Weather Event #13-Early May Storms and Tornadoes
The first few days of May were an active period for severe weather across Texas, particularly the central and southern parts of the state. May 2nd and 5th were the most active tornado days of this period. May 2nd also had a tornado in South Dakota captured by chaser Scott Olson.
On the evening of May 9th, a strong F3, similar in strenth to the Stoughton (WI), Caruthersville (MO) and Gallatin (TN) tornadoes; hit Westminster in northeast Texas killing three people. That same evening an F2 tornado hit Childress in the Texas Panhandle.
Several more tornadoes occured in Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Indiana on Wednesday, May 10th.
Tuesday, May 02:
Lubbock, Texas (covers May 02-05)
Midland, Texas
Chase pictures by Adam Atkins
Chase pictures by Chad Lawson and Mickey Ptak
Chase pictures by Scott Olson 1 2
SPC Storm Reports log
Thursday, May 04:
Midland, Texas
SPC Storm Reports log
Friday, May 05:
Midland, Texas
Chase report by Tony Laubach
Chase report by Amos Magliocco
Chase report by Gene Moore
Chase report by Eric Nguyen
Chase video by Kevin Walter
SPC Storm Reports log
During the early AM hours of May 6th; Waco, Texas received widespread damage from an F2 tornado coupled with downburst winds:
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
857 PM CDT SAT MAY 6 2006
...RESULTS OF THE SURVEY OF THE MCLENNAN COUNTY STORM OF MAY 6...
ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON...STAFF FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SURVEYED THE DAMAGE IN WACO AND MCLENNAN COUNTY. BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THIS SURVEY...IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE DAMAGE IN AND NEAR WACO WAS CAUSED BY A COMBINATION OF DOWNBURST WINDS AND A TORNADO.
ISOLATED AREAS OF WIND DAMAGE WERE NOTED IN WESTERN MCLENNAN COUNTY...NEAR CRAWFORD...NEAR VALLEY MILLS...AND WESTERN WACO. MORE WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE WAS NOTED IN WOODWAY...HEWITT...ROBINSON...AND SOUTH WACO. THIS DAMAGE EXTENDED ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE HIGHWAY 6 CORRIDOR. MINOR ROOF DAMAGE AND DAMAGE TO TREES...SIGNS...AND AWNINGS WAS NOTED IN THIS AREA. DAMAGE PATTERNS AND CORRELATION WITH RADAR DATA SUGGEST DOWNBURST WINDS OF 50 TO 80 MPH WERE LIKELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DAMAGE.
NORTH OF THE DOWNBURST AREA...EVIDENCE OF A CIRCULATION WAS FIRST OBSERVED SOUTH OF NEW ROAD AND JUST WEST OF SPUR 298...OR JUST NORTH OF RICHLAND MALL. THE TORNADO REACHED ITS PEAK INTENSITY...AND CAUSED THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE...JUST EAST OF SPUR 298. SEVERAL COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS HAD CONSIDERABLE SECTIONS OF ROOF REMOVED AND WALLS DAMAGED. NUMEROUS TREES WERE DOWNED AND POWER POLES WERE SNAPPED IN AND EAST OF THIS AREA. THE CIRCULATION WEAKENED AS IT APPROACHED INTERSTATE 35...AND THE LAST EVIDENCE OF CIRCULATION WAS NOTED IN BEVERLY HILLS...APPROXIMATELY 3/4 MILE EAST OFINTERSTATE 35. DOWNBURST-RELATED WIND DAMAGE CONTINUED TO THE EAST OF WACO.
WHILE DEBRIS IN THE AREA NEAR AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 6 WAS CARRIED MAINLY EAST AND SOUTHEAST...DEBRIS IN THE CIRCULATION AREA WAS CARRIED TO THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST IN SOME LOCATIONS. EVIDENCE WAS ALSO SEEN OF A CONVERGING WIND FIELD IN THIS AREA. THIS SUGGESTS THAT A TORNADO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE DAMAGE SWATH.
BASED ON THE DAMAGE...THE TORNADO WILL BE GIVEN A PRELIMINARY RATING OF A LOWER F2 ON THE FUJITA SCALE. MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS IN THE TORNADO WERE LIKELY IN THE 115 MPH RANGE. PATH LENGTH WAS AROUND 2.6 MILES...AND AVERAGE PATH WIDTH WAS APPROXIMATELY 150 YARDS.
THIS WAS A METEOROLOGICALLY COMPLEX EVENT. THE TYPE OF THUNDERSTORM WHICH MOVED ACROSS THE WACO AREA IS CALLED A SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORM. SUPERCELLS ARE CHARACTERIZED BY AN AREA OF STORM-SCALE ROTATION...KNOWN AS A MESOCYCLONE. A STRONG DOWNDRAFT...CALLED A REAR FLANKDOWNDRAFT...LIKELY WRAPPED AROUND THE WEST AND SOUTH SIDE OF THE MESOCYCLONE...STRUCK THE GROUND...AND PRODUCED THE DOWNBURST DAMAGE. JUST NORTH OF THE DOWNBURST AREA AND NEAR THE CENTER OF THE MESOCYCLONE...A SMALL VIGOROUS AREA OF ROTATION DEVELOPED AND EVOLVED INTO THE TORNADO.
WOODALL
Tuesday, May 09:
Huntsville, Alabama
Fort Worth, Texas
Chase report by Sam Barricklow
Chase report by Amos Magliocco
Chase report by Mike Mezeul II
Chase report by Eric Nguyen
SPC Storm Reports log
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
755 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006
...UPDATED RESULTS FROM DAMAGE SURVEY IN COLLIN AND GRAYSON COUNTIES FROM STORMS ON MAY 9TH 2006...
AFTER ADDITIONAL SURVEY WORK AND CONSULTATION WITH STORM SPOTTERS AND WIND DAMAGE EXPERTS...HERE IS UPDATED INFORMATION ON THE COLLIN-GRAYSON COUNTY STORM OF MAY 9.
IT APPEARS THAT TWO...AND POSSIBLY THREE...TORNADOES MOVED ACROSS NORTHERN COLLIN AND INTO SOUTHEASTERN GRAYSON COUNTIES. ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 9...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST NORTHWEST OF ANNA AT APPROXIMATELY 1026 PM CDT. NO SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WAS REPORTED TO THE ANNA FIRE DEPARTMENT...AND NO SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WAS NOTED BY THE SURVEY TEAM. THEREFORE...IF A CIRCULATION WAS PRESENT...IT WAS LIKELY BRIEF AND WOULD BE RATED F0.
AS THE STORM PASSED JUST NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF ANNA...SPOTTERS REPORTED ANOTHER TORNADO AT 1033 PM CDT. SOME DAMAGE WAS NOTED ALONG FARM ROAD 2862 1 TO 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF ANNA. DAMAGE WAS CONFINED TO TREE LIMBS AND STORAGE BUILDING ROOFS...AND THIS TORNADO WILL BE RATED F0.
