Hang On Folks, SEVERE WEATHER coming

Hang on tight folks, sounds like we're in for a helluva ride this afternoon and evening!!! Going to affect everybody from St. Louis on north and east clear through western Pennsylvania and New York. That covers a lot of our members on these forums.

We're on a TORCON 7 ALERT (on a scale of up to 10) in this area until 2300 hrs., marvelous, just frickin' marvelous!!!!

Be safe everybody, and let's keep updated.

Thanks for the heads up. With no TV, I'm usually out of the loop when it comes to stuff like this. Stay safe, everyone!

Here in the northeastern part of New Jersey, I have not heard anything about the severe weather, but thanks for the warning Russell. There seems to be no shortage of violent weather lately. Stay safe everyone!

7 P.M. here in Woodstock tonight very high winds lots of rain coming down sideways and the risk of thunderstorms, warnings now posted, AND this is the tail end of what the U.S.A is getting, hope all are safe,

The big part of the storm blew through here starting at about 7pm. driving rain, very high winds (gusts to 85 mph) and enough lightning to last for years. No damage in our area that we know of although Bellevue Fire did go screaming past the house during the peak part of the storm. It hit the south and east suburbs of Toledo real hard. Lots of damage reports from that area.

Rob's fire department caught a working structure fire about 20 minutes before the storm hit, daughter-in-law brought all the kids and came up here to hide in the basement.

All we've got now is 35-40 mph winds that are supposed to die down before dawn.

seen all the red dots the clam was 7o sum twisters out of it. all we had was a little wind and cold when it went threw here a few days ago.

The power went out at 10pm last night at Digger's and never came back on until 5:30am today.

The wind and rain was nasty. There was sun, wind, rain, hail rotating today.

I am up restoring the barn and it wasn't as much fun as a nice sunny day !



Here are two photos I took behind the barn in the last two days. :thumbsup:



Dreaded snow won't be long now I guess,
Darren

When I went to bed last night, we had a Severe Thunderstorm Watch. The line must have passed overnight, the ground was wet this morning. But I didn't hear it. No fires or reports of damage.

But I was amazed to see how much tornado damage there was in the mid-West - in the middle of November! Thoughts are with them.

This was a tragic event, but one that was very well forecast by the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK days in advance.

By last Thursday, they mentioned in their day 4 Severe Weather Outlook "SOME UNCERTAINTY LINGERS...BUT TRENDS IN THE MEDIUM RANGE FORECAST GUIDANCE ARE INCREASINGLY SUGGESTIVE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENVIRONMENT SUPPORTIVE OF AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
PARTS OF THE MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY EASTWARD THROUGH MUCH OF THE OHIO VALLEY ON SUNDAY."

By Friday, they outlooked much of the impact area to a "Slight Risk of Severe thunderstorms."

By Saturday, as parameters began coming together, they upgraded to a "Moderate Risk of Severe Thunderstorms" for Sunday and in their forecast discussion they stated "...POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR A WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WIND EVENT AND SEVERAL TORNADOES /SOME POSSIBLY STRONG/ SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF THE OH VALLEY AND GREAT LAKES...

Early Sunday morning, the day of the event, they upgraded once again to the very rare "High Risk of Severe Thunderstorms", with the headline "...TORNADO OUTBREAK WITH MULTIPLE SIGNIFICANT TORNADOES AND WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS EXPECTED ACROSS THE OH VALLEY AND SRN GREAT LAKES REGION TODAY..." prominently featured in the Day 1 Severe Weather Outlook issued for Sunday.

My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been impacted.

like the early snow we got out here. the were the cold air mass his the warm moist air mass look out. dry enough here that when this front got passed on it only blew and dropped the temps some. tomorrow we are looking at one more here. it was 15 below in Yellowknife yesterday and they want to share. so the end of the week we will see more coming threw this same place till the temperatures drop. it still amazes me with all the destruction from these weather patterns the loss of life is so little. strange the way it works but times like this you get to under stand what "it just stuff" means.

John ED Renstrom said:

it still amazes me with all the destruction from these weather patterns the loss of life is so little.

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With almost everyone being constantly attached to a smart phone (I don't know how most people even breathe without that thing telling them to), people have much more warning then they did in the old days.