Meteorologist Jeff Ranieri

It will be a night that remains imbedded in my world of weather forever and remain in the hearts of family members for a lifetime. The WeatherPlus.com.com team tracked the deadly tornados from the early afternoon Tuesday right into Wednesday morning with no let up from mother nature. All of the ingredients needed for an outbreak were in place with warm moist air from the South, and incredible uplift and twisting in the atmosphere.

Even with plenty of advance warning of the event, dozens still remain dead as fast and furious thunderstorm cells spawned at least 50 tornados. The largest and deadliest impact came as the front produced long lived storm cells, called "supercells". These of course can be very dangerous as one individual storm cell can travel in excess of 50 mph and spawn dozens of tornados. Click this link to see a "supercell" from a storm I tracked in the Southeast last year. Notice the round shape and steadfast determination of the cell as it speeds forward.



Even with advance warning a storm cell can creep up in no time and put you in danger within moments. As I was covering the storms over the past 24 hours it also brought me back to a time almost one year ago when my family was in danger from supercell tornados in Florida. Febuary 2, 2007...

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Covering events like this always brings back mental images of storms I have covered in the field. As great as television is for telling the story, it only imparts a slice of the of the true heartache and despair that a storm outbreak like this produces. This will take months and even longer for some to recover. The saddest part of events like this, is while some were seeking the safest shelter last night, the storms remained to intense.