Janis...   
      
   JK>Geez, is there any season of the year when you can relax?  Doesn't sound lik   
   JK>from here :(   
      
     Unfortunately, no. We've had tornado outbreaks in all months of the   
   year...even in late fall, and during the winter...such as:   
      
   1) December 2 and 24, 1982 -- the sky was a dark green that day, with   
   sirens going off.   
      
   2) November, 1984 (Veterans Day Weekend)   
      
   3) January 21, 1999 - 56 tornadoes in 6 hours...two of them were F-4.   
   One of those just missed downtown Little Rock, and other of those hit   
   the Beebe High School (about an hour northeast of Little Rock). There   
   was a high school basketball game in progress that evening, but they   
   were monitoriing the Skywarn Spotter Reports from Little Rock and to the   
   southwest. They stopped the game at halftime, and evacuated the   
   premises. 30 minutes after everyone had left, the tornado flattened the   
   entire school complex.   
      
   4) Feb. 5, 2008 - The "Super Tuesday" tornado, with a 125 mile long EF-4   
   tornado on the ground...a record for the state.   
      
   5) March 1, 1997 - An F-4 tornado hit Arkadelphia (about 60 miles   
   southwest of Little Rock), and hit the College Station area, just   
   southeast of Little Rock National Airport.   
      
     If that wasn't bad enough, most of our tornadoes occur at NIGHT...and   
   during the overnight hours, when most people are asleep, and unaware of   
   the impending storms.   
      
   Daryl   
      
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