Weather Event #1

Reports on today's severe thunderstorm outbreak in the Ohio Valley and Southeast:

Georgia:
http://www.11alive.com/news/usnews_article.aspx?storyid=74023
January's Springlike Outbreak of Severe Thunderstorms

Kentucky:
FINAL REPORT: Storms of January 02, 2006
Elizabethtown tornado picture
Lexington Herald-Leader Article

All:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/060102_rpts.html

Tornado count as of 6:50 PM CST 1/07/2006:

6 tornadoes in Louisville County Warning Area (north-central and central KY)
3 F2
3 F1

6 tornadoes in Peachtree City County Warning Area (northwestern and central GA)
1 F3
1 F2
3 F1
1 F0

1 tornado in Charleston County Warning Area (southern SC and northeast GA)
1 F0

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
847 PM EST TUE JAN 3 2005

...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONFIRMS A TORNADO SOUTH OF MILLEN GEORGIA...

A DAMAGE ASSESSMENT TEAM FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA SURVEYED DAMAGE THAT OCCURRED FROM A SEVERE SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORM THAT MOVED THROUGH MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN JENKINS COUNTY GEORGIA BETWEEN 9 PM AND 930 PM MONDAY EVENING. DAMAGE OCCURRED IN SEVERAL COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY WITH THE MOST SEVERE DAMAGE BEING OBSERVED ABOUT 10 MILES
SOUTH OF MILLEN

....TRACK REVIEW...
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED RAPIDLY EAST OUT OF BURKE AND EMMANUEL COUNTIES MONDAY EVENING. A LARGE AND DANGEROUS LONG TRACK SUPERCELL ON THE TAIL END OF THE LINE MOVED INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN PORTION OF JENKINS COUNTY...ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF HERNDON...SHORTLY BEFORE 9 PM. THE STORM MOVED INTO THE COMMUNITY OF BUTTS AROUND 910 PM WHERE SCATTERED TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN. THE DAMAGE TEAM FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF A TORNADO...BUT HAS DETERMINED THE TREES WHERE BLOWN DOWN BY STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

THE SUPERCELL CONTINUED TO MOVE RAPIDLY EAST AROUND 50 MPH INTO AN AREA BETWEEN MILLEN AND FOUR POINTS. AROUND 915 PM...HIGH WINDS OVERTURNED AND SEVERELY DAMAGED AN UNSECURED MOBILE HOME OFF U.S. HIGHWAY 25 AND DAMAGED OTHER NEARBY STRUCTURES. A SECOND MOBILE HOME HAD ITS PORCH BLOWN OFF AND ROOF PEELED BACK. TWELVE TREES NEAR BOTH HOMES WERE ALSO BLOWN DOWN. THE DAMAGE TEAM HAS DETERMINED THAT A TORNADO OF F0 INTENSITY MOVED THROUGH THIS AREA WITH ESTIMATED WINDS OF 60-70 MPH. THE TORNADO WAS 25 YARDS WIDE AND WAS ON THE GROUND FOR 75 YARDS BEFORE LIFTING.

THE STORM MOVED INTO THE COMMUNITY OF SCARBORO IN THE SOUTHEAST PORTION OF JENKINS COUNTY BY 925 PM. HERE HIGH WINDS BLEW DOWN TREES OFF OLD SAVANNAH ROAD. THE TEAM HAS DETERMINED THAT THE TREE DAMAGE WAS CAUSED BY STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND NOT BY A TORNADO. THE SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORM EXITED JENKINS COUNTY SHORTLY BEFORE 930 PM.

...TORNADO STATISTICS...
LOCATION... 10 MILES SOUTH OF MILLEN GA
TIME OF OCCURRENCE... 915 PM
F-SCALE RATING... F0
ESTIMATED WINDS... 60-70 MPH
TORNADO WIDTH... 25 YARDS
TORNADO TRACK LENGTH... 75 YARDS

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON WISHES TO THANK THE CITIZENS OF JENKINS COUNTY...THE SAVANNAH AND AUGUSTA BROADCAST MEDIA AND LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS FOR THEIR HELPYESTERDAY EVENING AND TODAY.

Two tornadoes also developed during the early morning hours of January 2nd, 2006 over eastern Missouri (LSX CWA):

St. Charles County
St. Louis County

Glad to see only a few minor injuries out of this. There were some very impressive supercells producing strong (F2-F3) and potentially highly destructive tornadoes. With the often poor visibility and density of mobile homes in the Southeast, tornadoes there are often deadlier than in other parts of the country.