Cripes! Tornados in Southern Indiana

[Archae]

No link yet, showing damage on CNN.

On edit: Fatalities and injuries reported.

[Lochloosa]

1. This one looks bad. Several dead, 110 in ER rooms so far

Good luck to our Kentucky DU's

[displacedtexan]

2. And CNN's anchors are speculating, not reporting... again.

"Looks like an F3 or F$ to me, judging by the damage."

Jeez! Wait for the facts, CNN. Or get someone reputable on the phone.

People have died, and CNN is pimping the storm strength without any facts?

GGGRRR!

[Lochloosa]

4. Not flaming here but that is how a tornado is rated. By the damage path

and from what I'm seeing this will be at least a F3. I was in a F4 and nothing was safe.

[displacedtexan]

11. I'm just not ready for TV hairdos to declare facts about this...

on their own.

They're interviewing the asst. fire chief of an itty bitty town right now.

I'm sure he's nice and hard-working, but damn!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

59. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to estimate the strength.....

...of a tornado.

For instance, if a neighborhood of individual brick-built homes has been scoured down to the foundations, there is a very good chance that tornado was an F5. There has been enough damage televised from F5's in recent years so that pretty much anyone could make a good estimate of a storm of that strength.

Another for instance, if there is major structural damage to the stand-alone structures, and mobile homes from a nearby trailer park have been completely destroyed, the chances are good that the tornado was an F3-F4 in strength.

The "asst. fire chief of an itty bitty town" CNN was talking with has probably seen enough tornado damage in his lifetime in the tornado-prone Midwest to be able to make a pretty good estimate of the damage from the tornado last night.

I live in Huntsville, AL, an area that is the most hit annually by tornadoes, on average, during the month of May. I bet most people here, even children, could make a pretty good guess about the strength of a tornado.

[Blue Diadem]

3. live coverage from one of their local stations here:

http://www.weht.com/

top of page..breaking news

[maddezmom]

5. link here:Tornados Rip Through Southern Indiana; Many Injuries Reported

http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=4079242&nav=EQlp

[Roland99]

7. My daughter crawled into bed last, "I'm scared, Daddy"

I flipped on the TV and there were severe t-storm warnings but nothing seemed too bad. I could hear some pea-sized hail hitting the roof and windows, though.

Then they mentioned a touchdown in Evansville including a possible hit at a trailer park.

I'm sure this caught everyone by surprise being as it's November and tornadoes this time of year are pretty rare. Plus, the temps weren't that warm last night and from what I'd seen on the local news, there was only talk of 30-40% chance of rain/storms with this front.

But, wow.

Sad to see such death and destruction.

[maddezmom]

12. strange weather indeed

~snip~
REQUESTED

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 845
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
330 AM EST SUN NOV 6 2005

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EXTREME NORTHEAST ARKANSAS, MUCH OF INDIANA, WESTERN AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY, WESTERN OHIO, WESTERN AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE, AND LAKE ERIE EFFECTIVE THIS SUNDAY MORNING FROM 330 AM UNTIL 700 AM EST.

TORNADOES... HAIL TO 1.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER... THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 60 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOLEDO OHIO TO 35 MILES EAST OF MEMPHIS TENNESSEE.

~snip~
http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=3433095&nav=5Uai

[malaise]

14. Very sad

Hope they're not depending on FEMA for help.

[TheDebbieDee]

30. With a natural disaster that hits with such short notice......

as compared to a hurricane, FEMA officials won't start showing up til X-Mas!

[malaise]

38. I was just being

sarcastic. This is so sad and yet again it's the poor who suffer most.

[TheDebbieDee]

62. I was not being sarcastic.......I seriously doubt FEMA will show

up before Thanksgiving!

[hippiechick]

6. Really ? All we got in Indy ...

... was a line of t-storms about 45 minutes long - mostly just lightning - as the front passed thru overnight. It has been windy as hell for a couple days.

And the temp dropped from 65 at 2 AM when it started, to, oh ... about 40 now.

BRRRR. :scared: Winter's on her way in, y'all ...