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT TORNADO DEVELOPED AT APPROXIMATELY 1037 PM...3 MILES EAST-NORTHEAST OF ANNA. JUST EAST OF COLLIN COUNTY ROAD 477...THE TORNADO UNROOFED A HOME AND DAMAGED ANOTHER. TREES WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED...AND POWER POLES WERE DOWNED. A ROOF WAS DAMAGED ALONG F.M. 2862 WEST OF COLLIN COUNTY ROAD 480. THE TORNADO THEN TURNED ON A SLIGHTLY MORE NORTHERLY TRACK.
THE TORNADO REACHED ITS MAXIMUM INTENSITY AS IT CROSSED F.M. 3133 JUST NORTH OF THE WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY. VEGETATION WEST OF F.M.3133 WAS SCOURED. THE TORNADO HEAVILY DAMAGED TWO HOMES SOUTH OF COLLIN COUNTY ROAD 531. A MOBILE HOME AND SEVERAL PERMANENT STRUCTURES SUFFERED HEAVY DAMAGE ALONG BRANGUS AND BLACK ROADS...NEAR THE COLLIN-GRAYSON COUNTY LINE. THESE WERE THE LOCATIONS OF THE FATALITIES.
THE TORNADO REMAINED STRONG AS IT CROSSED INTO GRAYSON COUNTY. NUMEROUS TREES WERE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED ALONG YELLOW BRIDGE ROAD...DURHAM ROAD...AND RED MOORE ROAD. THE TORNADO DAMAGED OUTBUILDINGS...ROLLED OVER A MOBILE HOME...AND CAUSED AT LEAST MINOR DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES IN THIS AREA. AS THE TORNADO APPROACHED GORDON ROAD SOUTHEAST OF THE PILOT GROVE COMMUNITY...AT LEAST TWO ADDITIONAL HOMES WERE HEAVILY DAMAGED. THE TORNADO CROSSED F.M. 121 AND DAMAGED A SHED ALONG BETHEL CANYON ROAD...JUST WEST OF HIGHWAY 160. THE TORNADO CROSSED HIGHWAY 160 AND DISSIPATED APPROXIMATELY 3 MILES SOUTH OF WHITEWRIGHT JUST BEFORE 11 PM.
BASED ON THE DAMAGE NEAR F.M. 3133 AND AFTER CONSULTATION WITH WIND ENGINEERS...THE THIRD TORNADO WILL BE RATED F3 ON THE FUJITA SCALE. USING THE NEW ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE GUIDELINES...MAXIMUM WINDS WERE LIKELY IN THE 150 TO 160 MPH RANGE. F2 DAMAGE WAS NOTED AT OTHER LOCATIONS ALONG THE TRACK...INCLUDING THE HOMES EAST OF COLLIN COUNTY ROAD 477...AND THE HOMES NEAR GORDON ROAD IN GRAYSON COUNTY. THESE AREAS WILL CONTINUE TO BE EVALUATED...AND MAY BE UPGRADED TO F3 AS WELL. PATH LENGTH OF THE THIRD TORNADO WAS 9.3 MILES...AND THE AVERAGE PATH WIDTH WAS AROUND 300 YARDS.
WHILE THIS INFORMATION IS MORE COMPLETE...IT SHOULD STILL BE CONSIDERED PRELIMINARY. ADDITIONAL CONSULTATION WITH STORM SPOTTERS...A MORE DETAILED REVIEW OF RADAR DATA...AND ADDITIONAL FOLLOWUP WITH LOCAL EMERGENCY OFFICIALS MAY RESULT IN ADJUSTMENTS TO THIS INFORMATION.
WOODALL/DUNN
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
915 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006
...NWS CONDUCTS DAMAGE SURVEY FOLLOWING MAY 9 2006 SEVERE WEATHER IMPACTS...
ON TUESDAY MAY 9 2006...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED ALONG AND JUST TOTHE EAST OF THE CAPROCK ESCARPMENT AND QUICKLY BECAME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING HAIL AND HIGH WINDS. IN ADDITION...A TORNADO IMPACTED THE CITY OF CHILDRESS WITH EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO TREES AND SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO AREA STRUCTURES.
OUT OF THE TWENTY-FOUR COUNTIES SERVICED BY NWS LUBBOCK...FOUR WERE IMPACTED BY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AND INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING...DICKENS...MOTLEY...HALL AND CHILDRESS.
ON WEDNESDAY MAY 10 2006...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK DISPATCHED AN ASSESSMENT TEAM TO INVESTIGATE THE DAMAGE REPORTED IN THE CITY OF CHILDRESS. THE FOLLOWING REPORT IS A SUMMARYOF THE TEAM'S FINDINGS.
THE ASSESSMENT TEAM...COMPRISED OF JUSTIN WEAVER...NWS LUBBOCK METEOROLOGIST IN CHARGE...AND BRIAN LAMARRE...NWS LUBBOCK WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST INVESTIGATED THE DAMAGE ZONES ACROSS THE CITY OF CHILDRESS.
DAMAGE SURVEY RESULTS INDICATED A MIXTURE OF TORNADO DAMAGE AND STRAIGHT-LINE WIND DAMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM DOWNDRAFT KNOWN AS THE REAR FLANK DOWNDRAFT OR /RFD/. THE RFD CANDEVELOP ON THE BACK-SIDE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND...IN ADDITION TO DAMAGING WINDS...CAN PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF A TORNADO.
THE DAMAGE IN THE CHILDRESS AREA WAS EXTENSIVE AND STRETCHED ALONG A 2 TO 2.5 MILE PATH EXTENDING ALONG THE NORTHWEST...NORTH AND NORTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE CITY OF CHILDRESS.
1. THE FIRST INDICATIONS OF DAMAGE OCCURRED AT AN APARTMENT COMPLEXABOUT ONE HALF MILE WEST OF THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 83 AND 287. HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE WAS EVIDENT ON MAINLY THE WEST FACING SIDE OF THE APARTMENTS WHERE TORN SIDING AND WINDOW DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED. JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 83 AND 287...A MEDIUM VOLTAGE POWER POLE WAS BLOWN OVER IN A WEST TO EAST DIRECTION.
A ZONE OF SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED IN A 1 TO 1.5 MILE SWATH STRETCHING FROM ABOUT TWO TENTHS OF A MILE WEST OF THE CHILDRESS HIGH SCHOOL AND DISSIPATING NEAR THE CHILDRESS CEMETERY.
2. A RESIDENTIAL AREA TO THE WEST OF THE CHILDRESS HIGH SCHOOL SUSTAINED TREE AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE WINDS AND THE FORMATION OF A TORNADO. LARGE TREES WERE UPROOTED AND/OR DOWNED IN A WEST TO EAST DIRECTION WITHIN THE STRONG AND PREVALENT FLOW OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. AN OVERHANG PORCH STRUCTURE ON THE SOUTH FACING SIDE OF THE HOME WAS BLOWN FROM SOUTH TO NORTH OVER THE RESIDENCE AND PRODUCED ROOF DAMAGE AND CRUSHED SEVERAL LARGE BRANCHES BEHIND THE HOME IN THE BACKYARD. A NEARBY STOP SIGN WAS ALSO BLOWN FROM A SOUTH TO NORTH DIRECTION...LIKELY INDICATING ENHANCED INFLOW TO THE TORNADO FORMING IN THIS AREA.
