Large Tornado Reported in Little Rock Area
Apr 25, 2011; 9:50 PM ET
Tornadoes have been sighted in the Little Rock area with a large tornado reported. Tornadoes have also been touching down in Texas.
Yet another nasty tornado outbreak is under way across the south-central U.S., with tornadoes touching down in Arkansas, northern Texas and southeastern Oklahoma this afternoon and evening.
Multiple tornadoes, including one large twister, reportedly touched down in the Little Rock, Ark., area between 7 and 8 p.m. CDT, mainly north of the city. According to KATV, extensive damage has been reported with a large tornado in Vilonia, which is north of Little Rock, with a number of homes destroyed.
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe has reportedly issued a state of emergency due to the tornadoes and flash flooding.
The line of tornadic thunderstorms that ripped through the Little Rock area will hit Memphis, Tenn., next.
This is a particularly dangerous situation with a risk of large, long-track tornadoes, especially from far northeastern Texas and northwestern Louisiana into Arkansas, northwestern Mississippi, western Tennessee, western Kentucky, far southern Illinois and southern Missouri early tonight.
Thunderstorms will also be capable of producing hail larger than golf balls, damaging winds that can down trees, power lines and cause property damage and flooding downpours.
In addition to Little Rock and Memphis, cities such as Paducah, Ky., Carbondale, Ill., Cape Girardeau, Mo., Batesville, Miss., and Shreveport, La., are included in the greatest risk zone tonight.
As AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski pointed out, another major tornado outbreak is expected to erupt in many of these same areas late Tuesday into Tuesday night. Little Rock will be at risk again as well.
People in the path of these thunderstorms need to seek safe shelter immediately if a tornado or severe thunderstorm warning is issued. The safest place to be during a tornado is in the most interior room of the lowest level of a sturdy building. Mobile homes are not safe.
Residents flee as river overflows Missouri leveeBy PINKY MEHTA, The Associated PressUpdated 9:16 PM Monday, April 25, 2011
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Thunder roared and tornado warning sirens blared, and all emergency workers in the southeast Missouri town of Poplar Bluff could do Monday was hope the saturated levee holding back the Black River would survive yet another downpour.A pickup truck and armored delivery vehicle sit stranded in floodwaters from the Black River south of Poplar Bluff, Mo., Monday, April 25, 2011, along Highway 53. Authorities in southeast Missouri have pulled several people to safety amid flash floods and rising rivers. A thousand residents fled their homes in southern Missouri on Monday as heavy rains falling on saturated ground threatened to break the levee protecting their town. (AP Photo/Daily American Republic, Paul Davis)
The region will get at least 6 inches of rain over the next three days, he said. An area east of Little Rock, Ark., stretching across Memphis and up to eastern Tennessee will be hardest hit with 8 to 9 inches.
Dozens of roads in multiple states have already closed because of flooding, leading several school districts to cancel class. Communities such as Paducah, Ky., in the Ohio River valley were building flood walls to hold back the water and adding rocks to the top of earthen levees. Others began sandbagging.
Contributing Sources:
http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/nation-world-news/residents-flee-as-river-overflows-missouri-levee-1144801.html
http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/48846/tornadoes-breaking-out-again-f.asp
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