Mass casualty incident reported after tornado hits Amazon distribution center in Illinois - Officials are confirming there are fatalities at the Amazon facility in Edwardsville following Friday night’s severe weather.

[Aib Ld]

Holy shit, this storm has to be weakening out by now. There's a reason why storms and squall lines at night are feared in the South. And this is a perfect example why.
But this in December, at night, and with Christmas a few weeks away? What the fuck?

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I better get my cheap shit though.

 

[marjoram]

Twin funnels coming for Bowling Green, Ky.

ETA riverbender.com on facebook has some good drone footage of partially eaten amazon building.

 

[Reporterward]

Here's how six different news organizations are covering it on their websites.

 

[SCSI]

Holy shit, this storm has to be weakening out by now. There's a reason why storms and squall lines at night are feared in the South. And this is a perfect example why.
But this in December, at night, and with Christmas a few weeks away? What the fuck?

Storm says "lol, NO." The one tornado that was headed for Bowling Green, KY, now appears to be two.

EDIT -- Ninja'ed by @marjoram ! Have a cool radar pic as a prize.

A couple livestreams:

Storm chaser in the Memphis area.

ForceThirteen livestreaming with a focus on the Bowling Green KY storm front.

Jeff Piotrowski, longterm storm chaser, is livestreaming via Twitter from KY. Can't embed that one.

 

[SCSI]

Tornado has reached Bowling Green, KY. Possible EF4.

EDIT -- And is doing some damage.

Someone flew a drone over the Amazon warehouse in IL. Skip to the 1:30 minute mark to where it starts coming into view better. It's bad. Still no word on deaths/injuries.

Clip from ongoing rescue operations in Mayfield, KY.

More views of the damage in Mayfield. It looks like the future war scenes in Terminator 2.

 

[Reporterward]

That drone footage of the Amazon building is surreal. I guess I was expecting more... stuff... in it. It looks like the whole center was vacuumed out

 

[marjoram]

Corvette museum on fire.

 

[beautiful person]

Monster tornadoes at night. That's like the worst possible scenario.

is Bezos near limitless wallet gonna become slightly more limited?

Lmao, as if

 

[SCSI]

That drone footage of the Amazon building is surreal. I guess I was expecting more... stuff... in it. It looks like the whole center was vacuumed out

Doesn't bode well for the poor wagies who were in there. The higher the strength tornado, the less debris is left on site. A strong EF5 vs an ordinary suburban home can leave nothing but a clean, bare foundation under the right circumstances.

Corvette museum on fire.

Photo of your fire in the distance. In Bowling Green.

Traffic cam caught the Bowling Green funnel downtown. Powerlines and transformers going off like Dresden.

Two short clips of one of the KY funnels from earlier, outside Bremen, KY.

 

[marjoram]

Bowling Green got nailed. Building collapses, people trapped, mass casualty triage, black bags.

Not good.

Next up, Greensburg KY

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Bowling Green got nailed. Building collapses, people trapped, mass casualty triage, black bags.

Not good.

I hope any kiwis near the area are safe.

 

[SCSI]

Twitter

Twitter

Anyone got a good scanner feed for BG?

There also may be a cluster of up to four funnels forming south of BG to continue the shitstorm.

The candle factory I posted earlier, including the rescue crew clips working, has people trapped inside. Call for volunteers to help search. Twitter rumors say up to 50 but no reputable confirmation yet.

MAYFIELD, KY — The Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory has reportedly collapsed amid Friday night's tornado and severe storms, and crews are working to find people who may be trapped under the rubble.

Callie Lemle, the wife of Graves County Economic Development President Jason Lemle, says her husband is at Mayfield Consumer Products right now. She says people are digging through the rubble trying to get people out.

She says they're not sure how many people are trapped, but they can hear people who are underneath the rubble.

She said her husband told her they need more volunteers, and anyone with gloves, headlamps, equipment for digging, etc. is welcome to help.

The factory stood at 112 Industrial Drive in Mayfield.

Some action in TN now, including near where I have friends. :-( Looks like I will be glued to my computer the rest of the night.

Obion county, TN, near Reelfoot Lake (famous for having bald eagles).

 

[marjoram]

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Anyone got a good scanner feed for BG?

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There also may be a cluster of up to four funnels forming south of BG to continue the shitstorm.

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The candle factory I posted earlier, including the rescue crew clips working, has people trapped inside. Call for volunteers to help search. Twitter rumors say up to 50 but no reputable confirmation yet.



Some action in TN now, including near where I have friends. :-( Looks like I will be glued to my computer the rest of the night.

Obion county, TN, near Reelfoot Lake (famous for having bald eagles).

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Agenda-Free TV on youtube has BG scanner running. As well as radar, and twitter posts (and an interesting chat)

 

[Desu Mountain]

I know intellectually that these kinds of events are horrifying, but the only thing I feel when I get to see nature's wrath in her full glory is awe.

 

[Laphroaig]

Ok, so I'm a complete weather geek. Meaning, I watched Twister several times a DAY when I was a kid, Apparently this tornado registered 283 kts GTG shear on a radar scan, making it the STRONGEST radar scanned tornado in American history.l I'm in awe having witnessed this live, and dread the destruction that morning will make clear.

 

[SCSI]

Agenda-Free TV on youtube has BG scanner running. As well as radar, and twitter posts (and an interesting chat)

Thank you!

Ok, so I'm a complete weather geek. Meaning, I watched Twister several times a DAY when I was a kid, Apparently this tornado registered 283 kts GTG shear on a radar scan, making it the STRONGEST radar scanned tornado in American history.l I'm in awe having witnessed this live, and dread the destruction that morning will make clear.

You are witnessing weather history on multiple counts. Highest wind speed and 220 mile+ track for a single cell both appear to have new records tonight.

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Bowling Green is going to be a horror show when the sun rises if half of what's coming through Twitter is true. And they have a second round of storms incoming.

System is just flat-out spamming KY/TN right now, I haven't seen anything like this since the spring of 2011. It's basically <name a place> tornado. Most noteworthy is one with a two mile wide debris trail near Bradfordsville KY -- that is a wide load of a funnel.

Some actually nice news -- a couple of kids were found alive and ok after being carried away in a bathtub by a mile-wide tornado that also flipped trains and generally shredded the county.

n the midst of the tornado destruction and horrors throughout the country, comes this news of a miracle out of Hopkins County, Kentucky. Two children were carried away in a bathtub by the tornado, but they’re not injured.

Matt Sanderson, sheriff for Hopkins County, Kentucky, told KYWX that the two children were missing and were found in a bathtub “not where the house was originally standing.” They were OK and they “do not appear to be hurt at all. They have been returned back to their mother.” He said authorities were still searching rubble.

 

[marjoram]

BREAKING: At least 50 people killed in Mayfield, KY in ovenight tornado, per Gov. Beshear.- julie dolan wlky

 

[SCSI]

Lexington, KY has a probable tornado approaching, confirmation should be had within 10 min. This storm system is practically going down the list of larger cities in KY.

UPDATE -- Lexington metro funnel did drop, but it's missing Lexington. KY finally catches a break.

Nashville Severe Weather Service just began livestreaming as the storm front is moving more firmly into middle TN and the Nashville Metro area.

A nasty-looking cell has appeared near Nashville proper that's getting watched in particular. If it does spawn a tornado, it may drop it right by the city in a repeat of a storm from 2020. UPDATE before I could even post -- there is a high enough probability that NashWS has issued a tornado warning covering downtown Nashville.

 

[Another Sperg on the Net]

This is shaping up to be possibly the deadliest tornado outbreak in a century when all is said and done.