300,000 people are without power, millions and millions in damages...

trees are down on houses everywhere; memphis is proud of our greenery, lots of 100+ year old trees and about half of them fell today

my power was out for 12 hours and the DSL just came back on and the roof blew off my work and we lost one of the engravers and a lot of inventory so im out of a job for two or three weeks.

ive never seen anything like it in my life. high voltage transmission towers blew over. we had category-2 hurricane winds and we're in the middle of the country.

my county is in a state of emergency and may soon be declared a federal disaster area. like i said, the damages are incredible. check out http://www.wmctv.com for the site of one of our local TV stations to check out pics of the damage.

"One slip and down the hole we fall"

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I've seen storms, been in earthquakes... and the "monsoons" are even starting here... but "WHOAGLAYVENBORK"....

I wonder if this is what Northridge Earthquake (was kind of) like... I remember being about like... 6-7 years old and thinking that the house next store was being knocked down... :-\

sorry about your job! and I certainly hope that the damages to your own house aren't irrepairable or beyond the means of your family

Basically it was a normal thunderstorm line through arkansas until it hit the mississippi river and EXPLODED. There is a big granite obelisk in a park on the riverfront downtown and it blew over and broke in half. Mainly its just damage and power outages. several water pumping stations were damaged but they were fixed by noon today. This all happened at 7 in the morning!

traffic on the expressway through town was pretty heavy and several tractor-trailer rigs blew over on one of our bridges over the river.

just a side note, when i say "bridge over the mississippi river" most people from out of town think a little span, maybe 500 or 1000 feet... no, the Mississippi at memphis is over a mile wide! these are pretty heavy duty bridges...

UPDATE: they just said on tv that winds downtown were clocked at 102 miles per hour. also, it could be a week before everyone's electricity is back in line.

The engraving shop i work at will be closed for two or three weeks, and thats optimistic.
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Keep us up to date with what happens.

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I tell you, the weather this year is weird. I live in central MI and they're calling this the summer that never was. They finally showed the jet stream yesterday and it's below Indiana! It goes about half way through Wisconsin and takes a dive to the south, goes under Indiana, and Ohio, and then comes back up around Pittsburg. Talk about wierd. Then they've been having 100 degree temperatures all the way up in Montana and Idaho for the past 2 weeks!

I've heard that it's possible for the jet stream to come down and if you know anything about the jet stream, it's like 400 miles an hour. Maybe that's what happened, because I think the jet stream is going right over you.

I used to live near Plainfield, IL and this kind of reminds me of the tornado only on a larger scale and through a major city. The day of the tornado, we tried going to the store right after it hit. There were clothes and shingles in the road near the damage path. We figured out it was a tornado when we saw a high voltage trellis twisted like a pretzel. When we got to the store, the power was out, of coarse. That's a day I'll never forget.

Hang in there.

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Anyway sorry to hear about the destruction. We have been hit with alot of thunderstorms lately in ohio, and a shitload of rain. Lots of people have 4 ft of water in their basement (not me just a small trickle to the drain). The ohio river is 17' higher then normal flooding alot of souther ohio (Im in the northeast).

Who was the guy who had to go to school earlier in the year with the basement flooded?

Our schools have this new fangled invention called electricity and water can cause some broblems with it.

Every little bit helps.

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update: there are about $10 million in damages so far, and now only 225,000 people don't have power. they estimated that everyone should be back on the grid within five days.

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http://www.crh.noaa.gov/iwx/climate/cli/nov10/vanwert/index.shtml

And yes, I was the one who had to go to the flooded school.

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$10 Million? you mean Billion? $10 million means 2 rich guys house burned down

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No place is declaired a disaster area for $10,000,000 in damages, has to be higher or maybe its $10M just in your small area and alot more in others.

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This summer's been a very active one for severe weather indeed. Going way back into the last weeks of April, and into the first half of May, where we had the perfect upper level setup for severe weather across the Plains - the upper jet was out of the southwest, and you had low level warm air advecting off the Gulf, with plenty of moisture - with excellent directional and speed shear, to fire off the supercell thunderstorms (supercell storms have rotating updrafts known as mesocyclones - from the meso you get your tornado once in a while), and since the pattern was persistent, we saw a whole week of outbreak days, from may 4th to may 10th, where nearly 400 tornadoes touched down, as well as plenty of straightline wind and hail reports.

