News DetailSevere weather situation unfolding!
Posted At: August 24, 2007 @ 3:46 PM
Posted By: Reed Timmer
Related Categories: General
A broken line of intense thunderstorms have developed from Michigan southwestward to Oklahoma, with even a few tornado warnings -- one in central Michigan and another in Missouri. However, the tornado threat does not appear to be high even with the tornado-warned cells. Hundreds of severe thunderstorm warnings are in effect across the central and eastern U.S., with the strongest cells in the southern Great Lakes Region as expected. Shown below is a graphic of the severe warnings in effect (blue dots = severe thunderstorm, red dots = tornado warnings).
If anyone captures any good pictures of today's severe weather, and would allow me to post them on the blog for everyone to see, please email them to reed@tornadovideos.net along with the desired copyright watermark. Stay tuned for updates!
If anyone captures any good pictures of today's severe weather, and would allow me to post them on the blog for everyone to see, please email them to reed@tornadovideos.net along with the desired copyright watermark. Stay tuned for updates!
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Can I send a photo of the blue-sky outbreak we're having here just south of the boundry? How about a photo of my down-turned face as I lament our 100 degree, windy, brown landscape. :(
My father drove thru Misouri on his way to the Rush concert tonite(in St.Louis) He said he drove right thru a severe storm and saw a tornado couple miles east of him. He does not have footage(dammit)
AT 519 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF
SWARTZ CREEK...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF OWOSSO...MOVING EAST AT 40
MPH.
* AT 510 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CORUNNA...
OR ABOUT NEAR OWOSSO...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
503 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR FAIRFIELD CENTER...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
KENDALLVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
AT 501 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES EAST OF
YEOMAN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MONTICELLO...MOVING EAST AT
40 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
INDICATED COUNTY.
AT 444 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THNUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED OVER LANSING...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
Wow, looks exciting! My sky is gray and cloudy to the south and west, but sunny to my east and north. I had a rain dumper last nite: over an inch and a half! Some pretty nice lightning shows also...
Wonder what's in store for me later...
tornado reported in northeast KS. Best looking cell in the country right now!
Hey reed I just sent you an Email..... I'll post that warning later!
AT 432 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A CONFIRMED TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF LANCASTER...OR 15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF ATCHISON. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH.
Caleb, where were you with that one, man? That warning had been around for 20 minutes before you posted it? Are you slipping?! :-D
LOL maby it is still active!! the tornado may still be on the ground... tell me what you think about this video!
click my name
Yeah Caleb, I saw that video when you posted it before - I forgot to mention that. It always amazes me how many tornados are caught on video from the news helicopters near Denver. That was a huge landspout!
Here's the update for that tornado warning:
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
450 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2007
KSC043-MOC021-242215-
/O.CON.KEAX.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-070824T2215Z/
DONIPHAN KS-BUCHANAN MO-
450 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN BUCHANAN AND
SOUTHERN DONIPHAN COUNTIES UNTIL 515 PM CDT...
AT 448 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DENTON...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF ATCHISON...
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
TROY BY 510 PM CDT.
WATHENA BY 515 PM CDT.
THE TOWNS OF BENDENA AND DONIPHAN ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS
TORNADO.
AT 431 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 1 MILE
NORTH OF EVEREST KANSAS IN SOUTHEAST BROWN COUNTY.
Yeah And TWC just said that the wind in chicogo was a...... TORNADO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good Afternoon All,
I have taken everyones advise, and left OWS Completely, other members have done so as well.
After stating a differential thought, I was verbally assaulted.
I would like to confirm, Yes, Mr. Martin has threatened multiple times TV.NET Chasers publicly in his chat, and the language was extreme.
I would like to say TV.NET ROCKS, And I hope when yall open your new chat, I will be allowed into the good rankings of tv.net chatters :)
Also, TV.net Staff, You need to check your securty, OWS has posted in their chat, and I do believe it is true, Your server system has been, and is still in risk of being hacked into.
Please delete this message if you feel you need to. Thanks!
David Reimer
3 tornado touch downs two day!
Well, some things are nice to know, others aren't. David's was a bit of both. ;)
Too bad that Tor warning in NE Kansas is too far away, I might have considered an interception :(
Sweet video Caleb!
Wow, Things are starting to pick up now. Too bad its all south and west of me. If I get any good pics i'll be sure to e-mail them. I hope everybody else gets some good pics 2. Good luck everyone. oh, and before I forget...AAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
1 more report thanks AJ
Evil looking cell near Pampa, Texas. Click the name.
im a little late in the game here but ive gotta say that first lightning shot is INSANE! so good, one of the best ive ever seen...! theres one cell a little northeast of borger, texas thats looking tasty...does anyone know if this sort of widespread severe weather event is called anything in particular?!?!
