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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: June 21, 2009, 12:16:54 PM »I actually find it kind of exciting, but I rarely sleep through times when severe weather is ongoing anyway. I remember back on the major severe weather outbreak of 10/18/07, there were multiple tornado warnings across the state, and I got woken up that nite at 20 to midnite to the tornado siren down the block going off.An update on this afternoon's severe weather-a tornado did touch down. It tore through a neighborhood about 5 minutes up the street from my apartment. The same storm then produced another tornado about 20 minutes to my east, right where my aunt lives. Judging by the damage I'd say both were weak, probably EF1 at best. This year has been a record breaking year for tornados here. As long as I've lived I don't remember ever having more than a single tornado in a year. We've had two in just the past couple of weeks. They haven't been strong ones (they never are here), but they've been plentiful so far. And today marks the first time this season that the EAS was activated. During last week's tornado there was no EAS activation, or even a Tornado Warning.In my area there were tornadoes about every 2-3 Years, but on the 19th, there were two in one day. It's not fun being woken up at 1:00 AM for a tornado warning.
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