Most memorable weather days of 2007
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- TexasStooge
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The most memorable weather moment for me this year was on April 13 when Dallas County was under a TORNADO WARNING. I was babysitting a kid named David at the time. Hail started to fall so I grabbed David and ran for it to his home, and hid him in the bathroom. The sirens sounded a minute after the hail fell. Luckily, there was no Tornado touchdown in my hometown, but WHAT AN EVENING!!
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- HarlequinBoy
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TexasStooge wrote:The most memorable weather moment for me this year was on April 13 when Dallas County was under a TORNADO WARNING. I was babysitting a kid named David at the time. Hail started to fall so I grabbed David and ran for it to his home, and hid him in the bathroom. The sirens sounded a minute after the hail fell. Luckily, there was no Tornado touchdown in my hometown, but WHAT AN EVENING!!
I remember that storm.. major news outlets were broadcasting live pictures from Dallas as the storm passed through.
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I also remember Apr 13th. I was on the phone with my sister-inlaw tracking the storm for her. The tornado sirens were going off in Roanoke. I was streaming live coverage as the storm was moving across Fort Worth into Dallas.
Humberto was another memoriable event. I watch it wrap up with amazing speed. I was getting very concerned it would move N into W Galveston Island. I was glad to see it move more ENE. It was bringing back memories of Alicia. If the storm would have had another 12 hours it would have been at least 120MPH at landfall and another 4 hours would have made Charley II on the way to another Andrew. It was amazing to see the banding on the radar that day.
Humberto was another memoriable event. I watch it wrap up with amazing speed. I was getting very concerned it would move N into W Galveston Island. I was glad to see it move more ENE. It was bringing back memories of Alicia. If the storm would have had another 12 hours it would have been at least 120MPH at landfall and another 4 hours would have made Charley II on the way to another Andrew. It was amazing to see the banding on the radar that day.
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I don't know if any of you guys saw the National Geographic show about the group of storm chasers with a Doppler on Wheels (DOW), but on the morning of the Greensburg tornado, they were discussing where to go. One of the meteorologists said they should go to Greensburg for the day, but the leader picked an area well to the NE. Would have been some great scientific data if they choose to go to Greensburg.
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I was more glued to my seat for hours on the Greensburg tornado than any other time this year. I still have the Level II NEXRAD images to run through GR2AE when I'm bored and need something to look at.
Just listening to the online news broadcasts of KSN out of Wichita was enough to make shivers go down your spine. This image after it hit was enough to cause radar watchers stomachs to turn:

Ranking second was watching the radar as Enterprise, AL got hit. Then hearing the stories of those school kids that died afterwards. Tragic.
--snoopj
Just listening to the online news broadcasts of KSN out of Wichita was enough to make shivers go down your spine. This image after it hit was enough to cause radar watchers stomachs to turn:

Ranking second was watching the radar as Enterprise, AL got hit. Then hearing the stories of those school kids that died afterwards. Tragic.
--snoopj
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Yes, it side swiped the road I was driving on (12th ave). At that time it wasn't as impressive as what it looked like in the downtown area. What I saw was a huge funnel hanging out of the sky but it wasn't quite touching the ground, just generating a large swath of 60-70mph winds on the ground. That was just before it went NE and hit Target and Cordova Mall.Cyclone1 wrote:You atcually saw the tornado personally, Opalstorm?
And no, it wasn't really a mile wide, that was a exaggeration. But it was the biggest tornado I've seen in person, looked like a twister you see in Oklahoma in the spring.
Here's what it looked like at it's peak. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAq1ap_nRuc
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My most memorable moments.
1)Andrea and the fires on the FL/GA border.
2)Watching Barry develop and saying "There's now way that'll develop" until it developed, all while on vacation in Englewood, FL, with no computer, Weather Channel only.
3)Erin the landlubber.
4)Humberto the overacheiver.
5)Greensburg.
6)The Ice storm in the Mid-west
7)The tornado in Pensacola
1)Andrea and the fires on the FL/GA border.
2)Watching Barry develop and saying "There's now way that'll develop" until it developed, all while on vacation in Englewood, FL, with no computer, Weather Channel only.
3)Erin the landlubber.
4)Humberto the overacheiver.
5)Greensburg.
6)The Ice storm in the Mid-west
7)The tornado in Pensacola
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- MGC
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I was driving through Pensacola on I-10 when the tornado hit. I heard the warning on the radio and slowed down to let the cell the tornado was in cross I-10 ahead of my car. I didn't see a funnel nor did I notice any debris but the sky was nearly black. It looked to be one heck of a storm. I was lucky that I just missed it......MGC
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