April 14th and 15th Severe Weather Communications Coverage

Dear Shortwave America readers and listeners,

It is with sadness that it is announced at this time that severe weather has struck the mid-central area of the United States. Twenty four hours ago, the National Weather Service issued warnings of possible "life threatening" storms capable of leaving behind catastrophic damage in its wake. That warning has become a reality.

CBS NEWS REPORT on the situation.

LIVE coverage of the severe weather events at the Weather Channel.

Here's what you can do to be prepared.

These storms are moving quickly to the East and are expected to continue hitting various places until Monday morning all the way south to Texas as this line of storms stretch in a line from North to South in their Eastward direction.

Emergency communications volunteers using Echolink have stated that one location has a report of possible persons trapped in a pile of debris and that a RadioReference page dedicated to an emergency radio feed has gone down. No information is available as to whether or not it was actually the feed or the page hosting the feed that has become inoperable.


Image Courtesy of The Weather Channel

Forecasters say these storms will lose only a small amount of strength and are hopeful that the worst will only be heavy rain. The greatest threats lie ahead through tomorrow (Sunday).

More on the emergency weather / disaster communications perspective, as well as weather threat updates when those pieces of information become available. 












National Weather Service Radar Image

****UPDATE****
15 April 2012: The Weather Channel has today's forecast for dangerous weather.

The greatest chances for severe weather today are in the following places:

Corpus  Christi, Texas

Houston, Texas

Dallas, Texas

Little Rock, Arkansas

St. Louis, Missouri

Chicago, Illinois

Reference update from N3JPP for real time storm information: ChaserTV
Shortwave America wants to add a disclaimer here: The people at ChaserTV may or may not all be trained storm spotters. DO NOT attempt to "chase" or track a storm yourself unless you are a TRAINED storm spotter.