Severe WX December 10 & 11, 2021 Severe Threat

[warneagle]

Anyone have any photos/information from the first tornado? Haven't seen much except for the nursing home in Arkansas and the scouring in Samburg. I know there are fatalities but does anyone have a preliminary count?

I don't think that tornado struck many towns directly, thankfully. It kind of grazed Monette and Leachville and then spent a long time over sparsely populated areas before splitting the uprights between Hayti and Caruthersville. At least that's what I'm hoping given the relative lack of damage photos coming out of there.

 

[warneagle]

The cool side of this storm was no slouch either. St. Paul, MN reported a storm total of 21" of snow.

 

[Mike S]

This photograph from Dawson Springs was found in New Albany, IN. Using google maps to do a rough measurement, that's like 125 miles.

They have found the owner

 

[TornadoFan]

 

[SilentShadow87]

Did this get posted, because wow

Some of this is definitely making me think this is an EF5 candidate.

 

[TH2002]

Some of this is definitely making me think this is an EF5 candidate.

It's hard to say where it reached peak intensity, but the most intense home damage I have seen is in and around Bremen. Multiple homes nearly or completely swept off their foundations there along with a high death toll.

 

[TH2002]

I am dying to know what this large slabbed building in Earlington is (well assuming it is a slab and not a roof or something)

 

[SilentShadow87]

As an aside we're having insane straight-line winds in southern Ontario right now. Gusting to 90 kph (55 mph).

 

[andyhb]

Some friends started a gofundme for tornado relief: https://www.gofundme.com/f/kentucky...m=copy_link_all&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet

 

[andyhb]

 

[SilentShadow87]

That's.....unbelievable. I'm holding my breath that most of them are alive and just haven't been accounted for yet.

 

[andyhb]

Doing the math and assuming a standard Word document size with one person on each line (46 lines per pages), that's somewhere in the range of 322-378 people missing. Note that it is highly unlikely that even 50% of this number perished (many were likely away from town), but still, sobering.

 

[locomusic01]

Well that's.. ominous. Often most of the "missing" people in the wake of a disaster turn out to be just communication issues, but that sounds like awfully bad news even if only a tiny percentage of those people are casualties. I'd guess a list like that would probably be a couple hundred names?

 

[warneagle]

As an aside we're having insane straight-line winds in southern Ontario right now. Gusting to 90 kph (55 mph).

Yeah, same here in the DC area, it's really howling out there. I think we're going to have a gale warning soon.

 

[andyhb]

That's a clear ground scar at the Princeton KY golf club. Everything is adding up to a high end EF4 or 5 event here.

 

[atrainguy]

I apologize if this was already posted about, I can't recall seeing it though so just in case - the Defiance, MO tornado is currently estimated as at least a high end EF3 with winds of 165mph.

 

[locomusic01]

That's a clear ground scar at the Princeton KY golf club. Everything is adding up to a high end EF4 or 5 event here.

That's the subdivision I was asking about earlier - clearly every bit as violent as feared, but I suppose there's a slight silver lining in that it missed the larger half of the development. IIRC on radar it looked like it might've cut squarely through the center of both.

 

[andyhb]

 

[buckeye05]

What’s the DI for THAT?!?!


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There isn’t one

 

[akt1985]

I think the record for most people killed in a single building in a tornado was 70 at a pants factory in Gainesville, Georgia in 1936 . I hope what happened at the candle factory in Mayfield doesn't beat that record.