This persistent pattern we've been in lately with having a strong ridge out west, with several pieces of energy (known in our world of meteorology as shortwaves) kicking down to the south from Canada, which have affected the eastern states. These shortwaves ride along the upper jet, which, actually only runs in the 100-200 mph range in the jet max region, it's at the 250-300 millibar (millibar=the standard unit for atmospheric pressure) level, which is around 10,000 meters AGL (above ground level). The storms will generally fire where there is good divergent flow, in the left exit region, or right entrance region of a jet max (which is associated with these waves dropping down into an area). That's where you get the best upward vertical motion. At the surface you need good low level moisture, which with southerly winds at the surface pulling up Gulf moisture, is no problem. And these storms that have fired have been in regions where the vertical wind shear hasn't been the greatest, but more unidirectional - that is, your winds are more or less from the same direction at the surface, and into the upper levels of the atmosphere. With unidirectional shear you can easily have these lines of storms fire up along a boundary of some sort (be it a front, or an outflow boundary from the previous day's storms) and since they are in an area of strong upper winds, they form what is known as a bow echo on radar. As this complex of storms moves along, it can have very strong forward flank downdraft winds out ahead of it. These events where a large bow echo rolls through a long distance (they can go for several states) is known as a derecho, which causes widespread straight line wind damage.

As far as the Van Wert tornado, that was a very rare case, where we had extremely moist air (dewpoints were running in the low 60?F range) for early November, and there were several small frontal waves along the cold front, which caused some backing (turning counterclockwise with height) of the winds to a more southeasterly direction at the surface, and you had upper winds out of the west. With that setup, you had a discrete supercell that fired up near Muncie, IN (discrete = by itself, apart from the main squall line of storms) and since it was in this good wind environment it was capable of producing a monster tornado.

Anyhoo, that's your meteorology lesson for the day!

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http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1374203

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It's macdaddy here, your official 68kmla meteorologist!

This summer's been a very active one for severe weather indeed. Going way back into the last weeks of April, and into the first half of May, where we had the perfect upper level setup for severe weather across the Plains - the upper jet was out of the southwest, and you had low level warm air advecting off the Gulf, with plenty of moisture - with excellent directional and speed shear, to fire off the supercell thunderstorms (supercell storms have rotating updrafts known as mesocyclones - from the meso you get your tornado once in a while), and since the pattern was persistent, we saw a whole week of outbreak days, from may 4th to may 10th, where nearly 400 tornadoes touched down, as well as plenty of straightline wind and hail reports.

This persistent pattern we've been in lately with having a strong ridge out west, with several pieces of energy (known in our world of meteorology as shortwaves) kicking down to the south from Canada, which have affected the eastern states. These shortwaves ride along the upper jet, which, actually only runs in the 100-200 mph range in the jet max region, it's at the 250-300 millibar (millibar=the standard unit for atmospheric pressure) level, which is around 10,000 meters AGL (above ground level). The storms will generally fire where there is good divergent flow, in the left exit region, or right entrance region of a jet max (which is associated with these waves dropping down into an area). That's where you get the best upward vertical motion. At the surface you need good low level moisture, which with southerly winds at the surface pulling up Gulf moisture, is no problem. And these storms that have fired have been in regions where the vertical wind shear hasn't been the greatest, but more unidirectional - that is, your winds are more or less from the same direction at the surface, and into the upper levels of the atmosphere. With unidirectional shear you can easily have these lines of storms fire up along a boundary of some sort (be it a front, or an outflow boundary from the previous day's storms) and since they are in an area of strong upper winds, they form what is known as a bow echo on radar. As this complex of storms moves along, it can have very strong forward flank downdraft winds out ahead of it. These events where a large bow echo rolls through a long distance (they can go for several states) is known as a derecho, which causes widespread straight line wind damage.

As far as the Van Wert tornado, that was a very rare case, where we had extremely moist air (dewpoints were running in the low 60?F range) for early November, and there were several small frontal waves along the cold front, which caused some backing (turning counterclockwise with height) of the winds to a more southeasterly direction at the surface, and you had upper winds out of the west. With that setup, you had a discrete supercell that fired up near Muncie, IN (discrete = by itself, apart from the main squall line of storms) and since it was in this good wind environment it was capable of producing a monster tornado.

Anyhoo, that's your meteorology lesson for the day!

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Edited by - macdaddy on 24 Jul 2003 21:37:04

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I used to live near Plainfield, IL....tornado

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Do you guys really bounce around from US to Metric units in canada? MPH and F are english units, millibar & meters is metric. Think we use inches of mercury here for barometer readings (or at least used to)

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Edited by - macdaddy on 24 Jul 2003 22:24:41

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Of course, my brother just HAD to elaborate a bit, just 'cause it has to do with weather

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That tornado was a mile-wide F5 monster

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Edited by - The Lightning Stalker on 25 Jul 2003 17:30:38

anyway... in WA we've been without power for some time every so often...

you get 'computer withdrawals' '

it is comforting to know that we have a great 68kMLA meteorologist to help us when it comes to the weather

http://www.nrnilstormlab.com/coverstory2.html

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