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[Natural Disasters] Talk About Your Heavy Weather Here

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Well, I've got a storm with a history of spawning multiple tornadoes blowing into my neighborhood at around 2 AM. Should make for a restful night's sleep.

    Good thing there's not a horrific historic counterexample hanging over my head or anything.

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  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    edited May 2019
    Mayabird wrote: »
    Bad news: the Mississippi River is still flooding, just as it has since mid-March. In some places now it's worse than the Flood of '93, passing records set that year. The city of Davenport, Iowa, third largest in Iowa and one of the Quad Cities, has major flooding throughout its downtown; it is one of the places that is having record flooding now.

    There's a video that was taken from a security camera on a riverfront restaurant. It starts seconds before the levee breach begins (in the top left, watch the guy in the yellow jacket) and the Mississippi rushes in.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nFEdNmn5kI

    The flooding could continue into June.

    Iowa us now in the midst of at least 2 days in a row of heavy rain. This flooding wont only continue into June, it is going to get much worse before it gets better.

    Edit: Here in Wisconsin there are many shallow lakes where growing crops should be. I think this is going to be one of the worst harvests in a very long time, and has a good chance of crashing our economy with a giant spike in food prices.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
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    I...see.

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  • MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    It's just been back to back to back tornadoes from your area through the rest of the south and southeast, hasn't it?

  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    That's mostly Oklahoma.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited May 2019
    Dixie Alley has mostly getting the worst of it this year. Oklahoma has had some isolated spin-ups, but no real outbreaks. This is the gnarliest forecast we've had in a couple of years. Western Oklahoma is going to be bumper-to-bumper chasers tomorrow.

    Edit: Oh, thank Christ. They're closing the schools in OKC tomorrow. I can deal with tornadoes, but I can't deal with trying to herd a hundred kids into a storage closet when the sirens go off.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    I think I have a drill for that tomorrow. Fun!

    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
  • FireflashFireflash Montreal, QCRegistered User regular
    edited May 2019
    Oops

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Hah, screw this map entirely.

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    Have an clear path to your fraidy hole, Okies, this looks like the real deal.

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  • a5ehrena5ehren AtlantaRegistered User regular
    SPC usually does a good job in that area, since that's where they are.

    https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/pwo.html

    They even have a video, which is a dude reading over PowerPoint slides:

    https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/pwo.mp4

  • a5ehrena5ehren AtlantaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2019
    @Chimera for any input

    Also, they busted out the 45% tornado prob color, which is really bad:

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  • lonelyahavalonelyahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    Chimera is out chasing at the moment, and probably won't reply.

    But she basically said "this is terrifying, people are going to lose their homes, towns will be leveled, and people will die."

    She's very serious about this and basically said she didn't have time to do a proper weather report this morning, but it's going to be BAD.


    Keep tuend to your local stations, keep lots of water on hold, and make sure you have an easy route to your cellar/closet/hidey place.


    Be safe, friends.

  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    I just looked at the radar for the area, and the way those storms are blowing up out of nothing is insane. I saw several tornado warnings already issued, and saw several obvious and very large hook echoes.

    If you are in that area, maybe plan to stay near your safety hole for now.

  • VishNubVishNub Registered User regular


    The NWS Norman office is a good place to look for up to date news

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    I hope that's zoomed in quite a ways, because no way would I want to fly a chopper in that kind of storm.

  • a5ehrena5ehren AtlantaRegistered User regular
    Fortunately, this didn't end up being as bad as forecast. A lot of flash flooding in northern OK, though.

    For whatever reason, the supercells didn't seem to be able to form/survive in the juiciest part of the warm sector.

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Yeah. The whole setup looked like we were sitting on a giant stack of dynamite, and all the sparks crowded together and burned themselves out up north where none of the dynamite was.

    And, of course, Weather Twitter is full of Tuesday morning retrocasters pissed off that we were warned about the giant stack of dynamite that didn't end up blowing us all to hell.

    Is there a specific holiday for meteorologists, or should I just show up at the NWS with a couple of bottles of whiskey unannounced?

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  • a5ehrena5ehren AtlantaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2019
    Yeah, working at NWS was bad enough before Twitter. I can't imagine what it's like now, having a bunch of weenies yelling at you because enough people didn't die.

    a5ehren on
  • quovadis13quovadis13 Registered User regular
    "Weather people are bad at their jobs because there weren't enough killer tornados yesterday" is a mindset I can't begin to understand.

  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    Hey, man. Weather is an exact science!

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    Do not engage the Watermelons.
  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    Hey, man. Weather is an exact science!

    I blame Back to the Future Part II.

  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/us/severe-weather-thursday-wxc/index.html

    Jefferson City, Missouri's capital city, was hit with an EF-3 tornado last night. I think this quote kinda sums it up
    In Jefferson City, the tornado's funnel was wider than its height, and hit shortly before midnight Wednesday, sending debris as high as 13,000 feet into the air, the National Weather Service said.

