Severe Weather Season 2011/Severe Wx thread

[Donovan]

NWS Servers have apparently crashed says TWC Mark Elliot on twitter.

[Pop Light Brown]

A tornado watch is now in effect until 4 am for northeastern, central and southwestern Mississippi. Tupelo, Columbus, Greenwood, Greenville, the I-20 corridor, Natchez and Brookhaven are included in the watch.

[Pop Light Brown]

A tornado warning is in effect for northern Mecklenberg County, N.C....including the northern half of Charlotte. Severe thunderstorm warnings are in effect for the rest of Charlotte Metro.

Also, the NWS in Slidell, LA confirmed that an EF3 tornado touched down in St. Tammany Parish, LA near Bush earlier this evening. Winds were estimated at 140 mph and the damage path was 150 yards wide. Roughly ten homes were damaged.

[Lightning]

Yes indeed and hot zones have switched, In April it was the MS Valley/Southeast and for May it's been the Plains while most of the SE has been hot and dry or wet w/ little activity in severe weather.

Here in the Southeast, though, like here in Alabama, we've needed a break in severe weather, as people are still traumatized by last month's tornadoes. One month ago today. Whenever we have a thunderstorm, the people here freak out.

[toxictwister00]

Yes indeed and hot zones have switched, In April it was the MS Valley/Southeast and for May it's been the Plains while most of the SE has been hot and dry or wet w/ little activity in severe weather.

Here in the Southeast, though, like here in Alabama, we've needed a break in severe weather, as people are still traumatized by last month's tornadoes. One month ago today. Whenever we have a thunderstorm, the people here freak out.

That's understandable, if I had went through the nightmare of riding out a EF4 tornado I would be on pins and needles whenever a thunderstorm or severe weather comes in afterwards too. Even if you didn't go through a tornado last month here, the cloud to ground lightning, hail and damaging winds has been impressive alone this year. It seems to get more violent with every passing severe weather season in the Spring I've noticed in the past 3 years alone.

[Donovan]

We are having a different day here. Storms are going all over the place. With light winds, they don't really have anything steering them, causing them to move extremely slowly and dump heavy rain. Its raining almost horizontally here now with heavy wind. Lighting isn't too much of a threat today. SC and NC are all in this type of pattern.

[Donovan]

Speaking of severe weather. Today lighting had a victim near by. One of my granddad's cows got struck by lightning as will as her calf. 

[Mr. Rainman]

Okay, this is certainly odd. I've only seen one of these in my entire life. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the very rare PDS Severe Thunderstorm Watch.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0405.html

[Lightning]

Yes indeed and hot zones have switched, In April it was the MS Valley/Southeast and for May it's been the Plains while most of the SE has been hot and dry or wet w/ little activity in severe weather.

Here in the Southeast, though, like here in Alabama, we've needed a break in severe weather, as people are still traumatized by last month's tornadoes. One month ago today. Whenever we have a thunderstorm, the people here freak out.

That's understandable, if I had went through the nightmare of riding out a EF4 tornado I would be on pins and needles whenever a thunderstorm or severe weather comes in afterwards too. Even if you didn't go through a tornado last month here, the cloud to ground lightning, hail and damaging winds has been impressive alone this year. It seems to get more violent with every passing severe weather season in the Spring I've noticed in the past 3 years alone.

One thing that I have noticed is that we have had a high risk every spring since 2006.

[gt1racerlHDl]

Tornado Hits Springfield, MA

Excessive Damage according to local Springfield stations.

http://yfrog.com/hsadblwj

[Pop Light Brown]

Tornado Hits Springfield, MA

Excessive Damage according to local Springfield stations.

That tornado is apparently still on the ground...just passed Southbridge.

Another rotating cell is headed toward Worcester...and may make it to Boston.

[Localonthe8s]

At least 4 deaths are reported from the tornadoes according to various Twitter sources, death toll may climb from the Springfield twister

[Eric]

My town was on the far periphery of a storm that straddled the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border.  We got some rain and heard plenty of thunder in the distance, but the most eventful part of the evening was seeing the sky glow bright yellow as if it was the middle of the afternoon... and this was about 45 minutes before sunset.

Watching the tornado pass over the bridges in Springfield was just scary!!

[gt1racerlHDl]

if yesterday was a sign of things to come watch there be more tornadoes in new england this summer

[Eric]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Massachusetts_tornado_outbreak