Important Takeaways:
- The National Weather Service (NWS) in Miami has issued a tornado watch and several tornado warnings for parts of Florida as Hurricane Milton rapidly approaches west-central Florida.
- On Wednesday morning, the NWS reported several tornadoes, including one crossing the I-75 highway, and urged residents to seek shelter immediately.
- The tornado watch remains valid until Wednesday evening at 9pm ET and covers parts of south Florida
- Videos and pictures posted online showed several of the spotted tornadoes growing in size as they move across south Florida.
- The agency also warned that isolated hail up to a 0.5in size is possible, along with isolated gusts of wind traveling up to 70mph.
- Approximately 12.6 million residents face potential exposure to the tornadoes, in addition to 2,424 schools and 170 hospitals.
- The tornado watch and warnings come as the category 5 Hurricane Milton is expected to double in size as the “storm of the century” by the time it makes landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday.
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Important Takeaways:
- The D.C. region is still recovering from storm and tornado damage after a wild weather event on Wednesday night.
- At least two likely tornadoes touched down in Montgomery County, Maryland, damaging several houses and injuring five people, county officials said Thursday morning.
- Director of the Office of Emergency Management & Homeland Security Earl Stoddard said the damage could have been worse, with a total of about 15 tornadoes touching down across the state of Maryland Wednesday.
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Important Takeaways:
- Incredible footage shows destruction as deadly tornadoes rip through Iowa and kill multiple people: 15 counties declared disaster zones with hospital forced to evacuate, homes toppled and 25 million under severe warnings
- Incredible drone footage has captured the immense trail of destruction left across a small Iowa town after a tornado ripped through the state – killing multiple people and injuring dozens more.
- Entire neighborhoods were flattened by several deadly twisters that gripped the region on Tuesday evening, with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds placing 15 counties under disaster emergency proclamations.
- Hours after a tornado touched down in Greenfield, aerial footage showed where a tornado tore through the town as homes were leveled and trees were shredded down to their stumps.
- Carnage is expected to continue through the Midwest as a storm system develops – with over 25 million people currently under severe weather warnings, stretching from Missouri to Wisconsin.
- Iowa Police confirmed there have been multiple fatalities in the deadly weather front. One death occurred in Adams County, Iowa, around 90 miles southwest of Des Moines, when a woman was ejected from a vehicle during the brutal storm.
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Important Takeaways:
- Powerful storms unloaded flooding rainfall that swept away vehicles and triggered evacuations, delivered hail the size of softballs and spun up at least one damaging tornado in Texas Thursday.
- Dozens of tornadoes have hit from the Panhandle to the Gulf coast and months of rain has fallen in East Texas in intense spurts, causing rivers to rise to levels not seen since the devastating floods of Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
- Mandatory evacuations were ordered Thursday in parts of Harris County
- “We want you out of this area… this is a life-threatening situation,” Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said at a news conference.
- Mandatory evacuations due to flooding were also ordered for parts of San Jacinto County and Polk County, with voluntary evacuations for Montgomery County.
- Several more sites are forecast to experience major flooding by the weekend and could meet or exceed record levels set during Harvey.
- A “large and extremely dangerous” tornado impacted the towns of Hodges and Hawley – about 10 miles north of Abilene – Thursday evening.
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Important Takeaways:
- 130 million in the East brace for severe weather outbreak Monday as Washington sees highest threat in 10 years
- More than 130 million Americans from New England to the Southeast are bracing for a turbulent afternoon and evening as powerful thunderstorms capable of producing hurricane-force wind gusts, large hail and possible tornadoes develop and race across the eastern U.S., including Washington D.C. which is now seeing its highest severe weather threat since June 2013.
- The FOX Forecast Center says a cold front is pushing off to the east from the Ohio Valley. As instability forms along the front, it’s creating an environment ripe for severe thunderstorms to develop and sweep across the region.
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Important Takeaways:
- US Hospitals Brace for Drug Shortages After Pfizer Plant Damaged in Tornado
- After an EF-3 tornado ripped through North Carolina this week, there are concerns U.S. hospitals could face drug shortages.
- One of the hardest hit sites was the Pfizer factory in Rocky Mount, a huge facility with the equivalent of more than 24 football fields in manufacturing space.
- The drug company says all employees were safely evacuated, adding in a tweet that it is still “determining the best way to get back online as quickly as possible.”
- The plant produces nearly 25 percent of Pfizer’s sterile injectables used in U.S. hospitals. That includes medicines that treat infections and drugs for anesthesia and surgeries.
- Experts warn there could be long-term shortages as Pfizer shifts production to other locations or rebuilds.
- All of this puts even more pressure on already strained drug supplies at U.S. hospitals.
- Overall, there were 309 drug shortages in the U.S. at the end of June. That’s up from 295 at the end of last year and the highest total recorded since 2014.
- It’s still not clear which drugs might be affected or how long a shortage could last. For now, hospitals are storing up supplies and holding their breath until more is known.
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Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- There is devastation.
- Dortches, in Nash County, is one of the areas where officials told CBS17 they’re finding the most damage.
- With just a moment’s notice, people on Town Hall Road found shelter where they could.
- “When I looked out, it was like midnight. Tree limbs were going this way and that way,” said Mayor Jamie Vick.
- “The good Lord blessed us, because as you can see with what’s around here, with the size of these trees, the wind, I mean, a lot of people could have lost their life,” said Vick.
- “She took the brunt of the damage coming in off of them. Three small children she has. She said she watched the roof come off the house just held them and prayed.”
- The tornado ripped out trees, and even picked up a propane tank. The tank was dropped off next to a little white house that is now barely standing.
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Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Tornado death toll rises in Texas as epic flooding strikes Pensacola, Florida
- Hundreds of thousands were without power on Friday across the south-central U.S. following another day of damaging storms on Thursday. Some of the worst damage was in the Texas town of Perryton where a tornado left three dead.
- Pensacola News Journal reported. Escambia County Fire Rescue and emergency medical services responded to a call just after 8:30 p.m. CDT on Thursday of a person trapped under a tree that fell on their home during the storm. The person was pronounced dead on the scene.
- More than 230,000 customers were without power in Texas, according to PowerOutage.US. While the majority of the outages in the state came from the northeastern corner, outages were also high in Ochiltree County, which was where a deadly tornado barreled through on Thursday evening. Additionally, power outages were high in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida on Friday morning.
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Important Takeaways:
- Touching down in the early hours of Saturday morning, the tornado killed one person and caused significant damage.
- A damage assessment from the National Weather Service confirmed the rating of the twister as EF1, with estimated maximum wind speeds of 93 mph.
- The Laguna Heights tornado was one of many that touched down last week, particularly in the Plains, where over a dozen tornadoes were reported on Thursday.
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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:
- Watch: Rare funnel cloud hovers over Montana mountains
- Video captures views of a funnel cloud forming over Mission Valley in western Montana early Tuesday evening.
- Recorded by Isley Reust, the footage shows a dark gray cloud hanging over the black, snow-laced mountains in the distance. From that cloud, a funnel extends below, appearing to kick up snow into the air.
- Tornadoes rarely form over mountains, as conditions would not be optimal, according to the National Weather Service. They noted, however, that tornadoes have crossed the Appalachian Mountains and a 10,000-foot-tall mountain in Yellowstone National Park.
- About 300 miles northwest of Yellowstone, the town of St. Ignatius was able to see such a unique sight forming over their own mountains.
- “I’m happy I got to witness it,” Reust said in a tweet.
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