TORNADOES IN MIDWEST

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

ITS REPORTED THAT 120 TORNADOES TOUCHED DOWN SO FAR IN THE MIDWEST.

Twisters Kill 5 in Oklahoma; Tear Through Kansas, Iowa Posted on: 9:21 am, April 15, 2012, by Jessica Bates, updated on: 09:35am, April 15, 2012 FOX 8 CLEVELAND

WICHITA, Kansas (CNN) — Three states face the most danger of possible tornadoes Sunday, as parts of the Midwest assess the damage from storms that have left at least five people dead in Oklahoma.The National Weather Service received 121 reports of possible tornado touchdowns Saturday and early Sunday in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback told CNN Sunday that 97 tornadoes touched down in his state; the National Weather Service has not confirmed the exact number of twisters.While severe weather could continue to hammer much of the region, the states in the bull’s-eye for the most dangerous conditions Sunday will likely be Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, said CNN Meteorologist Alexandra Steele.Authorities call on everyone in the region to follow weather reports and make emergency preparations.About 5 million residents from Wisconsin to Texas need to be on guard, Steele said.Some of the bigger cities that could see isolated tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds are: Green Bay, Chicago, St. Louis, Little Rock, and Houston.Five people, including two children, died from injuries related to a suspected tornado in the northwest Oklahoma town of Woodward early Sunday morning, said Amy Elliott of the state Medical Examiner’s Office.Woodward Mayor Roscoe Hill said 37 people were injured, including several critically, in the storm that struck the town shortly after midnight.This thing comes in the middle of the night. It caught us asleep, mostly, Hill told CNN.

A tornado warning siren that had sounded a day earlier failed to go off when the suspected tornado struck, Hill said. He said it was unclear if the warning system was damaged by the storm.Everything is dark. Buildings have been tore up,he said.Hill said a suspected tornado touched down in front of his nephew’s house, destroying several buildings, including a carpet store. There was also extensive damage to a new residential area in the town, he said.It’s a typical tornado scene. It flattened the west part of our town,he said.Brownback declared a state of disaster emergency to help speed relief to areas affected by storms.He credits early warnings for the lack of fatalities in his state.Warnings for this system came two days in advance, rather than just a matter of hours, and were remarkably accurate, he said. People took it very seriously.Emergency officials, stymied by the dark and heavy rainfall as they tried to check on residents, planned to resume their search Sunday morning, Kansas officials said.Despite extensive damage reported in many parts of the state, no deaths were reported, officials said.About 11,000 customers were without power across the state, Westar Energy said.In southwest Iowa, officials evacuated the entire population — roughly 300 people — of the town of Thurman after a suspected tornado struck Saturday, damaging or destroying three out of every four homes.By early Sunday morning, many Thurman residents who took up temporary shelter at a high school in nearby Tabor were again in the path of a storm that spawned suspected tornadoes in neighboring Kansas.I can hear the rumbling in the distance. You can see the lightning. Whatever is in Kansas is coming this way, said Mike Crecelius, Fremont County’s emergency management director.A sign in a park that bears the town’s name is one of the few things still standing, Crecelius said.That’s about all there is. About 75% of the homes are damaged or destroyed, Crecelius said. From the looks of things, there won’t be a tree left in that town either.Across the south and central Plains, storm chasers broadcast images of funnel clouds roaring through rural landscapes.Residents in some high-risk areas received new warnings intended to grab their attention and prompt them to find safe shelter.In the basement of 30-year-old Lacy Jay Hansen’s home in downtown Wichita, Kansas, she and her family donned bicycle helmets and crouched against a corner as a suspected tornado churned its way toward her home.It turned right in the nick of time for us, striking this other neighborhood, she said. But now there are other people we know and love in the path of it.

Through text messages and tweets, the Hansens learned that the storm that spared their house destroyed a friend’s house several miles away.Eleven months ago, Hansen, her husband and son were in Joplin, Missouri, visiting their ailing grandfather in a hospital when a tornado ripped through, killing 158 people.None of us were supposed to be there, she said.We’ve always taken it seriously. But ever since then, we take it more seriously.The tornado that tore through Joplin was one of 1,691 tornadoes that killed a total of 550 people in 2011, according to the National Weather Service. Last year was the 4th deadliest tornado year in U.S. history.The tragedy in Joplin triggered stronger warnings by the weather service to life-threatening storms. More than 24 hours before the storms began rolling across the Midwest on Saturday, the service was warning residents of the storm’s potential damage.At the Marriott in downtown Wichita, Johnny Williams watched over eight children in an interior ballroom where they took shelter.The group, from Oklahoma City, was in town for a basketball camp when the storm struck.We play together as a team, and we believe together as a team, Williams said.We really believe everything will be all right.The storm flooded parts of downtown Wichita, and McConnell Air Force Base also sustained damage, authorities said.A roof collapsed at Spirit Aero Systems, which produces fuselages and other equipment for Boeing aircraft, and damage was also reported to Hawker Beechcraft, which manufacturers high-performance business jets and turboprop planes.At the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport, a suspected tornado tossed baggage carts across the runways, overturned jetways and blew out windows, affiliate KSNW told CNN.Earlier, a confirmed tornado struck a hospital in Creston, Iowa, blowing out windows and damaging the roof, John Benson of Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management said. There were no major injuries reported, and the patients were relocated to other area hospitals.CNN’s Susan Candiotti reported from Kansas and Rob Marciano reported from Oklahoma and Kansas. CNN’s Josh Levs, Randi Kaye and Maria P. White reported from Atlanta.

