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Experienced tradesman Erion “Prop-Man” Johnson has spent 30 days teaching St. Louis youth key skills with his 100 Tiny Homes project: an effort prompted by the desire to assist residents of north St. Louis was devastated by the May 16 EF3 tornado. Johnson speaks to the project's alignment with his larger vision for teaching Black youth and supporting the community; we also hear teen participants in the project share why they value what they're learning from -- and with -- Johnson.

On May 16, 2025, an EF3 tornado tore through the city of St. Louis causing massive destruction. Instead of responding with aid to those who were impacted, the city deployed police to black communities and condemned 5,000 homes and buildings without fully reviewing if these designations were warranted. Some homes were condemned even though repairs were made. Clearing the FOG speaks with President Westbrook of the St. Louis branch of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement and Jesse Nevel, chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, about what the city is currently doing to force Black residents from their homes, how this is part of a longer-term effort and why it is necessary to support residents there. For more information, visit PopularResistance.org.

In this episode of Here's Help Rev. Larry Rice and the team are out in the streets helping victims of the recent EF3 tornado.

In this episode of Here's Help, after the recent EF3 tornado ripped through North St. Louis, Revs. Larry Rice and Ray Redlich, along with the team that goes out to the streets every day, went into the storm-torn area to assess needs and offer help.

On May 15, 2025, Tenelle Winmore had one of the best days of his life — he had just graduated with his Masters of Art in Teaching from St. Louis University. The next day, he watched a peach tree get pulled out of his backyard from an EF3 tornado. The storm tore through areas of St. Louis County, St. Louis and the Metro East — including the Fountain Park neighborhood in north St. Louis that Winmore calls home. He shares what it's been like to repair his home, assist his neighbors, clean up debris and attempt to return to a sense of normalcy.

Local restaurants are working with World Central Kitchen to provide thousands of meals to people impacted by the EF3 tornado that hit the St. Louis area on Friday, May 16. Kate Dozier, a St. Louisan and member of the World Central Kitchen Chef Corps, shares how World Central Kitchen assembles and deploys its disaster response teams. Tom Schmidt, co-owner of Salt + Smoke; and Qui Tran, owner of Mai Lee and Nudo, talk about what's motivating their partnership with World Central Kitchen – and how it reflects one way STL's food and hospitality community is coming together to support disaster-impacted St. Louisans with nourishment.

Gloria Nolan is counting her blessings after an EF3 grade tornado tore through her neighborhood near Fairgrounds Park in north St. Louis. She shares her family's experience surviving the storm, assessing the damage and securing assistance for the long road to recovery.

On Friday afternoon, an EF3 tornado with winds topping out at 152 mph inflicted serious damage on about 4,400 St. Louis-area buildings, including homes, businesses, churches and schools. Dozens of people sustained injuries and five people lost their lives. STLPR reporter Chad Davis shares what he's heard from officials, community leaders and residents about the damage caused by the tornado.

Win more free $$$ from Y107 with the High/Low Game 745a 1145a 245p 445p The All-American Rejects played a pop-up concert as part of a MU graduation celebration on East Campus! WOW! See the videos on our FB, Insta and Y107 Tik Tok There's a whole new toilet seat debate and now we are using separate bathrooms in or house! Plus our thoughts and prayers continue for our hometown of STL after the deadly EF3 tornado that killed 5 and injured so many on Friday.

Win more free $$$ from Y107 with the High/Low Game 745a 1145a 245p 445p The All-American Rejects played a pop-up concert as part of a MU graduation celebration on East Campus! WOW! See the videos on our FB, Insta and Y107 Tik Tok There's a whole new toilet seat debate and now we are using separate bathrooms in or house! Plus our thoughts and prayers continue for our hometown of STL after the deadly EF3 tornado that killed 5 and injured so many on Friday.

Hour 1 of Sports on a Sunday Morning opens with coverage of the devastating EF3 tornado that tore through St. Louis, claiming five lives and damaging several neighborhoods. Tom Ackerman highlights ongoing relief efforts and resources from KMOX, Catholic Charities, the Urban League, and the Red Cross. Dan Reardon checks in from the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, where Scottie Scheffler holds a 3-shot lead. Reardon shares insights from his 131st major as Rory McIlroy struggles and Bryson DeChambeau draws attention. Tom also recaps the Cardinals' winning surge—12 of their last 13—and the Battlehawks' thrilling UFL win over Birmingham. He closes with Blues Chairman Tom Stillman, reflecting on the team's playoff loss, a cultural reset, emerging talent like Jimmy Snuggerud, and the front-office transition from Doug Armstrong to Alex Steen.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is an AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and Weather Communications Coach whose mission is to keep communities safe and help people live better lives through effective, viewer-focused weather communication. A four-time Emmy winner, Tim brings decades of major-market experience and was among the first in the nation to incorporate augmented reality into daily forecasts. Tim Heller, welcome back to WeatherBrains! Also, Bruce Jones joins us to discuss the importance of NOAA Weather Radio and its integration in order to save lives.  Welcome back, Bruce! Our email officer Jen is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners. Reach us here: email@weatherbrains.com. Significant severe thunderstorm activity in West Virginia (01:10) Lack of relevant online weather content by local TV stations (08:00) Tech early adopters and its influence on the field (15:00) Death of newspapers and other products of a bygone era (17:10) Issues with corporate meddling in local meteorologist televised forecasts (25:50) How technical should a TV meteorologist be when giving a public forecast?  (31:00) Emotional toll of weather-related trauma (44:15) Four key lessons that broadcast meteorologists need to UNLEARN!  (48:00) Earning social media followers and how it has changed the business (50:30) Difficulty communicating certainty and timing for winter weather events (01:06:15) Emerging prevalence of AI in the weather community (01:10:00) Bruce Jones/Midland Weather Radio (01:26:10) The Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice (01:31:40) This Week in Tornado History With Jen (01:33:48) E-Mail Segment (01:34:50) and more! Web Sites from Episode 1004: Midland Weather Radio Picks of the Week: Tim Heller - TV Weather Talent Coaching and Training - HellerWeather Bruce Jones - Weather maps from the night the Titanic sank James Aydelott - James Aydlott on Facebook: Blinded by extreme glare this PM? Jen Narramore - Ryan Hoke on X: Inside an EF3 tornado in Jeffersontown, KY last week Jen Narramore - Carried by hurricane waves, these tortoises were swept to Florida's Fort De Soto Rick Smith - Out Troy Kimmel - Weather station chief punished for drunk observations at Okinawa's Ishigaki airport Kim Klockow-McClain - Out John Gordon - NOAA National Water Prediction Service John Gordon - April 1-6, 2025 Severe Weather and Flooding Bill Murray - Brandon Skalniak's Tornado Radar Museum James Spann - Extended Range Severe Weather Environment Forecasts The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Troy Kimmel, Bill Murray, Rick Smith, James Aydelott, Jen Narramore, John Gordon, and Dr. Kim Klockow-McClain. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating podcast about weather.

It's been a long week of severe weather with a major tornado outbreak Wednesday night bringing at least 2 EF3 tornadoes. Flash flooding due to relentless rainfall can be life-threatening and catastrophic in some communities into this weekend, then river flooding on the major rivers could lead to weeks of inundation, great economic loss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Prior to Milton it had been over 45 years since an EF3 tornado had touched down locally.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrains are a suggestion of friend of the podcast Jay Farlow. Sam Lashley is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Indianapolis, with 31 years of experience across multiple offices. He is a member of the Central Region Quick Response Team for EF3+ tornado events and has worked on radar, damage surveys, and storm chasing for major tornadoes, including the Van Wert EF4 (2002), Henryville EF4 (2012), and recent EF3 tornadoes in central Indiana. Mike Ryan is a Senior Meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Indianapolis, where he has served since 2009 after starting his career at the Wilmington, Ohio office in 1999. He leads public outreach and decision support through programs like Weather Ready Nation and StormReady, working closely with emergency management, media, and amateur radio. He also heads Indiana's state climate services team. Mike has been involved in operations and storm surveys during significant severe weather events in the Ohio Valley, including the 2012, 2013, 2016, and 2024 tornado outbreaks. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Atmospheric Sciences from The Ohio State University. Greg Melo is a Meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Indianapolis, with over two years of experience. He has worked radar and conducted damage surveys for significant events, including the EF3 tornado outbreaks in March 2023 and March 2024. Originally from New Orleans, Greg's interest in meteorology began after experiencing Hurricane Katrina. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Matthew Eckhoff is a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Indianapolis. He began his career at the Department of Energy's Hanford Site in Washington in 2015 where he worked until joining the NWS in 2022. His expertise includes severe weather and mesoanalysis. Matthew holds a BS in Meteorology from Millersville University and completed graduate studies at the University of North Dakota. Our email officer Jen is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners. Reach us here: email@weatherbrains.com. Tropical trouble in the Gulf/Future Fujiwhara Effect? (01:00) Studying mesoanalysis (30:00) Looking back at 1974 Super Outbreak (35:00) Shaping public perception of severe weather in Indiana (42:00) March 31st 2023 tornado event impacts (47:00) Central Indiana Severe Weather Symposium 2024 (01:01:00) AI European weather model (01:32:30) The Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice (01:07:30) This Week in Tornado History With Jen (No segment this week) E-Mail Segment (01:09:35) and more! Web Sites from Episode 975: NWS Indianapolis, IN CISWS 2024 Picks of the Week: Mike Ryan - MRCC Purdue Matthew Eckhoff - Tropical Tidbits Sam Lashley - "The Great Tri-State Tornado" by Justin Carter James Aydelott - Real Time Tropical Cyclones - Tomer Burg Jen Narramore - HurricaneTrack Rick Smith - Out Neil Jacobs - Automated Tropical Cycle Forecast Data Directory Troy Kimmel - Out Kim Klockow-McClain - More than corn in Indiana Beach Bill Murray - Foghorn James Spann - Jeremy DeHart on X The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Troy Kimmel, Bill Murray, Rick Smith, James Aydelott, Jen Narramore, Dr. Neil Jacobs, and Dr. Kim Klockow-McClain. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating podcast about weather.

Learn about the devastating EF3 tornado that struck New Wren, Mississippi, during the 2011 Super Outbreak. In this episode of Rough Skies Ahead, new Chaser Chat host Kay highlights the meteorological conditions leading up to the tornado, the impact on local communities, and the inspiring stories of resilience and recovery! PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW Patreon […] The post Rough Skies Ahead: The 2011 New Wren EF3 Tornado appeared first on Fear The Beard Media.

Dr. Toy L. Watts made history when she was named Superintendent of the Laurel School District in 2018. She is the first woman to serve as superintendent of education in the district's 133 years of educating the children of Laurel. Since serving as the superintendent, the district has seen digital upgrades in all areas of operation, increased recruitment leading to the employment of high caliber applicants in the areas of teaching and administration, the district's six schools saw gains on state test scores with one school achieving the district's first A rating and maintaining that rating for five consecutive years, leading to being named a 2023 National Blue Ribbon School. On the high school level, college scholarship offers doubled and the school achieved a 90 percent graduation rate, the highest since tracking began. Due to a renewed focus, the high school recently became a B-rated school. Additionally, the district underwent a complete restructuring, including moving campuses, creating grade-level schools and increasing early education opportunities. Calm under pressure, Dr. Watts has faced the challenges of an EF3 tornado, a global pandemic, and four devastating fires during her tenure. Watts has served as a keynote speaker on the state level, guest panelist on the national level, and is a contributing author. Dr. Watts received a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from Dillard University, a Master of Education in School Counseling, a Specialist in Education in Educational Administration and a Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Administration from the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Watts is a seasoned leader with 28 years of experience in education, having served as a teacher, counselor, coach, principal, assistant superintendent and superintendent.

Justin Glisan, the state climatologist, provides updates on the current and upcoming weather forecasts, including precipitation totals, severe weather risks, and temperature outlooks for the next week. Madelynn Wuestenberg shares the Climate Prediction Center's forecasts for temperature and precipitation over different time periods, indicating near-normal conditions for Iowa in the short term. The drought situation in Iowa has significantly improved, with 66% of the state now out of drought conditions and only 20% experiencing moderate drought (D1) Dan Fillius discusses the impacts of the wet weather on weed control, highlighting the effectiveness of pre-emergent herbicides for some growers and the challenges of cultivation due to frequent rains. The conversation also touches on pest management, with Dan providing advice on identifying and controlling thrips and spider mites. Focused on the May 21st, 2024 tornado outbreak in Iowa that caused significant damage, especially in Greenfield where an EF3 or potentially EF4/EF5 tornado struck Justin and Dan commend the National Weather Service for their efforts in communicating severe weather warnings and express gratitude for Justin's timely email updates during the recent tornado event. Justin Glisan provided details on: The setup that led to the outbreak Number of tornado reports Widespread impacts of hail, straight-line winds, heavy rainfall the advanced forecasting capabilities that allowed warnings of the severe weather risk

One resident was fatally injured and more than 40 homes were destroyed following an EF3-rated tornado that hit the southwest Iowa town of Minden late last week.

Recorded just a couple days after an EF-3 Tornado struck Lower Grand Lagoon in Panama City Beach. NewsChannel 7's Mel Zosh talks about going out and talking with people affected by the storm, Taylor Williams from Cool To Be Kind, Tay shares some perspectives on dealing with Storm Stress and we talk about the importance of prepping for Storms and the New Year. Get the latest news from Storm Coverage and the Aftermath, along with watching the latest conditions on the Free WJHG Weather App available in your App Store. Also, remember to sign up at AlertBay.org for free alerts that impact you from Weather, Safety Notices and more. More Storm Coverage and Local Information available from Sweet Home PCB on all our social media and on Beach 95.1.

