Severe weather yesterday

[w8ob]

Yesterday afternoon I was on the front porch shooting a little BS with the neighbor. The tornado sirens started going off and within 30 seconds I see this big black wall cloud bearing down on us. I am thinking wow no time to run for shelter let alone get my animals gathered up. Lucky for us it passed right over us rotation and all. I heard it briefly touched down about 12 Miles NE of me. All of a sudden it was black as night outside and the wind came up big time, horizontal rain and large hail coming down. Needless to say that was as close to the birth of a twister as I ever need to see again. Lots of damage in this area, but no loss of life.

[AC0H]

Close but no cigar. Two near misses with the finger of God this week.

[w3sy]

What's a tornado siren??

Glad you didn't wake up in Oz.

I'm happy to hear your Golden Retrievers were safe. We have a Golden Retriever rescue society out this way (not to hijack the thread, or anything!). Great dogs. My inlaws had one that lived to be about 15, I think.

[KA9VQF]

We had lots of thunder but what I would call moderate rainfall most of the day. Couldn’t really see the lightning much because of the clouds. Then around 5:00 pm local time it nearly stopped raining then the wind came. It howled like a freight train and the rain was pretty much horizontal and torrential.

The lightning was a sight to behold once the wind came. Very vivid streaks, kind of like what KRP has in his avatar.

We had one of those real short power failures. You know the kind, where you just find the flash light that actually works and go to git the oil lamp and the lights come back on. Just enough that you have to reset the clock on the microwave and VCR.

I already had the HF antenna disconnected and the end of the coax in the gallon glass jar. I have always wondered if the jar would survive if the antenna were to take a jolt. Don’t really want to find out.

We were getting what the weather station called micro bursts of wind. It didn’t seem to me that it was particularly coming from any one direction. All four sides of my house seemed to be taking the same amount of rain as I ran through the rooms looking out.

I didn’t see any hail but a fellow in Mt. Carroll just 10 miles east of here said he saw marble size hail coming down up there. By marble size he said he meant about ½” diameter.

Today on our local radio station they were telling about a large shed that had been flattened but that was the biggest thing that took damage. Or was destroyed I guess I mean. several other buildings were damaged to a lesser extent.

I remember the shed they were talking about was only put up like two years ago.

I changed all the batteries in all the flashlights and put them where they are supposed to be. I have an emergency lighting system that I snagged out of a dumpster a few years ago. Think I’ll put some new batteries in it and wire it into the living room here.

[W0LPQ]

Friday nite we had a tornado 4 miles east of us that started as an F0 and wound up as an F2 some 17 miles further east. Last night several tornado's were spawned, one in South West Indy. #Appears they may have been F0's. #At least 6 of them east of I-65. #By the time the storm hit the Ohio border it seemed to sort of fall apart.

Bunch of windows blown out in downtown Indy during the final 4 celebrations that were outside. #Fortunately they happed after the last event (Mellencamp) finished.

The straight line winds that took out the bank windows was estimated at 83mph.

Bill, W0LPQ

[w8ob]

Quote[/b] (w3sy @ April 03 2006,17:09)]What's a tornado siren??

Glad you didn't wake up in Oz.

I'm happy to hear your Golden Retrievers were safe. We have a Golden Retriever rescue society out this way (not to hijack the thread, or anything!). #Great dogs. My inlaws had one that lived to be about 15, I think.
Tornado siren= a loud siren sounded county wide also used for other things like floods, poison gas etc. Usually starts sounding about the time the danger is past. In this case the sirens started screaming before the weather alert receiver went off. I did observe the following two things before the storm hit.
1. there were birds flocking and flying north by the 100's
2. most of the dead leafs that were laying on the ground
had rolled up exposing the bottoms.

from now on I am a believer in folk lore.


Yes the two Golden Retrievers didn't bat a eye over all the thunder and lightning. When I retire I plan to foster some of the Goldens from the rescue mission. We just love working with that breed.

[w8cbc]

Nothing spectacular happened in Cincinnati though the sirens did go off - severe thunderstorm warning during a tornado watch, I usually hear it a dozen or so times a year.

There were a few nice across-the-sky lightning streaks in the afternoon and a good blow out of the west for some several minutes in the evening. This one was officially clocked at 76 mi/hr. My balcony faces east. I stood out there, nice and dry, admiring it.

My power flickered, no more. It usually quits as soon as there's a hint of activity. I guess all the lines around my area have already been broken and replaced.

I was chased once up the French River by a waterspout. I'd gone out in the boat to look at the spectacular thunderheads, moved a little too far up-river, and one of them stuck a finger into the water between me and home. Turn the boat around and hope that cranky Suzuki 50 don't stall. The damned thing followed me a few miles up the main channel. I finally veered off to the side into a bay hoping it would keep going straight. It did. That's as close as I ever want to be. Naturally, I got drenched all the way back home.