TN Tornado Video & Wrap-Up
All in all yesterday, 175 severe weather reports were received by the government, including 35 tornado reports, 103 wind reports (winds clocked up to 75 mph) and 37 hail reports (up to 2 inches in diameter). Radar movies of the storms can be downloaded here.
How many advisories were issued by the government yesterday? More than 4000 counties had advisories (at one time) yesterday, which is more than any time in the past seven years (according to techs here who had to reconfigure our severe advisory map to handle the immense number of warnings).
Unfortunately, several people were injured in Tennessee and one tornado damaged the Henry County emergency management center. You can see video of one of the Tennessee tornadoes on NBC5's website.
PHOTO CAPTION: Indiana Storms - November 16, 2005 - Storms clouds form over Taylorsville Ind., in northern Bartholomew County, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
Details from our Breaking Weather News page:
The intense line of storms that tore through five Southeastern and Midwestern states on Tuesday is being blamed for at least two deaths.
A Kentucky Division of Emergency Management official reports one person was killed when a mobile home overturned and caught fire in western Kentucky. In Indiana, a teenager was killed when she lost control of her car on a flooded roadway near Indianapolis.
The collision of the cold front and warm air pushing up from the south produced severe thunderstorms from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes, and spawned funnel clouds in Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee, while tornadoes were reported in Indiana and Illinois.
The Emergency Services command center in Henry County, Tenn., took a direct hit from a tornado, forcing officials to relocate to the mayor's office in Paris, Tenn. A tornado touched down near Madisonville, Ky., destroying 20 to 30 buildings and injuring at least 22, three of them critically.
Madisonville is about 50 miles south of Evansville, Indiana, where a deadly tornado occurred on November 6.