TORNADO RATING...F0. FUJITA WIND SPEED ESTIMATE...40 TO 72 MPH.
3. THE CHILDRESS HIGH SCHOOL SUSTAINED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO ONE OF THE SCHOOL'S TWO GYMNASIUMS. THE TORNADO AND ASSOCIATED DAMAGING WIND AND FLYING DEBRIS IMPACTED THE SCHOOL AND PENETRATED THE WEST FACING BRICK WALL OF THE OLDER GYM...FORCING A 66 FOOT WIDE BREACH. AS A RESULT...SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE OCCURRED INSIDE THE GYMNASIUM...HOWEVER PENETRATION DID NOT PASS THROUGH THE OPPOSING WALL. THE INTEGRITY OF THIS BRICK WALL TO THE FOUNDATION WAS NOTED AND LIKELY CONTRIBUTED TO ITS FAILURE IN COMPARISON TO THE NEWER GYMNASIUM.
FOUR LARGE AIR CONDITIONING UNITS WERE ALSO DESTROYED. THREE OF THE UNITS WERE BLOWN OFF THE ROOF OF THE SCHOOL...AND TWO OF THEM WERE BLOWN FROM SOUTHEAST TO NORTHWEST...LANDING 90 TO 200 FEET FROM THE SCHOOL. THE PATH WIDTH OF THE TORNADO WAS MEASURED AT ONE TENTH OF A MILE.
TORNADO RATING...F1. FUJITA WIND SPEED ESTIMATE...73 TO 112 MPH.
SEVERAL LARGE UPROOTED AND/OR DOWNED TREES WERE OBSERVED IN THE NARROW PATH OF SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE STRETCHING TO THE EAST OF THE HIGH SCHOOL...INCLUDING DAMAGE TO AREA ROOFS. A NURSING HOME FACILITY EVACUATED PATIENTS DUE TO ROOF AND INTERNAL DAMAGES. THERE WERE NO INJURIES.
4. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH THE TORNADO OCCURRED IN THE FAIR PARK AREA...APPROXIMATELY ONE HALF MILE EAST OF THE HIGH SCHOOL. A TENNIS COURT WAS DESTROYED WITH LARGE LIGHT POLES EITHER BLOWN DOWN AT THE BASE OR BENT AT VARIOUS HEIGHTS DUE TO SEVERE WINDS AND FLYING DEBRIS. A LARGE METAL MAINTENANCE STRUCTURE USED TO HOUSE EMERGENCY VEHICLES WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED. STEEL BEAMS WERE COMPLETELY TORN FROM THEIR BOLT FIXTURES AND TWISTED INTO RUBBLE. THE DEBRIS WAS NOT DISPLACED FROM THE LOCATION AND WAS PILED ON TOP OF ITSELF AND THE EMERGENCY VEHICLE INSIDE THE STRUCTURE.
ADJACENT TO THIS LOCATION WAS AN AREA COMPRISED OF NUMEROUS LARGE TREES UPROOTED AND BLOWN IN VARIOUS DIRECTIONS. A PREDOMINANT WEST TO EAST FORWARD FLOW WAS OBSERVED...HOWEVER THE ORIENTATION OF DAMAGED TREES ALSO CONSISTED OF A SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST DIRECTION...AS WELL AS A WEST TO EAST DIRECTION WITHIN THE TIGHT AND NARROW TORNADO CIRCULATION. IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA...A BRIDGE EXTENDING ACROSS PARK LAKE WAS RIPPED FROM WOODEN BEAMS AND BLOWN TO THE EAST. A LARGE STONE PICNIC TABLE TOP WAS BLOWN OFF IN A SOUTH TO NORTH DIRECTION.
TORNADO RATING...F2 /LOW-END/. FUJITA WIND SPEED ESTIMATE...113 TO157 MPH.
LARGE TREE AND WEAKER STRUCTURAL DAMAGE WAS ALSO NOTED WITHIN ONE HALF MILE TO THE SOUTH OF THE HIGH WIND AND TORNADO PATH...INCLUDING A LARGE TREE SNAPPED NEAR THE BASE AT THE CHILDRESS COUNTY COURTHOUSE. THERE WAS ONE INJURY REPORTED IN THE AREA AS A MAN WAS IMPACTED BY A TREE AND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE RECEIVED SEVEN STITCHES IN HIS ARM.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL OF THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICIALS AND THE CHILDRESS COUNTY JUDGE FOR THEIR HELP DURING THE NWS LUBBOCK DAMAGE SURVEY. IN ADDITION...THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BOTH DURING AND FOLLOWING THE IMPACTS IN CHILDRESS...AS PROVIDED BY MEDIA AFFILIATES IN BOTH AMARILLO ANDLUBBOCK...ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
BRIAN LAMARRE
WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE - LUBBOCK TX
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
930 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006
...DAMAGE SURVEY RESULTS FROM MAY 9TH AND MAY 10TH STORMS...
A STORM SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED TODAY TO INVESTIGATE DAMAGE THAT OCCURRED IN NORTHERN OKMULGEE COUNTY EARLY THIS MORNING.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVED INTO NORTHWESTERN OKMULGEE COUNTY AT 120 AM THIS MORNING AND PRODUCED A SWATH OF WIND DAMAGE THAT WAS AT LEAST TWO TO THREE MILES WIDE AND 10 MILES LONG THAT BEGAN SOUTHWEST OF MOUNDS AND CONTINUED AT LEAST AS FAR EAST AS HECTORVILLE. WINDS WITHIN THE DAMAGE SWATH LIKELY GUSTED TO BETWEEN 70 AND 80 MPH BASED ON DAMAGE TO TREES...OUTBUILDINGS...MOBILE HOMES...AND POWER POLES.
IN ADDITION TO THE STRAIGHT-LINE WIND DAMAGE...THERE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN A TORNADO ABOUT 7 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF HECTORVILLE. THE TORNADO DESTROYED A COUPLE OF OUTBUILDINGS...UPROOTED OR SNAPPED A NUMBER OF TREES...DAMAGED A CAMPER TRAILER...AND PRODUCED MINOR DAMAGE TO A HOUSE. THE TORNADO WAS RATED F1 ON THE FUJITA SCALE AND LIKELY PRODUCED WIND SPEEDS UP TO AROUND 80 MPH. IT OCCURRED AROUND 140 AM. THERE WERE NO INJURIES AS A RESULT OF THIS TORNADO. CURRENT PATH INFORMATION FOR THIS TORNADO PENDING FURTHER DATA IS 1/2 MILE LONG AND UP TO ABOUT 75 YARDS WIDE.
