Be Safe Tonight Vols

#51
#51
Say a prayer for those in Fayetteville Tennessee I heard it got hit pretty bad with some heavy damage.
 
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#53
UTProf said:
1-2 inches of rain with high winds in the forecast. Even if we dodge the tornadoes it looks like we're in for some flooding.
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Now 2 to 4" just tonight. Earlier, they were calling for 6 to 6.5" in some locations over the whole event .. today amd tomorrow.

Egg size hail in Maynardville.
 
#55
#55
Very heavy rain hitting Neyland Stadium right now and downtown Knoxville.
 
#56
#56
Praying for everyone in VolNation. It hasn't hit us just yet here in north Ga, but supposed to very soon. Have a safe night
 
#58
#58
Tornado Warning: Blount, Knox, Loudon until 2AM EST

Cell moving northeast from Friendsville.

Cell should be over
Rockford 1:32am
Knoxville 1:44am
Straw Plains 2:02AM
 
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Orangedogsrule said:
Now 2 to 4" just tonight. Earlier, they were calling for 6 to 6.5" in some locations over the whole event .. today amd tomorrow.

Egg size hail in Maynardville.
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Yeah I was going by prior forecasts. Long before the storms reached us. I don't think the weather folks expected it to go this far despite the graphs - it usually doesn't.

Right now we're under watch until 7 am (start the whole thing over tomorrow too). I never expected anything like this:

Event: Tornado Watch
Alert:

TORNADO WATCH 114 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 7 AM EDT THIS MORNING FOR
THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN NORTH CAROLINA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 2 COUNTIES
IN SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA
CHEROKEE CLAY
IN TENNESSEE THIS WATCH INCLUDES 13 COUNTIES
IN EAST TENNESSEE
BLOUNT COCKE GRAINGER
GREENE HAMBLEN JEFFERSON
KNOX LOUDON MCMINN
MONROE POLK SEVIER
UNION
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ATHENS...BENTON...DANDRIDGE...
GREENEVILLE...HAYESVILLE...KNOXVILLE...LENOIR CITY...
MADISONVILLE...MARYVILLE...MAYNARDVILLE...MORRISTOWN...MURPHY...
NEWPORT...RUTLEDGE AND SEVIERVILLE.

Instructions:
Target Area:
Blount
Cocke
Grainger
Greene
Hamblen
Jefferson
Knox
Loudon
McMinn
Monroe
Polk
Sevier
Union
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#60
#60
Tornado watch in western North Carolina. Some spectacular storms through the night, and now it's pouring. Great sleeping weather if you don't have to get up and go to work.

Hope everyone made it through yesterday OK.
 
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#61
#61
Rinse and Repeat for today. Same areas, shifting just slightly eastward, will be affected today. Strong, long track tornadoes, heavy rain, and hail.

Middle TN, East TN, North Central and Central Alabama, East Mississippi, and Western and Central Georgia will take the brunt of the storms

Anyone in this area should take the weather seriously today. I know with clear skies it looks like it won't be bad, but this is just allowing the atmosphere ahead of the cold front to become more unstable.

Most storms should begin developing after lunch with the best organization beginning around 3:00 EST

Stay safe
 
#62
#62
Working the clean up in Lincoln County, been here since 10pm last night. Just hope the weather holds until they can wrap up the MIA portion.
 
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#64
#64
I live in Faulkner County in Arkansas (outside of Little Rock). Reports are 16 killed. Tornado was 1/2 to 3/4 mile wide. Yall stay safe out there. We have a lot of TN fans in this area
 
#65
#65
Currently and according to TWC hourly, storms for west Knoxville should start around 11pm.
 
#66
#66
We live in Altoona and we were very blessed that we didn't get hit last night. Spent all night in our bathroom though and looking forward to another night in there. Hope everyone stays safe and GBO!
 
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UcaVol said:
I live in Faulkner County in Arkansas (outside of Little Rock). Reports are 16 killed. Tornado was 1/2 to 3/4 mile wide. Yall stay safe out there. We have a lot of TN fans in this area
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I've got an ex Brother in law in cabot
 
#69
#69
Unprecedented flooding happening in the Florida Pan Handle. Including Pensacola, Fort Walton, Santa Rosa County, Destin, Panama City.
 
#70
#70
After surviving Typhoon Tip (1380 miles in diameter) while stationed in Okinawa in 1979, tornadoes never bothered me. I believe Tip still stands as the largest tropical storm on record.
 
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coug said:
Unprecedented flooding happening in the Florida Pan Handle. Including Pensacola, Fort Walton, Santa Rosa County, Destin, Panama City.
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I read somewhere that Pensacola got over 24 inches in less than a day. To put that in perspective the average rainfall for the top 10 rainiest states is just over 50 inches a year.

Pictures of the flood waters there were surreal - it wasn't like a normal flash flood. It looked like an ocean had formed! And if that wasn't enough they had enormous sinkholes open up on the interstate.
 
#72
#72
I just talked to a friend in Ft Walton Beach, and he said Pensacola got in about 20 inches, he's lived there about 20 years, and he said he never seen it rain as hard for 24 hours
 
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Special Ed said:
After surviving Typhoon Tip (1380 miles in diameter) while stationed in Okinawa in 1979, tornadoes never bothered me. I believe Tip still stands as the largest tropical storm on record.
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Hurricanes, anytime, any size, anywhere are nothing to laugh at. Wind, water, and sheer size even for the so-called small ones can kick a coastal town's behind then forget they ever did it.

But Special Ed, let me assure you, you don't want to **** with a tornado. A hurricane is pretty much a giant fist that says, "Quite frankly, I'm going to slam you in the head, every orifice you were born with and some you never even knew you had." A tornado is a sneaky bazzard. You hear about the freight train noise they make. And yet, some have produced almost no sound at all. Then you sort of sense it, turn around and it's all but standing inside your underpants. You watch a wispy rope like thing 1-2 mile so away. You run inside for your camera, run right out and have stove pipe structure packing 250 mph winds headed at you at a 60+ mph clip. You got a good car and you're outrunning it. Sumbich, turns and cuts across a field outflanking you. Weather reports haven't even hinted at a twister, even said it would just be partly cloudy. You go to bed with no worries, only to wonder 1-2 hours later why you're hearing a 747 revving its engine for take off in your backyard. You see a dark cloud about 2-3 miles wide and wonder why it's so low to the ground. It gets closer and you see cars and pieces of houses flying and the thing throws a motorcycle at you. Sometimes they cross a field or road, no longer picking up dust or debris. Just vanish. Then right in front of you you see a tree being pretzel-ized and all you can do is try to run for all you're worth and a few cents more. Believe me, Special Ed, no disrespect to hurricanes in the slightest. But you don't want to phook with a tornado. They're unpredictable in how they'll behave and are known murderers. Yes, there's laws regarding them. Mainly physical laws of eolian flow, the Coriolis effect and heat convection. And no, tornadoes don't break the laws despite the fact it sometimes seems that way.
 
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