World's Longest Tornado

[Jim Eshelman]

So, I guess it was a bad day to be in the south yesterday. As part of an overall pattern of widespread serious storms (including 14 tornadoes in Mississippi alone), the longest tornado track ever may have been formed by a twister that began in northern Mississippi and ate its way (without lifting off the ground once) to western Tennessee. At least 11 are dead and, as usual, there was a lot of destruction.

I've seen a map but can't identify exact beginning and end points. CNN says damage reports came from Sardis, Clarksdale, and Holly Springs, MS. (Looks like all is OK is Alabama, yes, Steve? But everyplace around was hit pretty bad.)

Sardis seems to be about the center of those three downs (34N26, 89W55), so I'll do a quick check for there. (I don't know the time this all hit, but I'll use about this time yesterday.)

Cansolar: Saturn 2° from Ascendant, mundane square Neptune near IC. More distant Venus-Jupiter in the background, but that also means that the near-partile Venus-Saturn square is emphasized.

Libsolar: The partile Mars-Jupiter conjunction squares Ascendant, with Moon on EP. (So far, these charts make more sense for a hurricane than a tornado.)

The Caplunar and Arilunar are both dormant. The last "live" lunar ingress through Sardis is the November 29 Canlunar, with Pluto 1°00' above Ascendant, and aspects of Mars and Uranus trying to come into orb for surrounding areas. (The December 6 Liblunar has Pluto 3°04' below Descendant, probably close enough to count, especially with a geographically imprecise event.)

And then... yesterday the CapQ had 7° Scorpio rising. Anyone who has been watching all year knows that this is the degree of Capsolar Saturn, which is partile square Mars at 7° Aquarius. Regrettably: Bingo!

[Jim Eshelman]

Jim wrote:

And then... yesterday the CapQ had 7° Scorpio rising. Anyone who has been watching all year knows that this is the degree of Capsolar Saturn, which is partile square Mars at 7° Aquarius. Regrettably: Bingo!

Exactly! Early in the week when I saw the national weather reports predicting tornado activity for the South, the first thing I did was to check the Capsolar for my area to make sure the partile Mars-Saturn 90 was not falling on the angles with Q charts. Also checked to see if the partile Mars-Pluto 180 in the Cansolar was not falling on a Q chart. We were at a family gathering last night having dinner and the sirens went off showing a tornado on the ground in the B’ham area, we quickly took our bottles of wine, flashlights, and i-phones to the basement. No damage in our vicinity but there was spotty damage about 5 miles from my sister-in-law house---lots of rain.

[Jim Eshelman]

Glad you're OK. The "lots of rain" explains why this looks more like a hurricane than a tornado!