Avis de tempête
DiDo:
merci pour ces précisions.
Mathieu:
Première grosse "tempête à tornades" aux USA, le Mississippi a été sévèrement touché, ainsi que les états voisins, mais c'est tout l'est du pays qui est menacé. Des grelons gros comme des oranges on fait beaucoup de dégâts.
NBC
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Tornadoes Cause Extensive Damage, Injuries In Mississippi
BRANDON, Miss. -- There are reports of injuries and extensive damage in Mississippi after a line of violent thunderstorms pushed across the state Wednesday morning.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour declared a state of emergency in areas hit by high winds, heavy rains and, apparently, tornadoes.
Damaged homes, downed trees and some power outages are reported from the Delta into the central and south Mississippi.
No deaths were reported, but officials said there are people hurt southwest of Brandon.
There were numerous reports of mobile home damage in Mississippi's Rankin County, along with damaged roofs and downed trees and power lines. Some roads were blocked by fallen trees.
A preliminary survey in Rankin County showed at least 17 homes destroyed and 15 others with major damage, said Amy Carruth, a Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman in Brandon.
Six people were injured in Rankin County, one in critical condition, Carruth said.
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http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050406/NEWS01/50406014/1002]The Clarion Ledger
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Hundreds escape injury as storm blows off Mize High roof
A tornado blew the roof off Mize High in Smith County this morning while classes were in session, school district officials said.
Because quick-thinking administrators hustled the 650 students onto the first floor of the two-story school before the tornado hit, no one was injured, said Smith County schools Superintendent Warren Woodrow. The kindergarten through high school campus will be closed until further notice, he said.
"Pray for us. We've got a lot of work to do," Woodrow said. "But we're going to be OK."
The storm system that drilled the school was part of a line of violent thunderstorms packing apparent tornadoes, high winds and heavy rain that early today pushed across the state, slashing through Rankin County, devastating a trailer park on Monterey Road in the Florence area, and whipping on into surrounding counties including Smith.
"The teachers did a good job of holding it together," said Woodrow, who was in the school gymnasium, where students were waiting to be picked up by parents.
The experience upset many of the school's younger students, he said. School district employees monitored weather reports as the storm approached.
"Our folks are well drilled," Woodrow said.
He said he will be meeting with school board members to come up with alternative plans on holding class.
It's unclear whether other parts of Smith County sustained damages. No one from the Smith County Emergency Management office could be reached late this morning.
A man living between the Progress community and Holmesvillee was thrown out of his mobile home, said Pike County emergency management director Richard Coglin. He suffered minor injuries and was released from a hospital, Coglin said.
"There's a strip there about 10 to 12 miles long that got quite a bit of damage," he said.
Coglin said five Pike County houses were destroyed, 13 sustained major damage and five others had minor damage. He estimated at least 20 people are displaced because of the damage.
Gov. Haley Barbour declared a state of emergency this morning, and six people in Rankin County's Monterey Road area were injured, including one critically, said American Medical Response spokesman Jim Pollard.
Pollard said the critically injured person was taken to the University of Mississippi Medical Center. The other five are stable, Pollard said; one was taken to UMC, three to River Oaks and one to Rankin Medical Center.
Pollard said he could not give specific information about the injuries, but said typical injuries sustained from a tornado are lacerations, fractures, crush injuries caused by being trapped under rubble and concussions from the sheer force of the wind.
The American Red Cross set up a help center and shelter at Briar Hill Baptist Church at Mississippi 469 and Gunter Road in Rankin County, Pollard said.
Lea Stokes, spokeswoman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, said it's too early to know how much property has been damaged and how many people have been hurt. Crews started assessing damage and injuries about 8 a.m., she said.
Rankin County appears to have been hardest hit, she said. Emergency workers are having difficulty reaching victims there because too many people are driving around idly, looking at damage, she said.
Officials need people to stay off Monterey Road, Allison Drive and Oak, Cedar, Maple and Poplar streets near the Brandon area, Stokes said.