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and to support my work, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.What is this?A new, occasional podcast series capturing on-the-ground conversations with prominent ski industry leaders. All 148 Storm Skiing Podcasts have been recorded via phone or an internet recording service (mostly Zencastr). That is partly because it's easier, and partly because I had the misfortune to launch this podcast five months before Covid shin-kicked the world into hibernation. But over the past year, I've led panels or one-on-one interviews with industry execs in Boston, Banff, Savannah, and Lake Placid. In many cases, these are confidential sessions for the benefit of the folks in the room. However, sometimes I'm allowed to record them. And when I do, I'll share them here.In this case, Ski Areas of New York and Ski PA invited me to their annual joint expo to moderate a panel of five ski area general managers. That session was off the record, but I spoke with Ski NY President Scott Brandi afterward. We sat down in a room bristling with camaraderie and positive energy, ski people enjoying one last inhale before ratcheting into turbo mode and the ramp-up to winter.WhoScott Brandi, President of Ski Areas of New YorkRecorded onSeptember 26, 2023About Ski Areas of New York (and Ski PA)Ski Areas of New York is a trade group representing, well, the ski areas of New York. According to their website, SKI/NY works “on behalf of its membership to promote fair legislation, develop marketing programs, create educational opportunities, and enhance the public awareness of snow sports throughout the State and region.” Most large ski states have some version of Ski New York, but as far as organization and effectiveness, this is one of the best.Ski NY co-hosts this annual session with Ski PA, the smaller state association to its south. The two organizations share a lot of challenges: crummy weather, dated infrastructure, and legislatures that are not always aligned with the industry's interests. But their ski areas are also national leaders in crafting a viable ski experience from marginal weather, in high-volume operations, in hacking the improbable from the impossible.Here's the combined inventory of active ski areas from both states – not all of which are necessarily members of the state organization (mostly, the little ropetow joints and private neighborhood ski areas don't bother or can't afford the membership dues):What we talked aboutWhat's the point of this whole thing?; why should skiers care what happens here?; why independent ski areas are more connected to one another than you may think; the grind of working in skiing; how events like the SANY convention benefit family-owned ski areas; how SANY helps its ski areas from a regulatory point of view; why Pennsylvania and New York combine this annual event; the detrimental impact of ski industry consolidation on the event; what killed Ski PA's kids' passport program; and reasons for optimism in skiing;    Podcast NotesOn Kelly Pawlak, head of the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA)Brandi mentions Kelly Pawlak, CEO of the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA). The NSAA is the national version of the state associations, and it works closely with all of them. Pawlak has appeared on The Storm Skiing Podcast a couple of times, most recently in 2021:On my “What Keeps You Up At Night” panelMy conversation followed a panel that I hosted with five ski area general managers:* Ski Big Bear, Pennsylvania GM Lori Phillips* Mount Pleasant of Edinboro, Pennsylvania GM Andrew Halmi* Whiteface, New York GM Aaron Kellett* Woods Valley, New York owner and GM Tim Woods* Mountain Creek, New Jersey GM Evan KovacThat session was not recorded, and the context of it was meant to be kept to the room we held it in. However, my intention is to host each of these folks on The Storm Skiing Podcast at some future point. Halmi has already appeared on the podcast, and it was a terrific conversation:On “what happened at Snow Ridge”Brandi references “what happened at Snow Ridge.” What happened at Snow Ridge was an EF3 tornado smashed all five of the mountain's lifts. Since this isn't a topic I've been able to focus on explicitly in this newsletter, I'll refer you to this recent blog post by Snow Ridge owner Nick Mir:let's go back to the morning of Tuesday, August 8th. I made my way out early that morning, where people had already gathered to witness the destruction. I figured there would be some trees down, maybe a little damage after the high winds and rain, but I was not prepared for the reality of the situation. From the top of Snow Pocket, straight down to the bottom of Little Mountain, an EF3 tornado had left a trail of mangled trees, lifts, equipment, and buildings in its wake. Four of our 5 lifts had been severely damaged, our secondary groomer crushed by a massive tree, the warming yurt resembled a pancake more than it did a building, among countless other damages. It was overwhelming, to say the least. In all honesty, the thought of packing it in and abandoning ship crossed my mind more than once. Wondering if this was something that we could realistically recover from, let alone operate this season.But then the support started pouring in. Phone calls, texts, emails, visits from friends, family, strangers. It was not only comforting, but incredibly humbling. We quickly realized that this was not just a tragedy for our family business, but for a much larger community that wasn't going to let this keep us down. The shear amount of support we've received speaks volumes to the importance of this ski area to so many people. Without it, Snow Ridge would be no more than a memory. The scope of the recovery effort truly is staggering, and none of it would have been possible without those who have stood behind us and lifted us back up.Over 120 people have showed up to our two volunteer clean up days. Most notably some of our closest competitors including a crew from Dry Hill, a crew from Greek Peak, and Tim Woods from Woods Valley. Businesses donated equipment including Caza Construction, Riverside Equipment Rentals, and G&G Tree Service. Countless others have made monetary donations, donated tools, and their time to help us bounce back. We started a GoFundMe campaign after we learned that the majority of the tree removal, the crushed groomer, yurt, and other smaller damages would not be covered under our insurance policy. That campaign is nearing $40,000 and may very well cover the logging and reclamation expenses that we've incurred so far. The generosity shown by so many of you has literally kept this business alive. We quite literally cannot thank you all enough!The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 92/100 in 2023, and number 478 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com. This is a public episode. 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Kerry Dougherty of the Kerry and Mike Show in Virginia Beach joined Jeff Katz to talk about the EF3 tornado that hit Virginia Beach and more. 

EF3 tornado in Oklahoma kills three people; Alec Baldwin no longer facing criminal charges for ‘Rust' shooting; President Biden set to announce bid for reelection next week; and more on tonight's broadcast.

Guests: Weather Geeks Team with Dr. Greg PostelAs the sun set over the Magnolia state on Friday March 24th, Mississippian lives were changed forever. A charged supercell cut across the midsection of the state, spawning a tornado that caused EF4 damage in the towns of Rolling Fork and Silver City and then EF3 damage in Amory, all over the course of a few hours while many slept. While the event was well forecasted by meteorologists across the country, NOTHING could prepare a person for the severity of what the victims experienced and what we all saw at first light the next morning. We want to take this episode of Weather Geeks to break it all down and look ahead to the tornado potential of the next event.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In December 2021, tornado sirens sounded throughout Arkansas and Kentucky, and a deadly EF3 twister ripped through the Monette Manor nursing home. Inside, 67 residents huddled together under the protection of staff who shielded them with little more than mattresses, blankets and their own bodies.When the storm receded, just one resident had died, a miracle likely made possible by solid emergency planning and preparation. But the facility, a community landmark, was destroyed.  In this episode, Monette Manor Co-owner Rick Sampson talks about recovery in the tornado's immediate aftermath and lessons learned in the 12 months since that harrowing night.Sampson tells McKnight's Long-Term Care News Senior Editor Kimberly Marselas how he and his team decided to rebuild the facility and about their hopes to reunite staff and, possibly, some residents when the new home opens in 2023. 

June 11, 2008 marks the tragic loss of 4 teenagers at a Boy Scout camp near Little Sioux, Iowa; 48 more were injured. The tragedy struck at the 1,800-acre camp about an hour north of downtown Omaha. An EF3 tornado, with 145 mph winds, descended on the remote camp, striking and leveling a cabin where campers had sought shelter as warnings of the storm circulated through the camp. A chimney at the cabin collapsed, sending heavy concrete blocks onto the Scouts. This was the worst of the storms that hit the Northern Plains that day. There were also two farms damaged from two different tornadoes, one near Spencer, Iowa and the other near Springfield, Minnesota. A nursing home was also damaged by a tornado in southern Salina, Kansas. There were over 300 reports of severe weather across the nation with 64 of those reports from tornado activity. There had been no basement or in-ground shelter at the camp when the tornado hit. The following year, the Boy Scouts Mid-America Council launched a major fundraising campaign to build emergency shelters at all of its camps. By 2013, two tornado shelters had been built at the camp, and a siren was added. The new structures have concrete walls, steel shutters and doors and emergency power backup, and were built to withstand an EF5 tornado.' See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Friday, an EF3 tornado smashed through Gaylord, Michigan with maximum winds of 150 miles an hour. Forty-four people were injured, two were killed. What's next for the popular Up North destination? WWJ's Zach Clark searches for answers in a new Daily J. (Photo credit: Jacob Stuckman) 

After a long break, the Tornado Trackers Podcast is back with a new episode detailing the reasons for the long break along with a behind-the-scenes look at two epic storm chasing days from this spring. Jeff and Gabe share stories from the busy start to the 2022 Central Texas tornado season and what went into tracking two tornadoes that occurred too close to home: the March 21st Round Rock - Granger EF2 and the April 12th Salado EF3. The long-track Round Rock - Granger tornado was a pivotal moment for the team as Jeff and Gabe were able to, for the first time, live stream a close range intercept on the local news, giving residents real-time visuals of the rare, large tornado that remained on the ground for over 35 miles. Just two weeks later, Jeff was again able to live stream a tornado in progress as he watched the Salado tornado develop and grow into a monster high-end EF3.4K Granger tornado: https://youtu.be/hguqWlHwMngAaron Jayjack 360 video: https://youtu.be/oXlrxL1MBD8KXAN Round Rock Coverage: https://youtu.be/Fsllm2aEMiYPhotojournalist Jordan Vonderhaar: https://bit.ly/36TVuzKKXAN Salado Coverage: https://youtu.be/z7q2P4lYsqYTornado Trackers Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeIntro/Outro Music:  NEW HORIZONS - Lesion X 

This week, I declared Washington County a disaster area in the wake of an EF3 tornado that damaged more than 350 homes and businesses and demolished the gym at George Elementary in Springdale. The process that led to the declaration officially began at 5:34 a.m. on March 30th when the director of the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management notified me a tornado had touched down about 4 a.m. In the weeks since then, leaders of local and state emergency agencies have joined investigators from FEMA to inspect homes and structures in order to estimate the dollar amount of damage. The tornado stayed on the ground for eight minutes and cut a strip through Washington County that was as wide as the length of nearly four football fields. Fewer than ten people were injured, and we were blessed that no one died in this storm. Within hours of the storm, volunteers from Springdale and nearby communities, members of church-based disaster-relief teams, and representatives from nonprofit agencies appeared to help the county dig out. In my seven years in office, I have declared too many areas a disaster after they have been flattened by a tornado or washed away by a flood. I have flown over houses without a roof or have been flattened altogether. I have seen automobiles lying upside down far from the place where the wind picked them up. I have seen fields of soybean, corn, and cotton overtaken by the rushing water of historic floods, which also sometimes tear out chunks of the levees that protect towns and farms along our rivers. My role in these events usually starts the same way, with a telephone call from my Director of Emergency Management. Sometimes it's a call from the Corps of Engineers in another state, which notified me on a beautiful spring morning in 2019 that water from Oklahoma soon would engorge the Arkansas River and threaten our state all the way to Little Rock. While management of the response to a natural disaster is one of the most difficult tasks that falls to a governor, it's also one of the most rewarding because I witness the best in people that emerges in the worst of times. I see firsthand the kindness and personal sacrifice of Arkansans who ignore risks to their personal safety to help their neighbors. First responders run to the danger to ensure everyone is out safely. Employees of power companies climb ice-encrusted poles in sub-freezing weather to restore electricity. Doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals report for duty to back up staff already on the job. We hold our breath when we hear that severe weather is likely, and when the black, low-hanging clouds blow in as they did again this week, we wonder where the storm will go and how it will end. We can only guess at what's about to happen, but we always can be certain of one thing after every calamity. We know that after every single storm, Arkansans will emerge by the hundreds to rescue and comfort the victims and to start rebuilding without regard for their personal inconvenience. So today, I am expressing thanks to the hundreds of volunteers and the disaster-relief organizations that respond in a crisis. These include the Red Cross and multiple faith-based organizations and churches. I am also announcing today the allocation of $100,000 in individual assistance that will be available to cover part of the loss to homeowners. The Small Business Administration will make available low-interest loans to impacted businesses. One of the many things on my list of bragging rights is the compassion and courage of Arkansans.

Tome precauciones en casa: elimine todo el agua estancada en casa. Utilice un buen repelente contra insectos y mantenga fumigados los ambientes.En otras noticias: Fuertes vientos en Ennis causaron varios destrozos, entre ellos, el desprendimiento del tejado de un restaurante.Tornado tipo EF3 afectó a Salado. Hubo varios destrozos y al menos 23 personas heridas.El gobernador Greg Abbott anunció la suspensión de las inspecciones de los camiones de carga en la frontera.Estudiantes indocumentados de Texas podrían perder beneficio de precios de colegiaturas.Los CDC anunciaron que el mandato de uso de mascarillas en el transporte se extenderá por otras dos semanas. 

On December 10, 2021, an EF3 tornado with wind speeds between 136 to 165 mph ripped across 227 miles, 200 of them on the ground taking lives and destroying several communities in the western part of Kentucky. AARP Foundation is providing a total of $1 million in grants for 10 agencies providing support for tornado victims. This Special Edition of "Aging With Grace 55+" focuses on how residents in the affected areas can access these much needed funds for rebuilding lives, homes, and shattered communities. Guests: Carla Brown, Executive Director Community Action of Southern Kentucky (Bowling Green) / $50,000.00; Jill Collins, Director of Area Agency on Aging and Independent Living / $50,000.00; and Charlotte Whittaker, President of Kentucky AARP.

Ochenta viviendas destruidas, 9 personas heridas, miles de personas sin electricidad, fueron los estragos en Jacksboro debido al paso de un tornado tipo EF3.Entérese a qué tipo de ayudas puede aplicar si es uno de los afectados por alguno de estos desastres naturales.Moderna dio un informe sobre su vacuna para menores entre los 6 meses y los 5 años de edad. Madre denuncia que su hijo que sufre de autismo sufrió de acoso escolar y abuso sexual por parte de una compañera de clase en Fort Worth.Policía de Garland dio su balance sobre el spring break.

