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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Sunday April 10, 2005
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LEBANESE FOOD AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL
Saint Elias Maronite Catholic Church

April 15-16, 2005 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Located at 836 8th Street South
Near the corner of University Boulevard and 8th Street South

Get Homemade Lebanese Food Lunch and Dinner April 15-16 Easy Friday Lunch --
Fast Service in/out in minutes -- Take out or dine in. For really fast
service come early or late. We serve food the whole day. You can also have
food delivered to your place of business for Friday lunch. Click on our
website below for details.

Baked Kibbee, spinach pies, rolled grape leaves, fresh grilled lemon
chicken, loobia (spiced green beans), and sweets galore.
Have you ever tried Lebanese ice cream or the traditional baklawa?
It is worth the calories. All this and more will be available. Visit the
a-la-carte station - inside only - Meat Pies, Spinach Pies, Grape Leaves,
Tabouleh, and Homus. Stock up.

Take a tour of the church, visit our heritage room and learn more about the
language of Aramaic spoken at our liturgy. See scenes of Lebanon in our
main hall. Silent Auction and Live Band from New York each evening.

All this and there is No Admission Charge. 25% of all proceeds go to
charities other than St. Elias Church.

FOR MORE INFO AND A COMPLETE MENU VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT:
http://www.stelias.org/festival_2005.html
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GOOD AFTERNOON: For the second week in a row, we are enjoying a beautiful
Sunday weather wise. Make sure to get out and enjoy the fantastic weather
today.

STRONG STORMS AHEAD: After a nice evening tonight, replete with fair skies
and mild temperatures. Our next weather maker is kicking up some severe
weather over the Plains states this afternoon. The activity will morph
into a squall line tonight as it moves into the Arklatex. Alabama will find
itself in the warm sector of this cyclone on Monday, with increasing clouds
and shower chances. As a cold front approaches Alabama from the west,
showers and thunderstorms will increase Monday night. Some of the
ingredients will be there for severe weather tomorrow night and Tuesday, and
Alabamians should pay close attention to later forecasts and possible
watches and warnings from the National Weather Service. The western half of
Alabama is included in a slight risk outlook for severe weather on Monday,
predominantly Monday night. Our poor friends in Mississippi will be under
the gun again on Monday with a moderate risk for strong and damaging
tornadoes again.

TUESDAY: Showers and storms will be ongoing when you wake up Tuesday
morning. They will slowly move across the state, ending from west to east
starting during the late morning hours. More activity may form behind the
line Tuesday afternoon, like last week. But much as the last storm, things
will not end easily. A large upper low will slide across the Southeast U.S.
on Wednesday. This means more of those pesky instability showers in the
forecast. They should clear out by Thursday, as high pressure takes over.
Friday looks to be a nice day, with a good deal of sunshine. The weekend
looks ok too.

ON THIS DATE IN 1979: Certain towns and cities will forever be associated
with tornado disasters. Xenia, Lubbock, Woodward, and Guin. I cannot hear
the name of these places without thinking of the terror and destruction and
even miracles that happened when natures most violent storm fell upon them.

It is that way with Wichita Falls, Texas. April 10, 1979 is the anniversary
of the Red River Tornado Outbreak and the killer F4 twister that devastated
much of Wichita Falls.

Thirteen tornadoes plowed across the Red River Valley of Texas and Oklahoma
during the late afternoon hours. The second was a killer F4 that devastated
the town of Vernon, Texas, killing 11 people. The Grandfield Tornado killed
a man as he tried to outrun the tornado near Grandfield, Oklahoma. It was
on the ground for 64 miles. The same parent storm that produced the Vernon
tornado spawned an F3 twister that killed 3 people in Lawton, Oklahoma. The
main event of the day started at 5:50 p.m. just southwest of Wichita Falls.

The F4 tornado first struck Memorial Stadium and a junior high school. The
tornado grew to 1. miles wide as it chewed through neighborhoods, schools
and apartment complexes. Gridlocked traffic resulted in several fatalities
along US-287. In fact, 25 of the 42 direct fatalities in the city were in
automobiles. Sixteen of the deaths were people who got into their vehicles
to evade the twister.

Bill Murray
bill@integralhospitality.com

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TONIGHT
Fair skies.
Morning Low 60
WIND: SE 5-10

MONDAY
Becoming cloudy. Chance of a shower during day. Strong storms overnight.
Morning Low 60 Afternoon High 77
WIND: S 10-20

TUESDAY
Showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 60 Afternoon High 74
WIND: SW 10-18

WEDNESDAY
A little sun. A chance of showers.
Morning Low 53 Afternoon High 72
WIND: W 6-12

THURSDAY
Partly cloudy.
Morning Low 49 Afternoon High 71
WIND: NW 6-12

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