Reported tornadoes, strong storms batter Midwest amid warnings of life-threatening weather-Severe weather bears down on Midwest, Plains By TIMBERLY ROSS | Associated Press | APR 15,12

Storms were reported in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Emergency officials in Iowa said a large part of the town of Thurman in the western part of the state was destroyed but no one was injured. A hospital in Creston, southwest of Des Moines, was damaged but patients and staff were not hurt.And a reported tornado in Wichita, Kan., caused widespread power outages and other damage, including to housing and at an Air Force Base.National Weather Service forecasters issued sobering outlooks that the worst of the weather would hit around nightfall, predicting that conditions were right for exceptionally strong tornadoes. Weather officials and emergency management officials worried most about what would happen if strong storms hit when people were sleeping, not paying attention to weather reports and unlikely to hear warning sirens.When it's dark, it's also more difficult for weather spotters to clearly see funnel clouds or tornadoes.This could go into, certainly, to overnight situations, which is always of immense concern to us, said Michelann Ooten, an official with the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., which specializes in tornado forecasting, said that the outbreak could be a high-end, life-threatening event nearly two days before the weather hit.

It was just the second time in U.S. history that the center issued a high-risk warning more than 24 hours in advance. The first was in April 2006, when nearly 100 tornadoes tore across the southeastern U.S., killing a dozen people and damaging more than 1,000 homes in Tennessee.While there were no fatalities as of Saturday evening, storms were erupting faster than spotters could tally them all. The danger began Saturday morning when tornado sirens sounded in Oklahoma City around dawn.One of the suspected tornadoes in central Oklahoma touched down near the small town of Piedmont and followed a similar path the one last May that killed several people, Mayor Valerie Thomerson said. Later in the day, several tornadoes were reported to have touched down in the northeast part of the state. Aside from damage to a camper, the chaos was minor.More than 5,000 people who had gathered in Woods County, Okla., for a rattlesnake hunt scattered when a tornado touched down, said county emergency management director, Steve Foster.In Iowa, Thurman _ a town of about 250 people _ was severely damaged by a possible tornado. Fremont County Emergency Management Director Mike Crecelius said that about 75 percent of the town was destroyed, but there were no injuries or deaths. Crecelius said the town was on lockdown and that officials and residents expect to start cleaning up on Sunday.

In Creston, about 75 miles from Des Moines, the Greater Regional Medical Center suffered roof damage and had some of its windows blown out by a storm, said John Benson, a spokesman for Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management. No injuries were reported. Medical center officials were calling other area hospitals to determine how many beds they had available in case they needed to move patients.The National Weather Service in Des Moines also received reports of high winds that toppled at least five semis on Interstate 29.In northeast Nebraska, Boone County Sheriff David Spiegel said baseball-sized hail had damaged vehicles, shattered windows and tore siding from houses in and around Petersburg, about 140 miles northwest of Omaha. In southeast Nebraska, an apparent tornado took down barns, large trees, and some small rural structures. Johnson County emergency director Clint Strayhorn said he was trying to determine the twister's duration and the damage it caused.I'm on a 2-mile stretch that this thing is on the ground and I haven't even gotten to the end of it yet,he said, walking the path of destruction near the Johnson-Nemaha county line. He didn't immediately know of any injuries.Two possible tornadoes were reported father south in Nebraska near the Kansas border, and as many as 10 others were reported in largely rural parts of western and central Kansas, including one north of Dodge City that was said to be on the ground for a half-hour, weather officials said.In Kansas, a suspected tornado narrowly avoided Salina, meteorologists said. Another was on the ground for about a half-hour north of Dodge City.Sharon Watson, spokeswoman for Kansas Division of Emergency Management, said there were reports of damage to housing in the southeast part of Wichita as well as at McConnell Air Force Base and Spirit AeroSystems.Forecasters warned once Saturday night's danger had passed, the threat from the storm system wasn't over. Severe weather was also possible for a significant band of the center of the country on Sunday.The threat isn't over with tonight, unfortunately. Severe weather is possible again tomorrow from east Texas and Arkansas and up into the Great Lakes,said Bill Bunting, chief of operations at the Storm Prediction Center, which is part of the National Weather Service.Associated Press reporters Grant Schulte in Omaha, Neb.; David Pitt in Osceola, Iowa; Sean Murphy and Rochelle Hines in Oklahoma City; Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Mo.; Erin Gartner in Chicago; and Ed Donahue in Washington contributed to this report.