Besides Rankin County, officials also are checking reports of tornado and storm damage in Yazoo, Sunflower, Attala, Scott and Walthall counties, she said.
In Walthall County, at least five homes, two mobile homes and one business were severely damaged, she said. Five homes sustained minor damage, Stokes said.
Roland Vandenweghe, Walthall County Emergency Management Director, said neighboring Pike County sustained more damage than his county.
A tornado damaged a warehouse and office at the Magees Creek Water Association near Mannings Crossing and Jayess roads southeast of the Enon area, Vandenweghe said. It also hit a couple of mobile homes. No one was home when the storm hit, he said.
At about noon, Scott, Smith, Simpson, Lincoln, Lawrence, Jefferson Davis and Covington counties still were under tornado warnings, according to the National Weather Service website.
"We've got storms moving through Jackson-Rankin County area now," said weather service meteorologist Jim Butch. "More are developing over in Louisiana now."
The severity of the coming fronts is unknown, he said.
The upper level disturbance controlling the weather, still over Arkansas, should pass through the Jackson area by midday, bringing an end to the turbulent weather, Butch said.
By tonight, it should pass through the eastern portion of the state, which now is being hammered by the same front that struck the metro area earlier this morning, he said.
Southern Pine Electric Power Association, which serves much of Rankin County, says about 4,000 of its customers are without power.
Jack Mullins, district manager for Southern Pine EPA, said most of those affected are located in the Oak Avenue subdivision east of Florence. Some customers affected are just outside the Brandon city limits, he said.
Mullins said crews have come from the company's Taylorsville headquarters. They will remain on site until power is restored.
More crews will be brought if needed, he said.
Robert Lesley, a spokesman for Entergy Mississippi said about 1,500 customers in their 45 county service area are without power. Of that number, half are within the Jackson metro area, he said.
Power should be restored to the majority of customers by midday if no more severe weather comes through Lesley said. The balance should then be restored "after sunset."
Lesley said the only major physical damage to lines occurred in Fernwood, just south of Brookhaven. Straight winds or a tornado broke six power poles, he said.
Mathieu:
A l'avant de cette grosse tempête, les inondations ont déjà provoqué des millions de dollars de dégâts, et le déplacement de milliers de personnes. Toujours dans la démesure ces américains !
CNN
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Northeast floods displace thousands
Delaware River recedes, but more rain expected later in week
TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) -- Thousands of people packed into shelters, hotels or friends' houses on Tuesday, forced from their homes by flooding that caused millions of dollars in damage in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
Nearly 6,000 New Jersey residents and another 5,715 in Pennsylvania evacuated their homes after the Delaware River surged out of its banks over the weekend, state officials said Tuesday. The flooding was blamed for at least one death.
Antonio Barnett, 27, stayed at a hotel after his Trenton apartment flooded but stopped to pick up a sandwich from The Salvation Army, which set up 50 shelters over the weekend to help flood victims.
"You can't do what you're accustomed to doing," he said. "Financial help, that's the main thing we really need."
In New York, a woman's body was found Monday about 500 yards from where her SUV flipped over into fast-moving water. Officials searched on Tuesday for two men missing from a van that was swept into a swollen creek.
New Jersey officials asked that the state be declared a federal disaster area, and officials in Pennsylvania and New York sought disaster declarations for affected counties.
"I've never seen devastation like this," New York Gov. George Pataki said after flying over flooded areas. "We'll do everything we can to help."
Some 3,200 homes were damaged in New Jersey, officials said, and hundreds more were damaged in Pennsylvania and New York, including at least 160 homes valued at some $16 million in the Town of Deerpark, New York. Many bridges and roads in Pennsylvania were impassable and dozens of schools and businesses were closed.
Many state employees in New Jersey remained off the job in Trenton, where the Delaware River flooded roads and the Statehouse garage.
New Jersey's acting Gov. Richard J. Codey estimated that property damage approached $30 million, about the same amount caused by remnants of Hurricane Ivan that swept through the state in September.
