John1122 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Spoke too soon, it started pouring at 11:55. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Thought this was going to be a small shower but it has been at it for an hour now. The rain kind of elongated from a small shower into one that back built and is now training from west of the Plateau all the way across my area. If it doesn't die out or drift north or south I'll probably get 2 or 3 hours of heavy rain from this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Still pouring 2 hours into it. Frequent lightning as well. Flood advisory issued by NWS. Why can't a snow shower ever develop and expand and then train overhead like this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Slightly over 2 inches out of that. Has drifted south of here for now but looks like more developing just to the West of my area. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Huge storm rolled through, knocked down trees all over the county. Power is out for thousands. Destroyed my best tomato plant. It was nearly 10 feet tall with about 40 nice sized green tomatoes on it. Yesterday a deer got three of the tomatoes and today the storm broke out its branches and flattened it, pulled the stakes out of the ground and pulled the cage up. Storm also dropped 1.5 more inches of rain. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 A few storm damage shots from CC from today. This was common across the county and there's a 25 mile long 15 mile wide swath of power outages. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Over 3 inch rainfall total to start July and a 3.5 inch deluge on the final day, ended up with over 12 inches of rain for the month. It's been mostly cloudy to completely cloudy for about 2 straight weeks now. I was honestly shocked to see it was a top 10 warm July around East Tennessee. it simply wasn't here. We had a few hot days and lots of humidity but the clouds and rain kept the temperatures in check. I think I got above 90 two or three times. Looks like TYS and Nooga dodged rain like nobody's business. I believe TYS was under 3 inches for the month. Granted in Campbell County alone the Coop station in Newcomb, which is in a deep valley in far NW CC somehow only recorded 2.88 inches of rainfall but areas 5-10 miles away show up in the 10-15 inch range on the AHPS site. I even remember flooding within 2 miles of there at the beginning of the month but looking at coop obs from the first of the month shows the site getting something like .09 inches of rain. I received 3.17 that same day about 10 or 12 miles from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 One tiny shower in East Tennessee? You can guess who its following. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 .38 from the rain yesterday evening. I am in Blue Ridge Georgia today but see that it's been pouring up my way today too. Sticky and hot here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Ran through some very heavy showers around Loudon/Lenoir City and an extremely heavy one that had me going 30 on the interstate around the 640/75 split. Upon getting back home a few minutes ago, my ran gauge had .97 in it from today's rain here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Currently in my second rain event of the day. .40 from the first. Not as heavy this round. But it's ridiculous that it has rained almost every day for two weeks now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stovepipe Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 1 hour ago, John1122 said: Currently in my second rain event of the day. .40 from the first. Not as heavy this round. But it's ridiculous that it has rained almost every day for two weeks now. John up there like "you call this a storm?!" 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 3 hours ago, Stovepipe said: John up there like "you call this a storm?!" I feel more like Forrest Gump when he said "and one day it started raining.." 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Ended up with .50 for the day. 1.85 through the first 5 days of August. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 More downpours this morning. Lots of thunder with these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrgjeff Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Wow 3/4 days the East Brainerd bubble is broken. Hey @dwagner88 no watering this week, lol! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Had .55 so far today. Heard some thunder in the south and it appears the evening round of storms has developed south of me for a change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Wasn't supposed to rain tonight, so of course it's pouring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 Had .33 between 12 and 1:30am, but this evening it was mostly sunny. First time in 3 weeks. It didn't even rain during the daylight hours for a change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carvers Gap Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 Not everyday one gets to drop this in the observation thread. Definitely felt it IMBY. 5.1 earthquake in Sparta, North Carolina. https://www.wjhl.com/news/breaking/usgs-earthquake-reported-in-north-carolina/ 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Managed 48 hours with no rain, but just had a heavy shower working through. Bound to hit an extended dry spell eventually. Last year it hit in September into early October. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 1.1 inches of rain so far today. I'm going to have to weed eat or bush hog my entire yard because the grass just stays too wet to mow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windspeed Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Not everyday one gets to drop this in the observation thread. Definitely felt it IMBY. 5.1 earthquake in Sparta, North Carolina. https://www.wjhl.com/news/breaking/usgs-earthquake-reported-in-north-carolina/ Felt it as well. Felt very subtle. Could hear the bedroom doors rattling, some creeking of the house and I could make out / hear a low amplitude rumble. Honestly thought it might have been a low flying jet at first. But immediately considered it might be a nearby quake because I am a geoscience dork. Then I got the quake notification from the USGS. No doubt being in the Valley and located on sedimentary basement sequences carried those shallow waves through the region. In comparison, I recall feeling the motion of the 5.8 quake in the Piedmont of Eastern Virginia more than this latest 5+ tremor. Though the epicenter was further away, the strength of August 2011 quake must have carried through the region more. Actually witnessed a floor lamp swaying during that 2011 one. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMZ8990 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 4 inches of rain has fallen in Bartlett since 8:00AM Wednesday to now. Feast or famine with these storms rolling through West Tennessee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 5.15 inches for the month so far after some heavy rains today and just before midnight. Maybe another 10 inch month on the way. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 1.1 inches of rain today. 6.25 at the halfway point of the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holston_River_Rambler Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 I drove through the rains in Knoxville yesterday morning on my way to Kingsport. That had to have been one of the rainiest, dreariest summer days I can remember. Flashbacks to the past two Februaries. Hydroplaning and 3 wrecks in downtown Knox. On the radar it almost looked like a deformation zone. Let's get another upper low on that track in January, lol. Then in my way back from Kingsport I got the line I highlighted at the end of the gif. That one was fun too, lol. Shelf cloud and downpours. I think powell may have a pic of it in the late summer thread. As y'all have been saying, it really has been a tale of two MRX areas this summer. Up on the plateau in MoCo, it seems like we are mini Johns, with rain almost every day (but not as bad as he's had it). On the other hand, my dad in Kingsport was talking about how his lawn was getting brown. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 I'm not sure how many hours that gif covers, but I got rain moving SW to NE, NW to SE and NNE to SSW in it. The steering currents are all over the place but they all pass over me. Looks like the heaviest rain of the weekend was in those eastern areas though. I saw some areas there also got 3-4 inches per MRX. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 .98 from a soaking thunderstorm that lasted about an hour between 9 and 10. 7.23 for August. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 7.74 through yesterday. Went to Newport for the game vs Cocke County, there was a pointless lightning delay for a storm way off in the west. The storm on radar was probably 25 miles away. It was never close enough for even faint thunder and it barely rained a few times there. Returned to .38 in the rain gauge here. Had a heavy shower about 45 minutes ago that dropped another .42 so far today. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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