Dozens of tornadoes hit the midwest and the south, including Kentucky and Middle Tennessee, we'll bring you a comprehensive view of everything that happened over the weekend.Become a subscriber! Visit us at https://www.patreon.com/nashvilledailyTake a Tour With Us! Use code NASH for 20% off - https://www.xplrnash.com/toursTEXT US: 615-392-1358Today's Sponsor: Spike Program by Partnership to End AddictionLearn more at drugfree.org/spike, or text SPIKE to (855) 963-5659Tragic Storms of Dec. 11th, 2021 More than 80 feared dead after tornadoes hit central and southern UShttps://www.cnn.com/2021/12/11/weather/severe-weather-tornadoes-saturday/index.htmlNWS survey team finds EF3 tornado damage in Bowling Greenhttps://www.newschannel5.com/news/bowling-green-tornado-western-kentucky-damage-nwsNWS confirms 7 tornadoes touched down in Tennessee​​https://www.newschannel5.com/news/nws-confirms-6-tornadoes-touched-down-in-tennessee4 killed in Tennessee as severe storms move across UShttps://www.newschannel5.com/news/3-killed-in-tennessee-as-severe-storms-move-across-usMiddle TN continues recovery after at least seven tornadoes touched downhttps://www.tennessean.com/story/weather/2021/12/13/middle-tennessee-continues-recovery-december-tornadoes/6491482001/Biden pledges full support of federal government to areas impacted by devastating tornadoeshttps://www.newschannel5.com/news/national/biden-pledges-full-support-of-federal-government-to-areas-impacted-by-devastating-tornadoesTennessee Gov. Bill Lee tours communities hit by storms, tornadoshttps://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2021/12/11/tennessee-gov-bill-lee-tours-communities-hit-storms-tornados/6480442001/NES: Most power back by Monday, thousands still in darkhttps://www.newschannel5.com/news/thousands-without-power-in-nashville-after-severe-stormsTennessee Emergency Operations Center activates to Level 3-State of Emergency after stormshttps://fox17.com/news/local/tennessee-emergency-operations-center-activates-to-level-3-state-of-emergency-after-storms-tornadoes-nashville-weatherStorm 5 Alert: Strong, severe storms Friday night - Saturdayhttps://www.newschannel5.com/news/storm-5-alert-flooding-isolated-tornadoes-possible-friday-night-into-saturday-morning'Quad-state' supercell delivers December tornado disasterhttps://www.ustornadoes.com/2021/12/11/quad-state-supercell-delivers-december-tornado-disaster/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59632403Kingston Springs, Dickson tornadoes confirmed as EF-2https://www.newschannel5.com/news/kingston-springs-dickson-tornadoes-confirmed-as-ef-2How to help families in Kentucky impacted by deadly tornadoeshttps://www.newschannel5.com/news/how-to-help-families-in-kentucky-impacted-by-deadly-tornadoesCatastrophic December tornadoes slam Mid-Mississippi Valley » Yale Climate Connectionshttps://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/12/catastrophic-december-tornadoes-slam-mid-mississippi-valley/How the expansion of Tornado Alley will affect more Southern stateshttps://www.tennessean.com/in-depth/graphics/2021/06/17/how-expansion-tornado-alley-affect-more-southern-states/7689547002/PHOTOS: Tornado warned storms leave trail of destruction in parts of Middle Tennesseehttps://fox17.com/news/local/photos-tornado-warned-storms-leave-trail-of-destruction-in-middle-tennessee'These poor people' Willoughby Station neighborhood storm damagehttps://www.newschannel5.com/news/these-poor-people-willoughby-station-neighborhood-storm-damageHow to help families in Kentucky impacted by deadly tornadoeshttps://www.newschannel5.com/news/how-to-help-families-in-kentucky-impacted-by-deadly-tornadoesNWS survey team finds EF3 tornado damage in Bowling Greenhttps://www.newschannel5.com/news/bowling-green-tornado-western-kentucky-damage-nwsPhotos: Damage across Middle Tennessee, Southern Kentucky in severe December stormshttps://www.newschannel5.com/news/photos-damage-across-middle-tennessee-southern-kentucky-in-severe-december-storms#id13Nashville Daily Artist of the Day Playlisthttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/51eNcUWPg7qtj8KECrbuwx?si=nEfxeOgmTv6rFUyhVUJY9AFollow us @ XPLR NASHWebsite -  https://nashvilledailypodcast.com/YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/xplrnashInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/xplr.nash/Twitter - https://twitter.com/xplr_nashNASHVILLE & XPLR MERCH - https://www.xplrnash.com/shopMedia and other inquiries please email hello@xplr.lifeArtists can submit songs to be featured here https://forms.gle/mtkxUCFds7g9e2466

In July 2018, a wildfire near Redding, California, erupted. On the 26th, This Day in Weather History, it exploded into what was determined to have been a fire tornado with winds on par with those of an EF3 tornado….this day in weather history!

WE ARE... back! Sorry for the scarce posting the last 4 months. The episode starts with hosts Kelly & Joe digressing into Pennsylvania COVID talk. (Sorry). This minute of Twister sees us still on that fateful hill as Bill and Jo prepare to "battle" the EF3 tornado via Dorothy... though Bill continues to struggle with prepping her, while the film crew has a blast showering the Dodge pick-up with ice and debris. ----------------------- JMNJR Radio: www.jmnjrradio.com/ Solid F2 Podcast: www.jmnjrradio.com/solidf2podcast/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/SolidF2Pod Twitter: @JMNJR_Radio | @SolidF2Pod | @CoachJoeMays Email: joe@solidf2pod.com or kelly@solidf2pod.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/solid-f2-podcast/message

WE ARE... back! Sorry for the scarce posting the last 4 months. The episode starts with hosts Kelly & Joe digressing into Pennsylvania COVID talk. (Sorry). This minute of Twister sees us still on that fateful hill as Bill and Jo prepare to "battle" the EF3 tornado via Dorothy... though Bill continues to struggle with prepping her, while the film crew has a blast showering the Dodge pick-up with ice and debris. ----------------------- JMNJR Radio: www.jmnjrradio.com/ Solid F2 Podcast: www.jmnjrradio.com/solidf2podcast/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/SolidF2Pod Twitter: @JMNJR_Radio | @SolidF2Pod | @CoachJoeMays Email: joe@solidf2pod.com or kelly@solidf2pod.com

Note: This episode was recorded on Friday, June 11.Climatologist Kenny Blumenfeld and Jim du Bois discuss the June 14, 1981 tornado that struck Edina, Minneapolis, St. Paul and the Har Mar Mall in Roseville. Also, a look at the rapidly expanding drought conditions in Minnesota. SPEAKERSJim du Bois, Kenny Blumenfeld Jim du Bois 00:00Edina, Lake Harriet, HarMar? Whatever you call it, it's the 40th anniversary of a significant tornado event in this area. This is Way Over Our Heads. It's a weather and climate podcast. I'm Jim du Bois. Kenny Blumenfeld is a climatologist. Kenny, we'll get to the 40th anniversary discussion here momentarily, but, boy, just looking out the window at the garden in the yard, you can tell that something kind of turned the corner over the last few days. Kenny Blumenfeld 00:34Well, we were super hot, right? I mean, newsflash, it was hot as hell. And yeah, and we didn't get any precipitation or, you know, some people got a little downpour here and there, but there wasn't anything widespread and substantial. And our gardens, our grasses. Everyone is feeling the effect of that. It's become really dry. So I know we're going to talk about the tornado, but we can really quickly recap the heatwave, shall we? Jim du Bois 01:05That sounds good, Kenny. Kenny Blumenfeld 01:06All right. So we are speaking on Friday, June 11. This should be the last day of the consecutive run of 90 degree highs and 70 degree lows in the Twin Cities. So I think we can call it, the heat wave will break. today. Although if you look at the Weather Service forecast, it's not exactly cold next week. They've still got temperatures, you know, in the 80s and 90s in much of Minnesota through next week. It's just not as humid and not quite as persistent. I think there's going to be some ups and downs. But, so the main event heat wave will end at some point on Friday, probably before most people hear this. Maybe it'll end with a little pop, some thunder. But I think the strongest storms will be out in Wisconsin, and you know, before we recorded, overnight on Thursday night and into Friday morning there's monster thunderstorms in the Dakotas. I mean, just from eastern Montana, into especially North Dakota, but also parts of South Dakota, they had reports of wind driven tennis ball-sized hail. And the winds were were being clocked by I think it was one of the stations out of Williston, had a, a real weather station, had a 93 mile an hour wind gust. So there were some really strong winds. And these storms were producing pretty large hail. So, wind driven large hail can pack a punch and do a lot of damage. We don't have anything like that to worry about. It's just been hot. It's probably going to not rain very much until the next time we talk. And that's going to be over a week. And as we were talking about before we went on, yep, Minnesota has slipped or I should say lurched into drought. We've been kind of teetering on the edge of it. Now over 40% of the state is actually in an official drought designation of moderate drought. And the entire state is at least abnormally dry, which is kind of a pre-drought category. So, the majority of the state is either abnormally dry, or in that first level of drought, which is called moderate drought. And there's even some pockets of the next level, which is severe drought in parts of southern Minnesota. We've just, these precipitation deficits are catching up with us. We're spending too much time in between rainfall events, and when it rains is not enough to catch us up. And as we had happen, you know, then we have a scorching heat wave laying on top of that, and that just made it, it's been too much. So, we need to come out of this pattern or it's just going to escalate. But yeah, we're at the beginning of a drought officially now. Jim du Bois 03:40And Kenny, there's really no immediate relief in sight, correct? Even going out 6, 10 days. Kenny Blumenfeld 03:46I mean, you know, the Weather Service mentioned in their discussions last night and this morning, in some of the recent discussions, that it's not the same heatwave, for sure. It looks like there's going to be a couple hot days next week. But this sort of day after day run does not look like it's making a return. But it's gonna be a while before we're, you know, down in the low 50s at night. I hope that happens in the next week or so. But it doesn't look very likely at this point. But yeah, I wouldn't say the kind of relief that you're thinking of. On the other hand, Jim, when it's 95 degrees every day, and and the nights don't get below 70, you know, maybe, maybe high of 88 feels like relief. Jim du Bois 04:33It's all relative, isn't it? Kenny Blumenfeld 04:35Yeah, I think it is. Jim du Bois 04:37And I also assume no real relief in sight as well regarding precipitation. Kenny Blumenfeld 04:44Yeah, this isn't super promising. I was on a radio show this morning speaking with a host from the Two Harbors area, and we were just talking about how the weather models right now are very up optimistic as they have been for months, that it's going to start raining hard in about seven days, but it just never gets much closer than that. And so, it's hard to have now that we've had this multi month pattern where it looks wet, it looks like you're gonna get into a wet pattern, but it doesn't really materialize, maybe one out of four times that actually materialize, and so you end up with, you know, one week per month, it's actually getting decent precipitation. It's hard to trust that prognosis. There's nothing really in the forecast for the next week or so showing significant precipitation in Minnesota. Certainly nothing to start pulling us out of this major deficit that's building. But you know, the weather is not that easy to predict, once you get into, you know, that two-to-five-week period. And so, maybe Jim, maybe there's a pattern change coming that we don't see, maybe we're going to get, you know, we're expecting a really active tropical weather season. And maybe, maybe a couple of these are going to come up the zipper just right up the Mississippi and dump a bunch of rain on us or at least help export some of their moisture into our region. And, you know, imbue the next systems that come by after that with extra moisture, and we end up getting dumped. It's hard to know. But right now, we're in a drought pattern, and I don't see any strong signals of that changing soon. Jim du Bois 06:22Well, let's certainly hope that we get a pattern shift and get some of that much needed precipitation. It sounds like dry conditions and drought are fairly common in the western parts of the United States right now, hearing about very serious drought conditions in Colorado, concerns about water in California, wildfires in California, potentially also Washington State and Oregon. So, just a real need for precipitation in a rather substantial part of the country, it sounds like. Kenny Blumenfeld 06:53Yeah, yeah, basically, the western half or so of the country is running pretty dry, maybe the western 40%. And we're on the eastern edge of that. And then we're starting to get some signs of it. What's interesting is, you don't have to go too far to the east. You know, in the eastern US where I'm going to be next week. I mean, there've been Flash Flood Watches, and they've got precipitation surpluses. So, it's really, we're just on different sides of the same pattern where we're stuck in getting kind of dry air pulled into our region, there are other areas that are in that kind of non-stop conveyor belt moisture. Jim du Bois 07:29Well, as we had promised in the tease, we're going to talk about a tornado event that took place 40 years ago, this coming Monday, June 14, and it did depend where you were living in the Twin Cities at the time in terms of how you would probably describe the event. If you were in Minneapolis, it was the Lake Harriet tornado. If you were in Edina, the Edina tornado. It famously knocked down the marquee on the Edina Theater, which sadly has now apparently gone out of business in the wake of COVID. But then it could have been the HarMar tornado if you were in that area. And it was a rather significant event. Kenny, how did that particular event unfold? Kenny Blumenfeld 08:15Yes, so it was Father's Day weekend, and I actually did a fun run with my dad and my brother that weekend and it poured, poured, poured, poured in the morning. And it was just, you know, we think of this event, and I've, you know, done research on severe weather, and we remember there's a tornado that went across the Twin Cities, and that was a big deal. But that whole weekend was very stormy and even in the morning, the morning of the tornado, a violent thunderstorm complex moved across the southern Twin Cities metro and into kind of the Rice County area, Northfield area, and it produced estimated winds of 80 to 120 miles an hour. This was a completely separate storm, Sunday morning, June 14, 1981. It was demolishing outbuildings in rural parts of the southern Twin Cities area. So, that was, we just had a, you know, meteorologically we had strong winds aloft, we had a moist, very humid airmass moving in, and a low-pressure area approaching from the west bringing in a cold front, and that's just a really good recipe for severe weather. And so, later that day as the air became quite muggy in the Twin Cities area, a thunderstorm blossomed over the southwestern Twin Cities metropolitan area, started producing hail in the Lake Minnetonka areas. There were a couple thunderstorm cells, but the main one moved into the Edina area in the late afternoon and produced a tornado not too far, just a little bit southwest of 50th and France, and that tornado tracked right over the Edina movie theater, twisted and then bent down, I don't know if you remember the old pictures, but it bent that marquee and then kind of twisted it to the ground, and then it tracked from that point over essentially western and northern Lake Harriet. I mean it crossed about half of the lake and hit particularly hard the pavilion at Beard's Plaisance. It threw that, lifted it off its structure and threw it into the lake, picked up a bunch of water from the lake, picked up some fish from the lake, which is something that tornadoes like to do occasionally. Knocked down almost every tree in the Roberts Bird Sanctuary, pretty much every tree in the Rose Gardens and the old park commissioner house by Lyndale Farmstead was damaged pretty extensively. And then the tornado just tracked over the Chicago-Lake area past, went and damaged old Agassiz School. Mercifully, it actually appeared to briefly lift off the ground and miss the area between the University of Minnesota and downtown Minneapolis, and then it went back down near St. Anthony Park in St. Paul, tracked into the HarMar area where it actually deposited some of those fish from Lake Harriet into the parking lot. Jim du Bois 11:05Wow. Kenny Blumenfeld 11:06Neat little sight. Did a lot of residential and tree damage at the time, and then moved into Roseville where it finally dissipated after doing extensive damage. I think officially it was 83 injuries and one fatality near Lake Harriet, was rated an F3 tornado, I guess retroactively, we would call it an EF3, pretty damaging winds probably in the, you know, it's always an estimate, in 50 mile an hour range. And it was not enormous, but it was a good size tornado occasionally up to a half a mile wide at the base. And yeah, I mean it was, and then we were a little slow to pick up on it. So, the original warnings, I lived not too far from Lake Harriet. That's where I grew up. So, we had the winds pass our house, I mean, big gusts of wind and you can see the trees kind of bending and, but we didn't know that there was a tornado, there was no warning yet. It was about three or four minutes after the wind subsided that the first report officially came in and the sirens went off. And so, there was a little bit of a catch-up game going on between the warnings and where the tornado actually was. And that led to some confusion. Initially, it was assumed that there were three separate tornadoes: one in Edina, and one in Minneapolis, and one in Roseville. And it wasn't until a couple days later that it was confirmed to be a single track. The former State Climatologist Earl Kuehnast walked the entire length of the tornado path and was able to confirm a pretty much continuous track. Jim du Bois 12:43Well, Kenny, we all have memories of that day. I remember I had worked an early shift, 5:30am at a radio station in the Twin Cities. I was living over by the University of Minnesota at the time, it was Father's Day, as you mentioned, and we were having dinner for my dad. So, I had gone home about 2:30 or so and caught a brief nap until I was roused by the Civil Defense sirens and walked down to our front porch where my mom and dad were sitting and my mom who grew up on a farm said oh, we already heard the tornado pass by. We were living, or my parents were living at that time by Bde, Bde Maka Ska. So, it crossed rather close to my childhood home. So that was my memory. But then of course, I went back to work and drove down to the site around, it would have been 38th and Bryant and phoned in from something quaint called a telephone booth to the radio station and described what had happened. Talked to a couple of people whose houses had been in the path. But what are your memories, Kenny, of that day? Kenny Blumenfeld 13:52Oh, I mean, it was, I was you know, playing soccer in the backyard. The sky turned kind of green, and I was already, so I was already a huge weather fan even though I was seven, I was only seven years old. But I loved storms. I was terrified of them. I remember we were playing soccer outside, there was a brief kind of a sun shower, and then it got muggier and within about 15 minutes or a half an hour of that, you can see this much darker and more ominous clouds on the horizon. And our horizon, we're south Minneapolis, so we could basically see, you know, maybe 10 miles or something because it was, there's lots of trees and I was sort of looking up because of very dark clouds not too far away. And my mom told my friend he had to go home. And I went into the house and then kind of watched as the winds picked up. And you know, they were pushing the trees almost to the point of snapping and bending but you know, almost uprooting and almost snapping but they never did. But I did remember very distinctly that the trees were kind of pointed down the street to the north at the beginning of the storm, at the beginning of this gust, and then about a minute later, they were pointing kind of almost, not quite the opposite direction. I didn't know what that meant at the time. It was only years later I figured out oh, that was you know, we were about a mile away from the tornado that was the circulation of the tornado passing. The winds would have been, as it's to our northwest, the winds would have come, you know, essentially, kind of out of the west or southwest initially. And then as the tornado passed, they would have been basically coming out of the northeast. So, that sort of made sense. I would say 50 to 70 mile an hour winds, 50 to 60 mile an hour winds in our neighborhood. But you only had to go a few blocks to the north, and you can see trees down, trees down on houses, and then the more significant damage as you got into the area where you were 38th, you know, the Lyndale Farmstead area, Agassiz School I think it was 38th and Grand and then that whole area up into Chicago-Lake, they were hit very hard. Jim du Bois 15:53Well, Kenny, we will chat again in about two week's time, you and your family are going to be riding roller coasters throughout the eastern and southeastern part of the country, correct? Kenny Blumenfeld 16:04That is correct. Guilty pleasure we have. We've always been roller coaster enthusiasts. It's something I've done with the kids for several years. So, got a little road trip planned to go visit some of the good ones. Jim du Bois 16:18Well, Kenny, make sure you enjoy, and everybody stay safe over the next 48 hours or so probably, especially the next 12 hours, it'll still be pretty hot. Stay hydrated. Don't work too hard outside. Pay attention to your body's signs. And Kenny, we'll look forward to checking in with you when you're back on terra firma, and not somewhere up on a roller coaster. Kenny Blumenfeld 16:44Yeah, losing my mind going down a big steep drop. Alright, well, thanks, Jim. You have a great weekend, and we'll talk to you in a couple of weeks. Jim du Bois 16:52This is Way Over Our Heads. It's a weather and climate podcast. I'm Jim du Bois. Kenny Blumenfeld's a climatologist. We'll talk to you soon.

