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Complete destruction in London, KY, at least a dozen of homes having foundations cleanly swept. This is one of many towns cored by violent tornadoes last night, I fear we'll see even more towns with this level of extreme damage.
 
I didn't think to post it here until now, but last month I'm pretty sure I was staring directly at a tornado and didn't even know it.

Sirens went off, I got the ground level and watched radar/windows. The sky was FUCKED. Wind was coming from the wrong direction. I remember looking out at the haze and thinking that if there was a tornado more than a couple hundred feet away, I wouldn't be able to see it. I also remember thinking that if I was ever going to see a tornado in my life, it would be today. After watching about 10 minutes the sky started to clear a little... and then I started to see rotation. Less than a funnel cloud, but more than a hook echo. But it dissipated before too long.

However, when I looked at the tornado records the next day, I discovered there had been one coming right at me, only a few miles away. Had the sky been clearer I'm almost sure I would've seen it. i think the rotation I saw was a tornado corpse. It was a short lived EF0 and the worst it did was take a roof off a gas station, but still though. Freaky to think about.
 
Lord of the Large Pants said:
I didn't think to post it here until now, but last month I'm pretty sure I was staring directly at a tornado and didn't even know it.

Sirens went off, I got the ground level and watched radar/windows. The sky was FUCKED. Wind was coming from the wrong direction. I remember looking out at the haze and thinking that if there was a tornado more than a couple hundred feet away, I wouldn't be able to see it. I also remember thinking that if I was ever going to see a tornado in my life, it would be today. After watching about 10 minutes the sky started to clear a little... and then I started to see rotation. Less than a funnel cloud, but more than a hook echo. But it dissipated before too long.

However, when I looked at the tornado records the next day, I discovered there had been one coming right at me, only a few miles away. Had the sky been clearer I'm almost sure I would've seen it. i think the rotation I saw was a tornado corpse. It was a short lived EF0 and the worst it did was take a roof off a gas station, but still though. Freaky to think about.
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I had similar a couple weeks ago, about 2 miles south of me was an EF0 that crossed some farm fields and a road. Didn't do much besides swirl patterns in vegitation
 
FatalTater said:
London Kentucky and nearby areas have a LOT of trailers. This is gonna get worse as people start taking stock of who's missing.

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Kentucky death toll is rising
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Those 20 (21 according to another source) deaths are in London, Kentucky alone. You probably also have deaths from other towns affected by that tornado, other deaths from other towns, and then the other deaths confirmed by the other tornadoes, which includes 5 in STL, 2 more elsewhere in MO, and 1 in IN. That puts the total of the event to at least either 28 or 29.
 
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A cow at a Wisconsin farm survived being impaled by a 2x4. The farm is unfortunately devastated.

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Tornado in Marion, IL preliminary rated an EF-4 with winds of 190mph, third time ever that a tornado has earned a 190mph preliminary rating. I doubt this gets upgraded any further, I think 190mph is perfectly acceptable as a final rating.
 
Right now there's a tornado on the ground in rural western Kansas, meanwhile another warned storm in NW Oklahoma is radar indicated but the warning mentions grapefruit sized hail.

Kansas:

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Oklahoma:

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EDIT: Looking at storm reports, there's spotter and public reports of 4-5 inch hail on the OK cell and earlier it produced a tornado. KS got upgraded to a PDS warning
 
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Heaven help them. Greensburg's Emergency Services are evacuating so they can go back in once it passes.
 
I do want to say that the tornado missed the heart of the town, judging by velocity/CC.
Meanwhile, a meso-gamma discussion was issued for the parent thunderstorm.
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