New tornadoes menace Georgia as Biden approves disaster relief for Mississippi
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A series of twisters touched down Sunday in Georgia -- two described by the National Weather Service as "large and extremely dangerous" -- as President Joe Biden approved disaster relief for storm-battered Mississippi, where at least 25 people were left dead in the wake of a powerful tornado outbreak. The NWS extended a tornado watch eastward across Mississippi until midnight Sunday. Residents of the Macon, Georgia, suburbs of Milledgeville, Linton, Beulah and Underwood were advised Sunday morning by the weather service to "take cover now."
A second tornado was confirmed to have touched down Sunday morning near LaGrange, Georgia, about 65 miles southeast of Atlanta, and was moving east at 40 mph, according to the weather service. "You are in a life-threatening situation," the weather service warned residents in the path of both funnel clouds. Troup County Sheriffs Office in Georgia confirmed that a likely tornado swept through the town of West Point near the Alabama line and damaged 80 to 100 structures, leaving 20 to 30 structures with major damage. The sheriffs office said up to three people were injured in the storm.
The Pine Mountain Safari in Pine Mountain, Georgia, about 40 miles north of Columbus, Georgia, was also hit by a tornado and that two tigers escape from their damaged enclosure but were quickly recaptured and quickly returned to the wildlife park. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency for parts of Georgia as the tornado activity was accompanied by heavy rain and flooding. A tornado watch remained in effect for parts of Alabama and Georgia Sunday afternoon. At least 4 million people in the South are also under a severe thunderstorm watch forecast to be accompanied by golf ball-sized hail and 60 mph winds.
As the severe weather continued in the South from the early spring storm that began in California, where it spawned twisters near Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, towns in rural Mississippi were starting the clean up from the swarm of tornadoes on Friday. Biden approved disaster relief for Mississippi on Sunday, making funding available to those impacted by the storm devastation. Federal funds will be available to government, tribal and other agencies in Carroll, Humphreys, Monroe and Sharkey counties, the White House said in a statement.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/biden-approves-mississippi-disaster-relief-tornado-classified-rare/story?id=98133211
ETA - The EF4 preliminary was for 170 mph winds (entry #13) - https://www.weather.gov/jan/2023tornadoinfo
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The Rolling Fork/Silver City tornado has received a preliminary EF-4 rating. We still have a great amount of information to process, and we will provide additional details on this tornado as they are finalized.
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Some additional preliminary stats from the Rolling Fork/Silver City tornado -
Path length: approximately 59 miles beginning in northern Issaquena Co and ending in northern Holmes Co
Duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes (7:57 PM - 9:08 PM)
Maximum path width: 3/4 mile
12:53 AM · Mar 26, 2023
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Some additional preliminary stats from the Rolling Fork/Silver City tornado -
Path length: approximately 59 miles beginning in northern Issaquena Co and ending in northern Holmes Co
Duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes (7:57 PM - 9:08 PM)
Maximum path width: 3/4 mile
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We'll have more details in the coming days.
To reiterate, this information remains preliminary as we continue to process and receive additional information. We apologize that this process takes so much time, and we appreciate your patience.
12:54 AM · Mar 26, 2023
They still have much to do and survey due to how broad an area the convective complex covered.
Article updated.
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A second tornado was confirmed to have touched down Sunday morning near LaGrange, Georgia, about 65 miles southeast of Atlanta, and was moving east at 40 mph, according to the weather service. "You are in a life-threatening situation," the weather service warned residents in the path of both funnel clouds. While the amount of damage and possible casualties remain unclear in Georgia, the weather service warned that flying debris could be deadly for those caught without shelter, and there is a likelihood homes, businesses and vehicles "will be destroyed."
A tornado watch is in effect until at least 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time for parts of Alabama and Georgia. At least 4 million people in the South are also under a severe thunderstorm watch forecast to be accompanied by golf ball-sized hail and 60 mph winds. As the severe weather continued in the South from the early spring storm that began in California, where it spawned twisters near Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, towns in rural Mississippi were starting the clean up from a massive tornado on Friday.
Biden approved disaster relief for Mississippi on Sunday, making funding available to those impacted by the storm devastation. Federal funds will be available to government, tribal and other agencies in Carroll, Humphreys, Monroe and Sharkey counties, the White House said in a statement.