June 11, 2008 marks the tragic loss of 4 teenagers at a Boy Scout camp near Little Sioux, Iowa; 48 more were injured. The tragedy struck at the 1,800-acre camp about an hour north of downtown Omaha. An EF3 tornado, with 145 mph winds, descended on the remote camp, striking and leveling a cabin where campers had sought shelter as warnings of the storm circulated through the camp. A chimney at the cabin collapsed, sending heavy concrete blocks onto the Scouts. This was the worst of the storms that hit the Northern Plains that day. There were also two farms damaged from two different tornadoes, one near Spencer, Iowa and the other near Springfield, Minnesota. A nursing home was also damaged by a tornado in southern Salina, Kansas. There were over 300 reports of severe weather across the nation with 64 of those reports from tornado activity. There had been no basement or in-ground shelter at the camp when the tornado hit. The following year, the Boy Scouts Mid-America Council launched a major fundraising campaign to build emergency shelters at all of its camps. By 2013, two tornado shelters had been built at the camp, and a siren was added. The new structures have concrete walls, steel shutters and doors and emergency power backup, and were built to withstand an EF5 tornado.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In This Episode Brought to you by CameraEasy.ca. Anyone can take great photos. Visit cameraeasy.ca and use coupon code FB30OFF to get 30% off at checkout. Guest: Paul Brandt. Country music recording artist Paul share stories from Nashville, life on the road as a musician and his brush with tornado history as he witnessed the 1998 EF3 tornado that went through Nashville, Tennessee. Paul also shared with us a song that he wrote specifically for this program about storm chasing. We watched two videos in the video segment: https://youtu.be/8CGJTacEquY  https://youtu.be/mRmVsIsze5E  Our Guest: Paul Brandt Paul Brandt is the most awarded male Canadian country artist in history. His 1996 debut RIAA certified Gold album Calm Before the Storm went on to sell one million albums internationally, propelled by the #1 single and wedding classic “I Do”. Stateside, his #5 and #1 charting songs “My Heart Has A History”, and “I Do” were the first to chart by a male Canadian Country artist on the US Billboard Top 20 since 1976. Throughout his remarkable career, Paul has always focused on using his celebrity to help by shining a light on the lives of those less fortunate and has encouraged others to do the same. He has traveled extensively to developing countries around the world to raise awareness for various humanitarian aid organizations. Follow Paul on – Web: https://www.paulbrandt.com/    Don’t forget to hit the follow/subscribe button and never miss an episode.  

In This Episode Brought to you by CameraEasy.ca. Anyone can take great photos. Visit cameraeasy.ca and use coupon code FB30OFF to get 30% off at checkout. Guest: Peter Slack On May 31 2013 a very well forecast tornado event happened outside Oklahoma City near the community of El Reno. This day was special and tragic at the same time. Not only was this the largest tornado ever recorded, but due to its forecastability and proximity to Norman Oklahoma, it was also the most researched and documented tornado in history. Sadly, the day took a tragic turn when 9 people were killed, including 4 storm chasers. Three of these chasers were Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras and Carl Young who made up the highly respected TWISTEX team. By anyones standards Tim Samaras would have been considered as a safe and experienced chaser. NOBODY expected Tim to be among the first storm chasers killed while chasing. It was unfathomable. As mentioned, the forecast was consistent and quite scary. In fact, the Storm Prediction Center in Norman Oklahoma did such an amazing job of forecasting that when we looked at the models the day before and looked at the SPC’s forecast, we put a pin in the map at El Reno and actually spent the night prior to the tornado in a motel in the town. The tornado ended up being 2.6 miles wide at its peak and there were radar indicated winds which peaked at almost 300 MILES PER Hour. Crazy. Officially the tornado was given a hotly debated rating of EF3 since after all, the EF scale is a measure of damage and not wind speed. Either way it was intense, dangerous and a day that none of us will ever forget. For this episode, we have brought together everyone who was in our truck that day including the director of photography Peter Slack who was shooting the entire time and documenting our experience with El Reno and what could easily have been the end of our lives. Here is how this commentary is going to work. We are going to play the video that Peter shot that day from the back seat of Flash, the Tornado Truck. I will stop the video at key decision making points and we will discuss our thoughts, and share some insight as to how and why we made the decisions we did. Facilitating the process will be our good friend Nick Schenher (NicktheBody) who was watching all of this unfold on our live stream. So if you would like to watch the video and see what we are seeing during this commentary, head on over to YouTube and visit my YouTube page by searching for Greg Johnson Tornado Hunter. You will find the El Reno video and you can watch and pause when needed. Next Episode Our Next Episode: We will be Joined by Tommy Chong of Cheech and Chong Don’t forget to hit the follow/subscribe button and never miss an episode.

Way Over Our Heads 5-1-2021SPEAKERSJim du Bois, Kenny Blumenfeld Jim du Bois 00:00After all that...April was...normal? This is Way Over Our Heads. It's a weather and climate podcast. I'm Jim du Bois. Kenny Blumenfeld's a climatologist. Kenny, I imagine you are disappointed that we did not have an April snowstorm this year. Kenny Blumenfeld 00:16I was kind of hoping for one, Jim. I was really excited about the idea of having, you know, having it be four in a row. That would have been something else, four years in a row with a big snowstorm. And I was actually starting to have, I was wondering when is it going to be? So yeah, I'm a little a little bummed out. But you know, April gave us enough. Jim du Bois 00:37Well, Kenny, let's talk about the month of April. We know the temperatures were above normal in March, but April, kind of a return to a semblance of normalcy, correct? Kenny Blumenfeld 00:47Yeah. I mean, you know, if you forgive the week to week variations, it was...do you remember the beginning of April when it was, you know, 85 degrees in southern Minnesota, and that was unusual? So really, we did get to kind of normal, we didn't do it normally. And this is kind of the beauty of our climate, right? I mean, even an average month will contain moments that weren't at all average. So gonna end up looking kind of like a typical April by most of our statistics. The average temperature is going to be really close to the historical averages. And the total precipitation averaged around the state is going to be, when you balance out the dry Northwest with the wet east and northeast part of the state, it's going to come out to be pretty close to normal. But we you know, we were really cool for the last few weeks, last couple weeks, but it was not a huge departure, it was just noticeable, just enough to put you in a foul mood. I don't know if you were in a foul mood, but there were days, you know, in the last couple of weeks, where it's like , oh man, cloudy, sprinkling again. I can't tell you how many times I rode my bike, disgusted. Come on. But you have to remember that at the beginning of the month, we were almost 30 degrees above normal. And when it was super hot, and those two different forces definitely balance each other out. And you know, we didn't get our big snowstorm, but I'm sure Mr. du Bois noticed the snow falling as recently as what the 20...25th, 26th? Jim du Bois 02:23Oh yes, I did see that, Kenny. Kenny Blumenfeld 02:26And you know, I think that we're in kind of a cool pattern, still. I don't think the snowflakes are done in Minnesota yet. They might be done in the Twin Cities, but I don't think northern Minnesota has seen the last of snowflakes this season. But I also think, and this is it's just my non-scientific feeling. What do you think? What's May going to bring for us? Jim du Bois 02:48Well, Kenny, I am cautiously optimistic that May is going to be a nice warm, perhaps even hot month. You know, I like hot weather. So that would be something I'd be very happy about. But I have a good feeling about May. I really do. And you're right, Kenny, there were times in April, where I looked out the window and said this is really dismal. I mean, am I living in Portland or Seattle? This doesn't seem like Minnesota. It just was a really, really dismal month. And I have high expectations for May, Kenny. Kenny Blumenfeld 03:21Oh, good. Yeah, I mean, you know, May usually delivers in some way, it's historically a pretty nice month, because you're turning that corner one way or the other, even if you don't get the really hot weather. Probably the biggest news for April for me was that we eroded a lot of Minnesota's drought. The entire state had been in some form of pre- drought or drought condition at the beginning of April, and now, only about a third of the state is in some kind of drought, or pre drought condition. So that was some big news. We got a lot of precipitation in the, from southwest to northeast, basically. And now it's kind of the southeast and northwest corners that are still running a bit dry. But yeah, I think if you just think of how it's been for the last eight months or so, we've been predominantly warm, and we've had these cool interludes. And I think the next spike of warmth is probably going to come in May. And I think it's going to get our attention. That's just my, just my sense that, you know, probably not the next, you know, we got phenomenal first part of the weekend for much of Minnesota. Friday and Saturday are going to be outstanding, talking about temperatures well into the 80s on Saturday in southern and central Minnesota, this is Saturday, May 1, and then Sunday will be pretty warm in southern Minnesota. It's going to turn the muck though, over the northern and northeastern parts of the state as more clouds and cool air move in. And I think we're gonna spend the majority of the next 8-10 days probably cool. I think it's after that, sometime in the second part of May, where we're gonna, we're gonna get some du Bois weather going. Jim du Bois 05:07Well, before we leave the month of April behind, how did April shape up for us in terms of severe weather? Was it a normal month? Abnormal? How did it stack up? Kenny Blumenfeld 05:18Well, it was normal in that there wasn't that much going on. We had a couple reports of, you know, hail kind of in the early part of the month, when we had those thunderstorms. There's kind of a barrage of thunderstorms that we received gosh, what was it was like April, whoo, it was kind of prolonged period of rain went from April 5 through the 14th, where it started out with a bunch of thunderstorms. And then, but they were really small and isolated. And then they, and then it kind of turned into this sort of steady, cool rain. And that's what broke all of the heat. And that's also what broke our drought for the most part, or at least temporarily broke the drought. But you know, April is usually at the kind of front front front end of severe weather. So, you know, it's one of those months where if we don't get any real severe weather, we're not surprised. And if we do get some, we're also not surprised. It wouldn't be unusual to see a tornado in April. And it's totally normal to not have any severe weather at all in April. So April was pretty well behaved. There were no blockbuster severe weather events. We do look nervously to May for that. As you know, Jim, we got may 6th coming up. That's... someone I know has, I think, a birthday right around then. But it also is an anniversary of a major tornado outbreak in the Twin Cities area. So we do know, from history that, you know, tornadoes can happen as early as March and into April. And we've had major tornadoes in April and May. And we never know. You know, if I'm, if I'm saying Well, we're going to go from cool to warm. Yeah, I don't know, what's that transition going to look like? Is there going to be severe weather? Are we going to have a major severe weather event in May? It has...it has been a while now, Jim, since we've had kind of a, a good, significant statewide, or at least regional to Minnesota, severe weather event during May. The last one that I can really think of where we got hit hard across the state would have been in, you know, 2008. I can think of that one. We had a kind of Memorial Day tornado outbreak, Memorial Day weekend tornado event. But it's been a while. We haven't had that much of note in May in a while. Maybe we had one or two, you know, big events that I'm forgetting during the 2010s. But so we look ahead, and we wonder. Jim du Bois 07:50Well, and one more time before we totally leave April behind, we just observed the anniversary of the St. Anthony tornado back in 1984, which came toward the end of April. And if I recall correctly, Kenny wasn't there still some snow on the ground when that tornado occurred? It was, that stuck out in my mind is being kind of unusual. Kenny Blumenfeld 08:13Yeah, so basically, you know, the 1983-84 winter set records across Minnesota as the snowiest winter on record. It was actually one of the most meteorologically significant winters on record, not just for snowfall, but there was a brutal blizzard. Just one of these kind of major ground blizzard things that that killed a number of people in Minnesota. I think we had, I think we had double digit fatalities. It was called the wall of white. That was in February, early February of 1984. But even before that, we'd had record and near record cold in the period leading right up to Christmas during December, there were transportation, pre Christmas transportation had been halted. And we were already at 50 inches by the time that happened. At the time, we had a record number of kind of official snow days and significant snowfall events that winter. Some of those records have been eclipsed since then, but so that was a major event, major winter. And then we started kind of turning around in April, and we ended up with a little regional, well, we were actually part of a larger tornado outbreak that stretched all the way down to Kansas, and went up into Minnesota. And one of the tornadoes occurred just after dark down in Northeast Minneapolis and then moved into St. Anthony, and it was a killer tornado. It produced some F3 or EF3-level damage. And, you're right. There wasn't snow on the ground at the time. You might be kind of confusing that for is two days later, 10 inches of snow across most of the area. Jim du Bois 09:59Okay, yes, yes. Kenny Blumenfeld 10:00Yeah, there was some iconic footage. Yeah. Yeah. So a broadcasting person, like you would remember the kind of memorable footage of people clearing damage out still, you know, on April 29th, and 30th with snow, piles of snow on top of it. So yeah, that was, and that was, you know, so we had a very late final snowstorm of the year. I think was 9.9 inches at the Twin Cities airport, which is an awful lot to get at the very end of the month, at the very end of April. So yeah, that was, that was some time and then the 1984 severe weather season was very active after that. We had a major severe weather event in June that produced a devastating tornado in Barneveld, Wisconsin outside of Madison. Jim du Bois 10:51Oh, yes. Kenny Blumenfeld 10:51An F5 tornado that struck in the middle of the night. So it was a busy, ah, pretty busy summer after that. Jim du Bois 10:59Well, Kenny, you said you kind of have a feeling that at least maybe the latter two thirds of May will be quite warm. Any feel for what May may look like in terms of potential severe weather? Or should we dodge that one all together knowing your reluctance to put much credence in long range forecasting? Kenny Blumenfeld 11:21Yeah, I mean, I certainly don't see any real smoking gun chances for severe weather during the first 8, 10 days of May. We could be surprised, but it's just the pattern isn't that conducive to it. Again, after the pattern changes, assuming it does, I mean, I could be wrong, but assuming the pattern does change, I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere in the transition, we had a two to four day period where we got some, you know, at least some big booming thunderstorms that were, you know, noisy and producing, you know, hail. But in terms of, in terms of having a crystal ball, tell us yeah, we got a major tornado or severe weather outbreak coming, I just don't trust myself or any of the forecast tools, the things that we use enough. I think, you know, it's gonna be a severe weather season. I guarantee that Minnesota will take some damage during the summer from winds, hail and tornadoes. The question is, how early does it start? How significant are the big events? How widespread are they? And does anything happened that we kind of collectively remember? That I don't have any clue about. Jim du Bois 12:31So Kenny, we have a terrific weekend on tap. A little bit of a change on Sunday, though. Correct? A little cooler temperatures, some precipitation on tap. And then how does next week look? Kenny Blumenfeld 12:42I think next week is going to be pretty cool. I think that, you know, the good news is as we get into May, cool means something very different from what it means in April, and especially March. So we're talking about, even with some clouds, and a mix of clouds and sun and predominantly northwest winds during the week, wouldn't be surprised still, if temperatures hit 60 degrees in southern Minnesota, and you know, maybe 45 to 50 in parts of northern Minnesota, but it will be a cooler week, I think. Don't get your hopes up about what Saturday means because Saturday is going to be spectacular. It's going to even feel hot in some places. And don't, don't confuse that for the rest of, you know, the next six or seven days because you're not gonna, you can kiss it goodbye by Saturday night, you're gonna be done with the hot weather in Minnesota for at least a week. Next week, doesn't look terrible and doesn't look particularly wet. It just looks cooler than the weekend. Jim du Bois 13:43Well, let's embrace the beautiful weather we have on tap on Saturday, and Kenny enjoy the weekend, and we'll look forward to talking to you again next week. Kenny Blumenfeld 13:53You enjoy the weekend too, Jim. Thanks, and I'll talk to you next week. Jim du Bois 13:57This is Way Over Our Heads. It's a weather and climate podcast. I'm Jim du Bois. Kenny Blumenfeld's a climatologist. We'll catch you next time.

