Preliminary: Over 122 dead, 1500 missing

“For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
   Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
   The anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.” Jer. 23:18-20

April, 2011 – The death toll from the monster tornado that struck Joplin, Mo., rose to at least 124 today, even as a new system of deadly storms moved across the Midwest. As of two days after, Joplin officials were reporting that as many as 1,500 people were still unaccounted for, which even if a low percentage of the missing are fatalities this would make Joplin the worst overall Tornado disaster in history – recorded or otherwise.

Tornadoes passing through Oklahoma the following day have left at least 13 people dead and destroyed hundreds of homes, according to state and local officials. The damage there has yet to be assessed.

News of the storm system gave the search for survivors in Joplin new urgency. The city is under a

 

heap of rubble and is looking at a long, tough rebuilding process. More help from President Obama is promised on top of the aid guaranteed to the tornado and storm victims of the costliest April of tornadoes ever.

And the threat of more tornadoes comes with relentless fury. Search and rescue teams are struggling to find survivors in Joplin’s rubble. More than 750 people were injured in the storm, and that is only a preliminary number.

The massive Joplin tornado was rated as an EF5, the strongest classification, with winds ranging above 200 mph. The nearly mile-wide funnel carved a six mile wide path through the city and left trapped survivors and people scrambling for shelter.

A tornado that struck Flint, Mich., on June 8, 1953 and killed 116 people had been the deadliest single tornado on record since the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began keeping track of tornado fatalities in 1950.

The lethal twister has also made 2011 the deadliest year for tornadoes since 1953, with 454 deaths from 1,000 tornadoes so far, according to NOAA. This year’s toll may well eclipse the all-time tornado death toll, just by the final tally in Joplin.

April set a record as the deadliest month ever with 361 tornado-related deaths, according to NOAA’s records.

In total, 70 tornadoes were produced by the storm system since Friday, including at least 47 tornadoes Sunday. Tornadoes were reported in seven states from the Canadian border to Oklahoma. Warnings and watches were posted from Texas to Michigan.

April sets records for storm disaster in 3 states: an outbreak for the history books
April Tornadoes Devastate Tornado Alley as Never Before

Dateline: Middle America USA May 14, 2011 – North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue speaking the day after a storm of more than 250 tornadoes had whirled through six U.S. southern states in early April 2011, said she had never seen anything like the devastation left behind by the series of powerful tornadoes unleashed upon her state.

It was widely agreed that the storm of April 14 set the record for most tornadoes in one weather system, the previous king of storms had 141 tornadoes.

“It was like paper dollhouses that were collapsed,” Perdue said. “Thousands of pieces of furniture … were strewn all over 25 counties. Lives disrupted, communities disrupted.“

Three days later towns in Mississippi and Alabama got smashed with record storms including three tornadoes of EF5 force.

According to the governor, the agricultural economy of North Carolina will take a hit like it has never before experienced. Billions of dollars of damage have been reported and government disaster aid will be forthcoming.

“I don’t know how we’ll cope with that or what kind of assistance will be there — they need labor on the ground to plow and re-seed the fields. … This is the first major agricultural hit North Carolina has ever had.“

Official fatality figures for the early April mega storms rested at 51, but as with all disasters that number may well rise as more data come in to official agencies.

Homes were demolished, cars flipped over and havoc was wreaked across six states destroying infrastructure that will impede both local and national economies in untold ways for months, maybe more. One twister amazed people unfamiliar with a tornado’s power when pictures of a Lowe’s Home Improvement Store torn in half and completely disintegrated appeared on the internet and across television news screens.

As of Wednesday, April 27th there had been a single month record-setting 17 killer tornadoes with the second most fatalities at 49 behind only February 2008 which recorded 59 deaths. As people woke up on Thursday the 28th they were to discover that April 2011 would easily eclipse all-time records for single month death toll, economic loss and devastation of private and public property.