Brandon, I call it AWESOME!
ULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
631 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN HEMPHILL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS
NORTHEASTERN ROBERTS COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 627 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ABOUT 12 MILES
NORTH OF MIAMI...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LORA...
hahah...that cell i mentioned is now tornado warned...its starting to show a classic hook...!!!
I better stop posting these warnings or Caleb will think I'm trying to put him out of business! :-P
I believe that the correct word is "Textbook" hook
hahaha
Hey all!! Had a good day at work! Just got done washing the WIV!! I still need a flywheel. Did I miss anything in the weather world?
Well Brady, take a look at some older posts... you missed a few things... ;) jk
DAMN! Chatham-Kent just got rocked. The storm came in like a mothership and got blacker than midnight, for areas southeast of my location Get to an indoor area - winds in excess of 60km/h reported here.
And me without my camera. She was a mean sumb***h coming in
Yeah, I guess I have!! hehe
What's the outlook for this weekend?
ANOTHER REPORT!!!
TORNADO TOUCHDOWN ESTIMATE TIME 600 PM EAST OF HOLLY AT DIXIE HWY AND GRANGE HALL
Heres the latest
* AT 627 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ABOUT 12 MILES
NORTH OF MIAMI...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
how many warnings have there bin so far then? bin away so havent kept up to speed
Brady, what exactly is a WIV and why does it need a flywheel?
Hey, I'm back! A WIV is a boat! Waterspout intercepting Vehicle!! I think it was Joel that came up with that one!!
Hey, I'm back! A WIV is a boat! Waterspout intercepting Vehicle!! I think it was Joel that came up with that one!!
I don't quite understand why it double posted!!
I need a 12" marine flywheel for a chevy 350 1pc rear main! I'm just broke!
What happened to that moderate risk area? When I went to work at 2 it all looked good....then when i get off work i noticed it never even stormed here in bloomington illinois. we were right in the middle of that zone! its all south and east of here
David, first of all, congratulations on separating yourself from such characters. It can be hard to do, once you've become semi-buddies with someone online, but you showed you're able to re-assess and make the right decision.
Second, don't worry about the empty-aired "threats." Nobody can find your physical address from your IP address without delivering a subpoena to your internet provider, and they will only release it to law enforcement... in other words, it is a hollow threat. Furthermore, there are a lot of people on the internet with big mouths, and the size of the mouth is in inverse proportion to what they can actually accomplish.
In short, you have nothing to worry about. Walk away from it, don't look back, and enjoy Reed's wonderful website and the community here.
Dude... Get a doctor!!
Hey Joe! wondering where ya been!!
and David... It was prob a good idea to forward that to your local PD!! try the Cali department of public safety!! They already know him I'm sure!!
David, it was instantly obvious to me that you didn't make the "Screw tornadovideos.net" post. Weather it out, it will fade away. Don't let anybody intimidate you online. TV.net will be able to see you didn't make any posts that you didn't actually type yourself.
Just wondering where all the good tornado action is hiding Brady. For practice and fun, every time a warning pops up on my screen, I run outside and fling myself into the nearest ditch! Works for me
Hehehehe!!!! Wow! I might do that too! It's kinda hard to practice core punching without any cores!!
I suppose if I'm really hard up I can just go stand in front of the Metrodome after a game and let the Hurricane wind blow my hat down the road!! Thats always fun!! BTW! the twins won again!! hooda thunkit!
I don't have to work this weekend! I have a lil cash saved up!! I wuz thinkin about goin somewhere! Just me and my lucky 'ol Louiseville!
What do you think about Cali Joe??
Yeah, ever since Andrew posts those shots of the humongous hailstones, I've been noticing how close the windshield actually is to my face.
Yeah! I would not wanna be caught in the WIV when those start falling! =(
Maybe I'll convert my boat into a WIV too! Then we can do a little WIV swapping! bee-dum-boom. Okay that was bad.
I got caught in a hailstorm on the boat before, came out of nowhere from a squall. Didn't even have time to put any gear on. Not as bad as the time I got caught on my bicycle though, but at least had a helmet on that time.
I don't see any upside to monster hail... but it was funny when someone said (I think it may have been Reed) he used to keep a mini-fridge plugged into the cigarette lighter for saving good stones
Yeah guys, I'm beginning to wonder what a hailstone traveling at 500 fps will sound like... and thank goodness we have got at least one piece to this crazy puzzle settled, for now anyway.
A few years ago we had some baseball hail that messed stuff up pretty good! I came down really hard too!! lotsa busted glass a few people hospitalized! We probably had 3 to 3" to 4" of slush on the ground afterward! Fun stuff! I was in a lil trailer house at the time. Man that was loud!
LOL!! Hailstone margarita's anyone??
