NWS confirms EF-5 tornado in Hackleburg

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: WAFF

BIRMINGHAM, AL (WAFF) - The tornado that devastated the Hackleburg community has now been classified as an EF-5, the strongest on a scale measuring tornadoes.

NWS meteorologists surveyed damage across Marion County and determined that it was consistent with a violent tornado. Winds were estimated up to 200 mph. The tornado appeared to touchdown southwest of Hamilton near Highway 19 and County Road 22 where some tree damage was discovered.

After touchdown, however, the tornado widened considerably and became deadly as it moved along Highway 43 southwest of Hackleburg. The tornado moved into Hackleburg where several subdivisions were destroyed along with Hackleburg High School and the Wrangler Plant.

The funnel then moved northeast and generally paralleled Highway 43 and moved toward Phil Campbell where significant damage continued. Along the damage path, thousands of trees were knocked down, several hundred structures were damaged and at least 100 structures were destroyed.

Read more: http://www.waff.com/story/14548345/nws-confirms-ef-5-tornado-in-hackleburg

[Drale]

1. Thats crazy

hopefully we don't have to deal with storms like this for another 80 years.

[Rozlee]

2. Your hopes might be dashed.

This is almost certainly part of a pattern of anthropological global climate change from what the climatologists are saying. If anything, things might get worse down the road with stronger hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and snowstorms. It's going to be a shitty world.

[Chris_Texas]

3. No. It is part of a pattern called "weather"

[hedgehog]

4. While no single or particular storm can be contributed to global

climate change, the trend toward fiercer storms can be.

My son was working in Bangelore in April, complaining of the continuous downpour of rain. I checked; April should be very hot and dry, with the monsoon arriving in June!


Here in Oswego County, New York, I've seen our latest significant snowfalls retreat into February. Some years we do get a stray storm into late March, but more and more we expect the snow to be gone March 1.


Things are changing!

[SoCalDem]

5. and with the change comes food insecurity

In poor countries where most rely on their own food-growing a changed or unpredictable season of rain/drought can mean the difference between eating and not eating.. These folks have little or no margin of error, and they have no money to buy food, even if they were near places that sold food.,

People who watch their children starving, get rather angry and tend to "do something" about it..

they either swarm into areas/countries that do not want them. or they rise up aginst their own leaders who usually do nothing to help them

[Drale]

6. This is a La Nina year and that means

strong then normal storms and heavy rains. La Nina is a climatological event that is caused by colder then normal temps of the pacific ocean off the coast of South America. Its possible that the storms may have been influenced by Global climate change but it is not the root cause.

[RebelOne]

8. Doubtfully. I am afraid we are in for more.

Springtime storms are the worst and we still have to get through May. I am in Georgia just down the road from Cartersville and Ringgold where the big tornado hit. Pretty much wiped out Ringgold and did a lot of damage in Cartersville. Fortunately, it skipped over my town.

[lovuian]

7. Wind speeds are picking up

a Tornado F5 is a big wake up call that perhaps CO2increase, climate change, and the earth's magnetic pole shifting farther to Russia