According to Krissy Hurley, the Meteorologist in charge at the Nashville National Weather Service, Tennessee leads the country in nighttime tornadoes.
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Shit, nighttime tornadoes are all we have in Tennessee, at least in my area.
I've been here almost 8 years and have been through I don't know how many tornado warnings/watches, and I don't recall a single one in the daytime. Sure, we'll get advance notice during the day that conditions will be right for a tornado later in the evening, but we never get the actual warning or watch until after nightfall, and it's usually 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning.
Well...I'm just lucky I guess. Been here since Jan. 2015, we've had them both. The closest one that went beyond a warning, was less than a mile away. Humphreys Co., TN.
ReplyDeleteThe saying, snooze you lose, applies
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In the 80's, when I still lived in L.A., we had one touch down in South Central, take out a block, and disappear. To say the least, the residents were surprised.
ReplyDeleteWell, those overnight tomatoes can be a problem.
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ReplyDeletePosition is everything. Tennessee's just on the wrong side of the Blue Ridge Mountains says a Western NC resident who sleeps uninterrupted.
they can happen ANYWHERE. EVERYONE SHOULD OWN A WEATHER ALEART RADIO.
Deleteall it takes is one tornado to ruin your day. they have been recorded happening in every state in the US.
God idea, anon. If Dorothy have had one of them radio gadgets she'd never met Scarecrow Biden.
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ReplyDeleteNow explain all the tornadoes before HAARP. You think this is a new phenomenon?
Deleteit happens so much here in central MS that we don't even notice anymore. the nat. weather service will issue a warning here whenever a cloud comes up just to cover their asses. ( i love to watch the weather news people on TV, they get so excited. we had one years ago that was about 10 months pregnant and i thought she was going to give birth on camera )
ReplyDeleteit's nothing to take lightly guys, but twice a week here has numbed us to the possibility. the wife and i just go to bed. tornadoes always seem to take the same paths here, usually through the lower spots in the river valleys. we are in the hills.
Same here. It seems like after that tornado hit Nashville a couple years ago, the goddamned weather radio blares a warning any time we have a thunderstorm. It gets old real quick.
DeleteIt's to the point that if radio goes off in the middle of the night, I ignore it and go back to sleep unless it says there's one on the ground fairly close by.
The kicker to that is right after we moved here, my area got hit by a small tornado and the weather radio never even went off. There was minor damage to my property, but my neighbors across the road had their power pole snapped, some roof damage, and their septic system got all tore up when the trees nearby uprooted and took out all of the leech lines.
The storms that happened a couple of years ago tore a path through the trees on the hill just above my house. I make the end of the path of destruction to be just over a 100 yards from the house. The straight line winds downed so many trees that the county road crews were up on the hill across the road for a couple of hours clearing the roadway. I know, the commotion woke me up and I sat on my porch with a rifle because I had no idea what the noise was until I went outside.
ReplyDeleteThe storm that hit in 2008(?) and killed several folks happened nearby as well. The church at the head of the road was leveled and many houses were lifted off of their foundations and moved. I have been told that many of the deaths happened near the church. There used to be some silos and other farm buildings nearby that were still in ruins and heavily overgrown. I got a lot of stories from some of the folks in my dentist's office, many of whom had lived near here when those storms hit.
The most recent spate sure put the fear of God in me.
Uh-huh, I've heard quite a few stories about the December '08 tornado. It ripped up my road before veering off towards you. It killed 13 people and it would've been a lot worse if it had actually hit Lafayette instead of skirting around the western edge of town.
DeleteSome one told me that the death toll would have been higher if the illegal aliens in the area had been fully accounted for; but, I don't know if that is true or just the normal run of the mill rumors. The guy that told me is not one for hyperbole, so I do give it some weight. I do know that the Google street view for the intersection (dated Aug 2008) shows just a patch of grass and an empty parking lot where the church now stands.
DeleteI think I told you that there are a lot of unusual hummocks on the hill above the house and that each hummock has a small foxhole on one side. After the most recent storm, I attribute those to root balls of trees that had been pushed over by the winds. There is no trace of the trees that would have raised those mounds, so the storm that likely caused those features has to have happened a very long time ago.
BTW, this should be the link to the streetview:
Deletehttps://www.google.com/maps/@36.5801138,-85.9618385,3a,75y,295.31h,76.76t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1smHl51cvcJIwGiLdSetVRFA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DmHl51cvcJIwGiLdSetVRFA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D136.7651%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i3328!8i1664?entry=ttu
I saw a documentary not too long ago that proves your point about hummocks and holes.
DeleteWhen we first moved here I was wondering why there were older homes on my road, then a fairly big stretch of nothing but newer homes, then more older homes. Then I heard about the tornado and did some research on its path which explained everything.