New liveblog posted 410PM CST 2-28-2011 -- click here
Severe Weather Liveblog is a collective effort to keep Kossacks safe when a large severe weather outbreak takes place. These blogs will be posted as needed, based on user-interaction (comments) and duration of the severe weather event.
If you have emergency information that needs to be added to the diary (reports of tornadoes on the ground, emergency information telephone numbers, etc.), please indicate so in the subject line of the comment.
Right now, aside from myself, the editors of Severe Weather Liveblog are boatsie and Predictor. If you'd like to help, drop me a message.
Please keep in mind that any Severe Weather Liveblogs posted are not places for tasteless cracks at other people's expense. Post cheap political/social shots towards those affected at your own risk.
I say it's personal because the severe weather threat is on my residential doorstep. I'm in Mobile, AL, where we've had a few thunderstorms, but nothing terrible, thankfully. However, I live back in North Carolina in an area that's in a bullseye for the worst of it right now. I just called my mom to tell her to be careful, and now I'm going to be a bowl of Jello until the front moves through.
Overnight and today there were several more reports of tornadoes through Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee, not counting the ones that went through Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri late last night.
I've got a class in a few hours, so I probably won't update this diary as much as I'd like (especially seeing how the severe weather is moving into heavily populated areas), but I'll do what I can for now.
I will post a summary diary (just like with the event last Thursday) later tonight after everything starts to calm down.
The storm that came through Mobile this morning. I'm the little yellow + about halfway between KMOB and downtown Mobile.
Watches
Red = Tornado Watch ... Blue = Severe T'storm Watch ... Click image to go to SPC watch page.
Tornado Watch -- #32 -- Expires 0400PM EST -- Southwestern & Central Virginia
Tornado Watch -- #33 -- Expires 0800PM EST -- W. NC, E. TN, Foothills of SC, N. Georgia, large chunk of N. and C. Alabama
Links
Click HERE to read my rant about why you need a weather radio.
National Weather Service
Storm Prediction Center
Wunderground
FEMA
American Red Cross
Salvation Army
Previous Liveblogs:
(2-24-2011) Liveblog 1 -- Tornado outbreak in mid-south
(2-24-2011) Liveblog 2 -- Tornado outbreak in mid-south
(2-25-2011) Summary of damages due to 2-24 tornado outbreak
(2-27-2011) Information on impending severe weather/tornado outbreak
(2-27-2011) Liveblog 3 -- Severe weather outbreak in mid-west & mid-south
(2-27-2011) Liveblog 4 -- Severe weather outbreak in mid-west & mid-south
(2-27-2011) Liveblog 5 -- Severe weather outbreak in mid-west & mid-south
(2-27-2011) Liveblog 6 -- Severe weather outbreak in mid-west & mid-south
(2-28-2011) Liveblog 7 -- Severe weather outbreak continues in southeast
Update
UPDATE 1 (214PM CST)
Two tornado warnings right now, both in NC and one in my home county. Shit.
First: Tornado warning for Cherokee/Clay NC and Monroe/Polk TN.
Second: Tornado warning for Surry, Stokes and Rockingham Cos. in NC. I live in Rockingham County, so my stomach sank when I saw that. I'm not physically there, and my family is taking the appropriate safety precautions.
UPDATE 2: (305PM CST)
Tornado warning for Bullock, Pike and Barbour counties in Alabama.
UPDATE 3: (313PM CST)
Bad storms rolling into the northern Atlanta suburbs right now. Main threat is hail to the size of quarters and damaging wind gusts over 60 MPH. They'll continue moving east at 50-60 MPH and may roll into the Greenville/Spartanburg area around rush hour.
UPDATE 4: (329PM CST)
Line of storms with damaging winds about to go through Charlotte:
UPDATE 5: (334PM CST)
Tornado warning for Bartow, Paulding, Cherokee and Cobb counties in northern Georgia due to radar detecting rotation in a thunderstorm: