NWS Billings put this together since the tornado formed in their area and moved into ours. Some pictures we took of our survey of the EF3 damage near the end: https://www.weather.gov/media/byz/28June2018CarterTOR.pdf
Some survey results from up here. Big wedge June 28 (ef3), black hills ef1 June 29, and at least 90-100 mph winds plus tornadoes overnight last night. We might survey that too Wedge: https://www.weather.gov/unr/2018-06-28 5 ton tractor was found, at least pieces of it: https://weather.com/news/news/2018-07-04-south-dakota-montana-missing-tractor-found June 29 Black hills tornado. Started at 4700 feet, went up to about 6600 feet, and then back down into Spearfish Canyon. Tornadoes do hit mountains: https://www.weather.gov/unr/2018-06-29 On the top of cement ridge (6647 feet) looking toward SD. Can see all the snapped trees
We had one of the more powerful thunderstorms hit this area in over a year. Some strong winds and pea sized hail with some heavy rain. Was worried the trampoline was gonna go flying into my vehicles.
Lots of images and videos on Twitter right now. I can't really share any yet, but could be bad. Heard reports of injuries
I'm live about 45 min away from here. Got some friends we can't get a hold of that live there. There are reports of vehicles missing.
I stayed in Altoona a couple years ago and ate a giant ass pork tenderloin there. Crazy! In all seriousness, I think all my family that lives in the region are fine and man what a wicked storm.
It’s easy to say a tornado looks legit on radar but yea that was nasty looking. Iowa is always good for a summer breakout but can remember the last huge tornado they had. Haven’t seen reports of fatalities yet. Hopefully that stays true.
I haven't seen it confirmed yet but I've seen reports of 6-7 fatalities at the Vermeer plant in Pella.
This scared the shit out of me. My two oldest kids are in Branson camping on Table Rock with some family. They're fine, but this is horrific. Not sure if y'all know those duck boat/busses that they shuttle people around in... but one with 31 people in it capsized and several died. We caught the bottom of the storm here but it was pretty powerful with strong winds.
Damnation. I just saw a video taken from people eating and drinking in a restaurant just a few dozen feet from it. The contrast in situations was startling. Edit- now 11 dead.
The Pella one is probably EF-3. Possibly more depending on where some of those cars are found. You may end up being right on Marshalltown though there’s a picture of 1 story apartments that appear to be swept away.
Up to 13 and will likely climb to 16 There's a video in this link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/branso...at-capsizes-table-rock-lake-today-2018-07-19/
There’s video of the boat right before it capsized and it’s terrifying. Can’t imagine what was going through people’s minds. The wind was insane.
Yeah I posted it in the post right above yours. Looks like the direction it was blowing was directly in the face of the boat/bus as it was trying to get out of the lake toward the dock, which was pushing the nose of it down. This isn't the first time this has happened, but nothing of this magnitude.
Some thoughts on the table rock tradegy. The complex of storms were severe from eastern ks all the way to southern Missouri. They were warned with ample time but even before that emergency managers should have been given a head up to that area. There is a lot of family’s out and about especially on the lake. I hope this changes policies to getting tourist boats off the water when storms are coming. My experience in southern MO is that they are usually overly cautious after Joplin. I wonder if they just got a little lax yesterday because things have been so quiet and it wasn’t a day where there was a lot of hype In that area
Yeah, I think it was just a day where everyone let their guard down. There were several people in the area talking about how it came out of nowhere. We all have smart phones that can get warnings and the storm did have history of winds a good hour before it hit the area. Unless you're in front of a TV it can be hard to adhere to those warnings when you're a tourist and everything looks normal outside. It's always easy to say there was ample warning when looking at the radar pics after the fact unless it's tornado season and everyone in the area should be on high alert. The boat shouldn't have had its flaps up on the sides trapping them inside if it capsizes, there should have been life vests for everyone on board, and they should have tried to get everyone off the boat if emergency rescue crews were en route. It's also just a sad reality that these companies are ran by people making jack shit and it's not a bunch of professionals running these tours. It's essentially a carnie driving a boat out on the lake. Idk I've got a lot of thoughts on it that many won't agree with and that's fine. It's a terrible tragedy with a lot of blame to go around. The company should never be allowed to operate anything again, much less 60 year old bus boats operated by someone making minimum wage.