[Roland99]

8. Not here...78F on Tue.!

:)

[hippiechick]

13. Hmmpf.

:P

Actually, we're supposed to get back into the mid 60's by Tues/Weds also, but waking up this morning to gloomy, windy, with a nor'easter blowin thru my bedroom window was uh ... uhhh .... :(


:hi: Louisville is COOL, btw ... I was there in July to see a gig at Headliner's. Had pizza at Za's. Groovy neighborhood !!

[Roland99]

16. Wish we could get something like Indy's Summer Jazz Fest, though.

;)

[hippiechick]

20. Awww, we're only 90 minutes away ...

... just c'mon up ! :hi:

[Roland99]

26. Oh, I have. Would just be nice to have it in my backyard

And it's more like 2hrs.

;)

[hippiechick]

28. Well, if you offer your backyard as a venue ...

... and, uhhh ... I made it in 90 minutes in July. :blush:

[Roland99]

29. Then you were hauling ass to do 122 miles in 90 min.

for shame!


;)

[hippiechick]

31. About 70 mph - give or take a few

Thanks to George's Man Mitch, speed limit on the Indiana interstates now is 65. :)

It was for a good cause ... :loveya: Ray LaMontagne.

[Roland99]

34. Bet that was a good show.

Headliner's is a cool venue.

[hippiechick]

35. Headliner's WAS nice, but freakin' HOT !

And the crowd sucked: buncha drunk college-age brats who seemed to be there for the liquor, more than the show. I was right at the stage and poor Ray looked like he was melting and rather frustrated. Didn't quite have the usual gusto & didn't chat the crowd up at all.

I saw him here in Feb & Sept - both were great, and at Bonnaroo in June, which was amazing. Brought me to tears.

[Roland99]

36. You should try Bogart's in Cincy....saw Lucinda Williams there

We were in the back section and we were still burning up. Can't imagine what it was like on the floor or up on stage!

But that show ROCKED. Kasey Chambers opened up.

[Lochloosa]

19. Here is my week coming up....I hate living in Florida *S*

Today


Mostly
Sunny
Hi 80°F Tonight


Patchy
Fog
Lo 58°F Monday


Patchy
Fog
Hi 80°F Monday
Night

Patchy
Fog
Lo 57°F Election
Day

Mostly
Sunny
Hi 81°F Tuesday
Night

Mostly
Clear
Lo 60°F Wednesday


Mostly
Sunny
Hi 80°F Wednesday
Night

Partly
Cloudy
Lo 62°F Thursday


Slight Chc
Rain
Hi 80°F

[hippiechick]

21. I just can't dig Thanksgiving and Christmas in the 80's, though ...

... growing up in Wisconsin .... if I don't actually experience 'winter' in some manner, I get confused.

:silly:

[Lochloosa]

23. There is nothing better than skinny dipping on Christmas..

:evilgrin:

[hippiechick]

25. In Wisconsin, too --

They're called The Polar Bears -- http://www.doorbell.net/pbc/ -- and they go into Lake Michigan on New Year's Day.

Ok, maybe not skinny dipping, but when its in the single digits, what difference does a speedo make ? :shrug:

[Lochloosa]

32. Shrinkage....N/T

[ninkasi]

51. 87 here today

That's about what it was yesterday, too. Too warm for November.

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[BiggJawn]

40. Almost nothing in White County.

Of course, they kept telling us to expect something from 9PM on. Watch went out later. Warning for Lafayette at 2:45AM and it started raining here about 3:15. Nothing severe, but I couldn't get to sleep anyway.

[IndianaGreen]

58. We got real strong winds where I live at

I thought the roof was going to blow.

[boobooday]

10. We had some brutal storms pass through here in Indiana

Woke me up at 4am -- even the cats were scared.

How sad.

[Fairlyunbalanced]

18. My mother and father in law live in Bloomington

I've been freaking out for the last couple minutes till I found out it was Evansville. My heart truly goes out to those folks who've lost someone tonight.

[Archae]

15. On MSNBC

Showing a demolished house and upside-down pickup truck. :scared:

[maddezmom]

17. Initial Report: Several Killed As Storm Rips Through Southern Indiana

Authorities are reporting at least several deaths from a possible tornado that ripped through Henderson County, Kentucky and the southern Indiana counties of Vanderburgh and Warrick early Sunday morning.

