Just thought I would post and say anyone living in the Ohio Valley area will want to watch the storms later on...It's gonna be hot today mid to upper 80s. Sunday/Monday we could hit the low 90s


SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
500 AM EDT THU MAY 25 2006

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

LOW PRESSURE OVER THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY WILL MOVE EAST
TODAY WITH AN ASSOCIATED STRONG COLD FRONT. THE FRONT WILL MOVE
ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...SUNSHINE THIS
MORNING WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A HIGHLY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THE
REGION. THE INSTABILITY...COMBINED WITH AN INCREASINGLY WARM AND
HUMID AIRMASS...WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS.

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED SOUTHWEST OHIO...SOUTHEAST
INDIANA AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNDER A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE
WEATHER TODAY. THE REMAINDER OF THE REGION IS UNDER A SLIGHT RISK
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS
AND LARGE HAIL...ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE
EXPECTED AT ANY TIME TODAY...BUT THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER
IS GREATEST FROM MID AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY. STAY
TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR
FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

RYAN
$$

Guess no one lives there

Ya'all be careful. Even severe thunderstorms -- which don't become tornados -- can do a lot of damage.


Now for my public service announcment. The Red Cross has been incredibly stretched thin this year, they are still dealing with Katrina, let alone the tornados earlier this spring and the flooding in New England. You can now make donations to the Red Cross online:

http://www.redcross.org/




Oh, and feel free to send some of that warm weather this way -- minus the storms.

I'm from Texas, this 70's crap here in D.C. is cold to me. I wanna be warm again.

Guess not

rosettaresearch thanks, I do think there will be quite a bit of damage depending on where the storms move through. The idea scenario would be for the storms to hit near me as the only thing close is fields and few houses. The Red Cross does need a lot of support considering FEMA seems to be worthless

They just issued a public information statement concerning the storms at noon or so. It doesn't look very good if your not a weather enthusiast. Anyways should be interesting later on, it's just hot. lol...


PUBLIC SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1132 AM CDT THU MAY 25 2006

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF THE OHIO VALLEY THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS FORECASTING THE
DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF THE OHIO VALLEY
THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY INCLUDE

INDIANA
KENTUCKY
OHIO

SURROUNDING THE MODERATE RISK AREA...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM PARTS OF THE MID SOUTH AND OZARKS ACROSS
THE LOWER TENNESSEE AND OHIO RIVER VALLEYS TO THE MID ATLANTIC
COAST.

A STRONG JET STREAM DISTURBANCE...IN CONJUNCTION WITH DAYTIME
HEATING AND THE PERSISTENT INFLOW OF WARM AND MOIST AIR NEAR THE
SURFACE...WILL SET THE STAGE FOR INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF
THE OHIO VALLEY TODAY.

THE STORMS...INCLUDING SUPERCELLS WITH HIGH WIND...HAIL AND
TORNADOES...LIKELY WILL FORM IN SEVERAL BANDS FROM SOUTHERN LOWER
MICHIGAN SOUTHWESTWARD INTO INDIANA...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND WESTERN
OHIO BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ONGOING
ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THESE STORMS MAY PERSIST OVER MUCH OF
TENNESSEE AND MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS THROUGH THE DAY.
OTHER INTENSE STORMS MAY FORM A BIT LATER IN THE DAY OVER WESTERN
AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND WESTERN TENNESSEE. SOME OF THE ACTIVITY
COULD REMAIN STRONG INTO THE NIGHT...SPREADING GENERALLY EAST AND
SOUTH TO THE WESTERN SLOPES OF THE APPALACHIANS.

WHILE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SEVERE THREAT IS EXPECTED TO BE DAMAGING
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AS THE STORMS ORGANIZE INTO LINES...INDIVIDUAL
CELLS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND A FEW STRONG
TORNADOES...ESPECIALLY DURING THEIR EARLY STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT IN
WESTERN OHIO...INDIANA AND WESTERN/NORTHERN KENTUCKY.

THOSE IN THE THREATENED AREA ARE URGED TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER
SAFETY RULES AND TO LISTEN TO RADIO...TELEVISION...AND NOAA WEATHER
RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WATCHES...WARNINGS...AND STATEMENTS LATER TODAY.

..EVANS.. 05/25/2006

$$

By the way this heads to the east coast tomorrow, it shouldn't be as bad as today, but the storms should still be severe.

I'am going to be looking out for those big bad hurricanes,our season starts next week I think.

Yeah, what sucks its gonna be another active season.


Tornado watch now up



Skywarn will be activated later on, kinda like a police scanner, but for severe weather.

http://www.warn.org/pages/index.cgi/audio

My wife's plane leaves Fla. to Pa. in a couple of hours... hope it doesn't catch up to her .

Things are starting to heat up near me now...Tornado watch soon to come out for my area. (Im in the county in the southwest portion of the outlined area with a "panhandle" lookin thing)

and i would be getting ready to hide, but i'm sure you're getting the camera warmed up instead, right?

How'd you know?!

Fun stuff huh, im down in florida, I know all about that stuff last year hurricanes took a my shed in the back yard and trashed the yard and house,a couple years before that had a tornado take off part of my friends roof we were at a tree fell on her new car and it blow out all the windows in my vechile...

a normal balmy 90+ here today,this freakin heat and humidity seems to suck the life out of you.