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President Joe Biden on Sunday approved disaster relief for Mississippi, making funding available to those impacted by the severe storms that battered the state on Friday night.
Federal funds will be available to government, tribal and other agencies in Carroll, Humphreys, Monroe and Sharkey counties, the White House said in a statement.
The severe tornado that tore through Rolling Fork, Mississippi, late Friday was assigned a rating of EF-4, a classification that marks it as a rare and powerful storm.
The National Weather Service office in Jackson, Mississippi, said the preliminary rating comes as staffers are still gathering information about the storm.
Lovie777
(12,326 posts)lonely bird
(1,688 posts)Now, get that piece of excrement known as Tate Reeves on TV to thank Biden.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)Instead they will bitch about the Dems, take fed help without a thank you then treat us like shit at the next election. Happens over and over and over. Hypocrites and ingrates. Blue states pay and red states take.
MayReasonRule
(1,461 posts)It's a battle as old as mankind.
Over a million of our reasoned citizenry are within the State of Mississippi. They suffer through fascist barbarism on a daily basis. I have great empathy. I am within the State of Louisiana which is also run by fascist barbarians.
Red state and Blue state are misnomers at best.
It's akin to purporting that "there are only two genders!"... FFS
Demonstrating humanity during a time of war is a perilous proposition. How to be humane and yet not provide "... aid and comfort to the enemy...", is a salient consideration.
However much the fascists of the state will wail and moan, it's impossible for me to fathom that withholding aid during a time of such calamity would do anything but injure our own within their state, as well as injuring our party, and each of us that make up the Democratic Party.
Our nation's populace is in the midst of a Spanish Inquisition Y'all Qaeda Nat-C Style courtesy of the fascists within the Federalist Society, and the entirety of the GOP.
"White" Republicans run Mississippi State Government by design.
It was only last year that the state voted to remove Confederate imagery from the state flag.
10% of voters are disenfranchised by felony convictions, the highest rate in the country.
That includes 130,000 "Black" voters, 16% of the adult "Black" population in the state.
Mississippis Republican-dominated legislature has rejected any and all voting restoration pathways.
Voter turnout in the 2020 presidential election in Mississippi was about 60%, the sixth worst in the country. That's by design.
Felony disenfranchisement, racial gerrymandering, and strict photo ID requirements at polls are employed as tactics to suppress the vote.
I'm in total favor of Biden providing Federal Aid for Disaster Relief and Community Rebuilding.
It's the prudent and humane thing to do, no matter how much the fascists "bitch" about it.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)Delusional fascism, leave Machiavelli out of it. He's been maligned for centuries over his descriptions of what he saw and experienced, he didn't think that shit up. It's what he saw in the governments he worked with as a civil servant and what he wrote was a warning to future governments and peoples of what to avoid when structuring and actuating government.
Because he exposed the base machinations of ne'er do wells and despots in power and how they functioned, he was maligned for centuries in attempts to make him the bad guy for writing what he wrote. Oddly, not, by those who functioned in ways he had warned about.
Sound familiar? Little has changed since his time.
MayReasonRule
(1,461 posts)...i.e. the Nat-C Fascist GOP.
I appreciate the sentiment y'all, and agree with you wholeheartedly regarding Machiavelli's intent.
I read the tome at the age of eight, at the same time I was reading Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft, Asimov,and Bradbury.
The Prince is an astounding work for which I have great respect.
It describes the nature of things. It states how things are as opposed to how we would like for them to be.
It's why I say that Machiavelli and Darwin always apply.
It's not the way I would have it, nonetheless it is the nature of the beast.
May reason rule.
paleotn
(17,956 posts)The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)Mississippi's former 4th District Congressman, Steven Palazzo, was among 67 republican House members to vote against a $9.7 billion relief package for the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
Yes we remember.
BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)Duppers
(28,127 posts)From Wikipedia...
