Re: OT: Severe storm images


"Belba Grubb From Stock" <barbb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> George wrote:
>> Had an interesting afternoon that I thought I would share in a photo
>> essay.
>>
>> Enjoy,
>>
>> George
>>
>> http://home.insightbb.com/~jryates/storm/storm.htm
>
> Thanks for the images and narration, George. We were following the
> storms on the 2nd in Georgia on the Talkweather board, which is kind of
> Alabama based as it is connected with Bamaweather.com [for the
> discussions see, for instance,
> http://www.talkweather.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30474 (long thread) and
> for images (not
> many)http://www.talkweather.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30477]. Atlanta's
> Channel 11 had some pictures of the tornado in that area and damage, and
> some big hail. I think the URL to that is in the images thread.
>
> Any other details on the storms in Kentucky that day? Also, would it be
> okay to post your URL on the images thread (above)?
>
> Barb

Yes. Go ahead, but I can't guarantee how long I'll keep them up. There
was an confirmed F2 tornadao that touched down in St. John, Kentucky, which
is about 5 miles from where I was born (many of my mother's family are
buried in the St. John cemetary there),and near Hodgensville. There were a
few homes destroyed and a convenience store as wells as at least one
trailer, I believe. Also numerous barns and trees were leveled. There
were also trees knocked down across U.S. highway 31W between Elizabethtown
and Radcliff, near Ft. Knox. There may have been structural damage there
as well. Closer to home here in Louisville, a funnel cloud was spotted
near Campground road and Cane Run Road (less than a mile from my home).
Trees were knocked down there as well, and a roof was blown off of a
building to a chemical factory there (that factory is inside an industrial
area called Rubbertown). About a mile further north, a tree fell onto a
house, destroying much of the front portion of the house. There was no
damage that I've discerned in my neighborhood, thankfully. All in all, it
was a fast-moving, and rather severe storm, with high winds, marble-sized
hail and larger, and torential sideways rainfall (we got over one inch in
about 5 minutes here with a total of about 1.5 inches total for the storm).
I don't know how fast the winds were, but I estimate that they were over 60
mph here and possibly higher. There was also a funnel cloud spotted in
northeastern Louisville, but no damage was reported.

However, I've heard reports that the worst damage was near Hodgensville,
Kentucky, southeast of Elizabethtown, though I don't know the extent of the
damage there. That is about all the information I have, other than that
there were no reported injuries or deaths, thankfully.

George


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