Tornado 2011 Outbreak (state, year, sirens, alley)

[Cambium]

We could easily be breaking records for month of April.

If anyone wants to keep track of all the reports going on currently regarding Tornado, Hail and High Winds Go here. Amazing how many there are in last 3 hrs alone!!

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/last3hours.html

[Cambium]

TWC is showing webcam of St. Louis IL where sirens just went off... The storm is looking insane!

[artwomyn]

Originally Posted by Cambium

We could easily be breaking records for month of April.

If anyone wants to keep track of all the reports going on currently regarding Tornado, Hail and High Winds Go here. Amazing how many there are in last 3 hrs alone!!

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/last3hours.html

This April, is definitely on track for breaking records, regarding tornado outbreaks. Check out this Weather Channel link, that give the details about it: April's Record Pace: Severe Weather Scorecard - weather.com

We've had such strong temperature contrasts this April; the south has been abnormally hot, and the midwest and northeast, have been on the chilly side. With temp contrasts as strong as they've been this April, frequent outbraks of severe weather are inevitable.

[Watchman57]

Next 2 weeks will be bumpy too, but its that time of the year:

AccuWeather.com - Weather News | "Up to 300 More Tornadoes over the Next Two Weeks" (http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/48639/up-to-300-more-tornadoes-over-1.asp - broken link)

[Cambium]

These guys tried to stop traffic as the Saint Louis, MO Tornado was coming yesterday. They also walked around & have footage of the damage at airport.. When you see a Interstate sign mangled like that, you know it wasnt just straight winds. This was a monster Tornado at the airport on a Friday evening before a Sunday holiday.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x9wJL1jvBo

[Cambium]

Couple of videos regarding the Saint Louis, MO Tornado at Lambert Airport:

These guys tried to stop traffic as the Tornado was coming. They also walked around & have footage of the damage at airport.. When you see a Interstate sign mangled like that, you know it wasnt just straight winds.
YouTube - 04-22-11 Jesse Risley Tornado & Damage St Louis, MO KDR Media

A view from inside the airport during Tornado. Worth watching until 1:30 when they were being told to move to lower levels. After that nothing happens.
YouTube - Inside St. Louis Airport as Tornado Hits - April 22, 2011

Another one from inside: This one claims he saw the passenger plane blew away from the gate
YouTube - St Louis Lambert Tornado

Amazing Lightning Bolts: ‎1:27 hits few hundred feet from them.
YouTube - Amazing Lightning Bolts - St.louis Tornadic Supercell Storm 4/22/2011

[trlhiker]

25 tornados were reported yesterday and this coming week is supposed to be a another bad one. Be safe everyone. Just saw a report that there have been a preliminary report of 559 tornados so far this month.

[Cambium]

Here's the camera from inside the airport as the Tornado ripped through it..

Notice 2 things:
1. The debris was first coming towards the camera, then away from camera and some went up.
2. Power goes out at :31

KMOX - Tornado at Lambert, C entrance toward concourse


YouTube - KMOX - Tornado at Lambert, C entrance toward concourse

[davidals]

Some interesting, and a few disturbing things about this years' outbreaks:

I haven't looked to compare the last few spring seasonal records. This spring has seemed rough, but a lot of the South was in a drought last year, and that drought has shrunk - due to storms, mainly - this year.

The recent North Carolina outbreak set one record, but didn't challenge a few others. It's now the largest outbreak in North Carolina history. It's not the strongest however - the March 28 1984 outbreak, and probably both the May 5 1989 and February 19 1884 outbreaks surpass it: the 2-19-1884 outbreak spawned one very strong, plus some strong F3 storms. The 1989 and 1984 outbreaks both produced multiple F4 storms.

The March 84 outbreak climatology was similar to the "Tri State Tornado" - an outbreak almost directly beneath an intense upper-level low that generated an almost continual 350+ mile long series of tornadoes, all but 3 (out of 17 or so) of which were F3 or F4. All of them were long-track, and all of them were far, far larger than anything that had ever been recorded in North Carolina; 2 tornadoes in that outbreak were 2.5+ miles wide, 4 or 5 of the others were more than a mile wide.

This recent outbreak thankfully was nowhere close to the 84 outbreak in strength or sheer violence. In that regard, the 1984 outbreak was - by east coast statistical standards - close to a freak occurrence.

The disturbing aspect of this years' outbreaks is the number of them hitting parts of the US somewhat away from the traditional center of "tornado alley." Chasers haven't had much to chase out in the heartland; meanwhile more densely populated areas in the deep South, east coast, Ohio Valley or Tennessee Valley have gotten hammered by overnight outbreaks, or outbreaks of strong rain-wrapped tornadoes. I think we'll see at least one more of those "big outbreak-weird location" kind of things this year - it's just instinct, but it also seems like this years' trend.

[Cambium]

Here's the Airport Tornado report. Sounds like the Tornado had a path of 22 miles as it fluctuated in strength.

Link has full detailed report.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/product.php?site=lsx&product=pns&issuedby=LSX&form at=CI&version=1&glossary=0

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1208 AM CDT SUN APR 24 2011

...TORNADO SURVEY OF ST. LOUIS AND MADISON COUNTIES...

DURING THE EVENING OF FRIDAY APRIL 22...AN INTENSE SUPERCELL
THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED A LONG-TRACK TORNADO WHICH TORE A PATH OF
DESTRUCTION FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE ST. LOUIS METROPOLITAN
AREA. THE TORNADO REACHED A MAXIMUM INTENSITY OF EF4 ON THE
ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE AS IT TRACKED THROUGH THE COMMUNITY OF
BRIDGETON...JUST WEST OF LAMBERT ST. LOUIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
THE TOTAL PATH LENGTH WAS 22 MILES...WITH A WIDTH OF UP TO 0.4
MILES.

THE TORNADO INITIALLY TOUCHED DOWN ALONG THE NORTHERN EDGE OF CREVE
COEUR LAKE AT APPROXIMATELY 755 PM. IT TRACKED NEARLY DUE EAST AT
ABOUT 40 MPH...AND INTENSIFIED AS IT ENTERED MARYLAND HEIGHTS. THERE
IT PRODUCED UP TO EF3 DAMAGE TO MANY HOMES AND BUSINESSES WITH A
DAMAGE SWATH OF 200 TO 400 YARDS WIDE. DAMAGED CONTINUED EASTWARD
IN AN UNBROKEN TRACK...CROSSING I-270 ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF I-70.
THE TORNADO REACHED PEAK INTENSITY OF EF4 AS IT DEVASTATED THE
COMMUNITY OF BRIDGTON ALONG OLD ST. CHARLES ROCK ROAD. FROM
THERE...THE TORNADO PARALLELED INTERSTATE 70 THROUGH THE COMMUNITY
OF ST. ANN...THEN TOOK AIM DIRECTLY ON LAMBERT ST. LOUIS
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. MANY OF THE LARGE WINDOWS IN THE MAIN
TERMINAL BUILDING WERE BLOWN OUT OR DAMAGED BY FLYING DEBRIS...AND A
LARGE SECTION OF ROOF WAS PEELED FROM CONCOURSE C. ALTHOUGH THE
VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WERE EVACUATED TO LOWER LEVELS AND TO
INTERIOR ROOMS BEFORE THE TORNADO HIT...5 PEOPLE WERE TREATED AND
RELEASED FROM AREA HOSPITALS FOR INJURIES DUE TO FLYING DEBRIS. THE
AIRPORT WAS CLOSED DUE TO THE EXTENSIVE DAMAGE.