The central part of the United States was being pounded this evening by a significant severe weather outbreak. Radar just before 8 pm CST showed a line of discrete thunderstorms, most likely supercells, from northern Illinois across southeast Iowa then into north central Missouri and southwestward into northeast Oklahoma. One monstrous supercell was moving across central Illinois out ahead of the line. Numerous tornado warnings were in effect along with many, many severe thunderstorm warnings.
At 8 pm, SPC showed 18 tornado reports, 31 damaging wind reports, and 207 hail reports. Three-inch hail was reported 6 miles southwest of Chanute in Wilson County, KS, and softball size hail in Prescott in Linn County, KS. Many of the hail reports were in the range from golf ball to baseball size.
Fortunately there don't appear to be any reports of deaths or injuries yet, however, now that darkness has fallen, it won't be easy to see a tornado coming.
At this writing tornado watches were in effect for portions of Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa.
Spring, at least meteorological spring, has sure gotten off to one heck of BANG!!
-Brian-
At 8 pm, SPC showed 18 tornado reports, 31 damaging wind reports, and 207 hail reports. Three-inch hail was reported 6 miles southwest of Chanute in Wilson County, KS, and softball size hail in Prescott in Linn County, KS. Many of the hail reports were in the range from golf ball to baseball size.
Fortunately there don't appear to be any reports of deaths or injuries yet, however, now that darkness has fallen, it won't be easy to see a tornado coming.
At this writing tornado watches were in effect for portions of Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa.
Spring, at least meteorological spring, has sure gotten off to one heck of BANG!!
-Brian-
on March 12, 2006, 9:59 pm
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