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3/16/26 Severe Weather Event Thread (Moderate -> Enhanced -> Slight) RESULT: Significant wind after dark

Kmlwx

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7 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Loudoun didn't send kids home early, but then my kids school ended up within one of the tornado warnings. No tornado of course, but kids were sitting in the hallway in the 'duck and cover' pose for 30 minutes. Ultimately not a huge deal, and since I was watching radar and know what to look for, I wasn't stressing about it at all.

I also know most people not only don't watch the radar, but wouldn't know what to look for even if they did. Probably a pretty anxious time for a lot of parents today. 

Oh gosh that is scary to think about. I hope the kiddos aren’t too shaken up. My kid would have had a panic attack

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8 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Loudoun didn't send kids home early, but then my kids school ended up within one of the tornado warnings. No tornado of course, but kids were sitting in the hallway in the 'duck and cover' pose for 30 minutes. Ultimately not a huge deal, and since I was watching radar and know what to look for, I wasn't stressing about it at all.

I also know most people not only don't watch the radar, but wouldn't know what to look for even if they did. Probably a pretty anxious time for a lot of parents today. 

The LCPS Parents page on Facebook blew up today.  I think they got it right.  My teenager asked me to release her at 2 and I told her she was fine.  Stay and learn something lol

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4 minutes ago, mappy said:

Oh gosh that is scary to think about. I hope the kiddos aren’t too shaken up. My kid would have had a panic attack

I don’t think any children today should have been placed in a position indicating  that their lives are in jeopardy 

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3 minutes ago, Warm Nose said:

It's a tornado drill. No one is getting long-term trauma from those.

didn’t know you spoke for all kids and what they may or may not go thru and how it impacts them. Good to know. 

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5 minutes ago, Warm Nose said:

It's a tornado drill. No one is getting long-term trauma from those.

Ironically, our kids's elementary school had their tornado drill on Friday.  They all thought it was really cool and exciting.  (I recognize, of course, that others might feel differently.)

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11 minutes ago, Warm Nose said:

It's a tornado drill. No one is getting long-term trauma from those.

I was in a school once that had a tornado warning right at dismissal. It was awful- busses and a line of cars stuck outside, I think some of the parents & bus drivers were rushed into the office- another teacher and I had a bunch of kids of mixed ages in their spots in an interior room- duck and cover- then the power went out. Total black in that room for at least a half hour. Kids were FREAKED OUT. 

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Just now, Eskimo Joe said:

Local Storm Reports (LSRs) will lag. We've submitted over 20 just from our county to NWS alone.

Seeing how there wasn’t even like any warnings in the moderate zone doubt will be many reports 

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35 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Loudoun didn't send kids home early, but then my kids school ended up within one of the tornado warnings. No tornado of course, but kids were sitting in the hallway in the 'duck and cover' pose for 30 minutes. Ultimately not a huge deal, and since I was watching radar and know what to look for, I wasn't stressing about it at all.

I also know most people not only don't watch the radar, but wouldn't know what to look for even if they did. Probably a pretty anxious time for a lot of parents today. 

When I was at elementary back in Michigan we had a legit Tornado warning and we all had to go out in the hallways cowering with our textbooks over our head/neck.  Nobody died or anything, can't remember if there were any injuries....but 40yrs later it's probably the only memory I have from school that far back.  So look at the bright side, making memories.   

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Clouds and fog at 830 am kind of set the stage for the severe potential was going to be low and rain showers at 11 made it known.

Afternoon "storm" was meh. Actually was more windy in the morning then when the storm came through. No lightning or thunder. 0.31 for the day. 

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10 minutes ago, WEATHER53 said:

It was classified as a 4 threat and so far a 1.5

Next time wait until  about 10!am  to see what’s actually going on 

Not sure if this is what you're referring to, but absent surprise/late developing events, local forecast offices in areas with such high population density don't have the luxury to wait a few hours prior to issuing watches, guidance, etc. There's a ton of coordination that happens behind the scenes that goes into this stuff.

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2 minutes ago, EHoffman said:

What an absolute embarrassment everything shutting down in this city.  Gets more and more ridiculous every time.  I couldn't even find parking in my neighboorhood at 3pm because literally no one was working today.  Just lol.

It's all @stormtracker fault, he parked by you to walk to Chipotle.

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