All flights are being diverted this morning from Lambert-Saint Louis international airport after an apparent tornado tore through the airport injuring several people. Maggie Crane reports.
Storm chasers Dick McGowan and Andy Gabrielson document two “rope” tornadoes near Neligh and Ewing Nebraska, August 19 2011! These storms also produced destructive hail in the Omaha and Kansas City region! Check out www.livehailmap.com or http for more information!
On May 22, 2011 a highly destructive and deadly tornado tore through the town of Joplin, MO. Here is video of the tornado entering the southwest side of town, filmed by TornadoVideos.net Basehunters team Colt Forney, Isaac Pato, Kevin Rolfs, and Scott Peake. The team spent hours assisting with search and rescue and transporting victims to local hospitals in personal vehicles.
A tornado has leveled parts of Joplin Missouri. 117 deaths confirmed so far. Joplin was a town of 50000 people.
I have posted a video of the outside of the gas station after the tornado here… www.youtube.com If you’d like to hear my music click here… www.youtube.com www.youtube.com The video i took of the F5 tornado while at Fastrip on east 20th street. We huddled in the back of the store until the glass got sucked out , then ran into the walk in storage fridge. Sorry for the lack of visuals but the audio is pretty telling of how intense the storm was. The tornado hits at around 1:20 seconds.
Security cameras video released by Lambert Airport shows dramatic pictures of the tornado that hit St. Louis on Friday. The airport reopened on Saturday night for a handful of arriving flights, and officials expected around 70 percent of the scheduled arrivals and departures to go on as planned early on Sunday. Some 750 homes in the St. Louis region were damaged, and less than 100 were uninhabitable, by the 128 kilometres per hour (80 miles per hour) tornado, officials said. RT on Facebook: www.facebook.com RT on Twitter: twitter.com
This is the video I made that documents the F4 tornado that hit Caruthersville Missouri on April 2, 2006. If you have any questions, you can contact me at ogtomlin13@hotmail.com .
**PLEASE READ FIRST** While it is correct that I was not in the funnel of the tornado I was on the edge of the circulation. I was not the only one caught off guard by this tornado as TVN also had a close call that even resulted in one of their chasers loosing their windshield about a mile from me. The tornado had be moving due east and I had started to stair step to the SE to get out of the RFD when the tornado turned and started to move to the SE and cut me off as it started to rope out …