The wild afternoon into Saturday night weather rampage continues to the south and southeasst of the Kansas City MetroRegion.
This from the NWS about Picher-OK:
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
850 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0542 PM TORNADO PICHER 36.99N 94.83W
05/10/2008 OTTAWA OK EMERGENCY MNGR
*** 5 FATAL ***
EM REPORTS 20 BLOCKS OF STRUCTURES HEAVILY DAMAGED
Also attempting to access more info on Commerce-OK being struck as well as the Stuttgart-AR tornado.
Nine confirmed dead now in MO & OK tornadoes....
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2 comments:
This is a short video clip of the damage to the south side of Picher, Ok. The word is 20 blocks of the town has heavy damage.
http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0508/518665_video.html?ref=newsstory
blah4life- thank you.
I appreciate any help I can get to provide timely info on these Central States disasters.
Cheers-
Groucho
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