Tornadoes rip off roofs in Midwest, flip Coast Guard ship in Georgia

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

TAYLORVILLE, Ill. -- Residents in central Illinois on Sunday assessed the damage after rare December tornadoes, including one the day before that was a half-mile-wide, ripped roofs off homes, downed power lines and injured at least 20 people. The severe weather in Illinois was part of a line of thunderstorms that raked areas of the central U.S. late Friday and into Saturday, killing one person in Missouri. The National Weather Service confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma.

A tornado also struck a Georgia naval base, flipping a Coast Guard ship and injuring at least one person. Two sailors were thrown from a boat at Kings Bay Naval base but were able to get themselves to safety, CBS affiliate WJAX reports.

At least three tornadoes were confirmed in northwest and southwest Arkansas, which largely caused property and structural damage. No injuries or fatalities were reported.

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Peak months for tornadoes in much of the Midwest are April and June, according to the weather service. But at least 12 tornadoes were reported in Illinois on Saturday, including one in Taylorville which has been confirmed. If the majority are confirmed, that would be the most tornadoes in Illinois in a December storm since Dec. 18-19, 1957, when there were 21.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/midwest-tornadoes-latest-taylorville-illinois-twisters-slam-illinois-missouri-oklahoma/

[Roy Rolling]

1. Stupid Tweeter

Where's the ignorant tweet about global warming now?

[samnsara]

2. yep i agree. I storm chased for a decade and the chase season was always may-july but....

..the past few years are whats been called the winter storm season...tornadoes later in the year. These were normally unheard of or very rare.

[hatrack]

3. Tornado Alley may be moving east - the Mid-South may become the new storm belt

Tornadoes are spinning up more frequently in states along the Mississippi River in recent decades, and scientists haven't quite figured out why. Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee and Kentucky are seeing more tornadoes than at the end of the 1970s, according to a recent study published in the journal Climate and Atmospheric Science.

In fact, everywhere east of the Mississippi River, except the west coast of Florida, is seeing some increase in tornado activity. In the study, the authors looked at both tornado reports provided by humans and the ingredients that usually lead to tornadoes across the United States. "The shift could be deadly because the area with increasing tornado activity is bigger and home to more people", lead author Victor Gensini told the Associated Press.

EDIT

Contrary to expectation, the areas where tornadoes would have been most underreported before the digital age are the same areas where these decreases in tornado frequency are most common. The Plains states are less populated than the Southeast and Midwest, and overall tornado numbers have increased during the last century as cell phone cameras, social media and the storm chasing profession have increased in popularity.

No significant increases in tornado frequency were found west of the 95th meridian, which runs from Minnesota through the Kansas City metro area and eastern Oklahoma/Texas. No significant decreases were found to the east of that line.

EDIT/END

https://weather.com/storms/tornado/news/2018-10-17-tornado-alley-shifting-east

[IronLionZion]

6. If it snows anywhere this winter, then global warming is a hoax

[dalton99a]

4. .

https://www.isws.illinois.edu/statecli/Tornado/ilplots.htm

[dreamland]

5. where's that weather machine that the white house

supposedly had when Obama was in office? The creepers kept claiming that he was controlling the weather. Maybe Chump is too stupid to figure it out.

[The Genealogist]

7. Scary Saturday morning

I posted on it from the basement in the 1:00 AM hour Saturday morning. Woke up to tornado sirens and an unusually scary sounding wind. Got myself and my partner, as well as my cat Eula to the basement tout suite. The Missouri fatality happened in the next county west of me. Last report I heard was 6 tornadoes confirmed in SW Missouri, where I live. A large storage building a block and a half from me had a large patch of roof torn of by strong winds. Scary stuff. Not looking forward to Tornado Alley moving my way.