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My favorite tornado videos?
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/vo.../5jun09_loops/
Not sure if it's been posted, but this is the EF5:
Edit: After watching... all I can say is that's a really freaking weird video. They must have dubbed the audio from a storm chaser's track.
My favorite tornado videos?
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/vo.../5jun09_loops/
Confirmed EF5 for the Smithville tornado.
early damage estimates put the tag at 2-5 billion
over a million still without power
NOAA confirms 211 total tornadoes. Looks to be worse than 74' after all
Nope. 1974 was underreported. I promise you that.
Also I'm pretty sure that 211 isn't a one day total, 1974's total is a 24 hour period.
Yeah, so far no day has over 200 reports this year on the SPCs site and I'm pretty sure some of those are still preliminary.
yeah, I heard it on the news but can't find any confirmation on NOAA's website
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/110427_rpts.html
180 reports in one day.
1974 is definitely under-represented, but unless there's a hard number, we can't really estimate the number of tornadoes on the ground, right? If that's the case and these are confirmed, I have to think this would take the le as the most number of confirmed tornadoes in a single 24 hour period. There could have been a day in the 1800s where there were 250 tornadoes but no one survived or was around to report it, but as far as records go, you need actual data, and in this case April 27th might be the new record holder.
^says 211 reports, but they aren't all confirmed yet. Birmingham NWS hasn't finished it's surveys, and won't until saturday at least
There are reports that the Smithville tornado sucked fire hydrants out of the ground. Good lord.
I find it more impressive when a tornado rips the asphalt off of a road. That's just unreal.
342. Unreal. It's sad that so many people could die from weather in 2011 when they have ample warning that severe storms are heading their way.
i think that's what makes it even more of an incredible event
The entire region was blanketed with Tornado Watches with the addendum that it was a PDS (Particularly Dangerous Situation), yet thousands of people were caught totally unprepared for the severity of the storms. It makes you wonder if people's memories are really so short that they forget that this kind of thing happens every year. Mississippi and Alabama get severe weather/tornadoes all the time. It's baffling to me that people would be out shopping or ing around while tornado warnings are spreading their way from the W/SW.
When Hurricane Andrew hit Florida, only 52 people died, but I remember a lot of citizens were kind of laughing it off because it had been a while since Florida had been hit prior to that 'cane. Since then, they take even Cat 1 storms seriously.
A lot of people don't care and don't pay attention. And you have the tornadoes going through some really populated areas. Thats the main reason, to be frank. When strong tornadoes go through areas of high population density there will be a high death toll.
Still rather shocking.
Hackleburg tornado becomes EF5 number 2
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/april_2...formation.htmlApril 26-28, 2011, Tornado Outbreak Statistics
NOAA's preliminary estimate is that there were 288 tornadoes during the entire outbreak from 8:00 a.m. EDT April 26 to 8:00 a.m. April 28, 2011.
During the 24-hour period from 8:00 a.m. EDT April 27 to 8:00 a.m. EDT April 28, The National Weather Service (NWS) estimates there were a total of 211 tornadoes.
NWS issued outlooks five days in advance, watches hours in advance, and tornado warnings with an average lead time of 24 minutes. NWS issued warnings for more than 90-percent of these tornadoes.
The largest previous number of tornadoes on record in one event occurred from April 3-4, 1974, with 148 tornadoes.
Expert NOAA analysis of the fatality information indicates that at least 344 people were killed during the entire outbreak from 8:00 a.m. EDT April 26 to 8:00 a.m. April 28. There were 334 fatalities during the 24-hour-period from 8:00 a.m. April 27 to 8:00 a.m. April 28.
This is the most people killed by tornadoes in a two-day period since April 5-6, 1936, when 454 people were killed, mostly in Tupelo, Mississippi and Gainesville, Georgia.
This is the deadliest single day for tornadoes since the March 18, 1925, tornado outbreak that had 747 fatalities across 7 states (including the Tri-State Tornado).
The Tuscaloosa-Birmingham tornado during the April 2011 event caused at least 65 fatalities.
These are the most fatalities from a single tornado in the United States since May 25, 1955, when 80 people were killed in a tornado in southern Kansas with 75 of those deaths in Udall, Kansas.
The deadliest single tornado on record was the Tri-State tornado (MO, IL, IN) on March 18, 1925, when 695 died.
Note: All numbers are based on combined NOAA and historical research records and current fatality estimates. The historical research records extend back to 1680.
Month of April 2011 (and record monthly) Tornado Statistics
NWS’s preliminary estimate is that there have been more than 600 tornadoes thus far during the month of April 2011.
The previous record number of tornadoes during the month of April was 267 tornadoes set in April 1974.
The previous record number of tornadoes during any month was 542 tornadoes set in May 2003.
The average number of tornadoes for the month of April during the past decade is 161.
The overall monthly average number of tornadoes for the past decade is 106.
2011 Year-to-Date (and record annual) Statistics
NWS’s preliminary estimate is that there have been 835 tornadoes so far this year.
The previous yearly record number of tornadoes was set in 2004 with 1,817.
May is historically the most active month for tornadoes.
The overall yearly average number of tornadoes for the past decade is 1274.
little off topic, but it looks like it might finally rain in SA early Sunday morning till Monday
Fortunately for me I was in Burbank when the broke loose here. I heard about it as soon as I got home though.
Plenty were trying to heed the warning but the tornado destroyed their shelter. Storm cellars are the way to go. We all know that but few of us actually own one. It's one of those things you think of after a storm, rarely before it.
NWS upped the confirmed tornado count to 312 today.
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