Look out!

[AJT]

34. Did you ever watch " Gummo"?

It is supposed to take place in Xenia OH post tornado....very creepy.

[SheltieLover]

13. Stay safe, All!

TY for posting this!

[nolabear]

16. My sister and family are there. I asked if she had seen any locusts.

They’re okay for now but it’s godawful. I’ve got a ton of cousins right in the middle of it all. “Shelter in place, they said...” 😬

[npk]

17. That is terrifying

Really hope people get out of its path, but with all the shelter in place, could be the perfect storm, leaving people little place to go.

[malaise]

18. This is serious - Alabama and Georgia get ready

It is going to be bad.

[octoberlib]

20. It was on the ground for over 100 miles!

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The Bassfield/Soso, Mississippi tornado was on the ground for over 100 miles and counting. Extraordinarily terrifying. #MSwx

[panader0]

21. When will we hear from spanky?

[LuvNewcastle]

23. He needs to get his ass on a plane so he can

go down there and throw some paper towels and sign some Bibles, ASAP!

[essme]

28. Who the fuck cares

He has nothing- zero to add. Face it, we don't have a president at this point.

[Grokenstein]

29. This. The best we can hope for at this low point

is that he says the governor should take care of it.

The best WE can do is overwhelm the trumpkins, the never-Bidens and the Electoral College this election and sweep Littlehands and the rest of the filth into the sewer.

[demtenjeep]

22. the world is really pissed at us

isn't it

[tclambert]

24. Locusts in Africa. Krakatoa erupting. Plague everywhere. Now a massive tornado.

Okay, God, what are you trying to say? Pharaoh can't let those people go. They're under quarantine.

[applegrove]

26. Vibes.

[DemoTex]

27. Yesterday the SCIENTISTS said this was brewing ..

The 250 mb winds aloft were forecasted to be very strong today, and conducive to tornado formation, with those tornadoes having a potential for wide destructive paths and long travel distances on the ground. Anyone paying attention yesterday, was put on alert by one of the world’s best severe storm forecasting agencies.

[calimary]

30. Sheeeeeeesh...

[keithbvadu2]

31. The guv prayed about CV to not to direct quarantine. Why could he not pray about tornadoes?

The guv prayed about CV to not to direct quarantine. Why could he not pray about tornadoes?

[iluvtennis]

32. Be safe ppl. Wow, like my granny used to say, "when it rains, it pours". Better times are coming.

[SunSeeker]

33. Holy shit!

[TwilightZone]

35. EF4

Turns out that JayCutlerWrld didn't know what the fuck he was talking about and was just making shit up, especially the part about "worse than Joplin".

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This is why counting on random yahoos on social media for accurate information is a bad idea. Especially someone who posts pictures without attribution as if they were his own and then talks about how he's "winning". He's the Trump of weather.

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