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As of 9:30 p.m. EDT, 23 tornadoes have been reported across the region. These tornadoes have caused extensive damage in Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas.
There was also one confirmed one in Hartford, KY and another possible one in Elizabethtown, KY (which is less than 20 minutes from me.) This tornado stuff has been going on for nearly a week here.
Crazy outbreak today, 76 and counting. I head one meterologist blame downward pressure from La Nina for the warmer than usual gulf stream contributing to these storms.
AccuWeather.com - Weather News | Large, Violent Tornadoes Touching Down in Ala., Miss., Tenn. (http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/48909/todays-tornado-onslaught-cente.asp - broken link)
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As of 6:30 p.m. EDT, 76 tornadoes have been reported by the Storm Prediction Center. These tornadoes have touched down in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, with a lone twister reported in Ohio.
A very large tornado touched down in Tuscaloosa, Ala. after 6 p.m. EDT.
Local media has reported three fatalities in a tornado in Kemper County, Miss. Mobile homes were damaged and destroyed with a large number of trees down, preventing emergency workers from reaching the area.
CNN reported that a tornado may have struck the Cullman Regional Medical Center in northern Alabama.
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