A STORM SURVEY WAS ALSO CONDUCTED TODAY TO INVESTIGATE TORNADO REPORTS AND DAMAGE IN NORTHEASTERN CRAIG COUNTY AND NORTHWESTERN OTTAWA COUNTY EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. WE COULD NOT CONFIRM A TORNADO BASED ON WHAT WAS OBSERVED DURING THIS SURVEY BUT FURTHER INVESTIGATION WILL OCCUR ON THURSDAY.
EJC
Wednesday, May 10:
Birmingham, Alabama
Louisville, Kentucky
Paducah, Kentucky
SPC Storm Reports log
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
145 PM CST THU MAY 11 2006
...WEAK TORNADO FOUND IN DALLAS COUNTY...
TODAY...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK SURVEYED STORM DAMAGE CAUSED BY STORMS WEDNESDAY MORNING...MAY 10TH.
A WEAK TORNADO TRACKED FROM 2.5 MILES WEST OF PRINCETON TO 1 MILE EAST OF PRINCETON. THE PATH LENGTH WAS 3.5 MILES.
THE TORNADO WAS RATED F0 ON THE FUJITA SCALE OF TORNADO INTENSITY CLASSIFICATION...WITH WINDS AROUND 70 MPH.
THE TORNADO KNOCKED THE TOPS OUT OF TREES...AND UPROOTED SEVERAL TREES.
A LARGE PINE TREE FELL INTO THE STOREROOM OF A LOCAL STORE. THE SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED BY JOHN ROBINSON...WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST...AND NEWTON SKILES...A SENIOR FORECASTER...BOTH FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK.
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
940 PM CST THU MAY 11 2006
AN NWS SURVEY TEAM CONDUCTED STORM DAMAGE SURVEYS TODAY IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA. TWO TORNADOES WERE FOUND FROM THE STORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH THE AREA.
TORNADO #1...CONCORDIA PARISH
TIME...435 PM TO 443 PM
LOCATION...10 WSW CLAYTON TO 8 SW CLAYTON
PRELIMINARY FUJITA RATING...F1
PATH LENGTH...2.7 MILES
MAX PATH WIDTH...90 YDS
DAMAGE...INITIAL DAMAGE WAS TO TREETOPS BEFORE DESCENDING INTO A FIELD. THE TORNADO CROSSED HWY 566...PASSING A FEW HUNDRED YDS SOUTH OF A HOUSE...AND MOVED THROUGH A CORN FIELD. ABOUT A 50 YD PATH OF CORN WAS TOTALLY LEVELED...WITH A CLEARLY CONVERGENT PATTERN TO THE DAMAGE. THE TORNADO MEANDERED GENERALLY EAST SOUTHEAST THROUGH THESE CORN FIELDS...WITH A DAMAGE PATH VARYING FROM 50 TO 90 YDS BUT WITH A CORE OF DAMAGE BETWEEN 25 AND 50 YDS WHERE ALL THE CORN WAS LEVELED. THE TORNADO MOVED OUT OF THE CORN FIELDS INTO A TREE LINE WHERE A COUPLE OF TREETOPS WERE SNAPPED. THE TORNADO WAS OBSERVED DURING MOST OF ITS LIFETIME BY A CONCORDIA PARISH DEPUTY SHERIFF...WHO TOOK SEVERAL PICTURES OF THE ROPELIKE TORNADO.
STARTING LAT/LON...31 DEG 40.41 MIN N 91 DEG 41.55 MIN W
ENDING LAT/LONG...31 DEG 39.88 MIN N 91 DEG 28.83 MIN W
TORNADO #2...JEFFERSON COUNTY
TIME...549 PM TO 601 PM
LOCATION...5.5 SE FAYETTE TO 5.5 WSW UNION CHURCH
PRELIMINARY FUJITA RATING...F2
PATH LENGTH...7.0 MILES
MAX PATH WIDTH...440 YDS
DAMAGE...MUCH OF THE DAMAGE ALONG THIS PATH WAS TO TREES...AND THOUSANDS OF TREES WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED ALONG THIS TORNADO'S PATH. THE MOST INTENSE DAMAGE WAS IN A SMALL AREA ABOUT 6 MILES WSW OF UNION CHURCH ALONG PERTH ROAD WHERE NEARLY EVERY TREE...MANY OF THEM VERY LARGE...IN A HEAVILY FORESTED AREA WERE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. THE DAMAGE HERE WAS RATED AT THE LOW END OF F2...MOST OF THE DAMAGE ALONG THE PATH WAS F1 INTENSITY. LUCKILY NO HOMES APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE TORNADO...BUT TWO SHEDS NEAR A HOME WERE DESTROYED.
STARTING LAT/LON...31 DEG 39.08 MIN N 90 DEG 59.77 MIN W
ENDING LAT/LON...31 DEG 40.22 MIN N 90 DEG 52.75 MIN W
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE CONCORDIA PARISH SHERIFF OFFICE FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE IN PERFORMING OUR SURVEY.
AEG/GRG/CAW
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1000 PM CDT THU MAY 11 2006
...MARENGO COUNTY F1 TORNADO ON MAY...10...2006...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...NWS...METEOROLOGISTS SURVEYED DAMAGE THAT OCCURRED ON WEDNESDAY...MAY...10...BETWEEN JEFFERSON STATION AND LINDEN...ON EITHER SIDE OF STATE HIGHWAY 28...ON THURSDAY...MAY 11...AND DETERMINED THAT AN F1 TORNADO HAD OCCURRED.
THIS TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AT APPROXIMATELY 244 PM CDT...WITH ESTIMATED WINDS OF AROUND 80 MPH...AND LIFTED AT 248 PM CDT. THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN 1.05 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JEFFERSON STATION...AND LIFTED ON SOUTH SHILOH ROAD IN LINDEN NEAR STATE HIGHWAY 28. THE TORNADO PATH WAS 2.6 MILES LONG AND 150 YARDS WIDE AT ITS WIDEST POINT. NUMEROUS TREES AND SCATTERED POWER LINES WERE DOWNED ALONG THE PATH. THE ONLY STRUCTURAL DAMAGE OCCURRED WHEN A LARGE TREE FELL ON A HOME...COMPLETELY DESTROYING ONE OF ITS GARAGE DOORS. ANOTHER HOME SUSTAINED PARTIAL ROOF DAMAGE.
NO INJURIES OR FATALITIES WERE REPORTED. A TORNADO WARNING WAS ISSUED FOR MARENGO COUNTY FROM 223 PM CDT TO 300 PM CDT...AND THEN RE-ISSUED FROM 255 PM CDT TO 330 PM CDT...ON WEDNESDAY...MAY...10. TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 335...FOR SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA...INCLUDING MARENGO COUNTY...WAS IN EFFECT FROM 145 PM CDT TO 900 PM CDT ON WEDNESDAY...MAY 10.
SPECIAL THANKS TO JEFF LADURON...CHIEF OF POLICE...LINDEN POLICE DEPARTMENT...IN ASSISTING NWS STORM SURVEY PERSONNEL IN CONDUCTING THIS STORM SURVEY.
