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    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 […]

    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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