List of F5 Tornadoes (starting with most recent)

(At least two more in May 2011 brings total to five this year already, the second most ever in any year. The average is one per year.)
55 April 27, 2011 Preston MS
54 April 27, 2011 Hackleburg/Phil Campbell AL
53 April 27, 2011 Smithville MS
52 May 25, 2008 Parkersburg IA
51 May 4, 2007 Greensburg KS
50 May 3, 1999 Bridge Creek/Moore OK
49 April 16, 1998 Waynesboro TN
48 April 8, 1998 Pleasant Grove AL
47 May 27, 1997 Jarrell TX
46 July 18, 1996 Oakfield WI
45 June 16, 1992 Chandler MN
44 April 26, 1991 Andover KS
43 August 28, 1990 Plainfield IL
42 March 13, 1990 Goessel KS
41 March 13, 1990 Hesston KS
40 May 31, 1985 Niles OH
39 June 7, 1984 Barneveld WI
38 April 2, 1982 Broken Bow OK
37 April 4, 1977 Birmingham AL
36 June 13, 1976 Jordan IA
35 April 19, 1976 Brownwood TX
34 March 26, 1976 Spiro OK
33 April 3, 1974 Guin AL
32 April 3, 1974 Tanner AL
31 April 3, 1974 Mt. Hope AL
30 April 3, 1974 Sayler Park OH
29 April 3, 1974 Brandenburg KY
28 April 3, 1974 Xenia OH
27 April 3, 1974 Daisy Hill IN
26 May 6, 1973 Valley Mills TX
25 February 21, 1971 Delhi LA
24 May 11, 1970 Lubbock TX
23 June 13, 1968 Tracy MN
22 May 15, 1968 Maynard IA
21 May 15, 1968 Charles City IA
20 April 23, 1968 Gallipolis OH
19 October 14, 1966 Belmond IA
18 June 8, 1966 Topeka KS
17 March 3, 1966 Jackson MS
16 May 8, 1965 Gregory SD
15 May 5, 1964 Bradshaw NE
14 April 3, 1964 Wichita Falls TX
13 May 5, 1960 Prague OK
12 June 4, 1958 Menomonie WI
11 December 18, 1957 Murphysboro IL
10 June 20, 1957 Fargo ND
9 May 20, 1957 Ruskin Heights MO
8 April 3, 1956 Grand Rapids MI
7 May 25, 1955 Udall KS
6 May 25, 1955 Blackwell OK
5 December 5, 1953 Vicksburg MS
4 June 27, 1953 Adair IA
3 June 8, 1953 Flint MI
2 May 29, 1953 Ft. Rice ND
1 May 11, 1953 Waco TX

Early Tally of April Tornadoes
10 billion dollars damage

362 tornadoes

340 people killed in 24 hr period. Most (2/3) died in Ala. Overall economic loss a record

One twister traveled 320 miles… Long term economic consequences unknown, agriculture of entire state of No. Carolina disrupted/destroyed.

36 counties in Ala declared a disaster area. More than a million without power.

Ala and Mississippi Only 24 thousand are without power a few weeks later.

Local town Pratt City wiped out. Still looking for victims. About 38 or 39 dead will probably be about 50.

Smithville near Tupelo is erased off the map. Entire neighborhoods in Tuscaloosa are gone. Nothing can be salvaged. Complete rebuilding will be needed no hope to save stuff.

Birmingham official chief of staff of mayor,  Chuck Foss. – 1,000 homes and countless businesses destroyed.

Foss said:
“You feel very human… because of all the things you cannot do. Nature is nature. But we were very blessed in the regard that God allowed us to make it through.”

 

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It would seem that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service have been instructed not to incite the public to hysteria about global warming and to do whatever it can to convince people that this bombardment of judgmental tornadoes, earthquakes and floods are pretty much running according to a mean of normality that is to be expected by regular weather patterns. The only problem with that is that the NOAA’s adjusted graphs with ‘linear trend values’ and blended baselines and new estimated “smoothed numbers” belie a statistical magic trying to make me believe that nothing extraordinary is at work in the current natural woes of Mid America.

Just take a look at the photos on the left of Joplin, Mo before and after and tell me something incredible has not been happening along the banks of the Mississippi River, in the fields and towns and in the forests of heartland USA.