The storm also caused extensive property damage and injured an unknown number of people.

Police report severe damage at Ellis Park race track in Henderson County, Kentucky, at the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park near Evansville's southeast side, and in the Warrick County town of Newburgh.

Authorities said about 80 people had been taken from the ruins of the mobile home park to hospitals.

Evansville hospitals are reporting numerous injuries, and authorities at Ellis Park report that several people have been injured there and a number of horses have been killed.

~snip~

http://news.yahoo.com/s/wrtv/20051106/lo_wrtv/3043143

[Lochloosa]

22. I heard reports of nine dead in the park alone....

damn

[hippiechick]

27. It's really amazing how unprepared IN is, actually ...

... for a state that gets so much severe weather and so many tornados ... basements are not standard equipment. So when storms strike, folks are really sitting ducks 'cause they've no place to go.

In my 7 years here, I still haven't wrapped my brain around that.

[Delphinus]

43. We are so behind the times,

in so many ways.

It's no wonder we suffer from "brain drain".

[AngryOldDem]

45. I lived in Indy for four years...

...after coming over from Ohio and that observation always amazed me too. We lived on the north side (Castleton/Allisonville Road area, if you know where that is) and we had three very close calls with tornadoes. Two touched down about a quarter mile from our place. I remember huddling in the bathtub with blankets and a transistor radio and thinking that well, I'm pretty much toast if it blows through here. You would think that more houses would have basements. I never really appreciated them until I lived in Indianapolis.

The storms in Indiana for some reason seem to be much more powerful than here in Ohio. Perhaps it's because of the flatter terrain...I don't know. But many, many nights I was scared stiff. So, what did we do when we moved back to Ohio? Moved into a house with no basement. Basements seem to be few and far between, especially in "newer" homes. (Or those that were all we could afford, at any rate.) But man, where you live where we do basements (or any kind of storm shelter) should be part of the building code, in my opinion.

(We miss Indianapolis quite a bit, by the way, and would move back in a heartbeat.)

[hippiechick]

55. I'm close to 96th & Keystone ...

So I know exactly where you're talking about ! :hi:


If I had my druthers - for a variety of reasons - I'd move back to WI. But not Green Bay (where I grew up) ... most likely Madison.

:hippie:

[AngryOldDem]

60. Know it well...

...nice area. If I keep this up I may have to move back there...getting a little "homesick."

:D :hi:

One storm story I'll never forget...we had gone up to Chicago for a small vacation and as we were tooling around town we had the radio on. The station had a report about a tornado hitting Indy and it mentioned the Castleton area by name. Talk about sheer panic. We cut our trip short (like we immediately went back to the hotel and packed our bags) and went home ASAP. Sure enough, there was some minor damage about two blocks up from us but a lot more damage closer to 86th and Westerfield. Church had a roof almost totally blown off.

Because of Indy I really don't panic now when there's tornado warnings. Just get blankets, the kids, and a radio and head toward the bathroom and hope for the best. Not much more you can do. Mother Nature is bigger'n all of us.

[Mr.Green93]

24. Global warming is a myth

Isn't it?

[malaise]

37. Important point

but you know I have observed something really strange. Everytime the US army bombs out a section of Iraq, a really bad weather happening occurs in the US.

[MissMarple]

41. The weather is getting extreme,Colorado had a damaging wind storm Thursday

Gust up to 84 mph in places, turned over trucks, car windows imploding, huge trees uprooted and falling on cars and houses. It was pretty scary.

[Rich Hunt]

33. wow

This is a strange time of year for that.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

39. Very strange story: My friend called her mother in law who lives

in a trailer up there. In the middle of the night, she decided to get up and go for a ride, for no reason. The tornado hit and destroyed her house while she was gone. Miracle? Coincidence? Who knows, but a crazy story!

[ananda]

42. Not just tornadoes, killer tornadoes..

And it happened at 2am, so nobody was prepared.

Is this mean, but I found myself hoping that all the victims were Bushites and getting their just deserts.

But I didn't really mean that. They -are- human after all, aren't they, even if ignorant throwbacks.

Sue

[tinfoilinfor2005]

44. My friends are from Evansville, and they are all strong dems,

so there is hope for Indiana, LOL!

