Aviso do tornado de Kentucky:
TOR issued by NWS PAH at 11 Dec 2021 03:05 UTC
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu
Só se pode concluir que nem todas as estruturas e habitações tinham abrigos adequados para o impacto directo de um F4/F5.
Não quero supôr que os avisos não foram seguidos, pois foram emitidos com 20 minutos de antecedência.
Número de mortos já é, previsivelmente, superior a uma centena.
At least 100 people were feared dead in Kentucky after a swarm of tornadoes tore a 200-mile path through the U.S. Midwest and South, demolishing homes, levelling businesses and setting off a scramble to find survivors beneath the rubble, officials said Saturday.
www.reuters.com
"The powerful twisters, which weather forecasters say are unusual in cooler months [...]"
"The genesis of the tornado outbreak was a series of overnight thunderstorms, including a super cell storm that formed in northeast Arkansas. That storm moved from Arkansas and Missouri and into Tennessee and Kentucky.
Unusually high temperatures and humidity created the environment for such an extreme weather event at this time of year, said Victor Gensini, a professor in geographic and atmospheric sciences at Northern Illinois University.
"This is an historic, if not generational event," Gensini said. "