At least eleven killed by severe storms, tornadoes

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Authorities now say eleven people are dead after severe thunderstorms and tornadoes swept across central Tennessee.

The devastation comes in the same week that similar storms killed 24 people and destroyed about a thousand homes and businesses in western Tennessee.

Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Randy Harris says eight people in Sumner County, northeast of Nashville, are confirmed dead.

He says three others in Warren County, about 65 miles southeast of Nashville on the Cumberland Plateau, have died as well.

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http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4744507
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I would like to add a note here. Israel also had a strange tornado event on April 5th....
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Tornado, Sand-Storms and Oversized Hail Strike Israel
22:26 Apr 05, '06 / 7 Nisan 5766


A small tornado ripped across the western Galilee Tuesday evening. Hail the size of golf balls also fell in the region. Scores were hospitalized. Freak stormy weather across Israel continues.

The tornado touched down during a hailstorm in the Acco region, striking the Arab villages of Julis, Fassouta and Jedaideh. Hail as big as ping-pong balls was reported as far away as Nahariya. In southern Israel, sandstorms reduced visibility to less than three feet.

Nine foot waves were reported on the Red Sea in Eilat, with telephone and cellular service knocked out for the entire city. The highways through the Negev were also covered completely by several inches of sand.

On Sunday, four Israeli Arabs were killed in northern Israel due to flooding. Sahar Mehamid, 23, from Umm al-Fahm was killed in Wadi Ara and three women from the lower Galilee village of Touran were killed in a car accident after driving through floodwater covering the road. PA resident Iyad Taha, from a village near Ramallah, also drowned in the floodwaters.

Tuesday's hail and tornado broke electric poles, overturned cars, uprooted trees, damaged crops and injured more than 75 people - most lightly. Most of those injured were struck by objects whipped up by the strong winds, including two children, who suffered deep lacerations. The villages lost electricity for many hours.

Farmers report that avocado, lychee and banana crops were severely damaged by the winds and hail.

Vadim Amar, Mayor of Julis, said that the tornado damaged dozens of homes and asked that the region be declared a natural disaster site.

Tornados are rare in Israel. The occasional ones that have occurred have mostly taken place over the ocean and along the coast.

Hail was also experienced in elevated areas such as Gush Etzion on both Tuesday and Wednesday.

Elsewhere in Gush Etzion, an earthquake simulation exercise is being held Wednesday in Beitar Illit, in conjunction with the Defense Ministry, MDA, Israel Police, Israel Fire Department and others. The three-hour training event began at 11 AM.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=101520

Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Prayers sent for them. Tornado season is starting off bad this year.

My sister and I were talking about the increase in tornadoes last night on the phone. She and her family are southeast of Nashville, and I called in between the really bad parts of the storm to see how they were doing. (It didn't get here until the middle of the night, and I was too tired to stay awake and monitor the weather!) You used to not get as many tornadoes in a season as you now get sometimes in one day. Just in the past couple of weeks there have been several seasons's worth, it seems.

Yep, we had a huge outbreak here in Missouri a couple of weeks ago.

Amen to that. We have had multiple tornado warnings already this year, and have spent more hours in our basement than I care to. Praise G-d, last wednesday was the first time we ever let our wee one to spend the night somewhere else. He went up home with my bro/sil 3 hours away, for 2 nights. The second night, thursday, we had three tornados come through, when about 1/8 mile north of the village we live in, one immediately to the south, and one 4 miles to the east, and we ultimately lost power for about 14 hours. Praise G-d that our wee one was up home, and didn't have to go through any of it.

PRAISE GOD INDEED!