April 10, 2009: Deadly outbreak of tornadoes – trenching wires for house
The area was hit very hard this morning and again early this afternoon. I thought maybe the storms would develop just east of us this morning – they did not. They formed right over us. Numerous reports of large hail were received from South Illinois, West Kentucky, and West Tennessee. Numerous tornadoes have hit KY/TN/MS/AL/GA. Some deadly. Not sure on the death toll, yet. More than 100 have been injured. Not a good day for weather. It was a long night and a long morning. Glad it is over.
A large hook echo and wall cloud moved across southern Graves County, KY. No damage that I know of – it passed south of Mayfield. The wall cloud passed, once again, near Joey’s parents. Seems like they always get it.
This afternoon I met Jason and Jess up at the farm. We ran conduit. We have to bury all of the cables for the OEM antennas/radios. Also the weather instrument wires – tower cam wires – and so on. It was MUDDY. VERY MUDDY. It was actually the muddiest that it has been since we started this project. Hopefully it will dry out a bit in the coming days. Although, more heavy rain is likely Sunday night and Monday – more severe weather is possible. Go figure.
Some photos from today’s mud-fest
Jason and I – putting the anemometer on top of the big tower.
All in the name of "meteorology" 🙂
And the tower cam 🙂
PROJECT COMPLETE!!!!
Running lots and lots and lots of wires.
Jason – checking out the size of the pipe. Bobby came up to help put everything in place. It was MUDDY.
MUDDDDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY – trenching wires! Jason and Joey
Here are some photos I took from the Round Knob area of Massac County – just south of my farm.
Trampoline blown into a tree – 2 miles south of Round Knob
HOOK ECHO PASSING INTO GRAVES COUNTY, KENTUCKY – TORNADO WARNING WAS ISSUED FOR THIS
INCLUDING THE CITY OF MAYFIELD.
Hail storm in Reidland, Kentucky – earlier this morning (towards noon)
Photo by Justin Adams – Reidland Fire Department
Tommy’s mom sent him this photo from West TN