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

« on: April 23, 2011, 10:37:58 AM »

EF3 or EF4.

Lambert is closed until further notice. Reading the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, NWS St. Louis confirms that tornadoes struck New Melle and Maryland Heights in Missouri and Granite City in Illinois. The Post-Dispatch also reports the track is only five to ten miles off of the path of a 21-mile tornado that struck the same area Jan. 24, 1967.

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Help and Support / Re: Registration

« on: April 20, 2011, 04:41:18 PM »

Is everything going okay Martin? We're approaching two months since I requested an account.

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

« on: April 20, 2011, 04:34:08 PM »

Parts of Mississippi are under a severe thunderstorm watch until 8 pm tonight CST. Some warnings are in effect.

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN
CHOCTAW...SOUTHWESTERN OKTIBBEHA AND SOUTHERN WEBSTER COUNTIES...

AT 317 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUE TO
TRACK A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR EUPORA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
MATHISTON...SHERWOOD...REFORM...STURGIS AND LONGVIEW

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

« on: April 16, 2011, 08:21:28 PM »

Update:

NWS Jackson has finished some of their storm surveys. Regarding the supercell that produced tornadoes in Clinton/Jackson and Kemper County/Neshoba County, damage from both areas were rated EF3 with winds of 140. Tornado damage in Attala County was rated EF2 with winds of 120 mph.

The Kemper/Neshoba tornado tracked 38.5 miles and was 3/4 mile wide at its peak and was on the ground for nearly one hour.

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

« on: April 16, 2011, 08:12:04 PM »

The picture below are the two cells near Raleigh where the NWS is citing large and extremely dangerous tornadoes with visible debris.

Wow, those were some nasty hook echoes there.

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

« on: April 16, 2011, 12:15:46 PM »

BTW, did yall hear about Jim Cantore's home damaged by last night's storms?

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

« on: April 16, 2011, 11:51:07 AM »

The Jackson area took a big hit yesterday. Clinton, western and northern Jackson, parts of Ridgeland and areas around the Ross Barnett Reservoir by the tornado posted on this page.

The same supercell also tracked through Philadelphia, Miss. and through the Tuscaloosa area (the large wedge tornado mentioned earlier).

Southeast Mississippi and SW Alabama were hit hard too.

The link below has good coverage of the Jackson-area tornado and other storms in Mississippi.
www.clarionledger.com

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General Discussion / Re: Post your desktops

« on: April 13, 2011, 09:59:16 AM »

Changed my desktop.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 23, 2011, 03:54:57 PM »

Firefox rocks! Love the new look and it runs faster than version 3.

IE9 has some bugs in it IMO. It seems to hang up every now and then.

Didn't know Google has version 10 out.

I don't mess with Opera.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: March 18, 2011, 02:09:44 AM »

Martin, if you haven't done so, when you take a nap or go to sleep at night, throw on some sweats, get under the covers and sweat that bad boy out. You WILL feel the difference. (Do take your medicine before you hit the sack).

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Programming / Re: When was TWC's best year?

« on: March 18, 2011, 02:01:13 AM »

I'm going to say 91-96. It's as if everything came together beautifully during that period.

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Local Forecast / Re: Different pages on the III/3000

« on: March 18, 2011, 01:58:08 AM »

I'm betting that the RC list of popular nearby sites (vacation, festivals, etc).

The RF list has always thrown me for a loop because some of the locations has you scratching your head going "What's THAT city doing on the list?"

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General Discussion / Re: House Budget Proposal Could Devastate the NWS’s Watch/Warning Forecasts

« on: March 16, 2011, 12:53:42 AM »

Just goes to show you that congress is willing to do anything to save face even if it hurts the public (us).  I say it's CLOBBERIN' TIME!

That's part of the problem. People constantly say that want things to change and the foolishness to stop, but when election time comes, voters keep electing the same polarizing incumbents again and again.

Yes, the country and the world is broke. Spending does need to be reigned in. A lot of federal bureaucrats can be cut as far as I am concerned because many federal agencies are doing the exact same jobs. Consolidate them as well as eliminated subsidies to some of these corporations who definitely do not need it. In addition, many federal employees can take a pay cut and/or pay more for their benefits. Government employees have had it made for the longest while employees of private industries have yet to catch up with them.

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General Discussion / Re: House Budget Proposal Could Devastate the NWS’s Watch/Warning Forecasts

« on: March 16, 2011, 12:27:06 AM »

Congress wants to cut funding for PBS.  Congress wants to cut funding for the National Weather Service.  Congress wants to cut funding for pretty much everything except its own paychecks.

Bad, bad stuff.

Don't forget their pet projects also.

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General Discussion / Re: Gas prices in your area

« on: March 16, 2011, 12:23:23 AM »

Also does anyone know when the crisis in Egypt and Libya will come to an end?

Egypt is okay. It's Libya you should focus on.