Sunday March 12 Tornado Outbreak

Most of you reading this probably know that Sunday was a rather violent severe weather day with an outbreak of tornadoes from eastern Kansas/western Missouri into the "homeland" of Illinois. Storm reports: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/060312_rpts.html

As of late Sunday night, the highest impact tornado damage appears to have occurred via a couple of very long lived supercells that tracked from west central Missouri into central Illinois. The tornado damage reports coming in from Springfield, IL tonight do not sound good at all -- numerous structural damage/injuries and missing people. Hopefully my extended family there is OK. I'll perhaps post some additional thoughts and/or data in the next day or two.