Midwest Chasing

ABC 33/40 has a bunch of pictures of the damage from today’s tornado on their site.  You can check them out here.

From the Portland WFO:

..PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT FOR VANCOUVER TORNADO

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVED THROUGH CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST
WASHINGTON EARLIER TODAY. THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN SHORTLY AFTER
NOON NEAR VANCOUVER LAKE THEN MOVED NORTHEAST INTO HAZEL DELL WA.
PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES PLACE THE STRENGTH OF THIS TORNADO AS AN EF-1
ON THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE WITH ESTIMATED PEAK WIND SPEEDS OF 90
TO 110 MPH. THE TORNADO WAS APPROXIMATELY 1/4 MILE WIDE WITH AN
INITIAL PATH LENGTH OF TWO MILES. IT APPEARS THAT THE TORNADO
LIFTED UP AND TOUCHED DOWN MULTIPLE TIMES…WITH THE LAST REPORT OF
TOUCHDOWN NEAR HOCKINSON WA AROUND 1240 PM.
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Here’s a picture of the Vancouver tornado that I found on the King5.com website:

From some of the damage pictures I’ve seen so far it looks like EF0 to low end EF1.

Here’s the latest LSR from Jackson on the school tornado:

0213 PM TORNADO CALEDONIA 33.68N 88.33W
01/10/2008 LOWNDES MS EMERGENCY MNGR

*** 10 INJ *** ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GYM DESTROYED, SEVERAL
HOMES DAMAGED SCHOOL BUSES DAMGED AND OTHER VEHICLES
THROWN. NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES ALSO DOWN. AT THIS
TIME, 10 TOTAL INJURIES WITH 2 SERIOUS.

Vancouver, Washington decided to get into the tornado action today:

1245 PM TORNADO HOCKINSON 45.73N 122.48W
01/10/2008 CLARK WA PUBLIC

TORNADO SPOTTED SOUTH OF HOCKINSON HIGH SCHOOL AND JUST
WEST OF 172ND AVENUE

Round 2 of this week’s tornado outbreak continued today. Mississippi State University came dangerously close to getting hit with a tornado a few hours ago. Right now there are a total of 14 separate tornado warnings out there covering Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky.

There’s a report coming out of Caledonia, Mississippi that an elementary school there was completely destroyed by a tornado. 3 kids are reported to be injured so far in this tornado.