MBS/JBW
On the evening of May 9th, a strong F3, similar in strenth to the Stoughton (WI), Caruthersville (MO) and Gallatin (TN) tornadoes; hit Westminster in northeast Texas killing three people. That same evening an F2 tornado hit Childress in the Texas Panhandle.
Several more tornadoes occured in Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Indiana on Wednesday, May 10th.
Tuesday, May 02:
Lubbock, Texas (covers May 02-05)
Midland, Texas
Chase pictures by Adam Atkins
Chase pictures by Chad Lawson and Mickey Ptak
Chase pictures by Scott Olson 1 2
SPC Storm Reports log
Thursday, May 04:
Midland, Texas
SPC Storm Reports log
Friday, May 05:
Midland, Texas
Chase report by Tony Laubach
Chase report by Amos Magliocco
Chase report by Gene Moore
Chase report by Eric Nguyen
Chase video by Kevin Walter
SPC Storm Reports log
During the early AM hours of May 6th; Waco, Texas received widespread damage from an F2 tornado coupled with downburst winds:
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
857 PM CDT SAT MAY 6 2006
...RESULTS OF THE SURVEY OF THE MCLENNAN COUNTY STORM OF MAY 6...
ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON...STAFF FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SURVEYED THE DAMAGE IN WACO AND MCLENNAN COUNTY. BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THIS SURVEY...IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE DAMAGE IN AND NEAR WACO WAS CAUSED BY A COMBINATION OF DOWNBURST WINDS AND A TORNADO.
ISOLATED AREAS OF WIND DAMAGE WERE NOTED IN WESTERN MCLENNAN COUNTY...NEAR CRAWFORD...NEAR VALLEY MILLS...AND WESTERN WACO. MORE WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE WAS NOTED IN WOODWAY...HEWITT...ROBINSON...AND SOUTH WACO. THIS DAMAGE EXTENDED ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE HIGHWAY 6 CORRIDOR. MINOR ROOF DAMAGE AND DAMAGE TO TREES...SIGNS...AND AWNINGS WAS NOTED IN THIS AREA. DAMAGE PATTERNS AND CORRELATION WITH RADAR DATA SUGGEST DOWNBURST WINDS OF 50 TO 80 MPH WERE LIKELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DAMAGE.
NORTH OF THE DOWNBURST AREA...EVIDENCE OF A CIRCULATION WAS FIRST OBSERVED SOUTH OF NEW ROAD AND JUST WEST OF SPUR 298...OR JUST NORTH OF RICHLAND MALL. THE TORNADO REACHED ITS PEAK INTENSITY...AND CAUSED THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE...JUST EAST OF SPUR 298. SEVERAL COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS HAD CONSIDERABLE SECTIONS OF ROOF REMOVED AND WALLS DAMAGED. NUMEROUS TREES WERE DOWNED AND POWER POLES WERE SNAPPED IN AND EAST OF THIS AREA. THE CIRCULATION WEAKENED AS IT APPROACHED INTERSTATE 35...AND THE LAST EVIDENCE OF CIRCULATION WAS NOTED IN BEVERLY HILLS...APPROXIMATELY 3/4 MILE EAST OFINTERSTATE 35. DOWNBURST-RELATED WIND DAMAGE CONTINUED TO THE EAST OF WACO.
WHILE DEBRIS IN THE AREA NEAR AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 6 WAS CARRIED MAINLY EAST AND SOUTHEAST...DEBRIS IN THE CIRCULATION AREA WAS CARRIED TO THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST IN SOME LOCATIONS. EVIDENCE WAS ALSO SEEN OF A CONVERGING WIND FIELD IN THIS AREA. THIS SUGGESTS THAT A TORNADO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE DAMAGE SWATH.
BASED ON THE DAMAGE...THE TORNADO WILL BE GIVEN A PRELIMINARY RATING OF A LOWER F2 ON THE FUJITA SCALE. MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS IN THE TORNADO WERE LIKELY IN THE 115 MPH RANGE. PATH LENGTH WAS AROUND 2.6 MILES...AND AVERAGE PATH WIDTH WAS APPROXIMATELY 150 YARDS.
THIS WAS A METEOROLOGICALLY COMPLEX EVENT. THE TYPE OF THUNDERSTORM WHICH MOVED ACROSS THE WACO AREA IS CALLED A SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORM. SUPERCELLS ARE CHARACTERIZED BY AN AREA OF STORM-SCALE ROTATION...KNOWN AS A MESOCYCLONE. A STRONG DOWNDRAFT...CALLED A REAR FLANKDOWNDRAFT...LIKELY WRAPPED AROUND THE WEST AND SOUTH SIDE OF THE MESOCYCLONE...STRUCK THE GROUND...AND PRODUCED THE DOWNBURST DAMAGE. JUST NORTH OF THE DOWNBURST AREA AND NEAR THE CENTER OF THE MESOCYCLONE...A SMALL VIGOROUS AREA OF ROTATION DEVELOPED AND EVOLVED INTO THE TORNADO.
WOODALL
Tuesday, May 09:
Huntsville, Alabama
Fort Worth, Texas
Chase report by Sam Barricklow
Chase report by Amos Magliocco
Chase report by Mike Mezeul II
Chase report by Eric Nguyen
SPC Storm Reports log
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
755 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006
...UPDATED RESULTS FROM DAMAGE SURVEY IN COLLIN AND GRAYSON COUNTIES FROM STORMS ON MAY 9TH 2006...
AFTER ADDITIONAL SURVEY WORK AND CONSULTATION WITH STORM SPOTTERS AND WIND DAMAGE EXPERTS...HERE IS UPDATED INFORMATION ON THE COLLIN-GRAYSON COUNTY STORM OF MAY 9.
IT APPEARS THAT TWO...AND POSSIBLY THREE...TORNADOES MOVED ACROSS NORTHERN COLLIN AND INTO SOUTHEASTERN GRAYSON COUNTIES. ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 9...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST NORTHWEST OF ANNA AT APPROXIMATELY 1026 PM CDT. NO SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WAS REPORTED TO THE ANNA FIRE DEPARTMENT...AND NO SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WAS NOTED BY THE SURVEY TEAM. THEREFORE...IF A CIRCULATION WAS PRESENT...IT WAS LIKELY BRIEF AND WOULD BE RATED F0.
AS THE STORM PASSED JUST NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF ANNA...SPOTTERS REPORTED ANOTHER TORNADO AT 1033 PM CDT. SOME DAMAGE WAS NOTED ALONG FARM ROAD 2862 1 TO 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF ANNA. DAMAGE WAS CONFINED TO TREE LIMBS AND STORAGE BUILDING ROOFS...AND THIS TORNADO WILL BE RATED F0.