I noticed last time I was in Minnesota there are an awful lot of signs nailed to trees that say, Hail Damage? Call XXX-XXXX!! Around here it is stump removal signs
Yep!! It was right after the same storm that I started seeing those signs everywhere! the cars looked funny for awhile after that one!! like golfballs!!
Did the hail damage your Vessel at all?
I didn't realize until Andrew posted those pics that monster hail stones have all those spikes all over them. They look like medieval weapons or something... man that would hurt on the noggin.
No, not at all, it was marble sized at best, we don't get giant hail around here that I know of.
My town (GC) had a really bad hail storm several years ago, with some pretty large, up to baseballs I believe. I didn't live here at the time, but my grandma did, and her car was trashed after that.
Brady, hail slush is fun to drive in, especially with a RWD car. :D
yes it is!! especially when that car has 300+ horse!
Me like horsepower with a 3 at the beginning! :D
I'd sure hate to be camping in a pup tent when the baseballs are coming down
Read this ^^^
kinda interesting.
Wow!! Circket balls!! Must be one of Tims fellow countrymen! Thats crazy stuff Joe!
Joe, I have but one word: WOW.
We're learning stuff all the time... but what a way to leave this world eh? An iceball that you can hit with a bat crushing your head at 100 mph... ouch, now my sinuses hurt.
Like you said AJ! Imagine what that would sound like!
One time I watch Roger Clemens pitch (and win) against my Twins! just standing by the bullpen when he warmed up was something! sssshhhh crack!!
Ever see that video of Randy Johnson hitting that bird with a fastball? No offense to bird lovers but that was funnier than h***. Go to youtube and search on "randy johnson bird" and they probably have a clip!
Its been in my hard drive for two years now!! In fact I just showed it to a buddy today!! the perfect timing to it! God wanted a quick cruel laugh!!
lol. I like that video too. It's perfect in it's execution!
My only other question is: when God wants another quick cruel laugh, I wonder if I'll be the guy that gets struck by lightning? Hmmm.... lol
Speaking of dumb birds! Are the seagulls (skyrats) just as annoying in Seattle as they are here?
Man, that was incredible... it was such a direct hit that the baseball almost stopped dead! Feathers everywhere! The bird was totally denuded! when asked about it later Randy said he didn't think it was very funny.
Yes they are totally annoying here Brady, but not as annoying as the noobs who come down to the marina and think it's fun to feed them. I once had one fly under my fishing line here right as I casted, the line got caught in his feathers and dropped him to the water... I cut my line in hopes he would get free, lost a $3 lure on that one.
lol!! ya know he was BS'n!! He didn't wnat the Activists comin down on him!
He probably secretly chuckled to himself Brady ;)
You might have seagulls, but I have crows, buzzards, and maybe even a lovely vulture! ggaaahhh!! Your car isn't very well protected against running over a stupid buzzard eating roadkill.
They're vicious too! I can't stand the rats with wings!
It's actually illegal to feed em here although never enforced! the tourists love em, we hate em!! Always staining up my WIV!!
"Your car isn't very well protected against running over a stupid buzzard eating roadkill."
Then stop swerving out of your way to hit em!
You guys missed out on all the fun. Here in Mid-Michigan (Lansing area) we had a few confirmed tornadoes with lots of damage. Also, as you go east from here towards Flint and Detroit, there were many more reports, including a city (Fenton) that has over 100 houses destroyed from at least 1, possibly 2 tornadoes according to local news sources.
Click the link on my name to go to my local news page for pictures of the damage and the likes.
I also have a problem concerning squirrels... they piss me off! You can find me up at 6 in the morning, in my PJ's with a BB rifle waiting on the squirrels. lol
AJ Rule of Driving #94: when wanting to park in an unknown area, make sure to not park directly underneath a tree, because you don't know what crap might land on your chase truck! *Also ties in with #69 in the series: Goose poop sucks!!
Not much for buzzards around here! the crows are only bad on garbage day! been seeing more and more eagles every year!!
Joe, I think I'll need a grill guard for that! lol.
Hey AJ, a better way to get rid of them and not get in trouble is to use a paintball gun :) It stings the hell out of the squirrels and causes them to not come back for quite a while :)
I've considered that Mike. I stopped using it when I ran out of ammo :D Now that I am fully stocked again, maybe there will be pink-branded squirrels again!
oh I know AJ! the geese like chasing me around the marina in the morning! sometimes I can't even get in the door when I gotta do My #2! HArd to run when your about to explode!
Thats the only color squirrels in my neighborhood. Kind of makes people stop and stare, so you have to be sneaky with that gun out lol.
Thanks for the link Mike! Glad to see some action in the great state of Michigan
Well, I play paintball most every Saturday, so being sneaky with the gun isn't the hard part ;)
lol No kidding Brady! Truth to that! lol
The most annoying animal in the world, IMO, is not the seagull, or the squirrel, or the garden-eating deer,... but it is the damn barking dog next door!
