this new thread in breaking news may help. They know they are close by.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965678/posts
Jackson, TN Devastated by tornado...large fire near Nashville
NWS ^ | Feb 6, 2008
Posted on 02/06/2008 12:51:37 AM EST by silentknight
Good - saw your post on that other thread.
You’re right - people needed to be aware before they went to sleep tonight.....sheesh.
I am about to drop off to sleep too.
Storm chaser? Hmmm. That would be sort of interesting...but the devastation afterwards....isn’t.
Oh we had a tornado here (Raleigh NC Area) I think in 1986...killed 4. Flattened a KMart out on Highway 70. Hop skipped and jumped through North Raleigh - hit a subdivision which is where the 4 were killed. Came on the Sunday after a very warm Thanksgiving weekend. When I walked outside that night - I KNEW a storm was about to hit.
Night looked “green” - humidity was almost like a blanket - and it was just too quiet. Told others a tornado would hit. Sure enough it did - but not in our area.
Have always been able to “smell” snow before it fell....and sensed that tornado coming.
But NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING prepared me for Hurricane Fran.
After that I vowed if another Hurricane was heading for RAleigh, I would leave town as soon as it looked that way.
Well - enough. Prayers for KY, TN, all til I fall asleep.
Looks like the people in Jackson were hit maybe the hardest. But that fire in Nashville - not good.
Hope it dies down in the night...and over into our state tomorrow stays calmed down.
Night all.
Thanks for adding the other link to new story.