Wild Weather in the Ozarks & Midwest
I stayed up all night last night watching tornado warnings from northern Missouri all the way into northern Arkansas and the frenzie did not stop until the morning hours. Flint reported hail in Gainesville as one tornadic storm rushed over our area. I was at a neigbors at 6:00 am. until 6:30. Around 6:33 tragedy struck.
Report:
Parts of several Midwestern states and regions as far south as the Gulf Coast to the Florida panhandle were under tornado watches or warnings. In the town of Caulfield in south-central Missouri, a tornado killed a 7 year old girl in a mobile home and damaged six other homes and two gasoline stations, officials reported.
Damaging hailstorms struck several states.
The little girl's parents were air lifted to nearby hospitals along with other residents that sustained more minor injuries. According to Howell County Sheriff's office the tornado touched down in Caufield around 6:33 am and skipped across a 20 mile stretch of the county.
Snow piling up at a rate of 2 inches an hour closed Interstate 80, a major transcontinental highway, in southeast Nebraska from Omaha westward, where more than 9 inches of snow had fallen in some areas.
More than 50 counties were under blizzard warnings in neighboring western Iowa. Interstate 29 was closed in Iowa from near Omaha north to Sioux City at the South Dakota line.
Schools were closed across southern Minnesota as snow began piling up.
Report:
Parts of several Midwestern states and regions as far south as the Gulf Coast to the Florida panhandle were under tornado watches or warnings. In the town of Caulfield in south-central Missouri, a tornado killed a 7 year old girl in a mobile home and damaged six other homes and two gasoline stations, officials reported.
Damaging hailstorms struck several states.
The little girl's parents were air lifted to nearby hospitals along with other residents that sustained more minor injuries. According to Howell County Sheriff's office the tornado touched down in Caufield around 6:33 am and skipped across a 20 mile stretch of the county.
Snow piling up at a rate of 2 inches an hour closed Interstate 80, a major transcontinental highway, in southeast Nebraska from Omaha westward, where more than 9 inches of snow had fallen in some areas.
More than 50 counties were under blizzard warnings in neighboring western Iowa. Interstate 29 was closed in Iowa from near Omaha north to Sioux City at the South Dakota line.
Schools were closed across southern Minnesota as snow began piling up.
posted by Dani @ 1:18 PM
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