Around here we use 12guages! its the only way to make sure they dont come back! My grandpa used to make me shoot the squirrels out of his bird feeders! I swear he tried every pollock thing he could think of!! and he was a briiliant engineer too!
Oh I hear ya! I live next to 2 English Setters, and they never shut up! What could my mutt and those dogs next door be talking about that's so dang important at 2 in the morning?!
Big mean rot or a lil ankle biter that thinks its a rot?
Baying basset hound. Bawwwr bawwwr bawwwr at any hour of the day, that's the worst.
hahahaha A good buddy of mine has a basset! It's bawling constantly! Still loveable, once you get past the eternal drool and slobbering... lol
"What could my mutt and those dogs next door be talking about that's so dang important at 2 in the morning?!"
ahem... ehrr... who are we to talk? LOL
I seem to get quoted a lot when I'm being an idiot... JK
Yeah, I know, we're being total hypocrits. lol
Baying dogs are the worst, IMO. Bassets, coon dogs... give me something quiet.
Joe, I have the perfect solution: a Basenji! They don't bark, they make odd "yodeling" noises, I guess.
A better solution would be a cat.
Ha! I hope your either not allergic, or don't mind living with hairy furniture!
You don't want my dog! fricken pitbull! his bark echoes through your head! but he don't just bark his head off! his big problem is he whines bad and begs all the time! It's because everyone around here is always giving into him!
Another case of spoiled dog... maybe Dr. Phil can handle it. lol
My dog is just there. He sleeps more than the average cat, and is afraid of the dark! He's pretty much as close to Garfield as I'm gonna get, without getting a kitty.
a nice mellow kitty would be great for a liveaboard!
They make me sneeze and wheeze though!
Yeah, I have a few allergies that get to me, like pollen and stuff. Antihistamine pills work wonders. lol
Welp, it's late, and I'm dozing off. See you later. G'nite to you, "and the horse you rode in on."
AJ
Yah, all I need is a catbox on a gimbal and I'm ready to go! Yankees/Tigers in extra innings, come on Tigers
Gnite AJ! buckle up! Drive safe! Don't eat yellow snow!!
Yes Joe!! Thats Right! Go Tigers!!
Did you see that the Rangers beat Baltimore 33-3 the other day?
That was amazing, because the Rangers aren't even that good
Guillen homered! Detroit wins!
Even though my team needs to catch up to Detroit, and a yankee win would have been another game! I still can't watch those bums win and enjoy it at all!
True, plus you really need to catch Cleveland, and it knocks the Yanks back another game in the wild card. Anytime the Yanks lose is ok by me.
6 more games with Cleveland and 6 with Detroit! so anything can happen still! I don't think we have the bats to make it very far in post season. Last year we did and the forgot how to use 'em!
The season is so long... I shouldn't even be paying attention yet
hey joe wots up! are these the remnants of erin?
Hey Cors, that sounds like a good name for a movie or something. "The Remnants of Erin"
Talk to you later Cors, got to go to bed now, it's 1:30AM here, my pillow is whining at me. later
k joe i guess 1:30AM is kinda late....cya l8ter
:P :D
13 tornado reports yesterday!!.....
not very big of a tornado thret today!
Reed - Gayle called on her way to MSU and the tornado damage in Howell is terrible. Last night Justin had to go in the basement of his dorm - the touchdowns were farther east but the campus was in turmoil. All we had on this side of the state is some more rain - no storms at all.
Yeah, I know this is waaaaay old now, and totally has nothing to do with weather, but I had to tell you guys that I WAS THERE when Randy Johnson hit the dove!! It happened during a Spring Training game in Tucson, against the Giants. Our seats were on the first-base side, second row from the field, and when it happened, my first thought was that they were messing around with a trick ball or something, because it looked like what would happen if a bat hit a ball that was loaded with confetti. I don't think a lot of people in the stadium realized what had happened until Jeff Kent (who was on-deck) picked the thing up and held it out for everyone to see. There were a LOT of doves hanging around on the perimeter of the field that day, so maybe it's little wonder that it happened! Anyway, sorry for the digression off topic, but I had to mention it! =-P
We had some sprinkles here this morning - that's weather news for us!!! :-D
Hey all! It's gray and overcast here, with no rain or storms in sight :(
Reed's mommy, where is Howell?
Hey guys slight risk for storms today.... 5% chance of a tornado in maine
Howell is in Michigan - between Lansing and Detroit - right off a main interstate.
Oh ok, thanks much smt! Twisters in Maine? How often does that happen?
And it's still gray and overcast here... grr... :(
Heidi - wow, what are the chances that somebody here was at that game, a Spring-training game no less! Awesome!
Thats Incredible Heidi!!