Massive Tornado Evansville

[KatDaddy]

What a sad a tragic event. My heart goes out to those people. I am just amazed by the destruction and loss of life. Let hope all our Storm2k friends and their families are ok.

[conestogo_flood]

I just read on that WFIE website that the tornado was an F3. Pretty scary.

[Weatherfreak14]

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Weatherfreak14 - have you been able to get in touch with your family/friends from Evansville yet?

Mary[/quote]

Yes I have they are all OK. Thank God. My Aunt she lives only a half a block away from the mobile home park and she takes pills to knock her out and the tornado litterally went over her neibors backyard but she was asleep.

And yes My prayer were anwsered by God. Thank you lord Everyone is OK

[Skywatch_NC]

[quote="
Weatherfreak14 - have you been able to get in touch with your family/friends from Evansville yet?

Mary

Yes I have they are all OK. Thank God. My Aunt she lives only a half a block away from the mobile home park and she takes pills to knock her out and the tornado litterally went over her neibors backyard but she was asleep.

And yes My prayer were anwsered by God. Thank you lord Everyone is OK[/quote]

Very thankful as you are that your family are all okay.

Also, sorry to hear that your aunt has to have pills to get sleep.

[luvwinter]

Hello All,

Had not been on here today and just got on as I wondered if there was mention of these storms. Live in Dayton Ohio. Glad to hear from some members that family is ok. It was really strange as I have weather bug on the computer and it gives an alert signal. Well the first time I heard it I checked it and it had high wind advisory. Sometimes it keeps going off for the same alert so I didn't check it anymore. I looked at the temp noticing it was 64* and thought that this was perfect weather for tornadoes. I was getting ready to go to bed at 4:00am when I turned on the weather channel for a few minutes and noticed they had the red tornado warning box for our area. It freaked me out. I turned to the local channels we were actually under a tornado watch and ended up not going to bed until 6:00 as they had warnings 1 county over from us and had family who were in the warning areas to the north of us. Had to put batteries in the all weather radio. I don't think any actually touched down in our state or atleast I haven't heard about anything and my family members are fine. It is sad to hear about the deaths and injuries form this storm.

[Skywatch_NC]

Hello All,

Had not been on here today and just got on as I wondered if there was mention of these storms. Live in Dayton Ohio. Glad to hear from some members that family is ok. It was really strange as I have weather bug on the computer and it gives an alert signal. Well the first time I heard it I checked it and it had high wind advisory. Sometimes it keeps going off for the same alert so I didn't check it anymore. I looked at the temp noticing it was 64* and thought that this was perfect weather for tornadoes. I was getting ready to go to bed at 4:00am when I turned on the weather channel for a few minutes and noticed they had the red tornado warning box for our area. It freaked me out. I turned to the local channels we were actually under a tornado watch and ended up not going to bed until 6:00 as they had warnings 1 county over from us and had family who were in the warning areas to the north of us. Had to put batteries in the all weather radio. I don't think any actually touched down in our state or atleast I haven't heard about anything and my family members are fine. It is sad to hear about the deaths and injuries form this storm.

I have relatives not too far from Dayton...in Greenville (Darke Co).

[SamSagnella]

This just brings up the bigger issue of properly warning the public for severe weather. Sure there was a warning in effect ten minutes before touchdown (much longer for areas further down the tornado track), but, heck, it happened at 2 am. As 2005 comes to an end, the only real protection we have from events such as this is a NOAA weather radio -- and a battery operated one at that. It is amazing to me that in the United States, the most tornado prone nation in the world, we still lack a nationally uniform warning system in this day in age. In the plains, there are warning sirens, which are really only meant for outdoor use, and, nine times out of ten, when the power gets knocked out so do the sirens. I don't have a solution to propose because there really is no easy answer, but all I do know is that something needs to change -- it's only a matter of time before a tornado barrels through a MAJOR city early in the morning and scores end up being killed.

