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Waiting for the sky to fall (Catch all tornado thread)

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Welp, that was quite a morning and it's only 9. Tornado sirens went off in Valley Ranch around 6am, and I've been chilling in the shelter since then.  Wind is starting to pick up again....

Spent an hour trapped between 2 flash floods on the way home. Was less than 2 miles from home. One finally went down enough to drive back through. Wound up going 40 miles out of the way to get home.

Well that was fucking crazy. My phone alarm didn't go off but luckily I saw the Google alert letting me know about a tornado warning in Dallas 

On 5/26/2024 at 7:46 PM, Blotto said:

I just thought that dude had bad luck. 


He got a new truck out of it, if I recall correctly.

5 minutes ago, RPM said:

Spent an hour trapped between 2 flash floods on the way home. Was less than 2 miles from home. One finally went down enough to drive back through. Wound up going 40 miles out of the way to get home.

Glad you did that.  A few years back, I was heading to a meeting in Hunt, up 1340 (driving there at night for a meeting the next morning).  Hellacious rain.  I started hitting periodic high water on39, just as I got past Ingram.  I was in my big F-150, so I wasn't worried about going through a few inches here and there, but I got to one stretch where I started going through...it started getting a bit deeper, and was running at a decent speed over the road....and I said NOPE.  And I knew that if it was bad here, there's no way I could make it down 1340, which has like 5 low-water crossings of the river.  Turned around and ALL the way up to Mountain Home, down 41, and then hit 1340 from the north end.  Finally made it to my meeting location, and people were anxiously waiting for me, because one of the Hunt school board members had already died that night on 1340 on the same route I would have taken.

Take that shit seriously.  It cost me an extra hour or so.  But I ain't dead, so, winning.

Yeah, a guy died near our house a few years back after getting swept off a low water crossing into Bull Creek.  Years prior to that, a woman got sent down Bull Creek in her car, got stuck at the 2222 overpass, then got pushed over it, at which point she ignored 911 dispatch instructions and got out of her car.  She swam to the County Line.  Crappy BBQ, but not drowned.

14 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

She swam to the County Line.

A fate worse than death. She will never make the mistake of attempting to cross high water ever again. 

On 5/26/2024 at 10:36 AM, jimmyjazz said:

"We're in it!  We're in the tornado!  What do I do?"

Not to diminish the power of a tornado, but oh, I don't know, maybe stop driving once you see shit flying horizontally across the road and back up?

I know it must've been terrifying but the first "HOLY SCHITT!" really got me.

  • 2 months later...
  • 3 weeks later...

Wait, wut?

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- CNN - 

Rescuers were on Monday searching for six people – including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch – who went missing after a luxury yacht was hit by a tornado and sank off the coast of Sicily, killing one of the 22 people on board.

The vessel was hit by the tornado at around 5 a.m. Monday, according to a spokesperson for Italy’s Coast Guard. The yacht was anchored about a half a mile from the port of Porticello on the Mediterranean island.

Four Britons and two Americans are among those missing, the spokesperson said.

A source told CNN that Lynch, the founder of software giant Autonomy, was a passenger on the yacht. His wife, Angela Bacares, was rescued. The source spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity, as they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Fifteen others were rescued from the scene and one child was airlifted to the children’s hospital in Palermo. Eight people were hospitalized in total, according to the mayor’s office. One body was found on the hull of the yacht, the Coast Guard said.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/19/europe/tornado-sinks-luxury-sailing-yacht-sicily-intl/index.html

  • 1 month later...
5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

People in the UK don’t understand how they work

 

 

I mean, tornados are no laughing matter but I cracked up on the second video hearing some guy in the background saying, "Fucking hell!", in his most British of accents.

  • 6 months later...
30 minutes ago, alincoln said:

Looks like a massive outbreak has began 

Yup, 5 out of 5 day and about to hit the Memphis area.

21 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Yup, 5 out of 5 day and about to hit the Memphis area.

slorch says 5/5 is just another Tuesday in West Texas.

20 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Live

 

When I first clicked on it, they said something about losing the NWS, and I was all like, "WTF? Has DOGE already killed all the regional stations?!?!"

So, the answer is "No, that NWS office is about to get hit by a fucking tornado."

Goodspeed, Paducah weather nerds who keep us safe.

1 minute ago, bolverk said:

When I first clicked on it, they said something about losing the NWS, and I was all like, "WTF? Has DOGE already killed all the regional stations?!?!"

