Jackson, TN, hit by huge tornado. 86 injured...

[Maddy McCall]

50 of those in a retirement home.

:(

Just on CNN.

Look out, Tennessee DUers. Take COVER.

[ananda]

1. Also.. there are fatalities.. as reported on CNN.

nt

[Maddy McCall]

3. Terrible.

:(

[Skittles]

2. oh dear

am really hoping for no fatalities :o

[Individualist]

4. A dangerous night for Tennesseans

Those of you who are west of me, stay safe! Storms won't reach my end of the state until the early morning hours.

:grouphug:

[salin]

5. tornados in winter...

used to be a spring (and sometimes fall) thing - at least up in Indiana a little north of Tenn. We had tornados hit last week - and are under a watch again.

I am sending prayers to those hit and those in danger's way.

My heart breaks for those most vulnerable, like the 50 in a retirement home. :cry:

[JeanGrey]

73. Not unusual at all.

[salin]

6. SIRENS just went off in near downtown Indianapolis

[salin]

15. not worth a new thread - but lighting just struck something very close

to the house (somewhere on the block?) - predictions of rain of up to an inch an hour and severe flooding.

Not to diminish the tragedy in Tennessee - just pointing out that the storm systems are spread over hundreds of miles wreaking havoc through out the south and midwest.

Be safe DUers...

[Individualist]

17. Be safe, Salin

Severe lightning kills too.

[salin]

19. thanks - when the storm let up a little - I stepped out front

and there were emergency vehicles about three houses down. :-(

While I am thankful that my house, and I did not get hit, I pray that those emergency vehicles are here for caution's sake, and that all are safe in that household as well.

[AngryOldDem]

30. Don't they sound them when there is a severe thunderstorm warning? n/t

[Rowdyboy]

7. Damn, damn damn....so far all we've had is a little wind but all hell is supposed to break out...

between 10pm and midnight

Now they're saying 30 kids trapped in a collapsed dorm in Tennessee.

What a night

[XboxWarrior]

9. Olberman just broke in with the story.....

some dead......

I feel for them.

[Individualist]

8. Tornado warnings currently in effect for Benton, Decatur, Dickson, Henderson,

Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Lewis, Maury, Montgomery, Perry, Stewart, Wayne, and Williamson counties. :( http://www.weatherunderground.com/severe.asp

[Pastiche423]

25. nsdh - what county is Memphis in?

I have a nephew there.

[Individualist]

26. Memphis is Shelby County

[Pastiche423]

29. Thank you!

[OzarkDem]

10. MSNBC said 30 students trapped in a dorm

Praying for everyone - be safe!

[Dawggie]

11. God, that's sad.

I'm in North Alabama and just had to turn on the AC. Strange weather in these parts today.

[Stinky The Clown]

12. Report of one dead in Germantown

(Just south of Memphis)

[bdamomma]

13. oh what terrible news,stay safe you guys.

those poor people in that retirement home :(

[Wiley50]

14. Radar is showing that same storm, still red, heading straight towards Nashville

I'm about 40 miles due east so it looks like it will go west of me (crossing my fingers)

I'm worried about that mean ass squall line that's sure to hit after I go to bed

[Dawggie]

16. Keep your ears open and have a place to go to ground.

Good luck.

[Wiley50]

18. nowhere for me to run. I'm in a fiberglass sailboat on a trailer on a farm

wouldn't even make it out and down the ladder to run for a ditch.

If it's my time............

[Dawggie]

23. a ditch oro gully does well in a situation like that

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. stay safe folks

[SeattleGirl]

21. Just saw a bit of footage on it.

Freakin' scary! Anyone in that area, stay safe, please!

[tnlefty]

22. Jeeze, was it 4 or 5 years ago that Jackson got hit hard?

And has now been hit again. :hug: to those in the western part of the state.

[Marrah_G]

78. oh no...Jackson? I have a good friend there.

[Maddy McCall]

24. NASHVILLE, TAKE COVER.

HUGE TORNADO HEADED INTO NASHVILLE NOW. TAKE COVER!

