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Friday, March 26, 2021

Our 'storms' last night

Yesterday I posted about the storms that were supposed to hit us last night. They didn't happen - not in Macon County, anyway. We got some rain, a little lightning and thunder in the distance, and no wind to speak of. I was keeping an eye on the weather through radar sites, and at one point I checked in with a Facebook group I belong to called Macon County Preparedness because the admin of the group is usually right on top of shit like this, and saw where he'd posted about a tornado that touched down briefly in Sumner County. Well, my in-laws live in Portland, about 35 miles due west, which is in Sumner County, so I called to check on them right before dusk. They told us they'd had heavy winds, thunder and lightning and large hail, then they asked how things were out our way. As they're asking, I'm looking out the window and seeing birds feeding on the ground and the wind barely moving the blossoms around on the Bradford Pear tree in the backyard. We did come under a tornado warning for about an hour around 8 PM, with the weather radio saying there was a strong probability of tornados hitting Macon County, but even those were expected to move to the east of us. I got bored about 9:30 and went to bed.
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  1. HagarMarch 26, 2021 at 8:48 AM

    Here in NE Georgia we had heavy rain, 5". Lots of thunder and lightening and flooding along waterways. Just south of Atlanta and parts of Alabama had at least one tornado a mile wide and 100 mile path.

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  2. Ari DunyitMarch 26, 2021 at 9:42 AM

    My daughter, husband, and 5 kids live in Newnan Ga that was hit hard. Stripped the shingles off the roof, picked up a huge wooden swing play set, a Gazebo, half their rear deck and big poplar tree and disappeared them. Knocked down all their trees and fencing, broke out several windows and scared the living shit out of the kids. They made it into the basement just as the windows were being blown out. Sheared off or flattened all the power poles as well as all the trees by the road. Power transformer and half the pole laying on the front yard. Ripped the power mast right off the house. House still standing with intact trusses and plywood. Others in the neighborhood not so lucky.

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  3. Martinez AlexMarch 26, 2021 at 9:44 AM

    I’m in Winston co Al., we got rain mostly. High winds and lightning. But it wasn’t as bad as below B’ham. And my waterfalls are still rolling this morning.

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  4. AnonymousMarch 26, 2021 at 9:48 AM

    As it's 'that time of year' again - me being in Arkansas - I've found this site being probably the most usually accurately helpful for getting an idea about how a particular stormfront is acting:

    https://www.spc.noaa.gov/

    From that map page you'll note on the headers in yellow 'Overview' but four spaces right of that there's a box containing the header 'Storm Reports'? Place your cursor there and click - takes one to a page containing both 'Today's' & 'Yesterday's Storm Reports' - Clicking either Today's or 'Yesterday's doesn't really matter because just above the text in red stating *'Note: All Reports are Considered Preliminary' there are listed dates - the one I'm presuming interest is in is most likely the one on the left '210325'? Click on that.

    *The 'All Reports are Considered Preliminary' schtick is National Weather Service jargon meaning - most usually tornadic activity reported by a somebody (not a trained weather observer) from for instance, Facebook - in which case say, if there's not tv images or somesuch evidence a NWS employee (or team) somewhile later will go to the location and investigate.

    Hope y'all find the site useful as I have.

    JK

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  5. wv.citybillyMarch 26, 2021 at 10:17 AM

    Had 40 to 50mph winds here before sunrise. Sat on the porch with a coffee to listen to them roar through the mountains, but all is well.

    https://www.windy.com/38.373/-81.628?gust,39.513,-80.343,7,m:eI6adS6

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  6. ScottMarch 26, 2021 at 10:22 AM

    Just west of you here, in Montgomery county. Lots of rain, but that was it.

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  7. AnonymousMarch 26, 2021 at 11:23 AM

    All last night, high winds. Still windy today. Ohio Guy

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  8. chillhillMarch 27, 2021 at 5:51 AM

    "wind barely moving the blossoms around on the Bradford Pear tree..."

    Bradford pear in an invasive species, a nasty one at that.

    Cut that shit down and get rid of it.

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    1. wirecutterMarch 27, 2021 at 6:51 AM

      It's a single tree in my yard and in the 6 years we've been here, it's showed no sign of spreading.
      It's getting big enough to where it's going to split any time now anyways.

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