In 2011, the April-June tornado season in the US has been the second-deadliest on record, with around 500 deaths thus far and as many as 1500 reported still missing in Joplin. While a typical year sees around 100 US deaths, not hundreds, due to tornadoes; the record of 519 in 1953 is certain to be surpassed.

Many observers suspect global warming may have something to do with the killer storms. And so what if it does? In the fulfillment of prophecy God uses any number of methods and means, screwdrivers, computers and automobiles; sometimes it may include a man, nature, gravity, science, technology, Satan or mankind’s raw iniquity or sin, anything might be used to foment and engineer revolutionary supernatural judgments decreed from heaven to further the ultimate climate of the end, so they can be used to bring about the final confrontation between God and faithless Man.

God is watching the use of bombs in Libya, Man precipitating war, fulfilling its part of the prophecy that there would be wars and commotions right up to the end.

God has used the economics of man and Antichrist to further the reunification of Neo-Rome so that it may take its place in the Antichrist kingdom of the end.

Likewise, God might use nature gone wild, though it may be caused by Man’s irresponsible abuse of the earth because of his unbridled greed. In the case of phenomenon judgments of nature, God is trying to get the earth’s attention, telling them that His Son is shortly to appear to take His Bride safely home.

One thousand tornadoes have already struck in the heartland of America, which is about the average number in a given year, but the season is only half over and the numbers are on a record breaking course. Regardless of what the adjusted linear baseline grafts of the NOAA (sounds like Noah) try to say, the thunder and lightning is heavenly sound and fury.

The bulk of the 2011 fatalities and property damage have occurred during two major tornado outbreaks which have seen rare EF-5 tornadoes shred buildings, neighborhoods, entire towns and the steel and concrete cities of Tuscaloosa, Ala. and Joplin Mo. like paper fed through a shredder.

I’ve been around long enough to know this storm spring has been as unprecedented as the revolutionary Arab spring of the Muslim world that is rocking the Antichrist Paradigm and the Sub Southern Opposition Paradigm. One storm system in 1925 set the record for deaths. One tornado in Worcester, Ma. wreaked havoc in 1953. These records were set against 19th century construction standards of wood and nails.

The current storms have been up against concrete, rivets, screws, iron and steel. And 2011’s tornadoes have been an onslaught of different deadly storms that have swooped in on a variety of places; rural hamlets, agricultural fields, parks, towns, airports, electrical infrastructures, businesses and shopping malls. Really, the cost is incalculable.

Hospitals, schools, churches, even the St. Louis airport, have been hit. Oklahoma City, where the NBA Western conference finals are being played has not been spared, but was besieged by a fast driving twister.

The first storms that got the attention of the public occurred over a four-day period in late April and is becoming known as the 2011 Super Outbreak. What will they call this incredible tornado that ripped a quarter mile to a half mile swath of destruction six miles long through unsuspecting Joplin?

The April tornadoes gathered and swarmed like killer bees through Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. At least 344 were killed, with 238 in Alabama alone, making April 27 with three EF-5’s the deadliest tornado day since the 1925 “Tri-State” outbreak.

Total property damage was initially far underestimated at $5bn. It has since been adjusted, (linearly?) to twice that figure at $10bn, and one suspects that figure is optimistically low. We can hear the groans in insurance companies from Boston to Hartford to Sacramento and back.

I can not help but see the irony that this incredible tornado in Joplin, Mo. came the day after the Harold Camping disgrace of predicting the Rapture. Camping assured his suckers that it would happen on May 21.

But the deadliest single tornado since 1947 occurred the next day, May 22, in Missouri, the ‘show me’ state. People may think this rash of tornadoes is due to cyclical bad luck, or caused by global warming, or shifting weather patterns, by solar flare ups, or sun spots, or by the Chinese Tong. They may be right, or they may be daft. No matter, these things have been prophesied about and they will produce God’s desired effect.

The people of the ‘show me’ state are getting shown the signs of Christ’s appearing in the most graphic of ways, just as the Flood showed the world in a former judgment.

Take it as a direct response by God to all the mocking that went on about Camping’s asinine Satanic predictions, and yet maintaining the veracity of the prophesied Rapture in spite of a mocking and defiant world of unbelief.