October 3rd 2007

On October 3rd 2007 a wedge tornado touched down in Mallorca, Spain. Thdown in a populated area cutting power lines and causeing some minor damage. The tornado was a wedge tornado with multiple vortices. Below is a video from youtube capturing the tornado whilst it was on the ground, also with some links for satellite loops etc.

http://essl.org/cgi-bin/eswd.cgi

October 6th 2007

On October 6th 2007 Typhoon Krosa began to make landfall on Taiwan with winds reaching 120 knots with higher gusts. Below is a radar loop of Typhoon Krosa as it makes landfall on northern Taiwan. Also below is the predicted track by the JTWC. At first the JTWC had predicted a much further track but the typhoon headed dramatically more south than was predicted.

James Reynolds was out in Taiwan documenting this typhoon and below is the footage he captured whilst he was there.

October 17th 2007

On October 17th 2007 damaging tornadoes touched down in southwest MO.

A lone tornadic super cell over the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas and moved north eastward through south Missouri in the evening producing several confirmed tornadoes. From these tornadoes debris was reported falling from the sky in Lawrence county MO.

Below is a radar image of the lone super cell and an image which was taken by local residents.

Here is the NWS report on this outbreak that night mid way through the outbreak, with the dots on the map showing where reports where of tornadoes/wind reports/ hail reports.  The red dots are reported tornadoes, the blue dots are wind reports and the green dots are hail reports.

This was the report from the NWS mid way through the outbreak on the 17th October night. 

1513 UTC -- Pensacola -- Escambia Co, FL -- Large tornado with damage.  Moved into Pensacola from the Gulf of Mexico.
2340 UTC -- 5 SW Kalkaska -- Kalkaska Co, MI -- **1 FATAL** Tornado near intersection of Crofton and US 131.
0045 UTC -- 10 NW Hopkinsville -- Hopkins Co, KY -- Confirmed damage with injuries.
0100 UTC -- Nortonville -- Hopkins Co, KY -- Several buildings with severe damage.
0109 UTC -- 2 S Dawson Springs -- Caldwell Co, KY -- Confirmed tornado along Dawson Springs Road.  Individuals trapped in a mobile home.  Emergency responders enroute.
0225 UTC -- Nappanee -- Elkhart Co, IN -- Several reports of homes damaged.  Some injuries reported.  One police squad car damaged.
0252 UTC -- 2 SSE Perry -- Shiawassee, MI -- Confirmed tornado with 2 houses damaged.
0515 UTC -- 1 SSW Millington -- Tuscola, MI -- Confirmed tornado with 2 houses demolished. 

Here are some videos of some tornadoes in the florida area, the pensacola tornado.

October 18th 2007

On October 18^th 2007 a major tornado outbreak was still occurring over the north east of America and central parts as well. Areas effected by this outbreak where the most significant tornadoes occurred were northern and central MI, northern IN, southern IL, and western KY.  Northern and central MI, northern IN, southern IL, and western KY.  Sadly, 1 fatality was reported in Kalkaska, MI. This oytbreak was the same one as the day befor which had started on the 17 October 2007 during the evening.

Several long track super cells moved across parts of Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana and Mississippi as of 00z Thursday evening. Over the evening the low level jet began to intensify and several smaller storms started to take advantage of the shear.

Below are some images of the first watches which were issued by the NWS on that day.

As the day went on reports started to appear of tornadoes all across the warned areas. Here are some radar images and some images from the NWS where tornadoes/hail/wind reports had come from.