A variety of notes on the “morning after” our big severe weather events. There will be a number of storm survey teams from the NWS and it will be interesting to see their reports over the next few days.
YESTERDAY’S TALLY
According to the Storm Prediction Center in Norman:
31 tornado reports
88 wind reports
51 hail reports
Remember, those numbers will be adjusted for the final tally because there may be more than one report on the same tornado. Also, some of the high wind reports may not have caused damage.
ENTERPRISE TORNADO
1:05 PM…First reported on the ground near or at Enterprise Airport
1:10 PM…Moving through the heart of Enterprise (this based on the radar track from NWS, Tallahassee. (That office has warning responsibility for several SE Alabama counties) There were several other SE Alabama tornadoes that did not get much mention, naturally overshadowed by the Enterprise tragedy.
GEORGIA
Americus was hard hit including the hospital and there were several fatalities. This is only 9 miles east of Plains, Ga., the hometown of President Jimmy Carter. A little personal slice of life. We were eating lunch one day at the Best Western in Americus. The waitress informed me that I was sitting in Billy Carter’s favorite chair–the one he sat in every morning during his daily coffee break. I felt important. Billy was President Carters very colorful brother that owned the service station in Plains.
A tornado stayed on the ground for seven miles yesterday as it moved across the noreth part of Mitchell County, Georgia.
NEW YORK
Major flooding in the Big Apple from this same storm system. 1.76 inches of rain in Central Park and 1.79 at Laguardia. 1.77 in nearby Teterboro, New Jersey.
BLIZZARD
Yes, this same storm system caused that, too. It could be called a Supermarket Storm because you could find almost anything. 12 to 14 inches of snow fell around Oakland, Iowa with 6-foot drifts. That is just one sample report of many.
ALABAMA RAINFALL (Not an all-inclusive list)
2.16 in North Auburn
1.48 at Alexander City
1.16 at Logan Martin Dam
1.48 at Lay Dam
1.09 at Ohatchee (home of radio legend Rufus T. Rasberry)
1.22 in Selma
2.16 at Holt Dam
1.32 at Sylacauga
1.49 at Montgomery Dannelly Field
0.92 at Huntsville Airport
0.51 at Fort Payne
0.66 at Anniston Airport
MORNING AFTER CHILL
30 at Cullman Airport
31 at Black Creek (with a touch of frost)
33 at Pinson
37 at Tuscaloosa Airport
A BIT OF GOOD NEWS
Dry weather at least through the middle of next week.