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT TORNADO DEVELOPED AT APPROXIMATELY 1037 PM...3 MILES EAST-NORTHEAST OF ANNA. JUST EAST OF COLLIN COUNTY ROAD 477...THE TORNADO UNROOFED A HOME AND DAMAGED ANOTHER. TREES WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED...AND POWER POLES WERE DOWNED. A ROOF WAS DAMAGED ALONG F.M. 2862 WEST OF COLLIN COUNTY ROAD 480. THE TORNADO THEN TURNED ON A SLIGHTLY MORE NORTHERLY TRACK.
THE TORNADO REACHED ITS MAXIMUM INTENSITY AS IT CROSSED F.M. 3133 JUST NORTH OF THE WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY. VEGETATION WEST OF F.M.3133 WAS SCOURED. THE TORNADO HEAVILY DAMAGED TWO HOMES SOUTH OF COLLIN COUNTY ROAD 531. A MOBILE HOME AND SEVERAL PERMANENT STRUCTURES SUFFERED HEAVY DAMAGE ALONG BRANGUS AND BLACK ROADS...NEAR THE COLLIN-GRAYSON COUNTY LINE. THESE WERE THE LOCATIONS OF THE FATALITIES.
THE TORNADO REMAINED STRONG AS IT CROSSED INTO GRAYSON COUNTY. NUMEROUS TREES WERE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED ALONG YELLOW BRIDGE ROAD...DURHAM ROAD...AND RED MOORE ROAD. THE TORNADO DAMAGED OUTBUILDINGS...ROLLED OVER A MOBILE HOME...AND CAUSED AT LEAST MINOR DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES IN THIS AREA. AS THE TORNADO APPROACHED GORDON ROAD SOUTHEAST OF THE PILOT GROVE COMMUNITY...AT LEAST TWO ADDITIONAL HOMES WERE HEAVILY DAMAGED. THE TORNADO CROSSED F.M. 121 AND DAMAGED A SHED ALONG BETHEL CANYON ROAD...JUST WEST OF HIGHWAY 160. THE TORNADO CROSSED HIGHWAY 160 AND DISSIPATED APPROXIMATELY 3 MILES SOUTH OF WHITEWRIGHT JUST BEFORE 11 PM.
BASED ON THE DAMAGE NEAR F.M. 3133 AND AFTER CONSULTATION WITH WIND ENGINEERS...THE THIRD TORNADO WILL BE RATED F3 ON THE FUJITA SCALE. USING THE NEW ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE GUIDELINES...MAXIMUM WINDS WERE LIKELY IN THE 150 TO 160 MPH RANGE. F2 DAMAGE WAS NOTED AT OTHER LOCATIONS ALONG THE TRACK...INCLUDING THE HOMES EAST OF COLLIN COUNTY ROAD 477...AND THE HOMES NEAR GORDON ROAD IN GRAYSON COUNTY. THESE AREAS WILL CONTINUE TO BE EVALUATED...AND MAY BE UPGRADED TO F3 AS WELL. PATH LENGTH OF THE THIRD TORNADO WAS 9.3 MILES...AND THE AVERAGE PATH WIDTH WAS AROUND 300 YARDS.
WHILE THIS INFORMATION IS MORE COMPLETE...IT SHOULD STILL BE CONSIDERED PRELIMINARY. ADDITIONAL CONSULTATION WITH STORM SPOTTERS...A MORE DETAILED REVIEW OF RADAR DATA...AND ADDITIONAL FOLLOWUP WITH LOCAL EMERGENCY OFFICIALS MAY RESULT IN ADJUSTMENTS TO THIS INFORMATION.
WOODALL/DUNN
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
915 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006
...NWS CONDUCTS DAMAGE SURVEY FOLLOWING MAY 9 2006 SEVERE WEATHER IMPACTS...
ON TUESDAY MAY 9 2006...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED ALONG AND JUST TOTHE EAST OF THE CAPROCK ESCARPMENT AND QUICKLY BECAME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING HAIL AND HIGH WINDS. IN ADDITION...A TORNADO IMPACTED THE CITY OF CHILDRESS WITH EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO TREES AND SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO AREA STRUCTURES.
OUT OF THE TWENTY-FOUR COUNTIES SERVICED BY NWS LUBBOCK...FOUR WERE IMPACTED BY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AND INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING...DICKENS...MOTLEY...HALL AND CHILDRESS.
ON WEDNESDAY MAY 10 2006...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK DISPATCHED AN ASSESSMENT TEAM TO INVESTIGATE THE DAMAGE REPORTED IN THE CITY OF CHILDRESS. THE FOLLOWING REPORT IS A SUMMARYOF THE TEAM'S FINDINGS.
THE ASSESSMENT TEAM...COMPRISED OF JUSTIN WEAVER...NWS LUBBOCK METEOROLOGIST IN CHARGE...AND BRIAN LAMARRE...NWS LUBBOCK WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST INVESTIGATED THE DAMAGE ZONES ACROSS THE CITY OF CHILDRESS.
DAMAGE SURVEY RESULTS INDICATED A MIXTURE OF TORNADO DAMAGE AND STRAIGHT-LINE WIND DAMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM DOWNDRAFT KNOWN AS THE REAR FLANK DOWNDRAFT OR /RFD/. THE RFD CANDEVELOP ON THE BACK-SIDE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND...IN ADDITION TO DAMAGING WINDS...CAN PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF A TORNADO.
THE DAMAGE IN THE CHILDRESS AREA WAS EXTENSIVE AND STRETCHED ALONG A 2 TO 2.5 MILE PATH EXTENDING ALONG THE NORTHWEST...NORTH AND NORTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE CITY OF CHILDRESS.
1. THE FIRST INDICATIONS OF DAMAGE OCCURRED AT AN APARTMENT COMPLEXABOUT ONE HALF MILE WEST OF THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 83 AND 287. HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE WAS EVIDENT ON MAINLY THE WEST FACING SIDE OF THE APARTMENTS WHERE TORN SIDING AND WINDOW DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED. JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 83 AND 287...A MEDIUM VOLTAGE POWER POLE WAS BLOWN OVER IN A WEST TO EAST DIRECTION.
A ZONE OF SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED IN A 1 TO 1.5 MILE SWATH STRETCHING FROM ABOUT TWO TENTHS OF A MILE WEST OF THE CHILDRESS HIGH SCHOOL AND DISSIPATING NEAR THE CHILDRESS CEMETERY.
2. A RESIDENTIAL AREA TO THE WEST OF THE CHILDRESS HIGH SCHOOL SUSTAINED TREE AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE WINDS AND THE FORMATION OF A TORNADO. LARGE TREES WERE UPROOTED AND/OR DOWNED IN A WEST TO EAST DIRECTION WITHIN THE STRONG AND PREVALENT FLOW OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. AN OVERHANG PORCH STRUCTURE ON THE SOUTH FACING SIDE OF THE HOME WAS BLOWN FROM SOUTH TO NORTH OVER THE RESIDENCE AND PRODUCED ROOF DAMAGE AND CRUSHED SEVERAL LARGE BRANCHES BEHIND THE HOME IN THE BACKYARD. A NEARBY STOP SIGN WAS ALSO BLOWN FROM A SOUTH TO NORTH DIRECTION...LIKELY INDICATING ENHANCED INFLOW TO THE TORNADO FORMING IN THIS AREA.