[AngryOldDem]

28. Weather Channel's Jim Cantore...

...just said a tornado is moving through Nashville -- in its path is an arena at Adelphia (?) where a "huge" hockey game is going on....

TWC talking about it now...says it's gone through Nashville and is heading toward Hendersonville.

[Maddy McCall]

36. Oh my god.

I'm turning to the weather channel.

Thanks.

[AngryOldDem]

38. I've heard nothing about the arena...

...but the radar echo of the storm was supposedly a "classic" indicator of a tornado. I've heard nothing about any damage yet, but to my inexperienced eye, the thing looked huge.

Deaths are now reported in Kentucky, I'm guessing by Bowling Green/Louisville.

Cantore also just briefly mentioned damage in Nashville.

Damn.

[Individualist]

27. Dayum! Temperature has risen from 61 to 68 at my location in northeast TN

in the last half hour. Not a good night for a storm phobic like me. :scared:

[AngryOldDem]

31. I know what you mean....

Here in Ohio we are going to get it probably sometime after midnight. I'm looking at a LO-O-ONG night as I make a mental note to price weather radios.

Stay safe.

[Individualist]

33. Thanks. You stay safe too!

I really, really hate it when severe storms hit in the middle of the night.

[Dawggie]

32. Temp just set a record here of 74...

Strange days.

[Nickster]

34. Stay safe everyone. Mother Nature ain't happy tonight.

[Stinky The Clown]

35. Report of second fatality, this time in Memphis

MSNBC reporting

[Dawggie]

37. Shit. They're showing videos from earlier of the storm.

I've seen one like that before and it took out whole neighborhoods.

Please be safe, people. If you don't have a good place to go, be aware of ditches and such in the vicinity. They could save your life on a night like this.

[Eurobabe]

39. Holy shit! TAKE COVER, be careful

[Individualist]

40. Current tornado warnings in effect for TN are as follows: Crockett, Dyer, Gibson,

Lauderdale, Obion, Sumner, Tipton, and Wilson counties.

[Maddy McCall]

41. Thank you for this...

We just went under a watch in S. Mississippi.

[Individualist]

44. You're welcome and stay safe, Maddy

We're in for a dangerous night. :(

current watches/warnings for TN as of 11:26 pm EST:

Tornado Warning:
Crockett, Gibson, Hardeman, Macon, McNairy

Tornado Watch:
Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson, Decatur, Dickson, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Giles, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, Henderson, Henry, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Lake, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Lewis, Macon, Madison, Marshall, Maury, McNairy, Montgomery, Obion, Perry, Robertson, Rutherford, Shelby, Stewart, Sumner, Tipton, Trousdale, Wayne, Weakley, Williamson, Wilson

Tornado Watch:
Franklin, Lincoln, Moore

Severe Thunderstorm Warning:
Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Haywood, Obion, Shelby, Tipton, Weakley

Wind Advisory:
Blount Smoky Mountains, Campbell, Carroll, Chester, Claiborne, Cocke Smoky Mountains, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, East Polk, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, Henderson, Henry, Johnson, Lake, Lauderdale, Madison, McNairy, Morgan, Obion, Scott, Sevier Smoky Mountains, Shelby, Southeast Carter, Southeast Greene, Southeast Monroe, Tipton, Unicoi, Weakley

Special Weather Statement:
Anderson, Bedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Blount Smoky Mountains, Bradley, Campbell, Cannon, Cheatham, Claiborne, Clay, Cocke Smoky Mountains, Coffee, Cumberland, Davidson, DeKalb, Dickson, East Polk, Fentress, Giles, Grainger, Grundy, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Lawrence, Lewis, Loudon, Macon, Marion, Marshall, Maury, McMinn, Meigs, Montgomery, Morgan, North Sevier, Northwest Carter, Northwest Cocke, Northwest Greene, Northwest Monroe, NW Blount, Overton, Perry, Pickett, Putnam, Rhea, Roane, Robertson, Rutherford, Scott, Sequatchie, Sevier Smoky Mountains, Shelby, Smith, Southeast Carter, Southeast Greene, Southeast Monroe, Stewart, Sullivan, Sumner, Trousdale, Unicoi, Union, Van Buren, Warren, Washington, Wayne, West Polk, White, Williamson, Wilson

[Maddy McCall]

46. What county is Gatlinburg in?

I can't imagine tornadoes in the Smokies.