In This Episode Guest: McCall Vrydaghs, Chief Meteorologist - WHIO-TV Dayton, OH Lightning Round: Weather Match Game #WeatherFools - We present the fools doing stupid things in weather situations Wx Resources - We share some amazing web sites, books, equipment and more! Weather Trollbot 5000 - Our robot interprets the real thoughts of our weather friends Check out our Patreon page for exciting ways to support our podcast and interact with us more!  www.patreon.com/stormfrontfreaks Sponsor WeatherFlow's Tempest Weather Station where you can get $30 OFF when you use the code STORMFRONT at check-out Our Guest: McCall Vrydaghs McCall Vrydaghs was named Chief Meteorologist at Dayton Ohio’s WHIO-TV in November 2018. Since 2012, she has covered a variety of weather events in the Miami Valley including the 100-year-flood on I-70 in 2014, and the tornado outbreak of 2016. Most notably, on Memorial Day 2019, she tracked 15 tornadoes for nearly 4 hours as they ripped across the Miami Valley, included three EF3 tornadoes and one devastating EF4.  Vrydaghs earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Meteorology from SUNY Oswego. Follow McCall on - Twitter:  @mvrydaghsWHIO Facebook:  @mvrydaghsWHIO Instagram:  @mcall_vrydaghs_whio Podcast: Search "Cloudy with a Chance of Podcast" on your favorite podcast app or visit www.whio.com/whio-radio/on-demand/cloudy-with-chance-podcast/ Get Storm Front Freaks Podcast Merch at helicity.co/collections/storm-front-freaks #WeatherFools Links: Phil - Pensacola Beach Hotel Doors During Storm Jen - Florida Video of Severe Storm While on the Porch Jen - Ping Pong Ball Size Hail Under a Screen Porch Greg - Truck in Siberia Falls Through the Ice Brady - Top Golf in a Storm     Wx Resources Links: Phil - Old School Weather Channel On the 8's on Your Laptop at Taiganet.com Jen - NOAA SciJinks Kids Weather Education Site Greg - Frankie MacDonald The Weatherman YouTube Site Cyrena - Sun/Solar Nader Submit your questions or comments about this show to questions@stormfrontfreaks.com or on our social media accounts and we may read it on our next episode! Twitter: @stromfrontfreak Facebook: @stormfrontfreaks Instagram: @stormfrontfreaks Our Next Episode Next Episode will be with The Tornado Hunters.  Fellow co-host, Greg Johnson, brings his chasing partners and co-stars of the TV series Ricky Forbes and Chris Chittick.  Recording Episode 130 live on a special day of Monday 4/26/21 at 9pmET/8pmCT with the podcast available to download Sunday 5/2/21. Credits Opening Music: Brett Epstein Closing Music: Gabe Cox Other Music: “Pecos Hank” Schyma from El Reno Blues

On the anniversary of one of the worst tornado outbreaks in Carolina history, we take a look back at the setup and resulting tornadoes. Our guest this week is John Quagliariello, the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Columbia, South Carolina. On April 13, 2020, there were 77+ tornadoes across the entire Southeast. For John Q and his colleagues, they found themselves in the middle of the 4th largest tornado outbreak on record for South Carolina stretching from the overnight hours of April 12th through the morning of April 13. In the four offices that cover South Carolina, there were 36 tornadoes that touched down, including 28 total in South Carolina. John's office alone, which covers the Midlands of South Carolina and the Central Savannah River area of Georgia, saw 8 tornadoes, including 5 EF3's, 2 EF2's, and 1 EF1. Unfortunately, there were 77 injuries and nine fatalities with the 36 tornadoes in South Carolina. Seven of those injuries and two of the fatalities occurred with the EF3 that struck Livingston, SC in our forecast area. SEE MORE DATA ANALYSIS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/bd495963f64b47c0a1b1b9690e57387c SEE OUR 2020 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION AFTER THE STORM: https://youtu.be/EANms8HL22Q --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/carolinaweather/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carolinaweather/support

Since May 1, 2019, Adam McGuirt, Louisiana Tech’s Director of Disaster Recovery and Strategic Initiatives, has been doing “whatever’s next” as the University’s main point of contact between contractors and architects on athletic facilities destroyed by the EF3 tornado in April 2019. Here, he shares the vision for the project, the baby steps and giant strides along the way, and the tremendous amount of teamwork it’s taken to make this giant and gratifying step toward Tech’s 21st Century Campus. Website: 1894.latech.edu/beyond/ Email: 1894@latech.edu Download the transcript to this episode. Check out our latest photo galleries.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is one of the world's leading experts on tornadoes from an engineering perspective.  He's a veteran and friend of the podcast, having appeared in several prior episodes.  Tim Marshall, welcome!  Tonight's Guest Panelist is the General Manager for the Hampton in Fultondale.  Her hotel was destroyed by an EF3 tornado in January.  Lisa Stone, welcome!  Also joining the show as Guest Panelist is Jason Davis, the General Forecaster at the NWS in Birmingham.  He is the one who issued the warning on the night of the EF3 in Fultondale.

