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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2011/Severe Wx thread

« on: April 28, 2011, 06:24:44 PM »

I haven't been on here to post about the Tuscaloosa and Birmingham tornadoes, because yesterday morning, we had bad straight-line winds that knocked out our power at about 5:30 yesterday morning and it didn't come on again until 10:15 this morning. I am very sad that these tornadoes have claimed so many lives.  they have hit places where I have a lot of childhood memories.  It's awful! My uncle's house is damaged. More than 230 people in my state alone have been killed and the death toll keeps going up.

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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2011/Severe Wx thread

« on: April 26, 2011, 06:17:15 PM »

You know something I don't understand? Why is it that every single severe wx event this month wants to keep coming in after midnight here? It's bad enough you can't see what's going on because you're trying to get some sleep, but it's worse when every event has had a tornado threat with it.

I understand your feelings and agree with you. I hate overnight events! The reason I dislike that so much is because my enjoyment of the storms are limited. During the day, I can enjoy them much more, but also during the day, you have the daytime heating and that makes the storms even more severe. I like summer, b/c they are almost always during the day.

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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2011/Severe Wx thread

« on: April 25, 2011, 07:04:31 PM »

There was a tornado warning for that storm 34 minutes in advance, and the airport staff did tell the passengers in the terminal to "get out, get out" just before it arrived.  The problem is that most people aren't always aware of the weather outside and if they're in a warning when in a huge building like a mall, airport, Walmart, etc.  Unless you have a phone with a warning app, a portable weather radio, or access to a TV in the building, how would you know that a tornado is bearing down on you?  It's a real concern the NWS worries about lately.

Don't forget about sports events. Anyone remember the SEC basketball tournament played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta in March 2008 when that tornado hit? That game went into overtime because a Mississippi State (State was playing Alabama) player hit a 3-point shot. If that shot had been missed, people would have been leaving and heading right out into it.

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General Weather Chat / Re: 3D Storm Software used during severe weather.

« on: April 25, 2011, 06:25:12 PM »

I know the software TWC uses is the Gibson Ridge software. A man by the name of Mike Gibson produces it and his business is in Suwanee, Georgia, one of the NE Atlanta suburbs. The graphics on that one are cool.

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General Weather Chat / Re: 20 Years Ago....April 26, 1991....

« on: April 25, 2011, 06:15:24 PM »

I remember this as if it was yesterday.

So do I. That video gave people the idea (a bad one) that highway overpasses are a safe place to seek shelter if you're in a vehicle and see a tornado. The tornadoes that would occur in Oklahoma, near OKC, 8 years and 1 week later would prove this idea deadly.

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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2011/Severe Wx thread

« on: April 23, 2011, 05:41:42 PM »

I saw about an hour ago that the rating for the St. Louis tornado is EF4, with winds of 166-200 mph.

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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2011/Severe Wx thread

« on: April 22, 2011, 10:24:46 PM »

The city of St. Louis is now the latest victim of severe weather and tornadoes. A tornado hit there tonight with extensive damage at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. The active spring severe season continues. There are reports of injuries.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: April 22, 2011, 07:00:43 PM »

We always have Good Friday off here.

Our spring break always begins on Good Friday, and runs through the following week after Easter.

This year's spring break: Today through May 1.

You have Good Friday off every year and every year, your spring break runs through following the week of Easter? Your spring break must be a different week year-to-year, then, because Easter is the Sunday, following the first full moon after the vernal equinox (first day of spring). That's why Easter is sometimes in March and other times in April and can fall on any date from March 22 through April 25.

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The Game Room / Re: State I .D. game

« on: April 20, 2011, 06:18:58 PM »

Massachussetts?

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The Game Room / Re: Lie your Butt Off

« on: April 20, 2011, 06:14:10 PM »

Today is not my sister's birthday.

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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2011/Severe Wx thread

« on: April 20, 2011, 06:09:05 PM »

We had some good thunderstorms this morning but nothing as severe as last Friday.

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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2011/Severe Wx thread

« on: April 18, 2011, 05:51:25 PM »

A moderate risk of severe weather has been issued for Day 2 for parts of the MS valley and western Ohio Valley. This could be another record-breaking event.

Here we go again. The winter was very active with one snow/ice event and cold wave after another and now the spring season is very active with one severe weather outbreak after another.

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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2011/Severe Wx thread

« on: April 18, 2011, 02:47:02 PM »

I guess these outbreaks and just going to be one after another after another.

It's just that time of year. I predicted that the spring severe weather season would be active due to La Nina being in a weakening phase.

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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2011/Severe Wx thread

« on: April 17, 2011, 02:43:19 PM »

So what's the death toll from the tornado outbreak that lasted Thursday through yesterday?

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The Game Room / Re: Lie your Butt Off

« on: April 16, 2011, 06:21:22 PM »

Neither tornadoes, nor hurricanes do damage and injure and kill people.