You stay safe, too! Please update us.

:hug:

[Individualist]

47. That's in Sevier County

Tornadoes are rare in these mountains, but they can and do occur. Last one in my county was '98.

Thanks for your concern!

[Maddy McCall]

68. Keep us updated.

I'm reading all this about nashville now.

Dammit.

:cry:

[Wiley50]

45. I'm in Wilson. (I told you guys at 9:58 that sucker was bearing down on Nashville)

Buncha wind outside but who could see anything.

[Individualist]

49. Hope you'll be okay in that sailboat, Wiley!

Keep us posted, okay?

[Wiley50]

54. I'm just gonna go to bed soon. If you hear from me in the am

you'll know I did ok.

Not much to do about it anyway, except refresh the radar on my net every once in a while.

[Individualist]

55. Good luck!

[orleans]

42. it was horrible weather in arkansas & tenn. & we didn't hear

about it until hillary mentioned it in her speech tonight.

"A family of three was killed in Arkansas and the Tennessee Secretary of State was forced to close some polling places in the western part of the state after several destructive tornadoes tracked through the area Tuesday evening.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/02/05/tornado.bad.weather/?iref=mpstoryview

weather channel is now saying a dozen fatalities

"Interstate 40 remains closed in both directions between mile marker 70 and 90 because 60 tractor trailers had overturned.
http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/15339381.html

[Maddy McCall]

43. Whoa.

Terrible. I'm flipping back and forth from CNN to the Weather Channel.

[orleans]

56. i know. it was unfucking real--really bad. n/t

[nealmhughes]

48. A new line of storms is now developing in Mississippi, headed straight for Alabama and Tennessee.

The tornados and storms are moving rapidly to the NE, while the storm line is moving straight east, on a NE to SW diagonal line. The main line is very slow moving, and just crossing the Mississippi River at Memphis.
North Alabama and Tennessee all the way through Chattanooga are under a tornado watch until 5 a.m. It was almost 75F today in North Alabama and Southern Middle Tennessee, so we knew we were in for a rough ride.
It is several hours until the main line gets here, but with a new secondary line developing. . . I doubt I get much sleep tonight.
The tornado that hit Nashville originated near Tupelo and moved NE towards Shiloh Battlefield, where AL, TN, and MS come together, and then raced NE towards Nashville, and the Jackson tornado also came into Nashville Metro!
I live 40 miles or so from Shiloh, and that is too close to home for my taste! I interviewed for a job at Union Hill College that got struck in Jackson in 2003 and the city was still recovering from the tornado that hit that spring. That was one reason I didn't take the job: no place to live near the campus downtown due to the damage. Union Hill is a small Christian Historically Black liberal arts college, by the way.

[Individualist]

50. Oh, #)()*%)(#

Stay safe, nealmhughes! I won't be sleeping much tonight either. Storm phobia is the pits!!

[Dawggie]

52. I just posted the local NOAA report on this in another thread.

Best of luck to you!

[Old Hickory Fan]

53. What else can happen?

Now reports of aircraft down .... supposedly at Trousdale County & Wilson County Line near Hgwy 231.

No report on size of aircraft. I can't imagine anybody flying through this mess.

[NMMNG]

51. That's awful

:-(

[K Gardner]

57. The tornado just passed thru downtown Nashville and storms are heading toward us in E TN now. Lots

and lots of injuries reported. Everybody is hunkerin down here ! Obama mentioned the storms in his speech, which was wonderful and gracious !

