BAD STORMS APPROACHING

[A516]

I have never seen the local weather forecasters so serious about storms coming towards east Tennessee.  Local government and businesses are closing down early.  Everyone please be safe.

[Quavodus]

Some schools closed early today too.

[Garufa]

Hunker down.

[krunchnik]

They passed by us here in the Memphis area several hours ago-lots of lightening and thunder.

[A516]

Looks like we were lucky and the bad storms missed Chattanooga.  Lots of rain with more on the way.  Flash flood warnings all over the place.

[peejman]

Nothing but rain here. Didn't even wake me up. 

[Omega]

A couple of good downpours and nothing else here, not even a rumble I could discern. 

[Slappy]

This was the second time this week we were all supposed to die yet nothing but some rain. Anyone who’s 30 or older ever remember school being canceled because of a thunderstorm?! 

[Omega]

I am all for early warning, specially for high winds and tornados, but it seems that the weather people cream their shorts when this stuff develops.  They take over programing and keep repeating over and over their dire warnings about the possibility of damaging weather conditions for what seems like hours.  It gets to the point where you start to ignore the information, even when you are in the supposed path.  I would much rather they come in during a commercial, do their spiel, then go away, or drop it to a corner of the screen like some do.  I get it, job security and all, but there has to be a happy medium.  During tornado warnings, I can see going at it full bore, but when it's just a watch they need to back off a little.

[OldIronFan]

Well we actually did have tornado warnings in effect last evening and some damage close to the house. Less than a mile away there was golf ball sized hail that would cover a good bit of the palm of your hand. two streets over there were trees down and windows blown out of houses. 
We had some significant straight line winds and nearly 2 inches of rain yesterday. Nothing that seemed to develop into a tornado but the straight lines were in excess of 40mph. 

[A516]

Reminds me of the days of Bob Lobertini all the time predicting snow on Channel 5.  Many people swore that he was paid by the grocery stores to improve milk and bread sales.

[btq96r]

It wasn't the storm of the century or anything here in central Nashville, and it moved pretty fast.  But that was some legit hail and I would NOT have wanted to get caught in it outside or even on the road.  Glad I made it back to my apartment when I did just before it started.  Also have to consider how easily there can be flash flooding around the area as well.

Edited March 26, 2021 by btq96r

[Grand Torino]

We got a tornado warning and it looked bad enough we had to go into our shelter here in Summertown. Turns out it passed just a tad to the north of us but I head Waynesboro got so damage.