Tag Archives: Severe Weather

Midwest tornadoes and a dam fails after rain, wind raged through

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Important Takeaways:

  • Hundreds of people in a southern Illinois town were ordered to evacuate Tuesday as water rolled over the top of a dam, just one perilous result of severe weather that raged through Midwest overnight with relentless rain and tornadoes and hit the Chicago area especially hard.
  • Hundreds of thousands of people lost power, and even weather forecasters had to briefly scramble for safety.
  • A woman in Indiana died after a tree fell on a home Monday night.
  • Water overtopped a dam near Nashville, Illinois, sending first responders out to ensure everyone got out safely. There were no reports of injuries in the community of 3,000, southeast of St. Louis, but a woman reported water up to her waist in her home, said Alex Haglund, a spokesperson for the Washington County Emergency Management Agency.

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High Alert across the Plains to the Midwest as major storms wreak havoc

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Important Takeaways:

  • Second destructive derecho in a week slams central US with 100-mph winds, baseball-sized hail
  • On Thursday, a derecho plowed across parts of Texas and Louisiana, blasting the Houston metro area with winds up to 100 mph that left at least seven people dead and more than 1 million customers in the dark.
  • Cleanup efforts are underway across parts of the central U.S. after a destructive derecho blasted across Kansas with 100 mph wind gusts and baseball-sized hail, causing major damage and knocking out power to tens of thousands of utility customers across the region.
  • This is now the second derecho in a week to blast parts of the U.S. On Thursday, a derecho plowed across parts of Texas and Louisiana, blasting the Houston metro area with winds up to 100 mph that left at least seven people dead and more than 1 million customers in the dark.
  • Damaging wind reports stretch more than 400 miles across Kansas
  • Millions of people from the Plains to the Midwest will be on alert for powerful thunderstorms capable of producing damaging wind gusts, large hail and possible tornadoes.
  • The highest threat of severe weather will be found across portions of the Plains on Monday, but the potential for powerful storms will also have people in cities like Chicago, Milwaukee and Des Moines in Iowa on alert.

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Stay Alert: Severe weather is sweeping through the mid-west

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Important Takeaways:

  • Heightened tornado risk targets Nashville as severe weather outbreak expands to nearly 150 million Wednesday
  • Nearly 4 million people, including the cities of Nashville in Tennessee and Bowling Green in Kentucky, are included in a Level 4 out of 5 risk of severe weather. Another 14 million are included in a Level 3 out of 5 risk, including Memphis in Tennessee and St. Louis in Missouri.
  • The nation’s deadly severe weather outbreak enters its third day with a higher risk of strong, long-track tornadoes in densely populated areas.
  • This comes as several damaging twisters tore across the Midwest and Ohio Valley on Tuesday, with Michigan being the hardest hit.
  • Tornadoes, very large to giant hail and destructive wind gusts are all possible. Some of the tornadoes may be EF-2 or stronger.
  • “Mayfield, Kentucky, is right in the middle of this. That is always a concern when you see those towns that have been hard hit by severe weather in the last three years or so,” FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin said. “It takes a lot of time to come back from an EF-4 tornado.”
  • [According to a Fox graphic: (May 7-8) 126 sever T- Storm warnings, 68 Tornado Warnings, 1 Tornado Emergency]

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Be prepared as severe thunderstorms and high winds will pack a punch from the plains to the south

Luke 21:25 ““And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves

Important Takeaways:

  • Severe Thunderstorms With Hail, High Winds Possible In Plains, South
  • A threat of severe thunderstorms is back in the nation’s midsection and South this week.
  • Scattered severe thunderstorms are most possible from parts of northeast Kansas into southeast Nebraska, Iowa and northwest Missouri, including a few of the same areas affected by severe storms last Friday.
  • The majority of these storms should flare up early Wednesday evening and night. Large hail is the main threat, with some destructive hail possibly larger than baseballs. Damaging wind gusts and a few tornadoes are also possible.
  • Any storms farther south into the areas shaded in Oklahoma and Texas could be more isolated or might not occur at all during the late afternoon or evening. Large hail and perhaps a strong wind gust are the main concerns if any of these storms can punch through an inhibiting cap.