[nealmhughes]

58. here is the latest radar at 10:45 pm CST

http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/44a/e48/44ae482e-bee9-455f-a571-6dcc9f74d577

The front is still slowly advancing towards the east, but new secodary line developing from central MS into North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, looks like Memphis and Jackson are under the gun again, and it is headed right for us here outside Huntsville, then onto Chattanooga. We'll get hit 1.5 hours before Huntsville, and then another 1.5 to Chat.

I have a job interview tomorrow at LSU thank godness it is by phone, as I would be terrified with my family on the Tennessee and me in Baton Rouge, Mardi Gras be damned tonight in the upper SE!

[Old Hickory Fan]

59. Report of thirty ambulances sent to area near Nashville

Something terrible must have happened as flames can be seen (according to reports) up to twenty-five miles away. The area is
near Wilson County and Trousdale County Lines in Middle Tennessee. Castillion Springs?

First, there was a report of a plane crash in this area and now there are reports that it is a natural gas pipeline problem.

Apparently reporters are enroute ...... I am praying that those ambulances are not needed but this sounds terrible.

Maybe lightening related?

[Individualist]

60. Oh no!

What a terrible, terrible night this is turning out to be. :(

Please let us know if you hear more about it.

[Old Hickory Fan]

61. Will keep updated if I can find out more. NT

[Dawggie]

62. Please do. I've been watching the radar and it looks like another front is

about to hit the Nashville area shortly.

[Old Hickory Fan]

64. PICTURES OF LIGHTED SKY AT LINK

http://www.wtvf.com/

[AngryOldDem]

65. Wow.

I'm glad that site also had a story about the hockey game -- I've been wondering about that since Jim Cantore mentioned it a couple hours back. Glad everyone there is safe.

[tuckessee]

66. WTVF is reporting it is natural gas fire.

From the site ...."There are reports of a natural gas fire in Westmoreland. It is burning on the border of Macon and Trousdale counties, according to Westmoreland Mayor Ricky Woodard....."

[Old Hickory Fan]

69. Details seem to keep changing but

it sounds awful. A compression station for a multi-state pipeline system? Now they are saying it is in Hartsville, TN.
supposedly a story is out on AP.

[AngryOldDem]

63. Please do,.

This is just in-freaking-credible.

[Old Hickory Fan]

70. Link to AP Story

I have a dread that in the morning some of these areas are going to be devastated but I am hopeful the death count does not go up.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080206/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather


Edited for link as I was so upset I forgot it.

[Old Hickory Fan]

72. Thank Goodness! New report

Apparently they do not currently believe that there has been any loss of life involved in the natural gas incident. This is great news and I hope it is accurate, but this story has changed and is still obviously still evolving. The darkness of night surely cannot be helping getting confirmations.

[RL3AO]

67. Some of my radar images

I missed the Jackson tornado because I was at a caucus.





This is current radar over Central Kentucky. Giant boxes are tornado watches, smaller boxes are warnings. Tornado warnings red, severe thunderstorm warnings yellow. The box on the left is all current warnings nation wide.

[Naturyl]

71. Ugh.. how awful.

This mess is heading for my area later this morning. Hope everyone in the path stays safe.

[Old Hickory Fan]

74. Nashville under a new tornado warning @ 2:00 AM

Path looks like headed thru Brentwood/Forest Hills Area, Nashville Area, then Mt. Juliet, and Lebanon.

[Old Hickory Fan]

75. Preliminary - 25 tornadoes in TN so far tonight. NT

[Old Hickory Fan]

76. Preliminary - AK MS KY TN combined - 57 tornadoes tonight so far. NT

[Maddy McCall]

77. 31 dead so far. More fatalities expected...

tornadoes on the ground in Alabama now.

[Lex Talionis]

79. I live here in Jackson Tn.

While the home took heavy damage. There were no reported deaths. One of our colorful characters called the waving man lost his wall and tree that he has sat under for years at the home. Union University had 75% of its dorms destroyed or damaged. Several injuries and students trapped in the rubble. Just to let the squeamish know, word is that home owners are putting the word out that looters will be shot. It was a wild ride last night.