Apparently you have to have a special camera to catch lightning. I had my phone set up and got a super vivid flash and this was all it took:
All you can see is a little bit of light through the trees, and you better be in a dark room, lol
Congrats to all on y'alls side of the mountains today! If I didn't have a meeting today, I'd already be on the road to Waynesville for lunch at Boojum Brewery, lol.
Though y'all might enjoy this. You can see air being funneled though the French Broad valley now through the mountains:
There's some subsidence coming off Bays Mountain in E TN that's causing the break in the clouds on our side of the mts.
If anyone (like me) has a masochistic urge to go back and look at old Himawari 8 images for comparison, here ye go:
https://seg-web.nict.go.jp/wsdb_osndisk/shareDirDownload/bDw2maKV?sI=D531106,D531107,TI,D531106m,D531107m,TIm,evm&sIt=data_im&lang=en
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51070870
Article about how the Euro uses ultraviolet beams from a satellite to gauge wind speeds in the atmosphere.
That part of the line that produced the tornado moved right over my neighborhood in Morgan County. I was gone, luckily nothing here except some large limbs down, but my wife was here and said it was pretty rough.
TROWAL dog apparently tried to hide behind the toilet.
I'm at 1.4" since midnight and the firehose really just started in the past half hour.
Not promising to see a bunch of flash flood warnings in its wake:
That cell definitely looks stout on satellite:
The setup is interesting to me since there seem to be 2 lines of more intense convection with one? MCS (colder cloud tops and radar are how I'm distinguishing that) that seem to merge over the OH river on the KY and IL border. I've seen this before with two distinct bows and a gap in the middle and always wondered what the cause for that was.