Dec 23 Recap - Tornado Outbreak

Hello, welcome to RWS's first recap.

Global until Saturday, December 26th, 2015.

EVENT: December 23rd, 2015 Tornado Outbreak

!!PRELIMINARY REPORTS!!

REPORTS
Tornado: 28
Wind: 197
Hail: 34
Total: 258

FATALITIES
Tornado: 4
Wind: 6
Hail: 0
Total: 10
Kids (0-12 YRS): 2
Adult (12+ YRS): 8
R.I.P.

DAMAGES
Interstates Affected: 6 (I-55.. I-65.. I-24.. I-40.. I-55.. I-69.)
Parks/Forest Affected: 1 (Holly Springs NTL Forest.. Multiple Trees damaged from TOR)
Town/Cities Damaged (Tornado): 1 (Holly Springs)
Cities Damaged (Wind/Hail): 5 (Memphis.. Nashville.. Louisville.. St. Louis.. Cincinnati)
Towns Damaged (Wind/Hail): Aprox 20

LOCATION
States Affected: Aprox 20
Main Event: Holly Springs, Major Tornado
Main Point of Death: Holly Springs
ESTIMATED Pre-Warn Time: 10-15 Minutes

TIMES
Event Start: 7:00AM CST
Event Start Location: Mobile
Event Peak: 3:00PM CST
Event Peak Location: Holly Springs
Event End: 11:45PM CST
Event End Location: No Certain Location

EMERGENCY RESPONSE
Injuries: 20+
First Response Injuries: 0
First Response Time (APROX): 5-25 Minutes
Fatalities caused by Person: No

All information is preliminary and all information is collected via TWITTER.COM from sources, or NOAA/NWS directly on their reports page.

RIP to anyone who has died.

Merry Christmas
##KYLE

I feel terrible for the people who have lost their lives today. Only 2 days away from Christmas celebrating the holidays with their family, but innocently killed by this outbreak. R.I.P

Below are links to pictures of the storm.
First picture we got of the Tornado that hit Holly Spring:
http://pasteboard.co/gZ0guBc.png
Damage near Holly Springs:
http://pasteboard.co/gZ4x3bk.png
http://pasteboard.co/gZdostl.png


The following are more of the tornado (first is oldest and last is the last one we were able to capture.)
http://pasteboard.co/gZfMhZj.png
http://pasteboard.co/gZhnxv5.png
http://pasteboard.co/gZiVU3P.png
http://pasteboard.co/gZkOTsu.png

If you got any pictures feel free to upload them to the forum!

P.S. Sorry I could not directly post the pictures the forum post would have been WAY too long

I went under a tornado warning yesterday and got some footage with AMAZING lightning, decided to share it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXiIYAQywk4

Buffalowildwings03 wrote:I went under a tornado warning yesterday and got some footage with AMAZING lightning, decided to share it. (Link on RWS group wall since I can't put it here yet :/)

Send me a link to it and I can post it for you!
PM it to me