[Retired AF Dem]

54. It is posts like this

that is really starting to make me hate the human race, Dems and Repugs. Dems is supposed to be better than this. I guess not.

[DiverDave]

46. I have a friend in Rockport

or just outside of there.

Called him, got a message, so the cell towers are still up there.

[theHandpuppet]

48. I thought Rockport was in Illinois

Nowhere near Evansville, Indiana. :shrug:

[skooooo]

49. nope, in Indiana..

Directly south of Boonville.

I can't believe this! THis is where I'm from and it freaks me out.

[DiverDave]

63. Just east and a bit north of Evansville.

Just a *bit* south of where you are thinking.

[skooooo]

47. I'm from the area..

Not living there now, but called relatives. The death toll is going to rise quite a bit, unfortunately. The trailer park is filled with parents missing children, children missing parents, etc.

Very, very sad.

[meganmonkey]

50. Oh no...That's scary stuff. We are having crazy winds in S. Michigan

Gusts of about 60mph. No tornados though, thank god/dess.

Someone's kiddie pool is in our backyard, wedged between the fence and a tree. We figure we'll just leave it there for now, it won't make it any farther.

No idea whose it is, though :shrug:

[skooooo]

52. Tornado in U.S. kills 18 (number growing)

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-11-06T162216Z_01_SCH650813_RTRUKOC_0_UK-WEATHER-TORNADO-INDIANA.xml

---snip----

Officials said the death toll could climb as rescue workers picked through rubble in house-to-house searches and scoured farm fields.

At least two people were found dead in soybean fields in Warrick County, according to the Newburgh fire department.

The Eastbrooke mobile home park in Evansville was one of the places hardest hit when the storm struck well before dawn. Many homes there were reduced to twisted piles of metal that lay mixed with the remains of downed trees and other debris.

An apartment complex in nearby Warrick County was also hit hard, with the top floors ripped off, said Vanderburgh County Sheriff's office spokesman Lt. John Strange.

[thinkingwoman]

53. My family sat up 2 hours

in the middle of the night in Bloomington, because one of us was still up and caught the storm and tornado warnings as they came out.

Our tornado warning was announced about an hour after the tornadoes hit the Evansville area (but we didn't know about theirs at the time).

As we all sat up (or half slept in the living room chairs) ready to take cover if warranted, I noticed that no other houses on our block had lights on. None. The sirens blared here as the storm approached, but still no lights.

Luckily, we didn't actually experience any severe weather here.

It's just painfully hard to warn people in the wee hours of the morning. Most everyone is asleep and few have those alarm radios that come on when warnings are issued.

It's just very very sad.

[lebkuchen]

56. I had a dream about a massive tornado last night....weird

We could see it coming at us and were rushing around trying to open windows, and then find shelter in the keller.

I wonder if FEMA has gotten there yet. I know they're doing a lousy job in Ft. Lauderdale. Man, is that one over-burdened incompetent organization.

[IndianaGreen]

57. Storms had sustained winds of 60-70 miles per hour

We are talking about tropical storm to nearly Category 1 hurricane strength winds.

I was getting ready to logoff last night after being in DU when I checked the local news website. That's when I saw the weather radar and the bright band of red that was just crossing into Indiana from Illinois.

I have lived through hurricanes before. When the storm got to Indianapolis, the winds were very, very, strong. They didn't howl like they do during hurricanes, but they were enough to concern me about whether my roof would hold up, or the nearby trees.

All the commercial TV stations were providing wall to wall coverage of the weather, which is what saves lives. That's when they began to show the radar signature of at least two tornadoes in Southern Indiana moving Northeast at 50 miles per hour.

I didn't go to bed until 5 AM.

BTW, the TV announced that Bill Clinton has arrived at Indianapolis earlier in the evening for an appearance at Butler University.

[skooooo]

61. At least 21 dead after Ind., Ky. tornado

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-11-06-tornado-in-ky_x.htm?csp=34


--snip-

National Guard units were being mobilized to help with the search and recovery efforts, said Jane Jankowski, spokeswoman for Gov. Mitch Daniels.

Daniels toured the area and described the destruction as "brutal" and "highly random."

"There's incredible devastation next to apparently unscathed properties," he said.