(unofficially referred to as Superstorm Sandy)[1][2] was an extremely destructive and strong Atlantic hurricane, as well as the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning 1,150 miles (1,850 km).[3][4][5] The storm inflicted nearly $70 billion (2012 USD) in damage and killed 233 people across eight countries from the Caribbean to Canada.[6][7] The eighteenth named storm, tenth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy was a Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba, though most of the damage it caused was after it became a Category 1-equivalent extratropical cyclone off the coast of the Northeastern United States.[8]
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)in case you can't tell...
flying_wahini
(6,646 posts)Those poor people.
tornado34jh
(940 posts)Dixie Alley, as it is called, runs from Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana all the way up to Georgia. First, the types of thunderstorms that are going to be there tend to be of the high-precipitation type. Because of that, there is a heavy rain that often obscures tornadoes, making it difficult to see where it is. Second, the population density is much higher than in the Great Plains. There are more population centers in those areas. Third, these tornadoes often happen at night, which makes it at least twice as deadly not only because of the fact that people may be sleeping, but it is hard to see it unless it is illuminated by lightning. Finally, their severe weather season lasts longer because it is warmer and more humid and can occur even during the winter. They are also more or less near the transition point between the more tropical climates of Florida and the more temperate climates up north, so those clashes of air masses can really get those things going.
Some of the most deadliest of tornadoes in recent times have been in Mississippi and Alabama, and really there has been a shift where although the classic Tornado Alley does still get a lot of the tornadoes, most of the deadliest and most significant outbreaks has been more in the South.
Tree-Hugger
(3,370 posts)Unlike the plains, Dixie Alley has a lot of hills and trees. You often don't see a tornado until it is right on you.
Too many inexperienced chasers were on this. Nighttime Dixie Alley tornadoes are not an ideal chase even for very experienced chasers.
tornado34jh
(940 posts)Regardless of location, but especially in areas with elevation changes or forests.
paleotn
(17,956 posts)Growing up in middle TN, tornados were a thing every spring. I distinctly remember the '74 outbreak. But they were smaller, less intense, skip and hop tornadoes. Take out 3 or 4 houses. Leave the next 3 or 4 barely touched. Set down again damaging 3 or 4 more. Repeat for maybe 30 miles tops. Nothing like the monsters they have now.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/torando-alley-creeping-new-territory-rcna67426
Plus increased frequency, intensity and variability across the year. Not just confined mostly to the Winter / Spring change over.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-018-0048-2
tornado34jh
(940 posts)Overall, there has been a drying trend in the western half (this year is an exception for California), while much of the southeast has been seeing more rain. The Central Plains have been in a drought for quite a while. I think the precipitation has mostly moved east towards the more humid subtropical climates.
AllyCat
(16,222 posts)3/4 of a mile wide?!?
AZLD4Candidate
(5,753 posts)I'm from the the government and I'm here to help and pull themselves up by the libertarian bootstraps?
I mean, my state didn't have tornadoes and why should my hard earned tax money go to freeloaders that decided to be unprepared for tornadoes in states where they hit all the time?
They should have moved. They should have built stronger buildings. They should have done a lot, and now, these 47% hand out wanters demand my tax dollars subsidize their ignorance and laziness?
Hell, what is this "national weather service?" Now, my tax dollars are going to some service run by Washington that makes weather happen? Maybe it's Biden's fault. After all, the National Weather Service is in the executive. I'm sure Hunter Biden's laptop had something to do with making an EF4 tornado.
And now we have this enhanced fujita scale? So, Tax and Spend Democrats had to spend my hard earned money to enhance something that doesn't even need to be used where I live? Why did it have to be enhanced in the first place?
All this disaster socialism is destroying America. Let Mississippi pull itself up by its boot straps? I mean, that's why red states said when Hurricane Sandy hit New York and New Jersey.
BumRushDaShow
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Detailed summaries of Friday night's Rolling Fork/Silver City EF4 tornado and Blackhawk/Winona EF3 tornado are now available: https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.php?pil=PNSJAN&e=202303280208
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Additional information is still being assessed, including aerial imagery from satellite and UAS. Locations with the most severe damage along the paths are now being reviewed. Follow up surveys are possible, and updates to survey results are likely in the coming days.
10:29 PM · Mar 27, 2023
Link to damage surveys with analyses/descriptions - https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.php?pil=PNSJAN&e=202303280208
electric_blue68
(14,933 posts)Duh... I first read this as "tomatoes! 😜
I was like wtf?! Thinking some kind of genetically modified but somehow bad tomato was now going to "infect" GA tomato crops. 😄
Do they even grow tomatoes commercially there?
Not meaning to sound cavalier... They're terrifying! The fact that NYC now gets a E1 a few a year to every other year or two VS. once every 10+ years is disturbing!