Turbulent winds kill 5000 red winged black birds in Arkansas
Thousands of red winged black birds were asleep, roosting in trees , when a "washing machine-type thunderstorm" sucked them up into the air, disoriented them, and even fatally soaked and chilled them.
The birds where bashed together by the turbulent winds causing them to die of blunt force trauma.They where dropped to the ground over a 1.5 mile area already dead.
In 1973 hail knocked birds from the sky at Stuttgart, Ark. Some of the birds were caught in a violent storm's updrafts and became encased in ice before falling from the sky.
POISON WAS RULED OUT
Their stomachs were empty and test from the labs showed no signs of poison in over 18 dead birds. Also birds of prey and other animals, including dogs and cats, ate several of the dead blackbirds and suffered no ill effects.
This all happened in the small town of Beebe , Arkansas. Tornadoes where also in this area which is probably proof of what happened.
Bad weather can occasionally catch flocks off guard, blow them off a roost, and they get hurled up suddenly into a thundercloud.
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Arkansas is a center for severe weather when fronts clash with extreme temp differences. Lately the atmosphere seems to have had more water vapor as fuel in it for weather extremes. A huge amount of vapor has been streaming across the US from the Pacific on the southern jet stream. Look at what it has done to CA in the form of heavy rain and snow.
Also since a severe weather front in this part of the USA moves generally from west to east with individual storm cells moving north east similar isolated bird kills from micro bursts would possibly follow further east as time progresses until you reach Georgia where the jet stream loops back north towards DC. It is interesting to me that in S GA three sand-hill cranes where found dead in a Georgia farmer's field. They had radio tracking devices on them. Could it have been three big birds roosting all caught by a big wind?
You have to live in the S and SE USA to appreciate the isolated violent turbulent weather from strong fronts as warm moist air meets the cold Canadian air masses mixed with the southern branch of the jet stream to move things around.
The Drum fish kill affecting only that one species of fish in the Arkansas River could be do those fish to succumbing to an illness made worse by the extreme cold.
Which makes more sense, FUD about New Madrid, or the weather record we can go back an look at?
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