So, the answer is "No, that NWS office is about to get hit by a fucking tornado."

Goodspeed, Paducah weather nerds who keep us safe.

It missed them. They are back to work.

1 hour ago, bolverk said:

When I first clicked on it, they said something about losing the NWS, and I was all like, "WTF? Has DOGE already killed all the regional stations?!?!"

So, the answer is "No, that NWS office is about to get hit by a fucking tornado."

Goodspeed, Paducah weather nerds who keep us safe.

That whole scenario is horrifying.  For all the various weather "outlets" out there, a) I don't think anyone has anything akin to the Storm Prediction Center and b) all of them freely admit that they use if not directly base their forecasts on NWS data.

And that's just for consumer idiots like us, not people whose livelihoods depend on weather.

Just now, SimonBolivar said:

Gilmer getting hit right now?

They said so. NE of Tyler is getting hit hard.

Rain wrapped.

40 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Daingerfield right in line. This storm hates traditionally good high school football teams.

No respect.

 

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Naming a town in Texas "Lone Star" is lazy as fuck, unless it's the corporate HQ for Lone Star beer.

2 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

Gilmer getting hit right now?

Hawkins, just SE of Gilmer got hit by a tornado around 5pm.

  • 3 weeks later...

 

 

One out by Littlefield right now

Multiple Tornader Warnings tonight in Deaf Smith( Hereford) Randall( Canyon) and Potter( Amarillo) Counties tonight.  Tornado sirens going off for tornado12 miles from our house an hour ago, and just now for "rotation" that was 10 miles away.

If they want people to start ignoring that shit, that's exactly how to do it.

3 hours ago, Iceman said:

Multiple Tornader Warnings tonight in Deaf Smith( Hereford) Randall( Canyon) and Potter( Amarillo) Counties tonight.  Tornado sirens going off for tornado12 miles from our house an hour ago, and just now for "rotation" that was 10 miles away.

If they want people to start ignoring that shit, that's exactly how to do it.

Ive been saying this for awhile.

When I was a kid, a tornado warning meant there was an actual nader on the ground and someone was getting fucked.

Nowadays it might mean “some NWS intern saw goofy shit on the radar.”

I’ve already started shrugging them off a bit.

and I completely understand giving people time to get sheltered, but both of those radar events were 45 minutes to an hour away from us for how the system was moving.  The first one was confirmed tornado on the ground just north of Canyon.  Our sirens are 15 miles north of there, at a minimum, and the system was moving at 10MPH.  There were not any other supercell/ clusters with rotation in the system.

I've lived in tornado heavy areas through childhood- was in the 1979 biggie in Wichita Falls, TX; and much of my adult life.  I know the destruction they cause and they will absolutely kill.  I take sirens very seriously, but that shit last night was frustrating, especially the second one.  Also the weather dudes here absolutely sucked ass, relative to "Doing the weather for tornado prone areas."   I finally turned that shit off and tuned in to local NOAA and tracked the storms on the computer.

Our local police sits out and tornado spots during warnings and then calls it in over the radio if they think they see one for the dispatcher to hit the siren button. I used to listen to a police scanner app on my phone during storms but a while ago the local EMS and law enforcement switched to digital and the app quit working... 

On 4/26/2025 at 7:31 AM, JMFP said:

Our local police sits out and tornado spots during warnings and then calls it in over the radio if they think they see one for the dispatcher to hit the siren button. I used to listen to a police scanner app on my phone during storms but a while ago the local EMS and law enforcement switched to digital and the app quit working... 

They don't want you to hear about a person of color getting the shit beat out of them for not using their turn signal.

  • 3 weeks later...

These dorks crack me up. They did successfully shoot a probe right into it.

 

Edited by Blotto

Reed Timmer chasing tornado warned supercell heading towards Fredericksburg. 

 

  • 2 weeks later...

Large tornado just west of Lubbock and heading toward town.

 

I'm watching this on Severe Studios with Radarscope on another screen.  Definitely see a debris ball from the Northridge neighborhood as this tornado heads for Lubbock Christian University.  It's been riding eastward on 114 from Reese Center.

25 minutes ago, Gravy Train said:

I'm watching this on Severe Studios with Radarscope on another screen.  Definitely see a debris ball from the Northridge neighborhood as this tornado heads for Lubbock Christian University.  It's been riding eastward on 114 from Reese Center.

Man if it's hitting Lubbock proper, that's not good.  At least they have sirens.

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