The First round of Severe Weather for the South. Is your city affected?

We've already had a severe weather event earlier in the month... what were powerful heavy rain thunderstorms across AL and GA turned into a severe "thunder ice/rain storm" across the Raleigh area, and an impromptu but short lived blizzard across the Virginia Beach area.

According to the news, the temp dropped like 20 degrees in less than half an hour, or something like that. Wind gusts in parts of coastal NC got over 80 mph I believe. When I left for work it was 55 degrees and by the time I got there it was hovering the mid 30s... The temperature differential in southeastern Virginia was much more pronounced.

I believe Virginia Beach received a couple inches of snow in a short period while some parts of the Triangle acquired a small accumulation of mutated sleet (Chapel Hill reported 1.75"). Of course it all melted very quickly as the temp went up a bit (to a lofty 40 degrees), but it was quite exciting.

Last week was our latest accumulating snowfall here and it was nothing to write home about--very small (like a quarter inch dusting), though the Triad got close to an inch, and the northwestern NC mountains got a lot more... typical for early-mid March. No thunder, no high winds, no panic! *gasp*

I think thunderstorms are in the forecast this week here.

Charlotte had an F1 tornado 2 weeks ago...90mph winds...roofs blown off etc.

We are ready for the next round, bring it on!

Yeah, about that weather earlier this month, it was pretty weird....it dropped so fast, and my county got 7 inches of snow/ice, while the county below us got a dusting at best.

Its funny, they make SUCH a big deal about T-storms in the south....but literally BIG F**** deal. Tornadoes too, they suck but rarely make a SERIOUS appearance outside of trailor parks (no offense) .

On the same token while they are SCREAMING about some lightening they complain they could never live in Cleveland or somewhere....just an observation...its funny.....Goes to show its all relative

It's all about ratings...don't buy the hype.

Every now and then Severe Storms in the south really come at us. Back in
November 1988 in the middle of the night a F4 Tornado came through North Raleigh in North Carolina. Tore up a k-mart and did major damage, the worst widespread damage to date x-cept for Hurricane Fran in '96. I believe there were several fatalies. And I recall recently of a Tornado hitting downtown Nashville in '99 and downtown Miami around that same time period. And the town of La Plata Maryland was ravaged by a tornado back in '02.

It hailed for about 30 min straight here in Bryan/College Station.

The last bad storm to hit the Athens-Atlanta area had softball sized hail just two counties to the west of where I am! We had hail here, but it was only quarter sized, with a few golf ball sized mixed in. In parts of metro Atlanta, they had really nasty hail storms. Some said it looked like it snowed, there was so much hail! Yes, I'm in Athens for college and Arden when I go home. I can hear the thunder outside right now. Channel 2 (WSB-TV) took over everything to do severe weather coverage when that last storm hit.

We're suppose to get hit tonite here iun the triangle!

The storm came through here this evening...the thunder was really odd this time. Instead of random rumbling noises like usual, it was a constant rumble of thunder, and alot of lightning. Alot of rain today too, over an inch I think. Its better than alot of snow, though.

SChristopher said:

Its funny, they make SUCH a big deal about T-storms in the south....but literally BIG F**** deal. Tornadoes too, they suck but rarely make a SERIOUS appearance outside of trailor parks (no offense) .

On the same token while they are SCREAMING about some lightening they complain they could never live in Cleveland or somewhere....just an observation...its funny.....Goes to show its all relative

Click to expand...

It's a BIG F**** deal to people who have lost property and loved ones to such storms. And to say tornadoes rarely make a SERIOUS appearance outside of trailor parks is just plain ignorant. A well formed tornado can have wind speeds in excess of 300 mph destroying even the strongest of structures. Every year tornadoes impact the lives of many, many people. Peoples homes are destroyed, and not just those who are so unfortunate to live in a trailor, people suffer injuries and sometimes people lose their life. Tell someone who has experienced the trauma of such a storm that it's a BIG F**** deal.

Have you, because I can say it to you if I am correctly informed. Anyways I was talking more about thudnerstorms not tornados (I am not doubting tornadoes cause damage, but they dont constantly happen and you get alot of warning) ...if your house blows over in a thunderstorm you should read the three little pigs. All I was saying is people being afraid of weather is all relative, maybe in a round about way I really didnt mean to get you all stirred up. I am SOOOO sorry. am bowing out of this thread so as not to get it all bent out of shape ...

Tornadoes are really bad here....the Peidmont Triad is called 'Thunder Alley', because of all the tremendous amounts of thunder, lightning, and tornadoes. Maybe that's why he got a bit upset? All I know is, a tornadoe really is a horrible experience....we had one last year, and it sounded like a huge train roaring behind you, and it started picking up stuff, and breaking windows...It sucked.

The area from Fayetteville (NC) to Florence (SC) is one of the nation's most dangerous, due to a high number of torandoes. I think it's the worst tornado alley in the Eastern US? I remember reading that somewhere?

"The area from Fayetteville (NC) to Florence (SC) is one of the nation's most dangerous, due to a high number of torandoes. I think it's the worst tornado alley in the Eastern US? I remember reading that somewhere?"

Actually, the Carolinas have far fewer tornadoes than areas to the west. In fact, the highest amount of tornado activity and the most deadly tornadoes in the Southeast U.S. occur in Mississippi, parts of Arkansas, North Alabama, and a good portion of western and central Tennessee. Mississippi has by far the most tornado deaths per capita followed by Alabama and Arkansas in the Southeast. Louisiana has the largest number of tornadoes followed closely by Mississippi and Alabama. I can't begin to count all the times Mississippi is under tornado watches and warnings and then Northern half of Alabama got nailed with severe t-storms/isolated tornadoes only to have the storm system fizzle out by the time it hit the Georgia line. Supposedly it has a lot to do with the "wedge" effect where air drains down the backside of the Appalachians and stabilizes the atmosphere enough to where are rough weather turns in to plain old heavy rain and t-storms in Georgia and the Carolinas. The same thing that gives you guys all the ice and snowstorms is what lessens the tornado threat in the spring and fall. BTW, Texas and Oklahoma up through the Plains over the Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois is the other big tornado area. The whole Ohio River valley has a history of doozy tornadoes as well. The Carolinas and eastern seaboard in general not only isn't tornado alley but is the least tornado threatened area outside the Western U.S.

Check out the tornado project at thetornadoproject.com. Everything you could want to know about nators on that site.