Thursday, April 09, 2009

Central States BREAKING NEWS: Tornado Hits Mena-Arkansas



At 8:11pm Thursday evening- Mena police were reporting a tornado on the ground and doing damage in that west-central Arkansas city of about 5600 people.

It's been reported the courthouse "took a direct hit" from the tornado and that there was "major damage" according to this report on FOX-16 News in Little Rock.

Here are some MWS Doppler radar pictures- standard reflectivity and wind velocity- around the time of the inital 8:11pm tornado report.

The red-green area together on the velocity image shows the wind circulating around the tornado at Mena.

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