And there's still a few days left to go in this particular outbreak.

Good thoughts to everyone in the outbreak areas.

Let me see what else is on twitter.

Four deaths in Little Rock.

Lack even news bureaus outside major markets.

Watching cosmos, and the twitter

from the Breakingnews of the storms.
Things look flattened.
Post them if you can, pls., I cannot do that tonight.
http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/severe-weather-outbreak-in-central-us-expected-april-26-27-2014/

She posted a link a little bit ago on Facebook that said the rescue crews were asking for more flashlight batteries. A baby is missing. Prayers are going up that they find the little one unharmed.

though on scene.

the local stations - http://thv11.com http://arkansasmatters.com have film footage of the tornado when it hit on I-40 and have pics of the mangled tractor trailers. There is storm chaser footage driving down the freeway and it is the scariest thing I have ever seen. I believe they said the tornado was 2 miles wide.

From what I am understanding they still can't get into Vilonia proper and are having to clear trees from the road to actually get into town to see who needs help. They are triageing at a gas station just outside town.

We are suppose to get this again at 3 a.m.

Send good thoughts, prayers, light a candle, whatever - for OK, TX, AR, MO. Looks like it is heading up to IL and KY maybe IN.

Stay safe everyone

Some folks can't catch a break

tornado last spring near El Reno, Okla. It was one of the widest ever recorded. That was a scary night.

An amateur storm chasing team foolishly got too close. Their truck suffered a lot of damage, but they were okay.

Tony Laumbach, of Twistex, publicly spoke out against the actions of this team because of the way they chased. Tony is a close friend a long time colleague of Tim Samaras, who lost his life with his son, Paul, and friend, Carl Young, in El Reno last year.

As far as I know, other chasers out this evening are safe.

hitting the bluegrass region.

Per Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/28/us-usa-tornado-weather-idUSBREA3R08320140428

confirmed by Arkansas emergency management (nfi) as of 12:11 a.m. Monday. Here's a video of the damage.

Photo via Reuters.

Breaking news app chirped, at least eight dead according to the Governor

Numbers will change as dawn approaches

Not surprised at the destruction

yes, inland, no, not really

Been watching weather all my days and that is just out of the ballpark over land. I hope there are no more fatalities, and I hope those in the region were able to heed the warnings. i started seeing warnings of this system since early last week.

I should stop watching the twitter feed.

My local news not covering, but we are on another cul de sac.

a good part of the day as it has been spotty here. But then I decided to watch the eagle cam in Decorah, IA and it occurred to me taht they might be in the line of this monster system. They have been having high winds and some nasty thunderstorms which were ending right about the time these twisters hit. I had two weather site going and saw this whole things start to develop but was called away for a while. When I came back online, I found this info... still just horrified.

I used to drive through that whole part of the US for decades and have had a couple close calls with tornadoes and lightning... this is the stuff of my storm nightmares from back then. Gives me chills, might be a while before I can sleep tonight thinking about everyone in that part of the country.

Gonna be a rough summer for a lot of folks, I'm thinking.

This is so bad that witnesses are obviously victims too.

I was playing elder scrolls online...blame hubby. I started taking breaks as this started to build. Computer is off, I will check twitter one more time and go to bed.

Just sent the drone video to boss. This methinks...will lead to commercial use challenge to FAA as well.

@BMWardMA: As long as I've been living, I've never known a tornado to hit the Arkansas delta. Parents and grands say the same.

More severe droughts, and in general more severe weather as predicted by the science? Next you will slam my neighbors in their 80s who also have noticed changes in the climate over their lifetime, or governments...(including ours) are wrong.

Phew!!!

Human memory is a fickle thing, but when people who have been living in a region all their lives, worst, going back a generation or two tell you things are different...it usually means it is.

Especially when you start hearing this en mass. I suspect 2014 will be the year it finally registers in the US, climate change is real. As to cyclonic air circulations in the middle of a continental mass, no, they are not common, just like cold hurricanes (local NWS description for the winter storm a month ago in California) are not common either. And the drought in the west has been compared to a 500 year drought.

Yup, all these hundred year events, none of us has been paying attention.

I was merely correcting the nonsense that was that tweet (that you naively thought was relevant or true).


I live in tornado alley and not on internet blogs as an amateur meteorologist, try again.

also going as to how unusual this pattern is.

You might want to correct him, serious.

We are having a climate that is changing, this is being reflected in weather that is more dramatic, if you wish to call the damage it is doing more dramatic.

This was predicted by science.

This guy said something else that those of us in Fire prone Southern California were nodding to. We have had a year round fire season, so far you have had a year round tornado season.

I'm not denying climate change (if anything you're the one who has been busted posting links to climate denial blogs). The tweet was wrong and I posted facts (facts aren't random sources on twitter, as a journalist you should know that) correcting it.


And it hasn't been a year round tornado season, it has been an unusually mellow tornado season (in part because of climate change and the drought in the west.)

This can occur in particularly nasty storm set ups.

in the graphic changes with current conditions so today it is different from yesterday nut I have seen this over large bodies of water on occasion but never over land.

Whatever the case, this was a particularly nasty set up that is still playing out today. I think that there will be some kind of reckoning with the "deniers" by the end of this season. At least I hope there will be.

It is never good.

I don't know about the deniers. They have ignored all warning signs. They will blame this outbreak on Jesus, chem trails, or HAARP. But climate science is "nonsense" to them.

Tornado outbreaks are typical this time of year. That's another thing they will point out. "It's just Spring." They ignore the fact that we're seeing more of the large varieties of tornadoes. Imagine if monsters like the one in El Reno become more commonplace. We'd be screwed.

@PLewbel: NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Governor's aide: Arkansas tornado death toll now at 8; separate twister kills 1 in Oklahoma.

And the YouTube video from a drone might make legal history as well. If any station used it, could lead to the FAA getting cute (the rules for commercial use of drones are all but clear, on purpose, FAA does not want any commercial use)

@NewsBreaker: UPDATE: At least 11dead as a result of tornadoes in Arkansas and Oklahoma http://t.co/JVTFLnM5gd - @stormchaser4850 @THV11

This is really bad. I hope Virginia is sending the USAR team, and it expect mobilization to the West Coast. Overnight numbers will go up, and I hate to write this.

And I am off to bed

The almost gleeful updates of posts saying "9 dead", "10 dead" etc is kinda gross and sorta bloodthirsty.
I know some people get off on disasters but I feel bad for those we lost and those who lost loved ones.
Stay safe.

the body count aspect is kind of creepy but some want to know right away for some reason.

What I find more informative is the notices of affected areas. Anyone within two counties of any of this will be affected in a number of ways. This is a huge area to be dealing with this in one day!

Just insane. Look at this highly unusual pattern that I get the feeling is soon to become the norm...

Al Gore never said
Global Tornado-ing.

It's late April, this isn't unusual.

The lingering cold weather held off the start of tornado season to either a record or near-record late date. I think it finally got going with a couple of small tornadoes last week. And now -- bang.

Tornadoes at this time of year aren't unusual -- but the overall pattern certainly is.

And the only thing weird about this pattern is the late start.

@stormchaser4850: Update: Approximately 46 members of the #Arkansas National Guard called up to help in wake of deadly #tornadoes http://t.co/rHi46ngWxc