[conestogo_flood]

On the topic of weather radios. Environment Canada just released a network of them, I bought mine in Florida it picks up the Canadian signals. There is no advertising so me and a few other people probably know about them. In the USA, much worse weather, there should be TV commercials and such about them. Everyone, your task is to get everyone you know to buy a weather radio.

[Brent]

As 2005 comes to an end, the only real protection we have from events such as this is a NOAA weather radio -- and a battery operated one at that.

...and only about 2 percent of homes have one of those(at least down here, and we're one of the most tornado prone states in the country). I love mine... and I also live across the street from the sirens.

[Skywatch_NC]

Wish we had sirens in this southern city of Raleigh...but of course it's a budget problem.

Thank goodness for NOAA radios!

[weatherlover427]

I have had a NOAA radio for a few years; partly due to the fact that I'm a NWS weather spotter. It needs batteries though, now that I think about it.

[f5]

folks are usually sound a sleep at 2:00 unless your out having the time of your life with your girlfriend

[P.K.]

As 2005 comes to an end, the only real protection we have from events such as this is a NOAA weather radio -- and a battery operated one at that. It is amazing to me that in the United States, the most tornado prone nation in the world, we still lack a nationally uniform warning system in this day in age.

Not quite true, the UK is the most tornado prone country if you at tornadoes per land area (Fujita even recognised this in the 1970s), although we don't generally get the stronger end tornadoes you can get.

These NOAA weather radios sound really good, wish we had that sort of thing over here.

[Skywatch_NC]

As 2005 comes to an end, the only real protection we have from events such as this is a NOAA weather radio -- and a battery operated one at that. It is amazing to me that in the United States, the most tornado prone nation in the world, we still lack a nationally uniform warning system in this day in age.

Not quite true, the UK is the most tornado prone country if you at tornadoes per land area (Fujita even recognised this in the 1970s), although we don't generally get the stronger end tornadoes you can get.

These NOAA weather radios sound really good, wish we had that sort of thing over here.

Sounds like Radio Shack needs introduction in Europe.

[Miss Mary]

[quote="
Weatherfreak14 - have you been able to get in touch with your family/friends from Evansville yet?

Mary

Yes I have they are all OK. Thank God. My Aunt she lives only a half a block away from the mobile home park and she takes pills to knock her out and the tornado litterally went over her neibors backyard but she was asleep.

And yes My prayer were anwsered by God. Thank you lord Everyone is OK[/quote]

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Weatherfreak14 - that is the best news! We've been praying for your friends and family as well. So glad to hear the good news and thank you for updating all of us.

Mary

PS - PurdueWx80/Andy - glad to hear your family is safe too. I'm sure your heart broke, ours did too. I think the timing is just what is so sad about this tragedy. 2 a.m. is when most folks are sleeping, as someone pointed out.

[luvwinter]

Skywatch _ NC

Darke County was one of those under the gun but as I said was not sure if anything actually touched down here. I am sure you would have heard from relatives had it happened. As for NOAA radios I love mine. We got it this summer when out camping. We have a trailor and have a TV but if power goes out you have no way of knowing what is going on especially in a campground. Hadn't used it since summer but it's the easiest way to get any weather alerts when bad weather is in the area. Also great to have if its bad out and you go to sleep. turn on standby and it goes off with each new alert but otherwise remains silent.

[Miss Mary]

iluvwinter:

This is the radio we rely upon in power outages:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006 ... 2&v=glance

We also have an old Sony Watchman, we can watch local TV channels on, but I like having the wx band radio on the other one.

Mary

[tomboudreau]

folks are usually sound a sleep at 2:00 unless your out having the time of you life with your girlfriend

Or you got home from work an hour earlier and am not ready to go to bed for another hour or so.

[luvwinter]

That is nice. The one we rely on is smaller just for the alerts you can find it here.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/searc ... 10&Go.y=12

We ended up getting it at Radio Shack. I liked it because it was small and affordable.

[wx247]

For anyone who might have friends or relatives in the area... check the local tv stations websites for news if you haven't heard anything. The ABC affiliate in Evansville has provided a link to those who have been confirmed dead as well.

http://www.news25.us/global/Story.asp?s=4080585