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Good stuff, guys. Hope y’all can get the full changeover and pick up some snow!!

@jaxjagman did you see the pictures of multiple big trucks blown over on the Tennessee River Bridge I-40 in Decatur county. Looks like 4 or 5 guys had a rough day, wind gust atop the bridge must of been insane.

I guess it’s a good thing that this system moved through just after sunrise instead of during the night. There’s a few neighborhoods that got hit pretty hard. I Have a friend in Memphis who sent me a picture, his neighbor had a enormous Oak tree fall thru the front of the house. Lots of power outages as well.

Interesting morning in west TN today. Had multiple severe cells come thru, lots of rain and wind. Apparently Memphis had a tornado touch down around the cottonwood apartment complex area.

I have a confirmed tornado on the ground 20 miles from my house right now. I’m under a tornado Warning until 1:30. I’ll keep you guys updated

Penn state- that’s awesome man. I hope it went well for you guys!! Thanks for the update on the severe side of the spectrum.

@jaxjagman- you expecting any severe cells from tropical storm Barry over the next few day?

I used to work in a lot of power plants doing switchgear Maintenance on the circuit breaks throughout the plant. All the turbine floors are usually on the 3rd or 4th floor of the plants. First floor is usually a huge open area that runs just about the whole floor with a large crane running in the rafters to move large items down and up from the other floors, and you’ll have a few other non essential things on the first floor. I share all this to say that most power plants can handle a serious flood better than most would think due to the way they are layed out. They also have tons of extra drainage valves through your the plant that are there to help in the unlikely event that a fire happens and the fire suppression system cuts on. Those drains could also help if you had flooding from the river the plant was on as well.

That’s about 10 miles north of me.

I’m under a tornado warning as we speak. It’s pretty ominous outside

I’m under a tornado warning until 6:15 in Hardeman County. Apparently one has touched down in the northeastern part of the county.

Have you broke your February rainfall record John?

Something to keep an eye on for sure

What are you thinking about the cells coming into Memphis now Jax?

I’m under a tornado watch in west tn. The line about to cross the Mississippi River in Memphis looks particularly nasty. Flash flood warnings popping up along the path of the cells in about a 5 county long line from Arkansas into north Mississippi/south west tn.

This one gives you a little bit better understanding as you can see the levee in the backdrop and how high the water is up onto the levee.

Here is a partial picture of what my front yard looks like this morning. The pond does not hold water anymore and is empty 10 months a year so that gives you an idea of how much rain we have received here in west tn.

Hatchie river in my neck off the woods is scheduled to be at 18.5 by Sunday morning. At 19ft the river starts to flood houses along river road in hardeman county. If we get to 19ft it could get ugly for a lot of people on or along the Hatchie River. Stay safe this weekend guys/gals.

61 pages,, wow. I’d say you guys earned that one then. Lol

I understand that, we definitely don’t lose our severe wx chances during any season of the year which is fun if your into tracking those kinds of threats. You guys getting lots of snow up there this year??

@CheeselandSkies I didn’t mean anything bad about my comment saying I don’t know why you care about our thread. I hadn’t seen you in our thread before and thought you might of been a lurker trying to stir the pot like so many others around here try to do to get a rise out of people. My apologies if I offended you.

Sounds good to me. I don’t know why the guy from Wisconsin cares about our thread but whatever. And for the record- I had some pretty good cells come through my house the past 2 days. The snow wasn’t far behind the thunder either which was kinda cool.

Pretty stout cell moving over my house at the moment. Winds gusting up to 50.

Had some serious thunder and heavy rain come through last night from about midnight to 3am. The pond in my yard has now gone from half full to 85% full. Roughly a 4 foot rise in the level to give you a better idea. Easily an inch of rain has already fallen, probably closer to 1.5 though. Hopefully the old addage about thunder during winter holds true because we had quite the thunderstorm last night.

Definitelyneed to keep an eye on the backend thump of this storm.