Posted on 04/13/2019 9:48:57 AM PDT by janetjanet998
Franklin TX just took a direct hit from a strong tornado....major damage and injuries now being reported...
this is likely just the beginning .....
1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF EAST TEXAS...CENTRAL/NORTHERN LOUISIANA...SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS...AND WESTERN/CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
..SUMMARY
TORNADOES -- SOME POTENTIALLY STRONG TO VIOLENT (EF2+) -- ARE POSSIBLE TODAY FROM EAST TEXAS TO CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. OTHERWISE, NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL POSE A RISK OF LARGE HAIL, DAMAGING WIND AND TORNADOES FROM CENTRAL TEXAS THIS MORNING TO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY REGION OVERNIGHT.
Thanks!
Hmmmm. Hope it cools after sundown. We’ve had cloud cover most of the day and has neen cool...but just stepped out and it’s warmer.
About 15 miles north of Bham here. I guess the weather radio will be going off and on all night here. Will be praying for folks tonight.
Gonna be a long night.
ain't THAT the truth .. not to mention that I hate hate HATE the WU name .. spit !
I’m here with you, but in the Loveliest Village. Battening down the hatches and hoping it will be nothing.
I hear ya! And our air con is not working well. Repair man coming Monday. Fortunately, we have an attic fan installed. It doesn’t get called into use very often, but we definitely used it today.
Not a new mortgage owner yet.
Thanks for the info Viking. I hope you have no bad weather where you live. We are in tornado alley here. Storms usually come up from Tuscaloosa and travel to the northeast through the Bham area. The tornadoes that ripped thru here in 2011 actually bounced over our area. I had pieces of peoples homes raining down in the yard. My wife and I are monitoring it here. Started raining here about and hour ago. Keep me posted on how you and your family are doing. Take care and hunker down!!
And I am here in my apartment in Decatur, Al. Been watching the progression of the front all day and watching tornado vids -lol. I’ve learned more about tornado season and whatall today than ever. Didn’t know that April is the magic month for tornadoes. April 27, 2011 was the worst tornado outbreak ever recorded and yes Decatur took one.
This is the site that I use most for WX: https://www.ventusky.com/?p=35.80;-89.99;6&l=rain-3h&t=20190414/0300
Its gonna get ugly at about 2am. 60mph gusts etc.. and last through about 8am. Man I hope things dont go worst case scenario...
Who told you that lie? I think it was 1989 in December when this horrific tornado went down airport road, up over that pass and tore up Jones Valley. Lots and lots of damage especially around Crestwood Hospital and into the valley. I had one friend who was caught in rush hour traffic and threw herself across her young sons in the backseat of their car as the tornado stormed overhead.
I was living in the northeast corner of AL at the time, in Stevenson, AL and we caught a bit of weather a little bit after that.
It’s not raining here yet. Sky is clear and the half moon is so bright it is casting shadows. It looks like a perfect night. There is not a hint of trouble ahead. The calm before the storm.
We happened to be in the states that year and, at Ivy Manor in the Loveliest .... Our daughters and a few friends took shelter here as it is a brick building and more solid than their trailers. We did what we could and waited. The storms roared up I85, separated just past Tuskeegee and came together when it got to Opelika. The storm never came near us.
Psalm 91
The same One who ruled the wind and the storm when He walked on earth is the ruler still. Whatever happens is of God and I can trust Him. Having done everything to prepare, I will go to bed at the normal time and sleep.
Just now heard the first distant thunder.
I got the month wrong. This is from Wikipedia:
The November 1989 Tornado Outbreak was a destructive tornado outbreak on November 15 and 16, 1989 across a wide swath of the southern and eastern United States and into Canada. It produced at least 40 tornadoes and caused 30 deaths as a result of two deadly tornadoes. The most devastating was the Huntsville, Alabama tornado, an F4 which killed 21 on the afternoon of the 15th. Eight more fatalities were reported at a single elementary school by a downburst on the 16th in the Town of Newburgh, New York. Several other significant tornadoes were reported across 15 states.
Where are you? Don’t give me your town, but a general location. Are you near Cuba?
24 hours later. We live in that little area in East Central marked 5"+:
That shut her up.
Cuba???
I’m right on the Tennessee river south of Huntsville Alabama
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