TORNADO RATING...F0. FUJITA WIND SPEED ESTIMATE...40 TO 72 MPH.
3. THE CHILDRESS HIGH SCHOOL SUSTAINED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO ONE OF THE SCHOOL'S TWO GYMNASIUMS. THE TORNADO AND ASSOCIATED DAMAGING WIND AND FLYING DEBRIS IMPACTED THE SCHOOL AND PENETRATED THE WEST FACING BRICK WALL OF THE OLDER GYM...FORCING A 66 FOOT WIDE BREACH. AS A RESULT...SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE OCCURRED INSIDE THE GYMNASIUM...HOWEVER PENETRATION DID NOT PASS THROUGH THE OPPOSING WALL. THE INTEGRITY OF THIS BRICK WALL TO THE FOUNDATION WAS NOTED AND LIKELY CONTRIBUTED TO ITS FAILURE IN COMPARISON TO THE NEWER GYMNASIUM.
FOUR LARGE AIR CONDITIONING UNITS WERE ALSO DESTROYED. THREE OF THE UNITS WERE BLOWN OFF THE ROOF OF THE SCHOOL...AND TWO OF THEM WERE BLOWN FROM SOUTHEAST TO NORTHWEST...LANDING 90 TO 200 FEET FROM THE SCHOOL. THE PATH WIDTH OF THE TORNADO WAS MEASURED AT ONE TENTH OF A MILE.
TORNADO RATING...F1. FUJITA WIND SPEED ESTIMATE...73 TO 112 MPH.
SEVERAL LARGE UPROOTED AND/OR DOWNED TREES WERE OBSERVED IN THE NARROW PATH OF SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE STRETCHING TO THE EAST OF THE HIGH SCHOOL...INCLUDING DAMAGE TO AREA ROOFS. A NURSING HOME FACILITY EVACUATED PATIENTS DUE TO ROOF AND INTERNAL DAMAGES. THERE WERE NO INJURIES.
4. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH THE TORNADO OCCURRED IN THE FAIR PARK AREA...APPROXIMATELY ONE HALF MILE EAST OF THE HIGH SCHOOL. A TENNIS COURT WAS DESTROYED WITH LARGE LIGHT POLES EITHER BLOWN DOWN AT THE BASE OR BENT AT VARIOUS HEIGHTS DUE TO SEVERE WINDS AND FLYING DEBRIS. A LARGE METAL MAINTENANCE STRUCTURE USED TO HOUSE EMERGENCY VEHICLES WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED. STEEL BEAMS WERE COMPLETELY TORN FROM THEIR BOLT FIXTURES AND TWISTED INTO RUBBLE. THE DEBRIS WAS NOT DISPLACED FROM THE LOCATION AND WAS PILED ON TOP OF ITSELF AND THE EMERGENCY VEHICLE INSIDE THE STRUCTURE.
ADJACENT TO THIS LOCATION WAS AN AREA COMPRISED OF NUMEROUS LARGE TREES UPROOTED AND BLOWN IN VARIOUS DIRECTIONS. A PREDOMINANT WEST TO EAST FORWARD FLOW WAS OBSERVED...HOWEVER THE ORIENTATION OF DAMAGED TREES ALSO CONSISTED OF A SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST DIRECTION...AS WELL AS A WEST TO EAST DIRECTION WITHIN THE TIGHT AND NARROW TORNADO CIRCULATION. IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA...A BRIDGE EXTENDING ACROSS PARK LAKE WAS RIPPED FROM WOODEN BEAMS AND BLOWN TO THE EAST. A LARGE STONE PICNIC TABLE TOP WAS BLOWN OFF IN A SOUTH TO NORTH DIRECTION.
TORNADO RATING...F2 /LOW-END/. FUJITA WIND SPEED ESTIMATE...113 TO157 MPH.
LARGE TREE AND WEAKER STRUCTURAL DAMAGE WAS ALSO NOTED WITHIN ONE HALF MILE TO THE SOUTH OF THE HIGH WIND AND TORNADO PATH...INCLUDING A LARGE TREE SNAPPED NEAR THE BASE AT THE CHILDRESS COUNTY COURTHOUSE. THERE WAS ONE INJURY REPORTED IN THE AREA AS A MAN WAS IMPACTED BY A TREE AND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE RECEIVED SEVEN STITCHES IN HIS ARM.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL OF THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICIALS AND THE CHILDRESS COUNTY JUDGE FOR THEIR HELP DURING THE NWS LUBBOCK DAMAGE SURVEY. IN ADDITION...THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BOTH DURING AND FOLLOWING THE IMPACTS IN CHILDRESS...AS PROVIDED BY MEDIA AFFILIATES IN BOTH AMARILLO ANDLUBBOCK...ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
BRIAN LAMARRE
WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE - LUBBOCK TX
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
930 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006
...DAMAGE SURVEY RESULTS FROM MAY 9TH AND MAY 10TH STORMS...
A STORM SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED TODAY TO INVESTIGATE DAMAGE THAT OCCURRED IN NORTHERN OKMULGEE COUNTY EARLY THIS MORNING.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVED INTO NORTHWESTERN OKMULGEE COUNTY AT 120 AM THIS MORNING AND PRODUCED A SWATH OF WIND DAMAGE THAT WAS AT LEAST TWO TO THREE MILES WIDE AND 10 MILES LONG THAT BEGAN SOUTHWEST OF MOUNDS AND CONTINUED AT LEAST AS FAR EAST AS HECTORVILLE. WINDS WITHIN THE DAMAGE SWATH LIKELY GUSTED TO BETWEEN 70 AND 80 MPH BASED ON DAMAGE TO TREES...OUTBUILDINGS...MOBILE HOMES...AND POWER POLES.
IN ADDITION TO THE STRAIGHT-LINE WIND DAMAGE...THERE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN A TORNADO ABOUT 7 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF HECTORVILLE. THE TORNADO DESTROYED A COUPLE OF OUTBUILDINGS...UPROOTED OR SNAPPED A NUMBER OF TREES...DAMAGED A CAMPER TRAILER...AND PRODUCED MINOR DAMAGE TO A HOUSE. THE TORNADO WAS RATED F1 ON THE FUJITA SCALE AND LIKELY PRODUCED WIND SPEEDS UP TO AROUND 80 MPH. IT OCCURRED AROUND 140 AM. THERE WERE NO INJURIES AS A RESULT OF THIS TORNADO. CURRENT PATH INFORMATION FOR THIS TORNADO PENDING FURTHER DATA IS 1/2 MILE LONG AND UP TO ABOUT 75 YARDS WIDE.
