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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (ferrell{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Wed Nov 24 2004 - 17:12:04 EST
A large severe weather outbreak took place yesterday in Texas and the Deep
South where three people were killed by tornadoes. I was impressed last
night, watching storms peak in the low 70's dbZ as supercells formed into a
line across southern Texas.
There were 51 tornado reports yesterday:
http://www.weathermatrix.net/stormmatrix/tornado/yesterday/
As well as 73 hail reports, of which 7 were 2.25" or larger.
http://www.weathermatrix.net/stormmatrix/hail/yesterday/index.php3?sort=size
90 wind reports including 76 mph at Dallas, TX.
http://www.weathermatrix.net/stormmatrix/wind/yesterday/index.php3?sort=speed
I am building radar & warning archives from SPC data that will be available
at these URL's in about an hour:
http://www.weathermatrix.net/archive/images/spc/01/
http://www.weathermatrix.net/archive/images/spc/02/
Some initial radar images and movies have been uploaded here:
http://www.weathermatrix.net/2004/1123/
FULL STORY FROM CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/11/24/storms.ap/index.html
QUOTES:
"HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Tornadoes plowed across the South from Texas to
Alabama, killing four people, wrecking homes and businesses in rural areas
and the suburbs of New Orleans, and turning trees to kindling.
The violent weather was part of a system that had drenched Texas for four
days, pushing rivers out of their banks and forcing people out of their homes.
A line of tornadoes skipped through Alabama early Wednesday, damaging homes
and knocking down trees and power lines across a wide area. A falling tree
killed a woman in a home in Bynum, Alabama, about 50 miles east of
Birmingham, and a deputy spotted a tornado about the same time, said
Calhoun County emergency management spokeswoman Laura Roberts. Several
people were injured at rural Autaugaville, Alabama, by a tornado that
overturned mobile homes and damaged other houses. "The town itself is
small, but the storm concentrated in that area," said Lisa Sulkosky of the
Autauga County Emergency Management Agency.
More damage was reported in a half-dozen other Alabama counties, and fallen
trees blocked highways. One person was killed in Olla, Louisiana, and
several homes were "completely torn up" late Tuesday, said LaSalle Parish
Sheriff Carl Smith. Olla, with a population of around 1,400, is about 45
miles north of Alexandria. "It cut a path through the middle of town,"
Smith said. A twister touched down early Wednesday north of Slidell,
Louisians, a suburb of New Orleans, damaging as many as 50 homes and
injuring a half-dozen people, said St. Tammany Parish sheriff's spokesman
James Hartman. A tornado apparently hit the Jefferson Parish city of
Westwego, just south of New Orleans, early Wednesday, tearing off roofs and
heavily damaging several businesses, said Police Chief Dwayne Munch.
In Mississippi, a tornado killed one person and injured two outside
Louisville, in Winston County, said Clarence Kelley, the county civil
defense director. Damage also was reported in scattered communities
elsewhere across the state.
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