Getting pretty bad again here in Central KY. Extreme weather brewing especially near Paducah again. Everyone stay safe and let things pass through.
Tornados 5/16
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WKY. Again.
Interesting to note that Marc Weinberg out of Louisville who is a nerd for weather said during the last outbreak that he thinks tornado alley hasn't necessarily shifted to the east but has expanded to include more areas.
Interesting to note that Marc Weinberg out of Louisville who is a nerd for weather said during the last outbreak that he thinks tornado alley hasn't necessarily shifted to the east but has expanded to include more areas.
Shift in the jet stream. It's wild when I tell people how the weather used to flow from north down to st louis and then move northeast toward OH/Penn.... We get more weather out of TX now than I can ever remember.
I saw a video a few weeks ago saying the tornado alley has moved in recent years more to the southeast. Be careful out there.
Oh, wow! Fourteen. After seeing pics and videos of the damage it would not surprise me if the final number is much higher than that. So sad.
They started saying this in Bham in the late 90s/early 2000s when that spate of EF4's and a couple EF5's happened inside of around 10-15 years. It is absolutely shifting/expanding north.
Watch the radar all spring. Same rain system that starts small in the plains states and becomes a ful-blown storm stretching the width of the country, moving slowly west-to-east. It's the exact same storm system on repeat. They're getting more intense.
Was watching this live on Youtube last night with this streamer Max Velocity. The tornado was on the ground tracking towards and heading through Somerset with a huge debris cloud and he was losing his mind that the NWS had not upgraded the warning from the standard tornado warning to a PDS warning issued or a confirmed tornado warning.
He mentioned the closest NWS station was in Jackson, KY. And of course it's one of the offices dealing with cuts and severe understaffing to where they can't operate 24/7 now. From two days ago:
F' n hell.
He mentioned the closest NWS station was in Jackson, KY. And of course it's one of the offices dealing with cuts and severe understaffing to where they can't operate 24/7 now. From two days ago:
F' n hell.
What is amazing about that video, and tornados in general is there will be a wide path of destruction, houses flattened, and one house in the middle is untouched. Unpredictable is about the best way to describe tornados. We had very high winds / hail here in Bowling Green, I personally spotted several rotating clouds with the two different storms that moved thru. Wind gust easily reached 50-60 mph at my house.
Laurel County/London got hit bad. There was no overnight forecaster for the Jackson, KY NWS office due to recent DOGE cuts as well. Terrible circumstances.
Immediate and sweeping cuts across the board without thinking of the consequences of those actions is good though...
The more information available for severe weather, the better. That's one thing you do need locally, esp. in rural counties. Flooding, fires, tornadoes, and hurricanes aren't going away so folks need the information necessary that will keep them prepared and safe. That's common sense.
The more information available for severe weather, the better. That's one thing you do need locally, esp. in rural counties. Flooding, fires, tornadoes, and hurricanes aren't going away so folks need the information necessary that will keep them prepared and safe. That's common sense.
Have family that lives very close to the path. Were absolutely terrified for their lives when it was coming through. Guessing F3 strength. Ripped up a busy area of Somerset but appears London got the worst of it.
Been watching some space weather news stuff. Weakening magnetic field is allowing more solar winds through. dude is saying to expect this to keep getting worse. He was predicting bad storms for this week when he saw something coming from the sun. Pretty wild how much the sun gets ignored on weather. Not sure you can do anything about a weakening magnetic field. 30% decline in the last 100 years.
Sad video from London and other parts. Sad also to see the typical politicals making everything political.
Still wild that Louisville was hit with an EF-3 just last month. Completely destroyed a building a mile from a family member's workplace. Luckily we were made well-aware in advance and everyone seemed to know things could get bad. Don't think anyone slept that night.
I saw some tornado videos on X and the size of the hail that passed through the area was unbelievable.
London mayor is saying at least 20 dead now, per the local paper. If I recall correctly, isn't the London mayor some sort of knucklehead who isn't trustworthy?
Pictured below is just two of the many that fell around here in Elgin OK a couple of years ago. For scale, I have pretty big hands. Can palm a basketball. We had to get the entire roof repaired and new shingles.
Those hailstones are no joke. Haven't seen any that large fall around here. The high winds got us a few years back in one of those storms in Western KY and also had to replace the shingles on our roof.Pictured below is just two of the many that fell around here in Elgin OK a couple of years ago. For scale, I have pretty big hands. Can palm a basketball. We had to get the entire roof repaired and new shingles.
Not that my dad could beat up your dad, but in Illinois in 1989 , I was in a grapefruit to softball sized hailstorm. I drove over 500 miles yesterday and was in numerous warnings and hailstorms. Luckily mostly small. The cloud for the Marion IL to Morganfield tornado was wicked looking as was the one that hit Linton, Indiana. I was on backside of both. The dominator went near house.Pictured below is just two of the many that fell around here in Elgin OK a couple of years ago. For scale, I have pretty big hands. Can palm a basketball. We had to get the entire roof repaired and new shingles.
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Should have taken a helmet and a bat out there and got some batting practice in.
Yeah, my F150 and my wife's Kia Sportage got pounded in that one.
RyanHallYall is great. Driving hundreds of miles in storms and I utilized him for trip.
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I worked with a lady that said, if we had good wax on our car, it would protect us from the hail. No. Dents deep.
Wax must be made from the same stuff Elvis Presley's character put on the speed boat in Clambake. GOOP.