    Zero deaths, no missing person reports, and only a little over 20 injuries. I hope everyone continues to be safe, there is more on it's way.

  • Gnome-InterruptusGnome-Interruptus Registered User regular
    a5ehren wrote: »
    Yeah, working at NWS was bad enough before Twitter. I can't imagine what it's like now, having a bunch of weenies yelling at you because enough people didn't die.

    Too much warning and preparedness, not enough deaths. Better yell at the weather man for blowing it out of proportion.

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  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
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    That hole in the radar is, I believe, a Tornado headed straight for Iowa City 20 minutes ago. Please be safe, everyone

  • MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    Some Texas GOP wingnut is holding up $19 billion in long-delayed disaster aid for his bullshit political posturing, which was really an excuse to whine that there's no stupid Trump Wall funding in it for some reason (the reason why it's been delayed for six months). This includes relief from California wildfires last year.

    I hope his house gets flattened in one of these tornado outbreaks.

  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    Is expelling the goose an option to speed up the vote?

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  • jimb213jimb213 Registered User regular
    Mayabird wrote: »
    Some Texas GOP wingnut is holding up $19 billion in long-delayed disaster aid for his bullshit political posturing, which was really an excuse to whine that there's no stupid Trump Wall funding in it for some reason (the reason why it's been delayed for six months). This includes relief from California wildfires last year.

    I hope his house gets flattened in one of these tornado outbreaks.

    Unfortunately, that won't happen. He's in TX-21, which, believe it or not, represents part of Austin (and a big chunk of the Hill Country, and part of San Antonio... yay gerrymandering!)

  • ReaperSMSReaperSMS Registered User regular
    edited May 2019
    That would be the fellow who replaced Lamar Smith. The district is a large amount of ranch country west of the city, that then sneaks over to I-35 to snake up through south austin and grab part of downtown, and southwest to grab some northeast suburbs of san antonio. He was Ted Cruz's former chief of staff I think.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas's_21st_congressional_district

    The "good" news is the 2018 vote came out 50/47, when the last 4 were 57/36, 71/13, and 60/35. Progress I guess.

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  • MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    quovadis13 wrote: »
    "Weather people are bad at their jobs because there weren't enough killer tornados yesterday" is a mindset I can't begin to understand.

    I don't know if it's many or just a few loud assholes going around, but there were people complaining about the lack of EF-4 and EF-5 tornadoes in the last few outbreaks and how the outbreaks are "weak", despite the deaths and destruction that "mere" EF-3s caused like in the town of El Reno, Oklahoma, where a tornado tore through a hotel and mobile home park. Some people are just assholes who want big numbers and a fancy show to gawk at.

    There have been over a hundred tornadoes reported from the last couple weeks, and that's besides all the flooding on the Mississippi and tributaries for the last few months. It's been a disastrous year .

  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    Yikes, in the basement riding out a tornado warning and hearing reports of catastrophe in Dayton

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    Hope you're safe!

  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    DFW/North Texas is under a tornado warning. The city of Canton (SE of Dallas) either had one or might be getting one.

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  • davidsdurionsdavidsdurions Your Trusty Meatshield Panhandle NebraskaRegistered User regular
    Stay safe out there.

    Not my picture but relatively nearby to me:

  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    :(

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    So found out last night one of my cousins who lives in Oklahoma had their house hit by a tornado last week. One of the smaller ones and everyone is okay. And the house is still standing but needs some repairs.

    Still, that was kind of freaky to hear.

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    The last time I saw something that awe inspiring, Furiosa was driving into it with a band of warboys in hot pursuit.

    First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    edited June 2019
    Tornado warning for DFW. I can hear the sirens.

    EDIT: The heavy part has passed my location. Still moving through the area heading East.

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  • TetraNitroCubaneTetraNitroCubane Not Angry... Just VERY Disappointed...Registered User regular
    The vicinity of Ridgecrest, California, has literally been shaking on-and-off for over 24 hours at this point.

    In addition to a roughly 6.4 magnitude quake that struck there yesterday, there was just a 6.9-7.1 magnitude quake that hit within the last hour. People from LA to Las Vegas have been reporting feeling them. There doesn't seem to be much damage to the more populated areas, so coverage has been sparser than you'd anticipate, but the Ridgecrest area is certainly suffering in a large way.

    The thing that really makes my skin crawl, though, is that the earthquakes just have NOT stopped. If you look at the USGS earthquake map, you can see a dense cluster of quakes that are all in that same region. Most of them are small 2.5-3.0 quakes, but there are a number of 4.0 or even 5.0 quakes in the mix.

    A total of 113 quakes according to the USGS so far.

  • ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Yeah and it's totally not freaking me tf out.

    And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
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