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IWX received damage reports near Pennville, IN. Subject called and reported that he watched neighbor's shed get blown off and claimed it was a tornado. They received other damage reports nearby. The Jay County EMA director is enroute to do an assessment. Here is the radar grab from that time-frame. I guess there could have been a quick spinup.

9 hours ago, bowtie` said:

The radar is fine, I am talking about the time series viewer through the NWS and NOAA. I just checked KEWR and they have been only updating hourly also. Must be a system wide thing. Just wonder if it is accidental or on purpose?

KFWA also switched to hourly at 12:55 (Eastern time) yesterday.

5 hours ago, Powerball said:

Not sure how it is up there, but the KFCs here are always ghost towns when I drive by (even during so-called busy times). I'm surprised they haven't atarted closing shop.

If I had to choose chain fried chicken restaurants to eat at, Popeye's, Bojangles (the OG Bojangles in the SE states, not the diet abominations opening in Texas & Ohio) Krispy Krunchy, Lee's Famous Recipe and Jollibee are all superior.

A Popeye's just opened in Huntington a week ago. I'll give it a try once the throngs quit massing in a month or two.

4 hours ago, SolidIcewx said:

Funny you mention Lee’s. Just tried them a couple weeks ago. One just opened up by me like a month ago. I gotta agree they were good.

There's a couple of Lee's in Ft. Wayne I've been meaning to try, but never got around to it, especially since the wife's not a big chicken fan. I don't kn ow what her problem is.

Dang, I just realized that I made multiple posts about chicken! In the eclipse thread!

2 hours ago, Chicago Storm said:

they are dead to me because they don't offer bbq sauce.

horrible establishment.

Take your own bottle of Sweet Baby Ray's when you go.

6 hours ago, buckeye said:

Lol....I get it.   My son-in-laws parents live up in extreme NW Ohio.   Every time they come down here they never miss a chance to go there.    I'm more of a KFC fan myself 

I'm eating KFC as I am reading this.

Flood Watches dropped already for tomorrow night thru Friday morning for northeast IN, northwest OH. I'm surprised they issued the Watch, although rivers are pretty full. The ground isn't saturated at the surface, thanks to the breezy conditions and sunshine today, but I guess it won't take much rain due to subsurface soil being wet.

8 minutes ago, Chinook said:

It worked out nicely here. I figured that I could not really avoid the cirrus clouds by driving a short distance or even a possibly long distance, so I stayed in town. The weird part is that the cirrus clouds were generally fine, but looked like dark storm clouds during totality.

Yeah, I noticed that too. Kinda eerie.

24 minutes ago, WHEATCENT said:

that was pretty cool, maybe I was crazy but the temp drop felt pretty noticeable as it got closer to totality 

Not crazy, the temp dropped a good 5° here.

1 hour ago, SolidIcewx said:

Pretty crazy satellite imagery 

Beat me to it. I was just getting ready to upload the same satellite view. I'm glad I stayed put and got to over 99.5%.

I understand that traffic is bonkers with people heading north from the path of totality in the southern part of the county. Gridlock.

Graupel fest here. Coming down in buckets

4 hours ago, CheeselandSkies said:

Happy to do it, just need something to talk about that doesn't mostly go belly-up on the day (fortunately for the OH/IN/KY area, though).

In the meantime, feel free to rewatch my Keota video.

3:08 - 3:38 - 30 seconds is what it took to go from a little tendril of condensation curling around the top of the funnel, to that massive collar cloud that would crown the wedge stage.

 

Never gets old. I've watched it many times. Good job and trophy catch.

1 minute ago, buckeye said:

with my luck the damn thing will defy all laws of astro-physics and trend NW.   That's how we roll in central Ohio

I said earlier in the banter thread that I was fearing the northwest trend

On 3/31/2024 at 5:23 AM, buckeye said:

We live just about .5 miles inside the path of totality.    I have read that the closer you are to the center the longer it lasts.  I’ve also read that being right on the edge has advantages because of some unique effects can be witnessed that you don’t get in the center.   What would you do?  Drive further northwest towards center or stay put on the edge? 

I'm in the same boat, but about 5 miles from totality. I'm staying put, the back yard is good enough for me. I've told everyone that will listen that it's gonna be cloudy anyway, just because that's the odds.

Cars and semis flipped as the tornado crossed I 71 near LaGrange KY

EMA confirmed tornado heading toward Lancaster/Wirt IN

I may make a trip southeast if it looks like anywhere north of 70 in Ohio ends up being in play. The trend is not my friend, but there's still time...

EDIT: Just wow at Ohio once again being the hotspot this early spring.

2.28" of rain here in the past couple of days. It's the wettest it's been for quite awhile.

12.4" F

12 hours ago, Chinook said:

When there's a data outage of some sort at NCEP/NWS, I always tell myself that somebody tripped over the cord to the computer, and they didn't plug it back in for a few minutes. It seems like there used to be more times when the NAM/GFS were delayed. I guess nobody trips over those cords anymore.

1 minute ago, WestMichigan said:

Better late than never I guess.

I disagree.

You guys can have it.

14 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

While I'm sure they won't get that much, there's definitely a significant signal for snow in the northern part of the country the last half of March. This is why I always say to those talking futility in January or even earlier that the snow season has so long to go, you really have to have EVERYTHING go wrong to get that. I can't think of a more deserving season than this one for the Northwoods, but mother nature may have other plans. Duluth still in the running, but Minneapolis screwed that up by being in the jackpot of that February snowfall. Here in Detroit, I cannot remember a more benign winter outside of one month, but since that 1 month produced 17 inches of snow, again, top 10 futility off the table. Toledo is surprisingly still in the running for their 2nd least snowy winter.

Hi

                                    % of avg

2015-'16           21.9”    65%

2016-'17          14.8"    44%

2017-'18          27.9"    83%

2018-'19          28.9"    86%

2019-'20          27.5     81%

2020-'21          35.9"    106%

2021-'22          24.4"    73%

2022-'23          19.5"    58%

2023-'24          10.9     35%

1 hour ago, andyhb said:

Now high end EF3. Have some suspicion that there are a few points that may be consideration for EF4. The Taco Bell and the church that were both completely destroyed in particular.

Right. That's why I mentioned that it's preliminary. I'm assuming that they will perform some more in depth engineering studies of those structures.

The last info I got from Winchester was that there were 38 injuries. However, three are in critical condition.

40 minutes ago, largetornado said:

Minimum ef4 damage right? Swept off slab?

Preliminary is EF-3

More details coming