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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:14:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By desertmoon: Damn glad your boy is Okay!!!!!!!!! Turns out, he is in Chicago on business. His wife is a principal and 2 minutes before dismissal, the sirens go off and the school kids spent 90 minutes in the shelter. Thank you for your sentiments DM. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:16:00 PM EDT
[#2]
Stay safe. Praying for you!
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:16:34 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:19:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LittlePony: its meh here in the Quad Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LittlePony: Originally Posted By 21usernamechecksout: Anyone @littlepony he's up in IA? I'm praying for all members in the path of this storm cell. its meh here in the Quad Hope it stays that way.. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:20:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By liljakec: Minden took a direct hit. Just saw a drone video of it. Houses leveled. Creston is about to take a direct hit and that's another town of around 7500 https://x.com/MyRadarWX/status/1784003454165287261 |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:21:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By STL_Nik: Ryan hall said he's never seen a signature on the radar like this one  I've got friends in Omaha, I haven't heard from them yet. Reached out to all my peeps in Omaha as well. Haven’t heard anything either. I’m guessing phone/cell may be down. One person a little west of Omaha said Iowa is getting the worst right now. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:22:59 PM EDT
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Tornado maybe heading toward Des Moines now according to KTIV (Sioux City).
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NE, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:24:36 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 2ANut]
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Quote HistoryYikes. Figures. The media reported that Offutt AFB got hit, I checked in with a family member who works there and they said nothing happened. I guess they actually meant Eppley, the civilian airport way to the north... |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:27:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By lockinload: Turns out, he is in Chicago on business. His wife is a principal and 2 minutes before dismissal, the sirens go off and the school kids spent 90 minutes in the shelter. Thank you for your sentiments DM. Glad the DIL and the Kids are safe, too!!!! (grew up in Iowa and spent a lot of my late teens and early 20s in the Deep South...so I have been through just about every type of tornado ( Southern winter tornadoes seriously suck because they are COLD AS HELL and often accompanied by ice storms and other fun...yay!)....like I said earlier; my earliest memory is of my hometown being whacked by something between an F4 and F5 in, 1973, if memory serves. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:29:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryDamn, Right down to the foundations on many of those.... 
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:35:35 PM EDT
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Stay safe everyone and prayers to those affected. Just had a round of wind and pea-sized hail here. Spring time here makes me want to move back to hurricane territory...
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:37:30 PM EDT
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Offutt remained unscathed. Stratcom HQ did allow early dismissal around 1300hrs local.
Bellevue was also spared. Still waiting to hear from by buddy in Bennington but I do have another friend out there who has talked to him & his wife. Strange that Elkhorn/West Omaha (more affluent areas) took a big hit and everything else but the airport was missed. I guess tornadoes don't check bank accounts before unleashing destruction? |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:46:21 PM EDT
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Prayers for everyone. Almost everyone I know in omaha has texted me back.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:49:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By tsonda4570: Prayers for everyone. Almost everyone I know in omaha has texted me back. |
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USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:51:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 2ANut: Yikes. Figures. The media reported that Offutt AFB got hit, I checked in with a family member who works there and they said nothing happened. I guess they actually meant Eppley, the civilian airport way to the north... Talking with some buddies that is in base housing. There was spinning and lowering in the clouds but this didn’t touch down until it got to Eppley. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:52:41 PM EDT
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Multiple tornados/areas of rotation 45 minutes-1hr SW of Des Moines. They are on the path to Des Moines but are moving slow
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:53:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:56:55 PM EDT
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I ain't got words, truly hope everyone's safe
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USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:06:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By liljakec: Minden took a direct hit. Just saw a drone video of it. Houses leveled. Creston is about to take a direct hit and that's another town of around 7500 The minden tornado first touched down a couple miles from our house. These tornados spent a crazy amount of time on the ground. I have seen some of that drone footage and I have prayers out for all of them. It also hits hard that it came that close to us and I’m very grateful that we are all ok. |
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MI, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:09:53 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:16:25 PM EDT
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My buddy finally texted back.
From his back yard.  Attached FileA house in his neighborhood with some roof modification.  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:18:35 PM EDT
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Major area of rotation 10 minutes from impacting West Des Moines
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:19:27 PM EDT
[Last Edit: TACTICAL]
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:22:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TACTICAL: Our dog trainers place in Tennant was leveled. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/448/IMG_8417_jpeg-3198917.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/448/IMG_8418_jpeg-3198918.JPG Damn...... |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:27:03 PM EDT
[Last Edit: liljakec]
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Rotation area SW of Des Moines is now a confirmed tornado. 8 minutes from Des Moines
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CA, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:30:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BloodRaven: But the majority that I remember have all been at night. Which makes it that much worse. You can't really see it. You really don't know exactly where it is. But you know it's there...somewhere. And it scares the fucking bejeezus out of me. That's would be my biggest fear, I do wonder though, can you see a tornado in the dark with thermal? Not sure if there are temperature differences or just fast moving air. I guess you would see the debris flying though? |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:31:06 PM EDT
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Its dark, so the vis isnt the best..