Today's ride, while keeping with the theme of the possibly paranormal and cryptid, takes us on a more uplifting ride. While the story is rooted in tragedy, the discussion quickly turned to stories of help and hope. This is something that neither Moody nor myself knew about, and through discussing it with several people, doesn't seem to be a hugely popular topic in these circles. Despite this fact, we found it to be an intriguing topic so we decided to follow up on it. Today we are talking about the Butterfly people of Joplin Missouri. Before we get into what they are, we need to take a look at the incident that spawned the tales. So without further ado… Let's get into it! Between May 21 and May 26, 2011 the Midwestern and southern United States experienced the largest tornado outbreak on record, with a total of 1,894 tornadoes causing 551 fatalities. Most of the tornadoes developed in a corridor from Lake Superior southwest to central Texas; isolated tornadoes occurred in other areas.          On May 21, a small system of thunderstorms developed in Brown County, Kansas while another system formed to the southeast of Emporia, Kansas. The Brown county system spawned a brief tornado over Topeka, Kansas, causing minor damage. This system also caused significant damage in Oskaloosa, Kansas, and other communities. Meanwhile, the Emporia system spawned an EF3 tornado that struck Reading, Kansas; one person was killed, several others were injured, and at least 20 houses were destroyed. These two systems developed several other tornadoes throughout the evening. A moderate risk of severe weather was issued for much of the Midwest, as well as further south to Oklahoma for May 22. The first tornadic supercell developed in the mid-afternoon hours over the western Twin Cities in Minnesota, and caused moderate damage in the Minneapolis area. Shortly thereafter, an intense tornado crept towards Harmony, Minnesota, prompting the National Weather Service to issue the first tornado emergency of the outbreak. Late that afternoon, a large, intense EF5 multiple-vortex tornado left catastrophic destruction in Joplin, Missouri. This is the tornado that we are looking at in this episode. After the Joplin tornado there would be many more throughout the next few days. In fact the cell would spawn a total of 241 tornadoes total. Out of those 241 only 2 reached EF5 status, the Joplin tornado and one dubbed El Reno. El Reno was actually the more violent of the two, but luckily it landed in a rural area and there were considerably less fatalities. To give you an idea of the strength of these guys, he's an example of some of the damage of the El Reno twister which reached a max velocity of 295 mph!: As it approached and crossed Interstate 40 west of El Reno, it reached its maximum intensity. Three people were killed as two vehicles were tossed more than 1,093 yards from the road and obliterated, the victims being found stripped of clothing 1⁄4 mile from the interstate and left "unrecognizable". Only pieces of the vehicle's frames were reportedly recovered. A nearby 20,000-pound oil tanker truck that was parked at an oil production site near the interstate was thrown approximately one mile  into a wooded gully. Several homes were swept completely away along I-40, trees were completely debarked, and the ground was heavily scoured in some areas. At the nearby Cactus-117 oil rig site, a 1,900,000-pound oil derrick was blown over and rolled three times. That shit is intense! Imagine if that had hit a major city. And that was only a portion of the damage and impact. The El Reno tornado had a 63 mile long path through 4 counties in Oklahoma killing 9 and injuring 161. While that tornado was devastating, we're looking at the Joplin tornado, the one that saw incredible stories of butterfly people helping to save the lives of townspeople. The tornado itself could honestly be an entire episode because of its craziness. The Joplin tornado was a powerful and catastrophic EF5-rated multiple-vortex tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, United States, on the evening of Sunday, May 22, 2011. The tornado initially touched down just east of the Missouri-Kansas state line near the end of 32nd Street at 5:34 pm CDT and tracked due east, downing a few trees at EF0 intensity. Eyewitnesses and storm chasers reported multiple vortices rotating around the parent circulation in that area. Civil defense sirens sounded in Joplin twenty minutes before the tornado struck in response to a tornado warning issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) at 5:17 pm CDT for northwestern Newton and southwestern Jasper counties in Missouri, and southeastern portions of Cherokee County, Kansas, but many Joplin residents did not heed them. The tornado strengthened to EF1 intensity as it continued through rural areas towards Joplin, snapping trees and power poles and damaging outbuildings. Widening, the tornado then tracked into the more densely populated southwest corner of the city near the Twin Hills Country Club. It heavily damaged several homes at a subdivision in this area at EF1 to EF2 strength. The tornado continued to strengthen as it ripped through another subdivision just east of Iron Gates Road. Numerous homes were destroyed at EF2 to EF3 strength at that location, and multiple vehicles were tossed around, some of which were thrown on or rolled into homes. The now massive wedge tornado then crossed S. Schifferdecker Ave., producing its first area of EF4 damage as several small but well-built commercial buildings were flattened. Consistent EF4 to EF5 damage was noted east of S. Schifferdecker Ave. and continued through most of southern Joplin. Numerous homes, businesses, and medical buildings were flattened in this area, with concrete walls collapsed and crushed into the foundations. A large steel-reinforced step and floor structure leading to a completely destroyed medical building was "deflected upward several inches and cracked". Steel trusses from some of the buildings were "rolled up like paper", and deformation/twisting of the main support beams was noted. Multiple vehicles were thrown and mangled or wrapped around trees nearby. Several 300-pound concrete parking stops anchored with rebar were torn from a parking lot in this area and were thrown up to 60 yards away. Iowa State University wind engineer Partha Sarkar was able to calculate the force needed to remove the parking stops and found that winds exceeding 200 mph were needed to tear them from the parking lot. Damage became remarkably widespread and catastrophic at and around the nearby St. John's Regional Medical Center, which lost many windows, interior walls, ceilings, and part of its roof; its life flight helicopter was also blown away and destroyed. Five fatalities were caused by loss of backup power, and the nine-story building was so damaged that it was deemed structurally compromised, and was later torn down. According to the NWS office in Springfield, Missouri, such extreme structural damage to such a large and well-built structure was likely indicative of winds at or exceeding 200 mph. Vehicles in the hospital parking lot were thrown into the air and mangled beyond recognition, including a semi-truck that was tossed 125 yards and wrapped completely around a debarked tree. Wind-rowing of debris was noted in this area, and additional concrete parking stops were removed from the St. John's parking lot as well. Virtually every house near McClelland Boulevard and 26th Street was flattened; some were swept completely away, and trees sustained severe debarking.As the tornado tracked eastward, it maintained EF5 strength as it crossed Main Street (SR 43) between 20th and 26th Streets. It heavily damaged every business along that stretch and several institutional buildings were virtually destroyed. It tracked just south of downtown, narrowly missing it. Entire neighborhoods were leveled in this area with some more homes swept away, and trees were stripped completely of their bark. At some residences, reinforced concrete porches were deformed, or in some cases completely torn away. Damage to driveways was noted at some residences as well. Numerous vehicles were tossed up to several blocks away from the residences where they originated, and a few homeowners never located their vehicles.  A large church, Greenbriar Nursing Home, Franklin Technology Center, St. Mary's Catholic Church and School, and Joplin High School were all destroyed along this corridor. The Greenbriar Nursing Home was completely leveled, with 21 fatalities occurring there alone.  As the tornado crossed Connecticut Ave further to the east, it destroyed several large apartment buildings, a Dillon's grocery store, and a bank. Only the concrete vault remained at the bank, and a wooden 2x4 was found speared completely through a concrete curb at one location as well. No one was in the high school at the time; the high school graduation ceremonies held about 3 miles (4.8 km) to the north at Missouri Southern State University had concluded shortly before the storm. Pieces of cardboard were found embedded sideways into stucco walls that remained standing at Joplin High School. Steel beams and pieces of fencing were deeply embedded into the ground in fields near the high school as well, steel fence posts were bent to the ground in opposite directions, and a school bus was thrown into a nearby bus garage. The tornado then approached Range Line Road, the main commercial strip in the eastern part of Joplin, affecting additional neighborhoods along 20th Street. The now heavily rain-wrapped tornado continued at EF5 intensity as it crossed Range Line Road. In that corridor between about 13th and 32nd Streets, the tornado continued producing catastrophic damage as it was at its widest at this point, being nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) wide. As the tornado hit the Pizza Hut at 1901 South Range Line Road, store manager Christopher Lucas herded four employees and 15 customers into a walk-in freezer. With difficulty closing the door, he wrapped a bungee cable holding the door shut around his arm until he was sucked out and killed by the tornado. The tornado completely destroyed Walmart Supercenter No. 59, a Home Depot, and numerous other businesses and restaurants in this area, many of which were flattened. Numerous metal roof trusses were torn from the Home Depot building and were found broken and mangled in nearby fields. Cars that originated at the Home Depot parking lot were found hundreds of yards away. Asphalt was scoured from parking lots at Walmart and a nearby pizza restaurant, and large tractor-trailers were thrown up to 200 yards away. An Academy Sports + Outdoors store along Range Line sustained major structural damage, and a chair was found impaled legs-first through an exterior stucco wall at that location. A nearby three-story apartment complex was also devastated, and two cell phone towers were found collapsed onto the remains of the apartments. Numerous cars were thrown and piled on top of each other, 100-pound manhole covers were removed from roads and thrown, ground scouring occurred, and a Pepsi distribution plant was completely leveled in this area as well. Additional calculations of the manhole covers in Joplin by Parka Sarkar revealed that winds had to have exceeded 200 mph for the manhole covers to be removed. Many fatalities occurred in this area, and damage was rated as EF5.Extreme damage continued in the area of Duquesne Road in southeast Joplin. Many houses and industrial and commercial buildings were flattened in this area as well. The industrial park near the corner of 20th and Duquesne was especially hard hit with nearly every building flattened. Several large metal warehouse structures were swept cleanly from their foundations, and several heavy industrial vehicles were thrown up to 400 yards away in this area. One of the many warehouses affected was a Cummins warehouse, a concrete block and steel building that was destroyed. The last area of EF5 damage occurred in the industrial park, and a nearby Fastrip gas station and convenience store was completely destroyed. Many homes were destroyed further to the east at EF3 to EF4 strength in a nearby subdivision, and East Middle School sustained major damage. The tornado then continued on an east to east-southeast trajectory towards Interstate 44 where it weakened; nonetheless, vehicles were blown off the highway and mangled near the U.S. Route 71 interchange. The damage at and around the interchange was rated EF2 to EF3. The weakening tornado continued to track into the rural areas of southeastern Jasper County and northeastern Newton County where damage was generally minor to moderate, with trees, mobile homes, outbuildings, and frame homes damaged mainly at EF0 to EF1 strength. The tornado lifted east of Diamond at 6:12 pm CDT (23:12 UTC) according to aerial surveys. The tornado's total track length was at least 22.1 miles (35.6 km) long. Overall, 6,954 homes were destroyed, 359 homes had major damage and 516 had minor damage, 158 people were killed, and 1,150 others were injured along the path. A separate EF2 tornado touched down near Wentworth from the same supercell about 25 miles (40 km) east-southeast of Joplin. So that's the story of this incredible tornado. But something more came from this. In the aftermath of this devastating event, tales began to emerge of strange beings described as butterfly people, appearing to help and protect the citizens of Joplin. This is why we are talking about this event! What were they? Was it mass hysteria? Was it a cooking mechanism for the many children affected? If they were real, where did they come from? Extraterrestrial? Interdimensional? Let's look at some stories and then explore some theories! So we'll start with some of the stories from the people that were there. One woman, arriving home with her children, ran inside her home with great hurry. Together, they sheltered inside a small closet and the family started praying when, suddenly, the full force of the F5 tornado ripped their home to shreds. Inside the fury of wind and hail, the family thought it was the end. The winds were so fierce even the daughter’s glasses shattered as the roof was ripped off above them. Then, strangely, the son saw something in the sky. Amidst the pain and anguish, there was something above them, amongst the winds. A white woman with wings, hovering over them, as if she was protecting them from harm. Had madness set in? Was it a religious vision? The son  described what he saw as a ‘butterfly woman’, who stayed and stayed, protecting the family from harm. Moreover, the rest of the family also saw the vision. As the tornado passed by, the family were left unharmed. In fact, the closet was the only thing left without damage. The entire rest of the house, everything, was destroyed, yet that humble closet, with no additional protection to the rest of the house, survived. All this served to reinforce the belief for the family that an angel had protected them on that day. Medical aid soon arrived and the search began for the injured and the trapped. Rumours began to circulate amongst the crowds. One nurse, looking rather confused, told the family she saw an angel and when pressed, she described the exact same vision the family had seen. Down to the last detail. The nurse said the ‘butterfly woman’ was larger than the average human, with wings. She wasn’t sure what to make of what she saw, but she didn’t fear it. She said she saw it whilst tending to a man who had been impaled on a wooden stake. She knew he was dying and then she saw it. Something standing nearby. As if it was comforting the man. If this was a religious vision of the dying, then why did the nurse see it? And it wasn’t the only one. Rather than some strange being protecting the town, the nurse said that she saw many. Not a ‘butterfly woman’… butterfly people. Over the following weeks, counsellors spoke to dozens and dozens of traumatised children across the town, none of whom knew each other, and every single one spoke of the Butterfly People, and how they ‘saved them’ on that day. And time and time again, the descriptions matched. Joplin was no longer just the scene of a tragedy. No longer just a war zone steeped in loss and billions of dollars worth of damage. It was now also home to something strange. Something unexplainable. Lage Grigsby was believed to be near death when he arrived at Freeman Hospital West after being pulled from debris in the May 22, 2011, tornado. In fact he was actually taken to the hospital's fucking morgue. Mason Lillard would have died, her surgeon said, if a metal rod driven through her body would have shifted an inch either direction. Despite critical injuries suffered when their grandparents' truck was thrown more than 300 feet across the Home Depot parking lot, the two cousins say they don't think that often about the EF5 twister. "You kind of forget about it unless you look at the scars," said Mason. On the night of the tornado, Mason was rushed to surgery, but Lage had been black tagged — meaning he was thought to be dying.  That same night Freeman Hospital West ER nurse Tracy Dye arrived at the hospital after she heard the tornado had hit St. John's Regional Medical Center. She had considered not going to work because she was watching the storm develop and didn't want to leave her sons. When Dye arrived at the hospital, she was sent down to the morgue. Walking through, she touched Lage's arm and... get this shit..."he let out a scream. I ran and got a doctor and we got him out of there," she said. Dye stayed with him until surgery, which lasted six hours. For him, those actions were lifesaving, Lage reminded the nurse Wednesday. "I owe you my life," he said. Sharon Lillard calls Dye "our angel," adding, "I was at the hospital the other day and I dropped a little gift by for her." According to Mason's account of the storm, Dye was not the only angel on duty that night. She saw them just before the storm hit, Mason said, and after... she felt a touch on her shoulder. "I thought it was Lage, but when I turned I saw two angels in robes, one with brown hair and one with blond hair," she said. "It was kinda calming. I knew God was with us and that he'd take us to be with him, or leave us to do something great."  Elsewhere, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recounted another story of a mother and daughter. When the storm hit, the mother, holding her little child, ran for shelter. The force of the winds knocked them to the ground. Terrifyingly, the mother looked back to see a car picked up by the tornado and flung right in their direction. She couldn’t escape, she didn’t have the time. So she curled up and cradled her daughter, hoping to protect her from the impact of the car that was literally right above them. But it didn’t hit. She had closed her eyes, but her daughter didn’t. When the seconds passed by turned into minutes, she opened her eyes and the car was nowhere to be seen. “What happened?” she asked her daughter. “Didn’t you see the butterfly people mommy?” Her daughter was sure the Butterfly People were carrying humans through the sky. “They were beautiful”, the little girl said smiling!  Crazy shit! That literally gave me goosebumps as I read it. The stories were mounting up. A grandfather and two young boys trapped outside during the tornado. The grandfather lost his shoes as the tornado passed over them, when the two young boys looked up they saw the ‘Butterfly People’ watching over them. Over the weeks, more and more people came forward, from all over the town. All reporting the same thing. People with wings, always described as butterflies. And most of the time, the reports were coming from children. One little girl with her mother said she wasn’t afraid because the ‘butterfly people were with them’. Another four-year-old boy said two Butterfly People ‘held’ his father’s car to stop it being taken away. And yet another little boy, who was picked up by the winds and flung some six miles through the air, told rescuers that angels caught him and sat him down safely on the ground.  The local hospital was inundated with the injured and soon, every ward, every room, every nurse, every patient, were filled with stories of these “Butterfly People”... angels protecting them during the worst of the storm. And not just there, but in the lines waiting for donated food, all anyone was talking about were the Butterfly People. It was one of the worst tornado strikes in living memory. For the months that followed, people gathered all over town and told their stories. Stories of how they survived and stories of those they lost. And, above all, stories of the Butterfly People. This sounds incredible… But this isn't the first instance of this sort of thing happening. Take a look at the 1978 Freiberg mine disaster. All the miners, every one of them, saw a man standing in front of the mine at Freiberg, Germany. When the workers approached the man, they discovered huge wings covering his body. They stood in shock for a moment when, suddenly, the ‘angel’ let out a series of shrieks described as similar to a train’s emergency brakes. The miner’s fled and around one hour later, the mine exploded. A huge plume of smoke covered Freiberg. For many of the miners, what they saw was an angel, warning them of the danger. If they hadn’t fled, they’d all be dead after all… The same thing happened in 1986 in Chernobyl. Dozens and dozens of people saw winged creatures, which many described as ‘angels’, hovering above the land moments before the disaster, leading many to believe these ‘angels’ were signs that a horrific event was coming. Even as recently as 2001, many people claim to have seen winged creatures around the Twin Towers shortly before the disaster.  So what are they?  Well the obvious first choice is… Angels. Joplin is at the centre of America’s religious heartland. Deep in the religious heartland, people of great faith claim to see an angel before they think they’re about to die. It does happen. Quite a lot, in fact. Near-death experiences often sound strange to those of us who haven’t had them. The one hole in this theory is that they didn’t say ‘angels’. Only a few did, but most people who saw the Butterfly People of Joplin described what they saw as the name implies, ‘butterfly people’ and not angels. Of course, many were children. Maybe the simple answer is that children have a better idea of what a butterfly is than an angel. This leads into another explanation. NDEs, or near death experiences. Now since we know you guys are avid listeners, we know that you've already listened to our episode on NDE. Without getting deep into that subject again, basically some are saying that these people were simply experiencing NDE. Their brains were helping them cope with the fact they were about to die. But that doesn't explain why they all saw the same thing. Or why some that were literally about to die ended up safe.  Another interesting theory is that they were interdimensional beings. The theory basically states that because of the storm being so massive, the electricity in the atmosphere was ramped up considerably. This added to all of the energy of the storm somehow managing to rip open a portal or gateway that allowed these beings to pass through. The thought is that the beings, when confronted with the scene before them, came through the portal to help as many people as they could before the portal closed again. So there's that… Interdimensional beings. With all of the stories it's hard to doubt that something strange truly happened. The people of Joplin stand by what they claim to have seen and with great conviction. During the summer, a mural was painted in downtown Joplin. Public meetings were held to gather ideas for the mural, how the city's history and the tornado should be depicted. While they resisted the inclusion of the butterfly people at first, they eventually decided on including butterflies in the mural. Big, colorful butterflies flutter across the scene, while two small angels can be seen, too. The murals artist said the butterflies represented metamorphosis, how the city is being reborn. The mural was titled "The Butterfly Effect" to represent how the mural could inspire others to do good in this world. It has nothing to do with butterfly people, he said. But everyone wasn't convinced. "Even on that mural," one resident said, "there's butterflies because they've heard of the butterfly people." Butterflies have long held symbolic value. The ancient Greek word "psyche" refers to both butterflies and the human soul. Butterflies are depicted in Egyptian hieroglyphics. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, author of the book "On Death and Dying," said her study of death was influenced by a visit to a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland where she saw images of hundreds of butterflies carved into walls by prisoners. So, what did they see? Could it have been mass hysteria? Interdimensional beings that crossed over during one of the most powerful natural events our world can create? Why was it mainly children that saw them? Are children just more susceptible to being able to see spirits? We’ve all seen “The Sixth Sense”, right? The Bruce Willis movie where the little boy is tormented by the ghosts he and ONLY he sees. Well, not to go COMPLETELY off the rails, here are some stories about creepy kids seeing some creepy shit.  The pajama-clad boy“When we were looking at condos to purchase our first place, Claire was just shy of her third birthday. We brought her with us to all of our showings because we wanted to see how comfortable she was as it would be her home too. When we walked through the door of the place we ultimately bought, the second floor of a 1911 Chicago brick three-flat, we all knew immediately that it was the right place. That evening, I asked Claire if she thought that place would be a good home for her, and her response was, ‘Yes! And the little boy that lives there is really nice too.’This took me aback, but I tried to remain calm. I asked her what she meant, and she said there was a little boy in his pajamas that she saw in the dining room. She said he had waved at her, he was about her age, and he was only in the dining room. She knew his name (which I don’t remember now) and that he was afraid of water. After she went to bed that night, I looked up ways to clear the energy of a home, how to communicate with a ghost so they don’t bother your family, and anything else I could find to make sure at least I could be comfortable living in this otherwise perfect condo. Claire never talked about him again, not even the next day when I asked her to tell my husband.” —Ashlie M., mom of two The cemetery sightingTrigger Warning: This next anecdote touches on the subject of the loss of a child and could be potentially triggering for some. Please skip ahead if you feel it might not be for you.“My son was around 2 at the time. We were driving past the cemetery when he said, ‘Look, mama! Dead people.’ Yes, darling, I responded. ‘Kids!’ he continued, matter-of-factly. And sure enough, we were passing by the children’s section. Curious, I asked if the kids were happy or sad. ‘Happy, mama!’ he said. ‘They are running around that daddy.’ All I saw was a man standing alone with his head dropped. It warmed my heart, honestly.” —Erin T., mom of two The lingering grandmother“We bought our current house from a man who was married for 40+ years. His wife passed away a couple of years before we bought the house. One evening, while tucking my 2.5-year-old into bed, he said, ‘Mama, night-night to the grandma,’ while pointing to the hallway between his room and mine—what was her room back then.” —Priscilla A., mom of one The ghost friend“When we moved into our house, Leo (2.5) was seeing a ghost. He would say ‘ghost’ and point to the dining room table. One day, I mentioned ‘Mr. Hutchinson’ to someone while giving a history of the house, and Leo said, ‘Mr. Hutchinson, my ghost friend?’ We confirmed with a house cleanser that someone attached to the home, like a grandfather figure was here, and attracted to Leo’s light and innocence. We have since had our house cleansed twice!” —Amy F., mom of two The midnight playmate“My then 4-year-old would tell me about a little girl who wanted to play with her. She apparently wanted to play all hours of the day and night. When I was finally able to sort out what was up with my daughter, in the middle of the night, I left this little ghost some toys in an upstairs closet so she could play by herself. She had a stuffed lamb and a stuffed duck, and I used to find them moved most mornings. The 4-year-old shared a room with her sibling, so I know it wasn’t her moving the toys.” —Tracy B., mom of three The door-slammer“Ender, my 4-year-old, will tell us stories about the little girl who shuts doors and turns off the lights. He can’t tell us what she looks like or where she goes. I don’t talk about ghosts or anything that would give Ender this idea. The last time the little girl was here, I heard the door slam. I ran in and asked him if he had closed it. He told me ‘No, the little girl did because she didn’t want to play.’” —Dee Dee A., mom of twoThe visit from grandpa“My husband’s father passed away several years before my son was born. He died from the flu, and my husband had always felt guilty because he had been the one to share the sickness with him. We never talked to our son about his grandpa, but one morning he woke and said point-blank, ‘Daddy, Papa Don wanted me to tell you he’s doing fine.’ We asked him to describe his grandpa and he did so to a T, despite never having seen a photo of him. He said he was standing by a fast car with a cloud of smoke around him. This made perfect sense because my father-in-law raced sports cars and smoked heavily all his life.” —Michelle K., mom of two So, there ya go! I only have one last question to ask… butterflies can often look like moths, right? Could these sightings have been the one and only Mothman? If you’re not familiar with his (or her) story, go all the way back to episode number five, from June 11, 2019 and listen to the train ride on THE MOTHMAN! Now, it’s everyone’s favorite time! The Movies! In order to keep this episode more uplifting than horrific, we’ve decided to discuss the top movies about kids with powers! 15 Exciting Movies About Kids With Powers | ScreenRant  The Midnight Train Podcast is sponsored by VOUDOUX VODKA.www.voudoux.com Ace’s Depothttp://www.aces-depot.com BECOME A PRODUCER!http://www.patreon.com/themidnighttrainpodcast Find The Midnight Train Podcast:www.themidnighttrainpodcast.comwww.facebook.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.twitter.com/themidnighttrainpcwww.instagram.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.discord.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.tiktok.com/themidnighttrainp And wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. Subscribe to our official YouTube channel:OUR YOUTUBE

