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Ohio is leading the country with 43 tornadoes so far this year, according to the National Weather Service. Ohio is followed by Florida with 34 tornadoes, Illinois with 30, Kentucky with 24 and Indiana with 22. On Thursday, the National Weather Service sent survey teams across Northeast Ohio after more powerful storms ripped through the state Wednesday night. Multiple homes were damaged and many trees and power lines were blown down.
Wednesday tornadoes confirmed by the National Weather Service:
• EF-1 tornado in Windham, Portage County
• EF-0 tornado in Southington and Champion Townships in Trumbull County
• EF-1 tornado in Bucyrus, Crawford County
• EF-1 tornado in Delaware County
• EF-0 tornado in Champaign County
On March 15, eight tornadoes ripped through the state, including one near Plymouth. Those storms killed three people. According to the NWS, those tornadoes include:
• An EF-3 tornado in Logan County
• An EF-2 tornado in Crawford/Richland
• An EF-2 tornado in Darke County
• An EF-2 tornado in Union County
• An EF-1 tornado in Licking County
• An EF-1 tornado in Hancock County
• An EF-1 tornado in Mercer and Auglaize County
• An EF-1 tornado in western Mercy County
Some experts say Tornado Alley could even be shifting east toward Ohio. “There has been a trend in recent years where Ohio and Indiana are having more confirmed tornadoes,” meteorologists at the NWS told Fox 8 News after the fatal tornadoes in March. (WJW Fox 8)
More footage of the tornado in northeast Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
▪︎ 17 April 2024 ▪︎#Tornado #Ohio pic.twitter.com/v1eUK2AdRD— DISASTER TRACKER (@DisasterTrackHQ) April 18, 2024
An employee at a post office in Bucyrus, Ohio, was checking out a window when it burst open during a possible tornado. pic.twitter.com/wi8kaZPcO7
— AccuWeather (@accuweather) April 18, 2024
The boats started pulling out at 7 a.m. Thursday for the start of the Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s National Walleye Tour, officially beginning the Outdoor Team Works professional competitive walleye fishing season. For the first time, Port Clinton is the site for the opening event for the professional national tour, which ends in September.
Mayor Mike Snider echoed the significance of the opening contest of the tour taking place in Port Clinton.
“It reinforces the fact that we are the walleye capital of the world, if this many professional fishermen want to come and ply our waters here. Economically, it’s fantastic. This is obviously the beginning of the summer season with the fishing population coming into town. The exposure we’re getting, as a community, is spectacular,” Snider said. “As I’ve gone around town, to the different restaurants, gas stations, and whatnot, you see these folks everywhere. You see it’s a tremendous boost to our local economy. It’s bringing in extra money by the boatload, multiple boatloads.”
The National Walleye Tour has 141 boats competing in Port Clinton Thursday and Friday in a pro-co format. Each two-person team features a professional angler and co-angler. (Port Clinton News-Herald)
Taylor Swift released a secret double album. At midnight, The Tortured Poets Department dropped. Two hours later, Taylor released 15 bonus tracks. Her Instagram announcement said, “I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology.”
This week, Swifties latched onto Taylor’s Easter egg teasing a surprise at 2 a.m. Then she used the victory hand emoji (two finger salute) which now we know refers to the double-album surprise release at 2 in the morning.
Billboard magazine’s review of The Tortured Poets Department called Taylor’s album “messy, unguarded and undeniably triumphant.” So many songs about Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy, two of the men she dated in 2023. Travis Kelce gets a song, “So High School”. (Billboard)
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will announce its Class of 2024 this Sunday night on ABC’s American Idol.
The nominees, announced in February, are:
• Mary J. Blige – second nomination
• Mariah Carey – first nomination
• Cher – first nomination
• Dave Matthews Band – second nomination
• Eric B. & Rakim – first nomination
• Foreigner – first nomination
• Peter Frampton – first nomination
• Jane’s Addiction – second nomination
• Kool & the Gang – first nomination
• Lenny Kravitz – first nomination
• Oasis – first nomination
• Sinéad O’Connor – first nomination
• Ozzy Osbourne – first nomination
• Sade – first nomination
• A Tribe Called Quest – third nomination
Once again there was a fan vote with the Top 5 artists selected by the public comprising a “fans’ ballot” that will be tallied along with the other ballots to determine the 2024 inductees.
With over 4.2 million ballots cast, the Top 5 are:
1. Dave Matthews Band
2. Peter Frampton
3. Foreigner
4. Ozzy Osbourne
5. Cher
The Hall of Fame Foundation was originally going to announce the nominees for the Class of 2024 in January, but it was pushed back to February 10th in partnership with ABC/Disney+ at the Television Critics Association conference in Los Angeles. Then the Hall’s fan vote was originally announced as ending on April 26th, but that was pushed up to this past Monday so the Class of 2024 could be announced Sunday on ABC’s American Idol.
Like last year’s ceremony, the 2024 Induction Ceremony will stream on Disney+ with a highlight show to follow on ABC. The Induction Ceremony will take place this fall in Cleveland — date and venue to be announced.
Israel has reportedly fired back at Iran with retaliatory strikes. Aljazeera reported that a missile hit a site in Isfahan, a city near the center of Iran. Air defenses were activated and several flights in the area were suspended.
It’s been less than one week since Iran attacked Israel with nearly 300 drones and missiles last Saturday. Only a handful of those missiles actually hit Israel due to help from Israeli allies, including the U.S. There was no widespread damage and no deaths reported from that strike.
A source familiar with the situation said the U.S. was not involved with the strike against Iran. President Biden has said that the U.S. backs Israel as an ally, but will not participate in the tensions against Iran.
Meanwhile in Gaza, the death toll has reached 34,000 people and it’s now been six months since the war started, which has caused worries since the beginning about a larger war. (Reuters)
While filming one of the final episodes of Season 25 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on April 10 in New York City, Mariska Hargitay was approached by a little girl who believed her to be a real police officer based on the badge she was wearing as part of her character, Olivia Benson’s outfit. An eyewitness told People that the little girl had been separated from her mother in the Anne Loftus Playground in Fort Tryon Park and went to Mariska for help, who stopped production for 20 minutes and helped the child find her mother, consoling them both. The little girl had no idea there was a show being filmed, nor did she recognize Ice-T, the witness noted. (JustJared.com)
Mariska Hargitay was mistaken for a real police officer while filming an episode of ‘Law & Order: SVU’ when she was approached by a little girl who had been separated from her mother.
She jumped into action and halted production to help the child find her mom. pic.twitter.com/pwL38JonDm
— Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) April 18, 2024
A group of people in East Asheville, North Carolina couldn’t resist the temptation of a cute photo op when they saw a bear cub in the trees. Video captured from a nearby apartment complex shows the people pulling a bear cub out of a tree before posing with it for pictures. The woman then drops the bear cub and the cub runs off, attempting to reunite with its sibling in the tree.
A member of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission received the video and confronted the people who took liberties with the wild animals. The bear cub was found in a retention pool in the apartment complex and is “recovering well.” The cub will be cared for by a rehab facility until its old enough to be released back into the wild, the agency said. (ABC News)
Disturbing video shows a group of people in East Asheville, North Carolina, pulling two bear cubs out of a tree near an apartment complex to take pictures with them.
Read more: https://t.co/o71NreghVB pic.twitter.com/9LEdBZYi6C
— ABC News (@ABC) April 18, 2024