A STORM SURVEY WAS ALSO CONDUCTED TODAY TO INVESTIGATE TORNADO REPORTS AND DAMAGE IN NORTHEASTERN CRAIG COUNTY AND NORTHWESTERN OTTAWA COUNTY EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. WE COULD NOT CONFIRM A TORNADO BASED ON WHAT WAS OBSERVED DURING THIS SURVEY BUT FURTHER INVESTIGATION WILL OCCUR ON THURSDAY.
EJC
Wednesday, May 10:
Birmingham, Alabama
Louisville, Kentucky
Paducah, Kentucky
SPC Storm Reports log
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
145 PM CST THU MAY 11 2006
...WEAK TORNADO FOUND IN DALLAS COUNTY...
TODAY...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK SURVEYED STORM DAMAGE CAUSED BY STORMS WEDNESDAY MORNING...MAY 10TH.
A WEAK TORNADO TRACKED FROM 2.5 MILES WEST OF PRINCETON TO 1 MILE EAST OF PRINCETON. THE PATH LENGTH WAS 3.5 MILES.
THE TORNADO WAS RATED F0 ON THE FUJITA SCALE OF TORNADO INTENSITY CLASSIFICATION...WITH WINDS AROUND 70 MPH.
THE TORNADO KNOCKED THE TOPS OUT OF TREES...AND UPROOTED SEVERAL TREES.
A LARGE PINE TREE FELL INTO THE STOREROOM OF A LOCAL STORE. THE SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED BY JOHN ROBINSON...WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST...AND NEWTON SKILES...A SENIOR FORECASTER...BOTH FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK.
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
940 PM CST THU MAY 11 2006
AN NWS SURVEY TEAM CONDUCTED STORM DAMAGE SURVEYS TODAY IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA. TWO TORNADOES WERE FOUND FROM THE STORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH THE AREA.
TORNADO #1...CONCORDIA PARISH
TIME...435 PM TO 443 PM
LOCATION...10 WSW CLAYTON TO 8 SW CLAYTON
PRELIMINARY FUJITA RATING...F1
PATH LENGTH...2.7 MILES
MAX PATH WIDTH...90 YDS
DAMAGE...INITIAL DAMAGE WAS TO TREETOPS BEFORE DESCENDING INTO A FIELD. THE TORNADO CROSSED HWY 566...PASSING A FEW HUNDRED YDS SOUTH OF A HOUSE...AND MOVED THROUGH A CORN FIELD. ABOUT A 50 YD PATH OF CORN WAS TOTALLY LEVELED...WITH A CLEARLY CONVERGENT PATTERN TO THE DAMAGE. THE TORNADO MEANDERED GENERALLY EAST SOUTHEAST THROUGH THESE CORN FIELDS...WITH A DAMAGE PATH VARYING FROM 50 TO 90 YDS BUT WITH A CORE OF DAMAGE BETWEEN 25 AND 50 YDS WHERE ALL THE CORN WAS LEVELED. THE TORNADO MOVED OUT OF THE CORN FIELDS INTO A TREE LINE WHERE A COUPLE OF TREETOPS WERE SNAPPED. THE TORNADO WAS OBSERVED DURING MOST OF ITS LIFETIME BY A CONCORDIA PARISH DEPUTY SHERIFF...WHO TOOK SEVERAL PICTURES OF THE ROPELIKE TORNADO.
STARTING LAT/LON...31 DEG 40.41 MIN N 91 DEG 41.55 MIN W
ENDING LAT/LONG...31 DEG 39.88 MIN N 91 DEG 28.83 MIN W
TORNADO #2...JEFFERSON COUNTY
TIME...549 PM TO 601 PM
LOCATION...5.5 SE FAYETTE TO 5.5 WSW UNION CHURCH
PRELIMINARY FUJITA RATING...F2
PATH LENGTH...7.0 MILES
MAX PATH WIDTH...440 YDS
DAMAGE...MUCH OF THE DAMAGE ALONG THIS PATH WAS TO TREES...AND THOUSANDS OF TREES WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED ALONG THIS TORNADO'S PATH. THE MOST INTENSE DAMAGE WAS IN A SMALL AREA ABOUT 6 MILES WSW OF UNION CHURCH ALONG PERTH ROAD WHERE NEARLY EVERY TREE...MANY OF THEM VERY LARGE...IN A HEAVILY FORESTED AREA WERE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. THE DAMAGE HERE WAS RATED AT THE LOW END OF F2...MOST OF THE DAMAGE ALONG THE PATH WAS F1 INTENSITY. LUCKILY NO HOMES APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE TORNADO...BUT TWO SHEDS NEAR A HOME WERE DESTROYED.
STARTING LAT/LON...31 DEG 39.08 MIN N 90 DEG 59.77 MIN W
ENDING LAT/LON...31 DEG 40.22 MIN N 90 DEG 52.75 MIN W
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE CONCORDIA PARISH SHERIFF OFFICE FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE IN PERFORMING OUR SURVEY.
AEG/GRG/CAW
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1000 PM CDT THU MAY 11 2006
...MARENGO COUNTY F1 TORNADO ON MAY...10...2006...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...NWS...METEOROLOGISTS SURVEYED DAMAGE THAT OCCURRED ON WEDNESDAY...MAY...10...BETWEEN JEFFERSON STATION AND LINDEN...ON EITHER SIDE OF STATE HIGHWAY 28...ON THURSDAY...MAY 11...AND DETERMINED THAT AN F1 TORNADO HAD OCCURRED.
THIS TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AT APPROXIMATELY 244 PM CDT...WITH ESTIMATED WINDS OF AROUND 80 MPH...AND LIFTED AT 248 PM CDT. THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN 1.05 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JEFFERSON STATION...AND LIFTED ON SOUTH SHILOH ROAD IN LINDEN NEAR STATE HIGHWAY 28. THE TORNADO PATH WAS 2.6 MILES LONG AND 150 YARDS WIDE AT ITS WIDEST POINT. NUMEROUS TREES AND SCATTERED POWER LINES WERE DOWNED ALONG THE PATH. THE ONLY STRUCTURAL DAMAGE OCCURRED WHEN A LARGE TREE FELL ON A HOME...COMPLETELY DESTROYING ONE OF ITS GARAGE DOORS. ANOTHER HOME SUSTAINED PARTIAL ROOF DAMAGE.
NO INJURIES OR FATALITIES WERE REPORTED. A TORNADO WARNING WAS ISSUED FOR MARENGO COUNTY FROM 223 PM CDT TO 300 PM CDT...AND THEN RE-ISSUED FROM 255 PM CDT TO 330 PM CDT...ON WEDNESDAY...MAY...10. TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 335...FOR SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA...INCLUDING MARENGO COUNTY...WAS IN EFFECT FROM 145 PM CDT TO 900 PM CDT ON WEDNESDAY...MAY 10.
SPECIAL THANKS TO JEFF LADURON...CHIEF OF POLICE...LINDEN POLICE DEPARTMENT...IN ASSISTING NWS STORM SURVEY PERSONNEL IN CONDUCTING THIS STORM SURVEY.
MBS/JBW
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