xJownage
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linking this because there's actually a quite noticeable roar on this tornado, generally an indicator of a pretty violent one.
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Glad you guys are okay. Let us know if we can do anything to help your community!?I live in Albany, and I'd like to say that even if it felt unwarranted or like an overall bust, I'm glad the NWS went whole hog on the high risk and the PDS tornado watches because it made the hardheaded folks that populate SW GA pay attention. I bet it saved some lives. Not all of them unfortunately, but certainly some.
And I am so, SO glad this forum is back and all of y'all were here talking and sharing information. I have typically been a lurker, but I wanted you all to know what a wonderful resource this page and your collective knowledge is. So from the bottom of my heart-
Thank you.
I live in Albany, and I'd like to say that even if it felt unwarranted or like an overall bust, I'm glad the NWS went whole hog on the high risk and the PDS tornado watches because it made the hardheaded folks that populate SW GA pay attention. I bet it saved some lives. Not all of them unfortunately, but certainly some.
And I am so, SO glad this forum is back and all of y'all were here talking and sharing information. I have typically been a lurker, but I wanted you all to know what a wonderful resource this page and your collective knowledge is. So from the bottom of my heart-
Thank you.
It's always good to go back and diagnose why the large scale forecast didn't pan out. A few reasons...one was something that has plagued this system from the start. One was something the models didn't pick up on. First was the lack of northward progression of the best thermodynamics (especially surface destabilization). That was common from the get go including yesterday's PDS watch that busted. Second was the lack of surface winds backing to really get the tornado threat going. The lack of that really confused me as one would expect backing surface winds with a rapidly deepening low pressure. I even mentioned that earlier in the day in this thread but I didn't expect them to remain veered. And third was the storm mode. It was mainly cold front triggered and storms were too dense. It choked off inflow to most of the storms. You generally want discrete cells out ahead of the boundary in the free warm sector to get several big, long trackers.My eyebrows were definitely raised when I saw them go high risk this morning after last night's bust. Moderate would have been the safest best. Of course it's easy to be critical now. After all the forecast data was ominous.
The system responsible for it all has an eye-like center
I was driving through that feature last night leaving Ringgold/Ft. Oglethorpe heading back to Atlanta. The winds were insane for several minutes. It felt like sustained tropical force winds. I've never experienced winds like that in a non severe storm and I was sure at first I was driving through a tornado.I noticed that too - a definite "eye" for a while and a hurricane-like look to it. Is that unusual for a system like this? Did any mets say anything about it?