Searching For Southern Tornado Maps

Now that you can search for user-generated content more easily on Google Maps, I checked to see if people had been creating and sharing information about the tornadoes that tragically tore through the Southern US states of Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Surprisingly, there wasn’t much there in contrast to the mapping that went on […]

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Now that you can search for user-generated content
more easily on Google
Maps, I checked to see if people had been creating and sharing information about
the tornadoes that tragically tore through the Southern US states of Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Surprisingly, there wasn’t much there in contrast to the
mapping that went on for
the Southern California wildfires
. But I did come across some maps elsewhere
that may be of interest.


  • CNN
    : There’s a very good map here pinpointing areas hit, with statistics,
    pictures, and video, if you click on one of the red "pin" icons.
     

  • New York Times
    : Pinpoints areas hit, and you can click on some spots to
    see photos or hear audio reports.
     

  • Muhlenberg County Tornado Damage
    : A fairly simple map on Google showing
    damage in this part of Kentucky.
     
  • NOAA Storm Prediction Center: Shows
    current conditions, and
    this map
    shows reports along with a list of damages and fatalities by location. See
    here for
    today
    .
     

  • Tornado Video
    : A collection of amateur video shot and uploaded to YouTube.
    It is NOT associated with a map. Google Earth (not Google Maps)
    does have a
    YouTube layer, but that content is hand-selected, so it’s not likely you can
    find these mapped there.
    Also
    see
    this search at YouTube that will find tornado video uploaded in the
    past week.

Postscript: From comments below, see also these maps:
Tennessee Tornado Damage
Tornados By State
Tornado Reports


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