In Monroe County, Pennsylvania, businesses had already reported $40 million worth of damage as of Tuesday afternoon, "and that's conservative," said Harry Robidoux, director of emergency services. At least 300 homes countywide were flooded, he said.
Dot Varju watched as workers carted off her inventory of ruined beer from Frank & Dot Depot in Easton, Pennsylvania. For health reasons, even cases of beer that weren't touched by floodwater had to be tossed out.
"I want to cry," Varju said. Her husband, Frank Varju, estimated the damage at more than $100,000.
Despite the flooding, the National Weather Service estimated New Jersey received a total of only 2 to 4 inches of rain over the weekend. But water levels had already been high from previous storms, and melting snow upstream in New York state contributed heavily to the flooding.
While the Delaware River receded below its banks Tuesday, the Susquehanna, Chenango and Tioughnioga rivers weren't expected to follow for a day or two, and more rain was expected later in the week, the National Weather Service said.
Mathieu:
ABC News
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Blizzard Disrupts Travel in Colorado
Blizzard Forces Cancellation of Flights in Colorado; 5-10 Inches Forecast for Denver
DENVER Apr 10, 2005 — Hundreds of travelers were stranded at the Denver airport and along highways Sunday as a blizzard blew across eastern Colorado with wet, heavy snow.
Seven to 10 inches of snow was forecast in Denver and up to 30 inches was possible in the foothills west of Denver, Colorado Springs and Boulder, the National Weather Service said.
"I can see just across the street and that's it," Heath Vansickler said at the Country Store in Palm Lake, 45 miles south of Denver.
Fat, moisture-laden snowflakes were blown sideways by wind gusting to 30 mph. Xcel Energy reported that 10,000 customers were without power in the heavily populated Front Range region.
All airlines canceled departing flights from Denver International Airport during the morning, airport spokeswoman Laura Jackson said. United Airlines, the biggest carrier at the airport, canceled all of its flights for the whole day, she said.
Planes on the ground were icing up faster than they could be cleaned, said Joe Hodas of Frontier Airlines, which had planes landing but not taking off.
Hundreds of people were stranded at the airport, many stretching out on couches and the floor, using coats for pillows, or waiting in slow-moving lines at fast-food restaurants in the terminal.
"I need a drink and the lines are an hour-long to get one," passenger Brandi Hoenig said.
She and her husband, Jim, were on their way home to Cocoa, Fla., after a honeymoon ski trip, but their flight was canceled and all nearby hotels were filled. "We can't get a flight until Tuesday afternoon," Jim Hoenig said.
Alister Cleland and his family were stuck at the airport on their way home to Durham, England, after a week at the Beaver Creek ski resort. "We liked the snow there, but there's too much here," he said.
Whiteout conditions shut down a 16-mile stretch of heavily traveled Interstate 25 between Denver and Colorado Springs, 60 miles to the south. I-70 was closed in both directions in the Denver area. The state Department of Transportation said crews reported whiteout conditions on Interstate 76 near the Nebraska state line.
About 300 truckers waited out the storm at the TA Truck Stop along I-70 in Wheat Ridge, said general manager Richard Lemm.
"It looks like they're going to be here most of the day. There are a lot more coming in than going out," Lemm said.
Three state-run prisons in Denver were also closed to visitors by weather for the first time ever, said Alison Morgan, spokeswoman for the state corrections department.
The storm, which struck western Colorado on Saturday, was expected to blow out of the area late Sunday, mostly turning to rain over the Plains.
A similar storm system in March 2003 paralyzed much of the greater Denver area with 3 feet of wet, slushy snow that destroyed trees and damaged homes.
Associated Press reporter Judith Kohler contributed to this report.
Mathieu:
Joli enroulement cyclonique au large de l'Italie hier. Je ne sais pas si ça a eu des conséquences, je n'ai rien trouvé dans google (mais je ne comprends rien à l'italien !)
Images dans de meilleures résolutions disponibles ici : rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov
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