 Live Storm Chasing - Dangerous Tornado Outbreak Possible - Strong Tornado Threat But he is chasing one, Had it pass over head. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:32:05 PM EDT
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Prayers for all of you affected.
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SC, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:36:45 PM EDT
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Worse than you think. May be bad enough to cause Joe to come visit and smell your kids.
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KY, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:46:04 PM EDT
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6 warnings, all headed towards the DSM area.
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UT, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:48:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By desertmoon: Me neither. My first memory is not at all dissimilar to the first five minutes of the movie twister....(well, no one got sucked out the cellar)....it was 72 or 73, IIRC. I remember coming up out of the cellar and it was just utter devastation. Trees, cars...roofs....EVERYWHERE. THIS is why I live in Arizona. Well, that and fear of giant squid. Odd. For all of the tornadoes that I went through in the Midwest and down South. I have only ever laid eyes on ONE tornado. IN ARIZONA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Az gets them now and then. When I was a kid one hit near Parker on the Colorado River. 1970’s I don’t recall any deaths. But I remember seeing a 12’x60’ trailer that was upside down between two others and none had any damage on the side. And a new Cadillac with a 2x4 through the windshield. There was some shade cabanas by the river. Tin roof, picked up from one end and rolled the roof in a roll on the other end of the cabana. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:53:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TACTICAL: Our dog trainers place in Tennant was leveled. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/448/IMG_8417_jpeg-3198917.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/448/IMG_8418_jpeg-3198918.JPG Jesus Christ!
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:54:40 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Rebel31]
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Looks like a tornado SE of Des Moines heading towards Carbondale & Pleasant Hill areas
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:56:18 PM EDT
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South and east Des Moines getting hit now. Super tight rotation but nothing confirmed just yet. We have some Arf members who could be in the path of this one
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IA, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:58:29 PM EDT
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I'm in Ankeny on the North side of Des Moines. Lots of rain but the worst is staying south so far.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:59:22 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Rebel31]
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Now a PDS Tornado Warning for SE Des Moines for the Carbondale and Pleasant Hill areas.
Lots of residential areas in the path Edit- debris on radar |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:02:26 PM EDT
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Prayers out for everyone in the path of today's bad weather.
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IN, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:02:47 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryHoly shit. Prayers to everyone impacted by these storms.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:02:49 PM EDT
[Last Edit: liljakec]
[#39]
Big debris ball from the SE Des Moines rotation/likely tornado. One of my wife's coworkers is probably getting hit by it as I type this. Radar shows it right over his house
Update-it barely missed him. It went north as it crossed Hwy65. If it kept going east he would've taken a direct hit |
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IA, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:03:40 PM EDT
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Friends of my in-laws lost their house in Tingley, Iowa. They were in the basement and survived.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:06:06 PM EDT
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Classified as an F5 when it hit Omaha. Debris signature hit two miles wide.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:08:20 PM EDT
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Damn.
Stay safe & look out for each other ya all. |
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IA, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:08:41 PM EDT
[#43]
Now east of Des Moines. Probably on the ground but not seen yet.
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IA, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:11:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: thunderw21]
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The Minden/Harlan tornado, after Minden and before Harlan.
Via Adam Orgler. 
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UT, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:12:28 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By liljakec: Big debris ball from the SE Des Moines rotation/likely tornado. One of my wife's coworkers is probably getting hit by it as I type this. Radar shows it right over his house Damn! 
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:14:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xFOXHOUNDx: That's would be my biggest fear, I do wonder though, can you see a tornado in the dark with thermal? Not sure if there are temperature differences or just fast moving air. I guess you would see the debris flying though? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xFOXHOUNDx: Originally Posted By BloodRaven: But the majority that I remember have all been at night. Which makes it that much worse. You can't really see it. You really don't know exactly where it is. But you know it's there...somewhere. And it scares the fucking bejeezus out of me. That's would be my biggest fear, I do wonder though, can you see a tornado in the dark with thermal? Not sure if there are temperature differences or just fast moving air. I guess you would see the debris flying though? I looked through a bunch of different thermals in storms. It basically get hazy until you can’t see much. The rain cools down everything and it’s harder to see stuff. The front lens gets water on it and that has effects on your resolution too. It’s almost like the equivalent of looking through fog with your naked eye. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:15:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By thunderw21: The Minden/Harlan tornado, after Minden and before Harlan. Via Adam Orgler. https://i.imgur.com/KdB3yp7.jpeg |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:15:48 PM EDT
[#48]
I hope you’re okay.
My family is in Bellevue and Gretna so they missed the worst of it. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:19:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hodgi_: Watched it form. Called my mom who was in the path and call dropped as it went over. She called back later and is fine. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/396825/1000001959_jpg-3198707.JPG |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:21:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TACTICAL: Our dog trainers place in Tennant was leveled. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/448/IMG_8417_jpeg-3198917.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/448/IMG_8418_jpeg-3198918.JPG |
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