Midwest Serious Weather Warning This Weekend

Geico266

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Normally, I don't get too excited about weather guessing 24 hours out, but this is different. Please heed this warning and prepare.

"It was only the second time in U.S. history that the Storm Prediction Center issued a high-risk warning more than 24 hours in advance, Schneider said. The first time was in April 2006, when nearly 100 tornadoes tore across the southeastern U.S., killing a dozen people and damaging more than 1,000 homes in Tennessee."

If you or someone you know lives in the warned area pass this on. This has the potential to be a deadly weekend.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/for...tornadoes-weekend-weather-forecast/54255318/1


Let's be careful out there. ;)
 
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The Weather Channel is reporting an 80% chance of tornados in Kansas and Nebraska today. :yikes:
 
I'm sorry... bad wx in Nebraska is my fault. I scheduled a flight lesson.
 
It's not looking good for Nebraska! This was updated at 7:48 am CDT.

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we have 3 gliders (2 of them in trailers), leah's rowing shell, all my regular garage workbenches and toolboxes and stuff, and room for 4 cars in the garage. Based on that I think the weather will be fine. Well, it probably wont, but it should be fun to watch!!
 
huh - the last time I replaced my roof we went with 40yr shingles. They lasted 4 yrs until heavy hail bought us a new roof. We've had this one now for a year. Next time I'll get the cheapest shingles I can find - they only need to last a couple years around here anyway.
 
Matthew said:
huh - the last time I replaced my roof we went with 40yr shingles. They lasted 4 yrs until heavy hail bought us a new roof. We've had this one now for a year. Next time I'll get the cheapest shingles I can find - they only need to last a couple years around here anyway.
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The hail-roof damage-replace cycle is roughly ten years around here. Our new roof went on two summers ago. We've been in the house 11 years this year.
 
It's going to be near 70 and sunny in Puget Sound Today.
Daffodil's are in full color, tulips are starting to show color, And I'm going to mow my lawn, wash the jeep, and paint.

I'll take the mountain blowing up once in a 100,000 years over the stuff the rest of the nation puts up with.

coldest over night temps here this winter, 28 most snow on the ground, 3" lasted 4 days.
 
denverpilot said:
The hail-roof damage-replace cycle is roughly ten years around here. Our new roof went on two summers ago. We've been in the house 11 years this year.
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We put a steel roof on two years ago... if we get hail big enough to dent this puppy, everything else will be flattened.
 
First round went through a couple of hours ago. Lincoln just got some noise and rain. I'm hearing the second round now and these look bigger on RADAR.
 
Central NE just north of Grand Island. Nothing but a sprinkle here and clear skies to the west now.
 
SW of KC - it started out clear, got a lot of cumulonimbus, dark overcast, sun, dark overcast, sun,..., now dark overcast again.

edit - less than a minute after I posted, the first raindrops started.
 
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Starting to settle down in Lincoln, NE again- wind is starting blow, nothing bad. Lots of rain and thunder.
 
the party is just about to start here. unfortunately the library's copy of Twister was checked out. darn.
 
I need to move out of the tornado belt someday. I cant get anything done from trying to decide what to do with things when there is forecast of tornados , lol.
 
tonycondon said:
the party is just about to start here. unfortunately the library's copy of Twister was checked out. darn.
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Did you look for Wizard of Oz? That might be more applicable to your location.
 
Seeing news that ICT got hit, baggage carts blown around and hangar doors busted. Hope Tony and Leah are good... ? :(
 
we're fine. work may have gotten hit by at least a minor tornado. some damage reports from that side of town. been watching Teller's dad all night.
 
That's good to hear. I hear also that the "Red/White" game at KLNK was cancelled due to heavy rain with 60,000 people there to see it. Sounds like Jesse is getting wet. No tornadoes there though. Bunch of lightning.

(Jesse even got Jim Cantore of the Weather Channel to come to town. I always laugh, he's always standing out in insane WX. Just saw him do a live shot for Denver local news Weather Channel affiliate, KUSA. LOL!)
 
They spotted a funnel cloud west of me heading east and set off the whistles around 11:45. Not sure if anything touched down. Just some heavy rain and some hail.
 
tonycondon said:
we have 3 gliders (2 of them in trailers), leah's rowing shell, all my regular garage workbenches and toolboxes and stuff, and room for 4 cars in the garage. Based on that I think the weather will be fine. Well, it probably wont, but it should be fun to watch!!
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Is that like a 40x60 pole barn?:idea:
 
It's not the size of a man's garage, but how he uses it. :rofl:

Anyway... Seeing more reports of fatalities and general destruction all over the Midwest now.

That monster line has stayed alive long into the night, too. Ugly.

Hopefully not lots more bad news by morning.

Check out the temperature spreads on either side of that thing. Wow.

Our altimeter setting was down really low here earlier today behind it, now we're getting rain/snow mix.

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tonycondon said:
the party is just about to start here. unfortunately the library's copy of Twister was checked out. darn.
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Tony, I just read that Spirit Aero and the Boeing plants suffered some damage in Kansas.

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Jim Cantore really gets around.

We got a call at midnight last night from our daughter in Emporia, KS. The sirens were going off and the university had evacuated all the kids in the dorms and moved them into the basements. It' about 90 miles from where we are, and right in the same general direction the storms were heading - but we didn't get any of it. It's really gray and dreary here right now but KC might be one of the few towns in the whole midwest that didn't get hit.
 
lots of damage at work. news says we aren't supposed to go to work until further notice. time to find a towpilot for the week!
 
denverpilot said:
It's not the size of a man's garage, but how he uses it. :rofl:

Anyway... Seeing more reports of fatalities and general destruction all over the Midwest now.

That monster line has stayed alive long into the night, too. Ugly.

Hopefully not lots more bad news by morning.

Check out the temperature spreads on either side of that thing. Wow.

Our altimeter setting was down really low here earlier today behind it, now we're getting rain/snow mix.
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Wow 25-26 degrees across similar altitude and latitude.
 
yea i have at least monday and tuesday off from the sounds of things.
 
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