Tornado touched down in my county this morning
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Comments (7)Diane, That's true, and I'll keep posting the warnings whenever I come inside and check the weather and see them. Hopefully Larry and Busy1 have better weather radio signals than you had when you lived in LeFlore County. I thought of your old place and the issues with the NOAA alert radios not working a few weeks ago. We were at a big wildfire in NW Love County, near the Orr community, and we were so far out in the boonies that radio communications with the county dispatcher were sketchy to non-existent, as was cell phone service. Of course, all of us who were there could communicate with one another via the emergency radios, but we couldn't communicate with anyone else in the county via radio or with anyone at all via cell phone. (If you climbed a high hill, you had a chance of being able to pick up at least part of a radio dispatch from the dispatcher.) It reminded me of your NOAA weather radio issues. I had noticed the same problem last fall when we were at a fundraiser for the Orr VFD....once we reached a certain distance west of Marietta, neither radios nor cell phones worked any more. It was just peculiar. You get used to having the ability to communicate with someone 24/7 and then suddenly you're in an area where that doesn't exist. With the fire I previously mentioned, I had told Tim and Chris, who both were at work in Dallas, via text message that we were en route to a big fire west of town, so it drove them crazy for a couple of hours that they couldn't communicate with me to find out what was going on. I had a few text messages from them when I returned to civilization. It is easy to forget it now, but when we moved here in mid-winter of 1999, there was no cell phone service in our part of the county and it would be about 5 more years before we had reliable cell phone service at our house. For a while, we had cell phone service as close as the street in front of our house, so if you wanted to make a phone call you had to walk a few hunded feet down the driveway to the roadway. Then, later on, the cell signal reached our front porch and living room, but nowhere else. Now, we've hit the big time, and have cell phone service on all parts of our property...and it only took 11 or 12 years for it to improve to that point! Today that line of storms is wreaking havoc across the south and southeast. I think we're lucky here that they started so far east and moved on before they could cause much damage. Some areas in Texas a bit east/southeast of our house had golfball-sized hall when these storms kicked up, and one small tornado damaged a barn. I would have been happy to have any kind of weather if only it would have brought us some rain! Dawn...See MoreTornado On Ground In Montague County Near Red River
Comments (1)We had that yucky greenish-gray sky for just a few minutes, and pea-sized hail fell briefly on the western edge of Thackerville. Very light rain is falling here now, but the thunder and lightning have already moved east of I-35. There is a big storm moving through southwestern OK and another moving towards OKC. The radar is linked below. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: weather radar...See MoreTuesday's Post-Tornado Check-In Thread
Comments (30)Impatience, They still do that here! Last night, our county deputies and other storm spotters were out spotting storms. The one closest to us was on a bridge about a mile from our house as the crow flies. I was glad knowing he was there since it is on much higher ground than we are and I knew he'd see the tornadoes before we did. And he did, too, so we had advance warning to stop staring at the sky and get into the shelter. They do not necessarily drive around with their sirens on alerting people in our county depending on where the storms are because Thackerville, Marietta, Shady Dale and Greenville, I think, all have storm sirens that the firefighters sound when a tornado is spotted near them or is known to be moving towards them. Out in less populated areas, some of the firefighters do drive around in the firetrucks sometimes sounding their sirens to alert folks. Leava, I'm glad to hear you and Jeff are alright and the storm missed y'all. We were really worried about you last night as the storms sounded too close to yall for comfort. I would have been worried about you, Miraje, but I knew you were chasing the storms while the rest of us were running from them. I am glad they missed your home. Suzie, I was nervous on your behalf, just hoping you made it home from work before it got to your place. I knew you had a shelter and would be in it if you got home before the storm arrived, so I'm glad you left work early. Down here, the Ardmore schools let the kids out at 1 p.m., so I knew that folks in Carter County were indeed watching the skies and taking the storms seriously. Apparently a lot of schools around the state did that too, and I think it is a smart move. I'm hoping they find the 3-year-old alive too even though I know the odds are against it. Last night many of Tim's and Chris's coworkers from the D-FW metro area were calling and texting us and checking on us throughout the storms. Ironically, after we were in the clear here, the D-FW metro area was hit by much worse storms that we had here in Love County, and some of those co-workers had much more storm damage than we did. Dawn...See MoreToday's Weather: Tornadoes, Hail, Rain, Fire?
Comments (6)Hi Y'all, I watched the radar, the NWS weather page and the skies all the whole day long....endlessly.....and went to bed with it still being 79 degrees at 10:30 p.m. and wind out of the south. However, there were very dark clouds to our west/northwest from about 6 p.m. and lightning from about 8 p.m. I think the rain squall line moved across between 11 and 11:30 p.m. and we had a pretty lively thunderstorm for a little while. Our Mesonet station only recorded .21 but my rain gauge has .75, so I am delighted. The forecast gives most of us a chance at rain again this weekend too! I did notice in the late afternoon and early evening hours that some places had wind gusts over 50 m.p.h. and about 15 counties had some form of hail, with the worst of it being from golf ball sized to tennis ball sized. No hail here, thankfully. Today, even though the ground is wet, it is still very dry. The lovely humidity that came with our south winds is pretty much gone, and our humidity is already in the 30s and dropping, which is not a good thing. When the humidity hits about 18 percent, my skin feels like it is cracking. Yesterday, DH ran to town to sign a request from the county's fire chiefs to the county commissioners requesting implementation of a burn ban. I think 3/4s of the 14 fire chiefs have to sign the request before the commissioners will vote on whether or not to have a burn ban. I'll sleep better once they put a burn ban in effect because the fire pagers hopefully will go off less at night. Our autumn foliage was gorgeous yesterday morning. This morning, most of it is on the ground, with the wind having stripped the leaves off the cedar elms, ash, redbuds, peaches, hickories, honey locust, wild cherries, plums, pecans and some of the oaks. Our post oaks, red oaks and blackjack oaks still have their leaves, though, and some of those trees' foliage isn't even changing color yet. I guess cold weather is settling in and tomorrow will be much colder than today. The rain was terrific. I hope the areas hit by high wind and hail didn't receive too much damage. Dawn...See MoreKathsgrdn
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