its gonna hail

5/18/2008 5:44:45 PM

sirens off avent ferry

5/18/2008 5:45:16 PM

It just went from bright and sunny to holy-shit-everyone's-gonna-die in 0.6 seconds

5/18/2008 5:46:58 PM

^ weird, same here

but im a few hundred miles away

5/18/2008 5:48:37 PM

yikes.


rolled my windows up like 45sec before it started.

5/18/2008 5:50:28 PM

This was outside of Charlotte if that's where you were talking about, was visiting a friend.

5/18/2008 5:51:10 PM

Looks like inside the beltline is getting walloped. N. Raleigh is just getting a heavy rain.

5/18/2008 5:51:46 PM

now that i pay a water bill i really want to figure out a way to store up the water thats coming down the gutters right now

5/18/2008 5:51:54 PM

nah, delaware actually

5/18/2008 5:51:54 PM

^^rain barrels? Or more storage than that?

5/18/2008 5:58:32 PM

thundering like crazy here but not much rain now (asheboro)

5/18/2008 5:59:13 PM

man we are getting gypped....its not coming down that hard

5/18/2008 5:59:28 PM

we're getting it a little bit in charlotte

5/18/2008 6:01:43 PM

its sorta dark and gloomy in cary (near crossroads) but nothin too crazy

we're gonna head out for dinner at The Loop shortly

5/18/2008 6:02:19 PM

great

thunder means it's flip out time for the dog

5/18/2008 6:02:20 PM

^^mmm jealous. They need some of those in Raleigh

5/18/2008 6:06:38 PM

8 hour loop makes me think we are gonna get at least something

5/20/2008 2:18:33 PM

Looks like they may get more organized south and east of the Triangle. According to wral those places may expect lightning, large hail and straight-line winds.

5/20/2008 2:29:18 PM

Good, cause I hate dem curvy winds.

5/20/2008 2:30:10 PM

^tornadoes?

5/20/2008 2:32:00 PM

getting closer omg

5/20/2008 3:33:21 PM

5/20/2008 3:44:11 PM

damnit, they said it was gonna rain today. i chose to drive instead of ride because there was a 60-80% chance. give me fucking rain damnit. i want to see if i fudged up rain-x or not

5/20/2008 3:50:52 PM

Its gonna rain...just not every second of the day...or else you'd need more than rain-x to help you get home

5/20/2008 4:34:23 PM

I just talked to my mom right outside of High Point, and they had hail and all that good stuff!

Scary!

5/20/2008 4:37:21 PM

Gettin' real in N. Raleigh. I believe they had lots of hail in Durham Co. as well.

5/20/2008 4:42:28 PM

dammit i just poisoned my whole yard on the pretenses soem rian would follow

5/20/2008 5:02:50 PM

this was like 3 miles from my house
http://www.wsoctv.com/video/16234896/index.html

5/20/2008 5:07:09 PM

definitely hail in rtp

5/20/2008 5:08:46 PM

its nearly pitch black outside in asheboro.. seriously, same darkness as about 9pm

5/20/2008 5:08:47 PM

^3


[Edited on May 20, 2008 at 5:10 PM. Reason : njh]

5/20/2008 5:09:43 PM

I really wanna go to ruckus

5/20/2008 5:10:53 PM

Tornado at Shearon Harris

5/20/2008 5:13:36 PM

buncha babies

been through 5 hurricanes

5/20/2008 5:13:49 PM

^^wat

5/20/2008 5:15:16 PM

I am the biggest baby here! I was scared shitless when it started hailing here and then I heard there was a funnel cloud at the speedway. The speedway is less than 10 mins from my house.

5/20/2008 5:16:54 PM

man wtf this is the second straight storm raleigh has gotten gypped on

5/20/2008 5:17:10 PM

Man, I was just getting ready to go to the dog park too.

5/20/2008 5:17:19 PM

Hehe Tornado Warning with the possibility of Nuclear Fallout?

5/20/2008 5:17:24 PM

WHOATTONRADO WARNING

5/20/2008 5:19:07 PM

got back from my run just in time. a huge, dark cloud was chasing me the entire way back.

5/20/2008 5:21:13 PM

haha you think thats bad try getting caught with a dog about 1.5 miles from your vehicle

[Edited on May 20, 2008 at 5:23 PM. Reason : me and dog were soaked]

5/20/2008 5:23:05 PM

5/20/2008 5:33:26 PM

ROUND 2....

AT 530 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FEARRINGTON...OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF CHAPEL
HILL...MOVING EAST AT 48 MPH. PENNY SIZED HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 58 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CARPENTER...PARKWOOD...
MORRISVILLE...RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK...
RDU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...
RALEIGH...

5/20/2008 5:45:40 PM

We dodged the tornado, but there's another severe storm coming that should hit Raleigh in the next half hour.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN CHATHAM COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
WAKE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
SOUTHERN DURHAM COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 530 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FEARRINGTON...OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF CHAPEL
HILL...MOVING EAST AT 48 MPH. PENNY SIZED HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 58 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CARPENTER...PARKWOOD...
MORRISVILLE...RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK...
RDU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...
RALEIGH...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING
WINDS OF 58 MPH AND GREATER...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AND STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

5/20/2008 5:46:28 PM

lol, double post.

5/20/2008 5:47:13 PM

BEND OVER FOR ROUND TWO

5/20/2008 5:48:57 PM

hopefully round 2 is like 10 times as strong as round 1

5/20/2008 5:49:16 PM

Had a little hail at the house...relatively windy early on...mostly heavy rain and lots of lightning though.

5/20/2008 6:01:22 PM

set em up

5/20/2008 6:04:41 PM