A trailer park, and tornado and a toddler. In January of 2017 tornadoes ravaged the state of Georgia. After the storms two-year-old Detrez Green was reported missing from his home. Is an EF3 tornado responsible for his disappearance or is it something way more sinister?

My experience was with a tornado that hit Windsor, Colorado. On May 22, 2008 right before noon, the Town of Windsor was struck by an EF3 tornado. With very little warning, the community took shelter and suffered a lot of damage. I was on the highway driving from Denver, and wanted to retreat back after listening to the radio. Suddenly, Denver was under a tornado warning too. What could I do? Listen in to this experience. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ray-martinez7/message

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In this episode learn how the EF3 platform was born, who I am, and why I decided to begin a podcast. I begin discussing the platforms of education, faith, fitness, and finance. Life is a journey and my desire is for you to experience life to the fullest. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dan-jason-ef3/message

June 11, 2008: June 11, 2008 marks the tragic loss of 4 teenagers at a Boy Scout camp near Little Sioux, Iowa; 48 more were injured. The tragedy struck at the 1,800-acre camp about an hour north of downtown Omaha. An EF3 tornado, with 145 mph winds, descended on the remote camp, striking and leveling a cabin where campers had sought shelter as warnings of the storm circulated through the camp. A chimney at the cabin collapsed, sending heavy concrete blocks onto the Scouts. This was the worst of the storms that hit the Northern Plains. There were also two farms damaged from two different tornadoes, one near Spencer, Iowa and the other near Springfield, Minnesota. A nursing home was also damaged by a tornado in southern Salina, Kansas. There were over 300 reports of severe weather across the nation with 64 of those reports from tornado activity. There had been no basement or in-ground shelter at the camp when the tornado hit. The following year, the Boy Scouts Mid-America Council launched a major fundraising campaign to build emergency shelters at all of its camps. By 2013, two tornado shelters had been built at the camp, and a siren was added. The new structures have concrete walls, steel shutters and doors and emergency power backup, and were built to withstand an EF5 tornado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early in the morning of March 3rd, 2020, Cj and Erin awoke to a severe tornado warning with only seconds to find shelter as they and their two small children faced the onslaught of a violent EF3 tornado.

Part of a series of interviews regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and the EF3 tornado that hit Oconee County SC on Easter 2020. Each episode was recorded to provide the most up to date information possible to not only Oconee County but the entire State regarding loans, assistance programs, unemployment and disaster relief. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joann-johnson/message

Part of a series of interviews regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and the EF3 tornado that hit Oconee County SC on Easter 2020. Each episode was recorded to provide the most up to date information possible to not only Oconee County but the entire State regarding loans, assistance programs, unemployment and disaster relief. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joann-johnson/message

Part of a series of interviews regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and the EF3 tornado that hit Oconee County SC on Easter 2020. Each episode was recorded to provide the most up to date information possible to not only Oconee County but the entire State regarding loans, assistance programs, unemployment and disaster relief. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joann-johnson/message

Hello! And welcome to another episode of Inside The Newsroom. It’s April, which means we’re officially inside the 2020 U.S. tornado season, so today we have WEATHER ROYALTY on the podcast. James Spann is chief meteorologist at ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Alabama, and an absolute God within the severe weather community. I visited James in-person a couple of years ago to talk about his more than 40 years as a broadcast meteorologist, as well as his troubled upbringing growing up without his father. James recently published his autobiography which can be found on all the usual websites. This time around James and I spoke about what the 2020 tornado season may have in store for us, and what tornado preparation his and other states are doing amid the coronavirus.Below is a rundown of everything we talked about and more, but first a quick shoutout to friend of the show (and former guest) Andrea Jones-Rooy who is the funniest data scientist alive today. Right, let’s get to it! ✊Picks of the WeekDonate To Journalists — Seattle Times journalist Paige Cornwell has set up a Go Fund Me page to help laid off and furloughed journalists. I donated $20 yesterday. Not much, but it all helps.Brian Kemp — While the entire world knew we can carry symptoms of the coronavirus without showing them, Georgia’s Governor announced this week that he didn’t know such a thing, which will directly cost lives in his state. U.S. Unemployment — The second major rise in unemployment claims was announced yesterday, something we’ll be addressing next week.James 👇Will You Like Me?Before you read on, please like this edition of Inside The Newsroom by clicking the ❤️ up top. That way I’ll appear in clever algorithms and more people will be able to read. Cheers.2020 Tornado Season ForecastWe’re “officially” inside the U.S. tornado season, which typically runs from the start of April to the end of June. I say “officially” because tornadoes can and do strike in any month of the year and in every single U.S. state. Last year was above average with a reported 1,676 tornadoes compared with an average of 1,306 per year since 2000. And 2020 could be another above average year, according to experts from AccuWeather:“AccuWeather forecasts a normal to slightly above-normal number of tornadoes in 2020 with a range of 1,350 to 1,450. That range is close to what occurred in 2019 and 5 to 15 percent more than the U.S. annual average.”Already there have been 180 tornado reports so far this year, including unusually high reports in January and February, and a modest amount in March. But April is where things typically kick off, as warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico rises west across the U.S. until it meets the cold dry air from the Rockies, typically somewhere in Tornado Alley — Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas — or Dixie Alley — Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.The deadliest tornado outbreak so far this year was on March 3 and produced two separate EF3 (winds up to 165mph) and EF4 (up to 200 mph) tornadoes, according to the Enhanced Fujita Scale, including one that ripped through downtown Nashville. Twenty-four people have been confirmed dead and three people are still missing. Good chance to point out that tornadoes CAN AND DO hit large cities. Don’t believe otherwise.Long-Term Tornado TrendsLike with any weather phenomena, we can’t definitively say whether tornadoes are becoming more frequent or powerful based on a single event. Nor can we absolutely say whether the number of tornadoes is increasing from just a handful of years of data. Instead, we can accurately say that climate change has and will continue to make the chances of tornadoes more likely, especially those super duper EF4 and EF5 twisters that can flatten entire towns and cities. But even then, there are so many moving parts — better radar technology, more tornado spotters, more populated cities — that the data is never going to be 100 percent the same comparing one year to another. That said, there are a couple of critical long-term trends that I’ve written about before.First up is the Expanding Bulls-Eye Effect affecting every city in every state. It’s effectively the urban sprawl problem: As more people flock to cities in tornado prone areas, the larger the target for tornadoes to strike. The likes of Oklahoma City (more on that later), Dallas and Atlanta are all among the most vulnerable cities of a large-scale disaster. Credit: Stephen M. Strader and Walker S. AshleyAnd the effects are already being felt. In Forney, a suburb 20 miles east of Dallas, the population has grown 390 percent to more than 20,000 people in the past 30 years. On this very day eight years ago, 17 tornadoes touched down in North Texas including one that completely destroyed Crosby Elementary School in Forney. Had it happened just a decade before, the tornado would have hit an open field. Credit: Yours TrulyLess simple is the rise in tornadoes being reported in the southeastern states. In recent decades, the percentage of total twisters in the U.S. to touch down in Dixie Alley has dramatically increased, and when it comes to number of lives lost, Dixie Alley is now the deadliest tornado region in the entire world. That’s due to a combination of more populous cities than Tornado Alley (see above), but also the detached attitudes of people in the south. I was talking to a friend who studied in Atlanta just before the 2008 tornado that ripped up downtown and he had no idea tornadoes even hit Georgia, let alone in the very city he was living. Unfortunately that’s still the case in many southeastern cities, though the more tornadoes that do hit, the more people will have no other choice than to pay attention.Credit: Yours TrulyIn terms of the annual number of tornadoes increasing, that also has many nuances. Like we spoke about above, climate change is and will have a real impact on the size and frequency of tornadoes. But radar technology has also dramatically increased since the mid-1990s, and the popularity of the movie Twister unleashed storm chasing as a cult, which means more tornadoes are being spotted and reported than ever before.States’ Tornado PreparednessStates in Tornado and Dixie Alley will need to make impossible decisions in the coming days, if they haven’t already done so. The dilemma of prioritising safety from tornadoes or coronavirus isolation will likely mean new confirmed cases, as some states have opened community tornado shelters. But a tornado rolling through town is the more immediate threat. Alternatively, some states face leaving some residents without the extremely expensive personal tornado shelter high and dry.In James’ state, the Alabama Public Health Department released a statement saying that tornadoes took first priority, but “educated decisions” should be made to avoid contracting the coronavirus. In Missouri, which too sees it’s fair share of tornadoes, Springfield-Greene County also urged people to take personal safety in community shelters if needed. But in Oklahoma, it’ll be left up to local jurisdictions to decide whether to open public shelters or uphold recommendations against gatherings of more than 10 people. Without sounding like a local TV meteorologist myself, each state will differ in its policy so please check your local listings for more information. How the OKC Weather War Advanced Warning SystemsLike journalists, meteorologists struggle to get their message through to readers and viewers because of all the noise in today’s media world. Social media has both helped and harmed James’ work, as he’s now able to connect directly with people in his market and constantly pump out warnings and other information. But the distrust in, well, everything right now means some people don’t believe warnings until it’s too late.I’ve been in tornado warnings in three states and every time I was glued to the TV screen. Heck, I even tune in sometimes from the UK for fun. Still, if you’re like me then you’ll know all about the colorful radar maps and high-tech wind velocities and strength measures used on air. And if you’re in Oklahoma City, you’ll likely get a birds-eye view of the action via helicopters that hover a mile or two away from the actual tornado. The below video is from the historic EF5 Moore Tornado from May 2013.There might not be a larger city that sees more tornadoes in the U.S. than Oklahoma City does and, because of that, there may not be a more knowledgable and eager audience yearning for wall-to-wall coverage of tornado events than Oklahomans. That thirst resulted in an all-out ratings war between KFOR and KWTV during the nineties and noughties, led by weather Gods Gary England and Mike Morgan, respectively. In the past decade, friend of the podcast Damon Lane of KOCO joined the scene after his Herculean coverage of the Moore Tornado in 2013 that saw him live on air for around 13 hours straight. Anyway, much what of what we see on TV these days when it comes to severe weather can be traced back to little old Oklahoma City. If you’re interested in this stuff, I can’t recommend Holly Bailey’s The Mercy of the Sky enough.Tornado Communication TodayResearch on how and why tornadoes exist is critical, as we still don’t really know the answers to these questions. An exciting new breakthrough from scientists at the University of Mississippi, Oklahoma State University and University of Nebraska-Lincoln involves what’s known as ‘infrasound’, which might be able to more accurately predict tornadoes and dramatically reduce the false alarm rate that could be as high as 75 percent. The idea being that the ‘fluid mechanics’ of a tornado create noise too quiet for the human ear to hear, but loud enough for tiny microphones to pick up. Below is an interview with one of the scientists from Ole Miss, Dr. Roger Waxler, on James’ own podcast, WeatherBrains, in which the research is delved into with great detail. If the technology can be proven successful, it could revolutionize the entire weather industry.Tornadoes Around the GlobeWe have to be careful when looking at the countries most prone to tornadoes, because some people misinterpret simple data, like these scum who say England is the tornado capital of the world. It’s not. Instead, I prefer to listen to the experts, like Dr. Harold Brooks, senior scientist at NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory. Because of the ripe conditions — a mix of warm moist air with cold dry air — the likes of Canada, Italy, India and Brazil are among the countries to get the most twisters. Many other South American and Southern Asian countries also see vast amounts of twisters because of the mountainous regions that allow different air types to meet. So no, England isn’t anywhere near the tornado capital.Related Podcasts#60 — Michael Mann (Penn State) on spending his sabbatical observing wildfires in Australia#53 — Emily Atkin (Heated) on starting the most popular newsletter on climate change#42 — Kait Parker (Weather.com) on the link between hurricanes and climate change#37 — Josh Morgerman and Caroline Menzies (Hurricane Man) on shooting the wildly popular documentary Hurricane Man#17 — James Spann (ABC 33/40) on 40 years forecasting weather and his fatherless upbringing #2 — Damon Lane (KOCO) on inside covering the 2013 Moore Tornado and the emotional toll it has to this dayLast Time…Pandemics That Changed History#68 — Mckayla Wilkes (U.S. House) on taking on No. 2 House Democrat Steny Hoyer and why the U.S. needs Universal Basic Income… Next TimeNext week we’ll quantitative futurist and CEO on Future Today Institute Amy Webb to talk about why governments and businesses weren’t more prepared for a pandemic, as well what tech trends will hit the world in 2020.Job CornerThe Inside The Newsroom Job Board will be launched on Monday. Stay tuned!Thanks for making it all the way to the bottom. Please like and share this edition of Inside The Newsroom by clicking the ❤️ below. That way I’ll appear in clever algorithms and more people will be able to read.If you haven’t already, please consider subscribing to get a newsletter about a cool news topic in your inbox every time I publish (1-2 times a week). You can find me on Twitter at @DanielLevitt32 and email me corrections/feedback or even a guest you’d like me to get on the podcast at daniellevitt32@gmail.com. Get on the email list at insidethenewsroom.substack.com

