Arnold214

here's a google maps shot of the sheraton (labled A) and the candy-cane pained tower(s) directly behind the hotel.

I briefly lived near the radio towers in Newton, MA for about 3 months (i think the towers are officially in Norwood and owned by channel 5 WCVB) but I always will remember that storm as the "Radio tower storm" in my head because you told me how close you were to there and how there was almost non-stop thunder snow for a 30 minute period which matches the obs that were in the eastern threads back in their early days.

yeah, the most memorable vision engrained in my head from that day was some dude outside my hotel room window trying to clean off his car with lightning all over the place. what an idiot. like that guy was going to get anywhere in the middle of that. I remember him looking up at the sky in the direction of the tv towers after a close lightning strike and probably thinking he was next. Those are WFXT towers directly behind the hotel.

Ekster only loves that storm because he was in Springfield, MA (or near them) and I was boned in ITH. If we were both at our respective hometowns at the time, he wouldn't even mention it.

yeah well, 4"/hr rates with rediculous thundersnow will do that to you.

But he also got lucky too being in Norwood, MA near the Newton/Wellesley border in 12/9/05...about the best spot possible to see 5 inches per hour for like 90-120 minutes. Talk about a horseshoe up yer azz for visiting SNE on storm dates.

yeah, was supposed to be at the 'ol friday evening wedding. missed the wedding, made it to the reception (which is what counts, no?). I always smile when I drive past the sheraton in Needham on 128...and always will. What a crazy day that was. That level of thundersnow will never be matched again. I like to call that event "the december MCS with snow".

Hey I like that storm...I was just pissed at being in Ithaca for it, lol. But ORH got 18.5" out of it...what a total tease that was in ITH though. We were forecasted to get 4-8" by BGM that day and we got 0.5" in the form of about 2 mi vis SN- at 31F for about 4 hours...it wasn't cold. BGM upgraded Broome county (their own county in BGM) to a WSW partway through it and they finished with like 3"...it was the worst upgrade I ever saw in the middle of an event. lol.

Probably the quickest onset of S+ I've ever seen.

This mainly to bust Will's balls. Still, this snowstorm probably makes my top 5 list.

Yeah and just west of them got like 26", lol.

I am currently getting to Kevin's monster meltdown during the MLK 2010 event as I proceed through that winter. Some hilarious posts looking back on it.

I got completely f**ked in the December 2009 storm. I was lucky to pull of just under 8" as that one heavy band got to me but actually didn't reach the airport and their more western longitude. But just SE of me by about 10 miles had 14"....terrible storm.

post the link to when it gets good.

Agreed, he got totally boned because the cutoff was basically the pike for heavy precip...it got slightly north of the pike back where I am...I had 9.8" but about 10 miles north of me had 5". Super tight gradient.

I found a post where you were happy to be in Attlehole, lol:

http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?/topic/216240-sne-obsdiscussion-thread/page__view__findpost__p__4355283

"It's currently snowing as hard as it has all night...I'm loving how the stuff is getting enhanced over the coastal front as it pushes NNW. I've been waiting over 3 years for this setup... "

The 15.8" I got from that was a little disappointing when I look back on it. That could have been my 20 incher. My folks got like 8-10 more than me, lol.

Banding was too transient over my place.

The Jan 2-3, 2006 would have been another good one for Ekster to tie the noose in Attleboro looking at the NW RI totals...but at least Attlehole got 4" in that rather than almost nothing.

I think I would have been OK with the 4" in that case. I think Ray would have tied the noose tho.

Here was your initial post while still at home:

http://www.easternus...ost__p__4699542

That stuff was moving NW/NNW...just a firehose off the Atlantic.

If I had only another 100 ft in elevation I probably would have had accum snowfall at my place.

Reading the obs thread was funny, you kept reporting huge golfball sized slush bombs mixed in but you couldn't get it to flip to all snow despite those huge echoes over you. You went up to that hill and saw huge parachutes falling with accumulation.

That was the most classic elevation event we've seen I think in the past 4 or 5 years here. 900mb temps of like -2C, 950mb temps of near 0C, and 1000mb temps of like +2C. We were the only two people that forecasted that event well. I remember you were on the desk for that the day before. BOX had like 7-12" for that in the hills here and I had 8-13"...while the TV outlets all had like 2-4 or 3-5" lol.

Here's the route I took that night. My house in attleboro at point A. It's 5.5 miles (or so) as a crow flies (8 miles driving). It was all snow about the time I got to the RI border if not a mile west of that on 120. Painful.

MEkster was a huge weenie during that 2/23-24/10 storm, he drove up to Diamond Hill in the obs thread to see parachutes falling.

I was angry. I was like 5-10 miles as a crow flies from heavy snow in attleboro. Had 55-60dbz echoes overhead for 3 hours there and all it was white rain falling. Another attlehole screwjob. On my birthday no less.

So, I figured I'd treat myself to a birthday present and drive the 15 minutes to see S+

Not sure if this video was posted or not. Sorry if it was.

http://mypictures.abc3340.com/MediaItemView.aspx?id=1254500

Another debris ball...this time near Warm Springs, GA.

Ive seen more debris balls during this outbreak than in all others combined...totally sick

I've never seen so many. The supercell near Dadeville, AL still has one.

My God. It looks almost identical to the Andover, KS tornado. Maybe even better (or worse, depending on your viewpoint).

I had the same exact thought. Exactly 20 years ago yesterday, too.

Very strong couplet heading toward Cave Spring, GA.

I'm pretty sure I've never seen a more classic example of a tornadic supercell on radar than this. Maybe 5/3/99. I think I have my new avatar.

Btw I don't anyone actually mentioned this, but the PDS watch for Alabama, the probabilities are all >95%. I believe this is the first watch to ever have all >95%.

You know it's a nasty outbreak when the current tornado warnings outnumber the svr warnings by at least double.

Debris evident on the KHTX 88D at 10kft!

Yeah, that's just out of control.

Big cities of Tuscaloosa and Birmingham look to be in serious trouble in the next 1-3 hours.

The 08z HRRR mauls much of the northern 2/3rds of the state of AL and south-central/eastern TN after 20z this afternoon. It gives ample time for the airmass to re-destabilize behind this morning's action. Here's what it's showing for CR for 21z. We'll see how it does.