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HTX radar looks very healthy. Plenty of streamers even down here. Nothing falling at the moment, but I can’t complain about the look. Definitely not a typical NW flow look.

Knoxville TDOT cameras look arctic. Especially east of town.

Sun is out here. The door is closing from the west.

Love seeing these pictures. Keep them coming!

These products are typically very overdone. That being said, the ECMFW and GFS both depict a significant inland wind event across central Alabama and Northern Georgia from Atlanta northwards. Essentially along and just north of the I-85 corridor. If you want to see fall leaves in the mountains, go today.

Not good news for firefighters out west.

Yep. Southeastern Hamilton county. Just been a run of bad luck here. Most of the surrounding area has had more rain, but I can’t seem to get lucky with scattered afternoon storms this year.

Not here unfortunately. I’m well below normal for 2 months running now.

The GFS has suddenly introduced heavy rain (2-3”) for tomorrow evening. Likely moisture from Marco interacting with the stalled frontal boundary. So far it is on its own in showing this. Interesting that it has shown up so late in the game.

Dry here also. This is looking likely to be 2 months on the trot below normal. I think it’s been a couple of years since that has happened. July is normally the wettest month of the year here. I finished with >50% normal.

With today’s storms I have crossed 6” of rain this week. Totals like that seem to be isolated though. I just got unlucky. I’ve needed to mow all week but the yard is a swamp.

FFC’s survey will result in the path length for the East Brainerd EF3 being revised to 20 miles. My tenants in Ranch Hills have no power still. CPD and HCSO are severely limiting access to that area. Some horrible people were caught posing as officials and looting.

Finally got my power back this afternoon.

Coming from someone who has lived in East Brainerd for 31 years, this is heartbreaking. This thing could not have hit in a worse spot to maximize damage to homes. This area is essentially 100% developed with very little vacant property. A large number of homes are damaged beyond repair. Not just smaller homes either. There were several 7 figure neighborhoods in the path. The area around and just behind my rental house has been decimated. Most of these homes are solidly middle class and would list for 150-200k. This is an economic group that does not need added expenses during the virus shutdown. The width of the path is the most shocking thing to me. This track is far wider than anything we saw in this area during the super outbreak. EDIT: We have a official estimate of 12,000 properties damaged in East Brainerd from this storm. I'd wager that this is at least half of the total number of properties in the zip code.

I was finally able to make it over to my rental property. Somehow it is the only house on the street without significant roof damage. Only an aluminum deck awning was torn off. In worse news, all of the fences collapsed and every single tree is knocked over. The main path of the tornado missed the house by about 100 yards. The entire landscape behind the house has been changed. It was jaw dropping.

The area of damage that the fire department is looking at is nearly a mile wide. Crazy for such a quick spin up.

Ugh. My favorite wings come from there. Worst part is that there’s nothing but houses behind it for miles.

Hearing more damage reports from friends now.

It came awfully close to my house. I could hear the inflow. No damage here that I can tell, but no power. Looked like Hamilton Place over to Collegedale was hit. That’s a densely populated area.

HRRR and GFS both have a significant flash flood event tonight. 6”+ qpf.

I remember this event. MRX put the whole CWA under a winter storm warning the day before. Big bust. We had a dusting in the eastern suburbs.

I'm surprised you got blanked. We are actually turning white in Cleveland. I'd say we have around a half inch on the elevated surfaces here. Grass is white in most places now.

I'd be willing to say that we have a dusting in Cleveland now. Still coming down pretty hard. I checked the doorbell camera at the house and we have no accumulation there, but it is snowing.

Pretty heavy snow in Cleveland now. Really isn't sticking though. Just a bit of slush on the elevated surfaces.

Looks like we are mostly snow now in Cleveland, but still far too warm. 37.