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Multiple Tornados tear through the South

Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”

Important Takeaways:

  • Southern Severe Weather: At Least Two People Dead, Multiple Tornadoes Reported
  • At least two people have died in the outbreak.
  • An eyewitness describes a tornado in Bassfield, Mississippi.
  • Reports of severe weather stretched from Texas to Kentucky.
  • Two Deaths Confirmed In Montgomery County, Alabama
  • Damage in Elmore County, Alabama
  • Injuries Reported in Montgomery, Alabama
  • Damage In Choctaw County, Mississippi
  • Eyewitness Account Of Tornado In Bassfield, Mississippi

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Severe weather brings flights to a halt in the North East as millions head home from Thanksgiving

Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”

Important Takeaways:

  • Thousands of flights delayed or cancelled after severe weather sets off travel chaos as millions of Americans head home after Thanksgiving holiday
  • More than 6,098 flights were delayed and 173 were canceled as of Sunday night
  • A severe weather system is to blame for many of the delays and cancelations as travelers tried to get back home after the Thanksgiving holiday
  • Airports in three major cities – New York City, Washington D.C., and Boston – appear to be the most affected.
  • Airlines had prepared for an estimated 4.5M to fly this Thanksgiving holiday
  • Earlier this month, the Transportation Security Administration announced it would cut the cost of enrolling in TSA PreCheck

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Grocery stores are struggling to stock up

Rev 6:6 NAS And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”

Important Takeaways:

  • Here’s why grocery stores are struggling to stock their empty shelves
  • Much of the Midwest and Northeast has recently been grappling with severe weather and hazardous commuting conditions. Not only are people stocking up on more groceries, that level of high demand coupled with transportation challenges is making it more difficult
  • One strategy: Fanning out products. They’re doing this by putting out both limited varieties and limited quantities of each product in an attempt to prevent hoarding and stretch out their supplies between deliveries.
  • The ongoing record-high level of congestion at the nation’s ports. “Both of these challenges are working in tandem to create shortages”

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More storms on the way

Important Takeaways:

  • Potent storm to reignite severe weather dangers in Southeast
  • Forecasters are eyeing a developing storm as it pushes across the Midwest. In the coming days, stormy weather is forecast to develop across a wide swath of the central and eastern United States.
  • The main threat from these storms will be flash flooding and damaging winds, with an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 80 mph
  • The outbreak, which occurred on Dec. 10 and Dec. 11, produced at least 66 confirmed tornadoes.
  • The tornadoes are expected to cost about $18 billion in total damage and economic loss.

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Severe weather has many looking for refuge

Important Takeaways:

  • Northwest weather forces many into shelters.
  • Severe weather sweeping parts of the U.S. brought frigid temperatures to the Pacific Northwest and heavy snow to mountains in Northern California and Nevada. 
  • The region continued to break daily cold records. The National Weather Service said the low was 17 degrees F in Seattle on Monday, breaking a record set in 1968.
  • Utilities reported about 5,000 customers without power Tuesday morning, mostly in southwestern Oregon. 
  • Officials with the University of California, Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Laboratory on Monday said recent snowfall has smashed the snowiest December record of 179 inches, set in 1970. The record is now 193.7 inches as more snow is expected.
  • The storms that have been pummeling California and Nevada in recent days also brought rain and snow to Arizona. A record inch of rain in one day was reported at the airport in Phoenix.

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One dead, six rescued and a dozen missing after boat capsizes off Louisiana coast

(Reuters) – One person has died and six others have been rescued after a commercial “lift boat” used to service oil rigs capsized in hurricane force winds several miles south of Port Fourchon on the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday.

A dozen people were still missing after the 129-foot commercial vessel capsized in rough seas about 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, officials said.

Two Coast Guard cutters, a military helicopter, airplane and a small fleet of volunteer private vessels were involved in the searched operation, said Coast Guard Captain Will Watson.

“Unfortunately one person was recovered deceased on the surface of the water,” he said, adding that the winds were about 80 miles per hour (129 km per hour) to 90 mph at the time of the accident.

Two people were rescued by the Coast Guard and four others were pulled from the waters by people on other vessels, he said.

“My heart and the collective hearts of our team goes out to the families,” Watson said, adding that they are working to find other survivors.

The high winds, with some hail and flooding are expected to continue in southeastern Louisiana, according to the National Weather Service. There is a threat of severe weather to overnight in the region and a flash flood watch is in effect till Thursday morning.

The vessel is owned by Seacor Marine, a Houston, Texas-based transportation company, according to media reports.

A representative for the company was not immediately available for comment.

(Reporting by Aakriti Bhalla in Bengaluru; Additional reporting and writing by Rich McKay in Atlanta; Editing by William Maclean and Mike Harrison)