Author Topic: Big storm brewing in the south  (Read 3091 times)

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It's getting serious now. My phone have just got the alert for a tornado warning. It tells me to find shelter immediately, but I live in an apartment complex with no nearby shelters.

tell the tornado its mother is fat and maybe it will go away.

I have a friends who lives in northern Florida and he's been joking about the humidity over there like all day

stormed bad here stayed in the basement for about an hour and a half.
kimberly and athens don't look too pretty, 3 confirmed dead in AL but that was earlier today. I live in center point (birmingham) and it could've been worse here

stormed bad here stayed in the basement for about an hour and a half.
kimberly and athens don't look too pretty, 3 confirmed dead in AL but that was earlier today. I live in center point (birmingham) and it could've been worse here
athens was slammed, like wow
we somehow missed everything up here in central morgan county

tell the tornado its mother is fat and maybe it will go away.
Works all the time

I feel bad for the people in the storm areas, and I hope that they are safe! I know the birthplace of Elvis Presley (Tulepo) has been severely damaged from a massive tornado yesterday.

I personally do not or ever will know what it is like experiencing a tornado... I live in Australia, so the worst I get is tennis balls raining down(I'm not far up enough to recieve cyclones for christmas)... Make sure to do the secret ritual to save your asses.
tell the tornado its mother is fat and maybe it will go away.

basements in apartment complexes?

Idk id like to drive around but then again I've never seen a tornado
In Jacksonville (where i used to live), they had a waterspout + tornado once. It was the scariest stuff ever for most, but I didn't really care. They were both relatively close to me, as well.

In Jacksonville (where i used to live), they had a waterspout + tornado once. It was the scariest stuff ever for most, but I didn't really care. They were both relatively close to me, as well.
I live about 30 miles outside Jacksonville and I'm not really that worried.

I live about 30 miles outside Jacksonville and I'm not really that worried.
They're not going on right now of course. Jacksonvilles gonna be fine.

But rock on my near-Jacksonville brother.

That was the most boring tornado warning I have ever experienced. There was no rain, it was just very windy and stuff.

That was the most boring tornado warning I have ever experienced. There was no rain, it was just very windy and stuff.
sounds like you wanted your house to be picked up.
silly dudeman, you can't go to Oz like that!

That was the most boring tornado warning I have ever experienced. There was no rain, it was just very windy and stuff.

That can be bad or good. Since you're alive and I'm assuming you still have a home, probably good. It may have just been a county-wide warning instead of a structured watch box, so even if something just clipped one edge of your county, everyone was warned for whatever stupid reason.

The bad should not be confused though. No rain could mean that you are directly underneath the mesocyclone where the rotation is happening. In a structured storm not associated with a multi-cell cluster such as a supercell, there usually isn't rain in the rotation, making you dangerously close to the actual tornado.

Another possibility would be a (generic) southwest position from the RFD (rear-flank downdraft). Still close in proximity to the tornado, but outside the actual storm. The RFD feeds energy to the tornado and doesn't hold much moisture. Once the RFD swings out around the rotation, it envelopes it and eventually "suffocates" the tornado from a lack of warm, dry inflow.


I recall seeing a funnel cloud when I was young. I remember watching it touch down but then we turned somewhere and I didn't see it. When I got home though, the weather channel was going crazy with some red warning at the bottom (tornado or severe, i don't know, didn't read at the time). I'm hoping to go storm chasing this May, doubt that'll happen though.