Earlier tonight was the 3rd time in the last 45 days ive been in a tornado warning. Each time a confirmed tornado was within 5 miles of me. Luckily ive never actually seen one. But its still scary.
Never went into a tornado warning by the NWS but they ran the sirens for fucking ever. I guess spotters saw this NWS missed 1 or our local yokel spotters were duped
I read some conflicting reports about the NWS putting out warning in Kentucky the other night. I assume we can chalk it up to understaffed NWS offices, but regardless it's not good.
That was my first thought but supposedly they were in contact with the NWS and there was no radar presentation so no warning was issued. I agree with the NWS because I was awake and just assumed the sirens were for the winds that were coming through
Pretty good look at everything that happened re: warnings, cuts, staffing, and social media folks doing their own warnings Tornado disasters and the fog of war www.weatherretort.com/p/tornado-di...— Ian Livingston (@ianlivingston.bsky.social) 2025-05-19T11:48:33.093Z
Think it thankfully barely went south of Fayetteville near Greenland by Drake Field. News was saying it was crossing I-49 near MLK which is the road the U of A is on. Some reports of some leveled houses down by Greenland. Don’t think we have any posters in the immediate Fayetteville area anymore.
No I’m 90 miles south of there. We just had heavy rain some wind. We had strong winds come through and knocked everything down Sunday morning @ 5am so not much else to break thankfully.
Lightning just struck like 100 ft from me Notice I'm not posting in the shit my pants thread I may have a heart attack later though
First was north of us, then south of us. Not ideal when it’s close enough to do that. Never saw it due to being rain wrapped.
Is that nerf gun looking thing the guy shot at the tornado similar to “Dorothy”? Do they release whatever data they find?
The transition from sounding scared as crap to celebrating, then the dude pulling out a cornstalk…solid minute of action.