Early Tuesday morning March 3rd, thousands of people in the Nashville and Middle Tennessee areas found themselves without a home when an EF3 tornado ripped through their neighborhoods. Others suddenly found themselves unemployed due to the destruction of several businesses, schools, and industrial areas. And some found themselves both homeless and jobless in a matter The post Free Career Coaching Resources for Tornado Victims Left Jobless appeared first on paNASH Passion & Career Coaching.

Last night, an EF3 tornado tore through the heart of Nashville, dropping baseball sized hail, and killing at least 22 people. Thankfully, the severe weather is done for Tennessee throughout Tuesday, so hopefully some recovery can start to happen. However, the severe weather is not done for the Deep South. An intense low will move into the Eastern Texas area throughout today, and slowly make its way across the Southeast. This system could bring up to 5 inches of rain to areas in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, with severe flooding and possibly tornadoes likely throughout the week. Subscribe to Holt Hanley Weather for daily updates as this situation in the South progresses. Thanks for watching. This is the audio version of a video. For best viewing experience, check out Holt Hanley Weather on Youtube, or go to www.holthanleyweather.com.

Dr. Ben Burnett served as a school administrator through Hurricane Katrina but he never imagined he would face two more powerful tornadoes later in his career. In Part 1 of our interview about what to do when a natural disaster strikes your school district, Dr. Ben Burnett reflected on how he and his colleagues kept students and teachers focused after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Burnett was the principal of a middle school in Lamar County Mississippi during the devasting hurricane, but a few years later he took on the responsibilities of Lamar County Superintendent. But even Hurricane Katrina could not fully prepare Burnett for what happened to one of his high schools just eight years after Katrina. Dr. Ben Burnett On February 10, 2013, Oak Grove High School, near Hattiesburg Mississippi was struck by a powerful EF4 tornado that cut a path three-quarters of a mile wide and had maximum sustained winds of 170 mph. The tornado demolished a field house and caused significant damage to much of the large high school. Burnett says that as he first rounded the corner to survey the damage at Oak Grove High School, he thought, nobody ever prepared him on how to manage in this situation. Fortunately, the storm struck on a Sunday, and while there were a few people in the school, there were no fatalities or injuries. However, the cleanup expenses would run into the millions and the disruptions to instructional time and extracurricular activities had to be addressed. By 2017 Burnett had retired as Superintendent and he was now the Dean of Education at William Carey University. Unbelievably, a powerful EF3 tornado struck at Burnett's new job site. It was his third natural disaster. In the early morning hours of January 21st. The tornado packed winds of 145mph and damaged 58 of the 60 buildings on WCU's campus. Remarkably, Burnett's William Carey University story is one of resileence. They adminstration moved quickly and had students back in class in just two days. To hear the full story on how Dr. Ben Burnett responded to both tornadoes, listen to Episode 139 of the Class Dismissed Podcast. This is part two of a two-part interview. Tune in to Episode 138 to hear Burnett talk about Hurricane Katrina. You can listen to the latest episode of Class Dismissed on iTunes here. All Rights Reserved. Class Dismissed Podcast 2017 – 2020

In the aftermath of a powerful EF3 tornado that devastated much of North Dallas, including Northway Church; Psalm 33 provides us with seven key promises and postures of hope that we can hold onto as we move forward in a time of pain & uncertainty. Scripture: Psalm 33

On today's episode, the gentlemen talk about the BIG news in Big D, the tornado outbreak that occurred Sunday night October 20th. The event which spawned 10 total tornadoes and caused $2 billion dollars in damage, ravaged North Texas, including an EF3 that hit the middle of Dallas. Also on tap, "What's Up Doc?", Recap & Preview, Doc is pumped about his World Series pick he made back in spring training, & it's finally time to dive into their All-Time Dream HR Derby. In the coveted Stud or Dud Segment, will Tiger Woods win a major next year? That & much more!

Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele has made a clear abortion rights message in his latest Cruise collection, as the debate over abortion heats up once again in the United States. The collection, shown to a VIP crowd Tuesday evening in Rome’s Capitoline Museum, featured a purple jacket with the slogan “My Body, My Choice” on the back, and a sweater emblazoned with the date “May 22, 1978,” marking the day that abortion became legal in Italy. A belted gown was embroidered with a flowering uterus. Michele said new restrictions on abortion in the United States “made me consider how much women should be highly respected.” e EF0, EF1 and EF2s on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. But 23 were classified as EF3 tornadoes, with wind speeds of 136-165 mph. The strongest confirmed tornado this year was the EF4 tornado that killed 23 people in Alabama in March. So far this year, 38 people have died in 10 tornadoes in the United States, including a combined seven within the last week in Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma and Ohio. The relative quiet in recent years followed the massive tornado that killed 161 people and injured more than 1,100 in Joplin, Missouri, in 2011. The EF5 storm packed winds in excess of 200 mph and was on the ground for more than 22 miles. Monday’s outbreak was unusual because it occurred over a particularly wide geographic area. Eight states were affected by two regional outbreaks, in the high Plains and the Ohio River Valley.

We share our visit to Taylorville, IL and the aftermath of an EF-3 Tornado that struck the community December 1st. We also share our visits to Pana and Carlyle during our travels while out delivering the Owl Creek Gazette.

Lessons Learned from Hurricane Michael!Host: Micheal Kline "Reality Check"on American Preppers Radio!Fridays 9:00pm/Est 8:00pm/Ct 6:00pm/PtLive Listen and Chat go to: http://prepperbroadcasting.com/This week on Reality Check we are talking about some of the lessons learned from Hurricane Michael. As many of you know, on October 10th, Hurricane Michael made landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a very strong Category 4 with winds of 155 MPH. Another way to think about this storm is that it was an EF3 tornado 80 miles wide and lasting for over 6 hours that hit the area. All of my friends and family were within 10 miles of the eye-wall and many had the eye-wall pass over them. All of my friends and family were affected and many had damage to their homes. For the next two weeks, after it made landfall, EK and I were frantically trying to get a hold of people and see what supplies they needed. We were able to go to Florida on October 20th to take needed supplies and survey the damage firsthand.I have learned a few hard lessons in prepping because of my family's hardship. This week, we will be talking about some of the things we encountered and some of the lessons learned from the stories we heard and the damage we saw firsthand... Read More!Tags: American Preppers Radio, Prepper Broadcasting, Reality Check, Preparedness

Lessons Learned from Hurricane Michael! Host: Micheal Kline "Reality Check" on American Preppers Radio! Fridays 9:00pm/Est 8:00pm/Ct 6:00pm/Pt Live Listen and Chat go to: http://prepperbroadcasting.com/ This week on Reality Check we are talking about some of the lessons learned from Hurricane Michael. As many of you know, on October 10th, Hurricane Michael made landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a very strong Category 4 with winds of 155 MPH. Another way to think about this storm is that it was an EF3 tornado 80 miles wide and lasting for over 6 hours that hit the area. All of my friends and family were within 10 miles of the eye-wall and many had the eye-wall pass over them. All of my friends and family were affected and many had damage to their homes. For the next two weeks, after it made landfall, EK and I were frantically trying to get a hold of people and see what supplies they needed. We were able to go to Florida on October 20th to take needed supplies and survey the damage firsthand. I have learned a few hard lessons in prepping because of my family's hardship. This week, we will be talking about some of the things we encountered and some of the lessons learned from the stories we heard and the damage we saw firsthand... Read More! Tags: American Preppers Radio, Prepper Broadcasting, Reality Check, Preparedness

Alesis Novik is a Co-Founder of AimBrain, AimBrain, a Biometric Identity as-a-Service platform for global financial institutions. Alesis and his co-founder Andrius were on EF3 and what they’re doing in simple terms is effectively replacing standard passwords and pins with voice, facial and behavioural recognition systems that can be used in isolation or in combination with each other. Alesis gained a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Edinburgh and completed three years of PhD work before dropping out to start AimBrain and join EF. In this conversation we dive into Alesis’ personal story, everything he’s learned about finding product market fit, hiring and funding in the process of building AimBrain and what he’s learned about himself along the way.

On this week's show we discuss the four day severe weather outbreak from earlier last week as well as what YOU should do in the event of a tornado warning. Jimmy is out this week, so Becky and Joel review a blog post she wrote in early 2015 covering the topic of tornado safety. We also cover the discussion that popped up this week related to the old vs new method for rating tornado severity and highlight a number of intense videos from the past week's storms. Show Notes! Introductions - Jimmy is out this week at a conference and was unable to co-host - so its just Becky and Joel. Topic: Tornado Safety Becky reviews the severe weather outbreak, day by day. How to Prepare for Severe Weather and Stay Safe During an Outbreak Insane photo of a very lucky young man who followed proper tornado safety procedures Affordable, $25 weather radio More expensive, but better quality weather radio EF3 vs EF5 discussion related to Oklahoma tornado Fujita Scale (for review) Relevant tweet about the discussion Scary Tornado Videos From This Outbreak Katie, Oklahoma Tornado - close video. Katie, Oklahoma Tornado - from several miles away. Sulphur, Oklahoma Tornado - watch from 4:00 until 6:30 to see the section we were discussing about the storm chaser Tim Marshal deploying a sensor pod. Wray, Colorado Tornado - the "photogenic" tornado we were talking about from the very first day of the storms. The Capital Weather Gang posted a good snapshot of photos from this storm as well. Also, after we finished recording this episode, USTornados.com did a big writeup specifically about the Katie, OK Tornado. This week's outro music was "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) by Dead or Alive.

BPPP 7th Peg Happy Mitten Games (click on the text to left to listen) During this episode of Blue Peg, Pink Peg’s 7th Peg we speak with the team at Happy Mitten Games about the process of bringing their first published game (because this baby is going to fund) Aether Magic, from idea to design to […]

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