Tornado Watch F5 in Alabama

[👺 Usiel]

I will say this once, no flaming no discouraging or making fun of the people that live down there.

To all the people that are near or within the Tornado, to those that are enduring such danger, our prayers are with you.

-NFRP-

Information found at WHP CBS


Sever weather is ripping through the nation's mid-section, and a tornado has reportedly destroyed parts of an Alabama High School.

There are no reports of injuries at Enterprise High School in Enterprise, Alabama. Officials say students were told to leave earlier in the day.

The weather isn't letting up any time soon. Forecasters expect heavy rains and high winds to continue pounding Alabama through the afternoon and into the evening.

The second big winter storm to hit the central United States in less than a week slammed parts of Nebraska and Iowa with near-blizzard conditions on Thursday and spun off tornadoes that killed a child in Missouri.

Snow piling up at a rate of 2 inches an hour closed Interstate 80, a major transcontinental highway, in southeast Nebraska from Omaha westward, where more than 9 inches of snow had fallen in some areas.

More than 50 counties were under blizzard warnings in neighboring western Iowa. Interstate 29 was closed in Iowa from near Omaha north to Sioux City at the South Dakota line.

Schools were closed across southern Minnesota as snow began piling up.

Parts of several Midwestern states and regions as far south as the Gulf Coast to the Florida panhandle were under tornado watches or warnings. In the town of Caulfield in south-central Missouri, a tornado killed a girl in a mobile home and damaged six other homes and two gasoline stations, officials reported.

Damaging hailstorms struck several states.

Foul weather in other cities snarled air traffic in Chicago, where 250 flights were canceled at O'Hare International Airport.

The Weather Channel reported that heavy snow would hit parts of northern New England on Friday and Friday night, where 1 foot or snow may fall as the storm moves east. But it said the bigger cities from Boston and New York, southward would escape with only rain.

960 WERC NewsRadio-Birmingham contributed to this story.

[kaishinodorei]

dang... I BLAME GLOBAL WARMING!

[aiko]

Um, they were let out early, but the tornado got there before they left. There were injuries and MSNBC has been talking to students live on the phone. They were there when the tornado hit, Also hit a hospital.

People were mildly injured because people knew what to do. I wouldn't

1 fatality. A little girl

[aiko]

Good news, the F5 is no longer on the ground, at least as far as they know, but the storms have a history of producing long track tornados, so things aren't really over yet

[Makato "RockStar"]

a tornado landed up north of my city...but i don't think anyone was hurt though...also the tornado warnings was going off and they still had us workin..(show's how much they care about us...lol)

[Hibiki™]

Wow I hope all goes well, I feel horrible that the mountains protect us from most horrible things.

[yukainiea]

ive never been in a tornado becuase montrose colorado is protected by mountains.

[Hibiki™]

So is colorado Springs nice to meet you fellow Coloradoen

[yukainiea]

same here, being a native of colorado is fun, but ive only been to denver thats the farthset ive gon from montrose.

[aiko]

Well the death toll on the history making twister is 18 at the school from a roof and wall falling in. What bothers me most is that something like that can be created from mother nature at such random acts. At least people know when a hurricane is coming. A tornado, they sometimes get a warning but that is about it. Where I live down here in Texas, we get tornados in three areas, but it is random that it occures with storms.

There is a military base near by and they usually cross over from the area of Tye, the S14th street when they have been known to be F1s, and Fort Phanotom Lake.

My parents were at a concert on base one day and they delt with one that crossed over into the area from Tye. It didn't get close to the concert site, but they had hail and high winds where they were. Also the people were helping each other get their cars out of the mud when it was over, the neighborly thing to do.

I had knowledge of a storm passing through town one day when I was working out on I 20 at a convience store in High school and heard some boys come in talking about how HEB acted so they went out with the tornado. They said it was just a tiny thing that picked up very little and maybe cracked the cement on the street. Right down the center of S 14th. Comical at best.

Then another time when I was working at the Convience store, a storm blew up out of no where. I did my duty, went out for the trash cans and then Hail blew up with it. I though nothing of it until it was over just as quick. A highway patrolman pulled up and to check on me and asked if everything was alright, an F3 tornado stopped some some three miles from my store back by way of Fort Phantom lake. Not my time I guess because I didn't know a thing.