I had been watching the forecasts for a couple days through both the news and my favorite radar site, Ventusky.com, and I'll admit it looked like it was going to be pretty bad with the radar site showing nothing but solid red parked over Macon County for all of yesterday and last night.
We got a severe thunderstorm warning fairly early, then a tornado watch and then a tornado warning a couple hours later. When we got the tornado watch, I looked outside and it was patchy skies. Okaaay.....
As the day went on, shit kept piling up and we started getting thunderstorms, lightning strikes and rain, lots and lots of rain, and that shit went on all damned night. I got bored watching tornado chaser videos and weather reports and went to bed around 10pm.
The TVA precipitation site shows that we ended up getting 6.17 inches of rain in that 24 hour period. At one point last night, it was coming down so hard I could barely make out my truck parked 30 feet away.
There ended up being 3 tornadoes (I think), all of them moving west to east down below the Nashville and Murfreesboro area. Lisa said the channel she was watching showed a tornado or two touching down in Robertson County, two counties to the west of us, but we didn't even get any high winds.
All and all, it's been a quiet tornado season for us - so far.
