Severe Weather Thread

#1,476
#1,476
I am in Minneapolis/St Paul for work and we are under a tornado warning with golf ball sized hail. I can't get away from this stuff.
 
#1,478
#1,478
Just got woken up to loud thunder and dime to quarter size hail hitting my roof. First rain in 7 months. Not severe, but thought it belonged in here.
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TEX_VOLFAN said:
Just got woken up to loud thunder and dime to quarter size hail hitting my roof. First rain in 7 months. Not severe, but thought it belonged in here.
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If it had quarter size hail then it was by definition a severe thunderstorm.
 
#1,484
#1,484
Those storms will not likely become tornadic. There is a cap in the atmosphere that should keep that from happening. Brief heavy rain, lightning, and some high winds are possible.

We should be ok burhead
 
#1,485
#1,485
i've got some pics of my neighborhood and inside my home after the tornado. also going to post some youtube vids of the f5 tornado that hit my house, its something i'll never forget.
 

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#1,487
#1,487
i should also note that i only took pics of inside my home, the other houses are my next door neighbor and the guy beside him.
 
#1,490
#1,490
i was to busy holding the closet door shut, so no video from me. all these vids are from the tornado that hit me, however the first one is when it was close to me
 
#1,493
#1,493
ya mine is being repaired right now. the day the tornadoes hit i couldn't make local calls, but i could call my parents in TN. i gave my dad my policy number and he filed a claim that night. the adjuster came out that saturday and gave me a list of contractors, had a contractor come out that day and they started work that monday. already have a new roof on my house, and the house has been completely gutted. the insulation guy came out today and started putting new insulation in. i'm way ahead of everybody else in the neighborhood. everyone else still has tarps on their homes, but have yet to be gutted. my neighbor whose house was blown open has to have his house knocked down and rebuilt. they haven't started on his yet. there are some homes behind my house on the other side of the corn field that have already been knocked down.

one of the houses behind me that was knocked down was literally picked up and thrown across the road on my side of that road and landed into some trees. it was demolished this week as well as a couple of others. i could never see those homes due to the massive tree line behind my house. now that the tree line is gone i can see them on the other side of the corn field. found pieces of different peoples garage doors wrapped around the trees in my back yard. supposedly someone that lived behind me didn't survive, and another person in the neighborhood beside mine which i can now see that house the person didn't survive the storm. their roof was completely gone and supposedly they were sucked up into the tornado. about half of my roof was gone.

what's amazing is where the roof was finished being ripped off my house was within 10 feet of the closet i was in. God spared me, and it's something that I can't explain. 10 ft more and i might have been sucked out of my home as well. the destruction in and around my neighborhood is something that amazes me every day. if the tornado would've hit 30 mins later when everyone was home from work i'm sure there would've been more lives lost. in my small town there were 9 ppl who died, however that tornado was on the ground for 120 miles. i believe the number killed by that tornado is at least 50.
 
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#1,497
#1,497
Just drove through tuscalooa on 59. Of course you couldn't see much there at all, but there were a lot of trees on the side of the interstates that were missing their tops, doubled over, etc.
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#1,498
#1,498
the news stations didn't even get on and discuss the weather. i watched the news tonight and one of the stations apologized several times. you can't have sirens go off and the national weather service throw out a tornado warning and not go live. ppl around here are on edge when severe weather comes around now.
 
#1,499
#1,499
Just received a text that St. John's hospital in Joplin, MO., just suffered major tornado damage. Be safe out there Missourians.
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#1,500
#1,500
The last video was the best IMO. Glad you are ok bro.
Vol Mania 21 said:
YouTube - Harvest, AL Tornado 4/27/11--View from Limestone Correctional Facility

YouTube - Tornado in harvest, AL 4/27/11

YouTube - April 27, 2011 Limestone County, Alabama Tornado

YouTube - East Limestone, AL Tornado OMG! Holy Crap we are so lucky!

the first video was taken about 3 miles from my house. the green sky thats in the video is what i saw before it hit my house. notice how the sky changes colors. that's what was so weird when i was lookin out the window before it hit
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