Not sure if this video will work or not...but this is a video as the gust front moved through. Max winds were between 40-45MPH, small hail (pea sized), and a ton of lightning. .63" of rain from the storm. At the height of the storm 115,000 people were without power this has been brought down a HUGE amount to 112,000 !







Im not sure how much photobucket degrades the video quality, but the cloud features were awesome to watch!

Thanks for the update .

I myself am not from that area...

I have relatives there though.

But information is always good to have .

Take care,
Matt

Duke Energy says it could take between 2 and 4 days to restore the 112,000 houses without power. Good thing I was one of the lucky ones not to loose power, cannot say the same for some on my road though. Duke is asking neighboring states to help out, so pretty bad. It's a crappy time to be without electricity too because the heat will be coming back

Video was crazy as the storms moved into the Cincinnati area. Almost looked like a tropical storm/hurricane as the rain was blowing horizontal.

Looks like a very bad wheather from the pictures you posted here.

Got nasty where I live as well. Was really strange. When you looked up, 1 half of the sky was clear and beautiful and the other half was DARK blue mixed with a green color. Never seen that before. About 2 minutes later, the whole sky was dark and it got windy, rainy and hail hit the ground. Was over real quick, though. Never been in a storm like that before and never seen the sky like that either.

I believe I said to send the warm weather WITHOUT the rain storms.

Although just a lot of rain that was actually over pretty quick. Just short showers on and off since then. No big wind (well other than this normal kind -- this is Washington, D.C.)

Yeah I live in Miami and the humidity is really bad lately and not good for my hair.

GPTmoney that is what happened here too, I have never seen clouds of that color before, they were actually rotating, but it was all above the ground. Evidently the number without power was almost 200,000 that is crazy!

5 Dead After Heavy Rain in Ind., Ky., Tenn.

Severe thunderstorms that lashed through Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana left five people dead and a 4-year-old girl missing, authorities said Friday.

The girl's mother and another adult got out of their vehicle safely before a rain-swollen creek swept the car away with the child about 50 miles southwest of Louisville Thursday night, said Rick Priest, Breckinridge County emergency management director.

"We're trying to find the vehicle, and we're assuming that the 4-year-old is still in the vehicle," Priest said.

In central Kentucky, a 68-year-old woman died after being struck by lightning from the storms, officials said.

Shirley F. Cosby, of Lexington, was found early Friday on the sidewalk in front of her residence, the coroner's office said. It appeared she was placing her yard waste container by the curb for pickup when she was struck.

In Indiana, searchers found the bodies of Greg Kemp, 35 and his 4-year-old son Issac, both of Leopold, downstream from where their pickup truck was washed off the road by a rain-swollen creek in southern Indiana, Indiana Conservation Officer Mark Farmer said.

The search continued Friday for the boy's grandfather, Robert Edwards, 55, also of Leopold. Greg Kemp's 7-year-old son, Morgan, was able to swim away to safety Thursday, Farmer said.

In Tennessee, the bodies of two 15-year-old boys, Vincent Kruk and Philiip Siefert, were found Friday after they were swept away the night before while swimming in a creek just north of Clarksville, said Montgomery County Emergency Medical Services official Gary Perry.

Two emergency workers trying to rescue the teens were injured, one critically, when their boat capsized.

One of them, rescue diver Joe Snow, was under water for up to six minutes after he was caught in the undertow, Perry said.

Snow was in critical condition Friday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

About 187,000 Duke Energy customers in southwest Ohio and northern Kentucky without electricity at one point, and service to some Cincinnati-area homes was not expected to be restored until Saturday, spokesman Steve Brash said Friday.

On Friday, the storms were moving east through New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland, and hazardous weather advisories warned of severe thunderstorms bringing damaging gusts and hail.

Foxnews has the story. They found the 4 year old little girl. She was still strapped in her safety seat.

Was she alive? That is amazing if so....

Here is a video of the storm as it moved through downtown Cincinnati.

Umm, no. I couldn't bring myself to type that part.

No she wasn't. Guess someone left that part out for some reason.

Wow, that is horrible. People really need to learn not to cross a road that has water across it. It only takes less than a foot of water to knock someone off there feet and near 2 feet to take a car. When will people learn! I would think common sense would dictate that, guess not

Read the post above, Mobile dear.

Ok...read it. Doesn't change my response though
I'm not in your head but the kid isn't alive and that's probably what most people would have wanted to know about that situation.

I was CRYING while I typed that. I figured it would be fairly obvious from the fact that the car was swept away and the kid was only 4.

And here I was thinking you were tough...you marshmallow
The kid could have survived. Stranger things have happened. Seen someone get hit by lightning and live so what's a little water. Though that lightning thing was kind of freaky and I'd surprised she lived though she died like 4 years later and not sure if it was that or something else.

The people in the car should of went with it, they had no business driving across the flooded area anyways. They will live with it for the rest of there life.

You'd be surprised at how a kid/adult can survive that type of thing. In the flood of 97' here in Cincinnati quite a few cars got swept away and a 6 year old kid survived while being in the car for 7 hours! I bet you one thing though, the people who were driving across the roads that night will never do so again.

I'm with you. Nothing pisses me off more than people who take chances with the kid in the car. We getr a lot of flash floods in Texas. Every time, some fool has to be rescued from his car. One woman drove AROUND the barriers to cross the stream, the neighbor's kid she was driving was swept away and killed. She didn't think she should be prosecuted because she felt terrible. Her reason for going around the barrier -- she had to get home. Nuff said.