Quote :

"i'm at cary parkway and US1 and it gets lighter then darker then lighter then darker and it's fucking with me cuz i'm home alone"

we're seeing the same thing. joie was going to kickboxing when it gets better, but it just keeps getting bad looking again.

[Edited on May 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM. Reason : pg]

5/5/2009 7:02:56 PM

somethings happening at brentwood

5/5/2009 7:05:38 PM

Quote :

"lol News 14 just said they're getting their tornado siting info from twitter"

And now they're saying: "Stay away from electrical appliances, go to a basement or a safe room, stay tuned for more details" ...because we all have cordless TVs...

5/5/2009 7:05:45 PM

funnel cloud over state capitol building

5/5/2009 7:08:37 PM

laugh news 14 reporting that someone on twitter said funnel cloud seen over ncsu campus

5/5/2009 7:09:54 PM

A GIRL

we're supposed to be at tango in 20 minutes

5/5/2009 7:10:16 PM

WRAL REPORTING FROM DAN ALLEN DECK

5/5/2009 7:10:18 PM

and just like that, the sky brightens, the rain stops, the wind stops, and it's like nothing happened

wow, what a fun time

5/5/2009 7:10:44 PM

Quote :

"A GIRL we're supposed to be at tango in 20 minutes "

wrong thread??

5/5/2009 7:11:14 PM

we were on outer beltline going towards crossroads, got off on western blvd towards downtown and the circulation was rightttt above us green sky and all. we followed it towards downtown but no funnel.

still cool

5/5/2009 7:15:47 PM

yea there have been reports of rotation and funky skies all over the place, but thank god nothing seems to have dropped down out of the sky and actually touched down.

5/5/2009 7:16:26 PM

Wow, they were pretty accurate with the tornado warning ending at 7:15

5/5/2009 7:16:43 PM

hell of a way to end the semester

5/5/2009 7:20:33 PM

im in five points

bout to get the fishing rod out and fish the backyard

5/5/2009 7:20:51 PM

i wonder if Papa Johns will deliver right now this storm made me h0ngry

5/5/2009 7:22:18 PM

all the creeks in Charlotte are flowing like rivers, and are very close to the road levels

5/5/2009 7:32:05 PM

i was on my upper deck at my house in hedingham watching the storm from afar... suddenly the wind started to gust, sheets of rain started pouring, I could see debris (plant stuff) well above any nearby treeline.

The clouds above me were literally rotating and dipping down... I have a good view as I live on the end of a row of houses on the golf course. I decided it was a good idea to come downstairs at that point. then power started going off and on (we have underground powerlines) and wind was WHIPPING by (my dumbass went outside to check and it was howling by.)

I didn't see a funnel cloud, but the news reported there was a tornado, and basically zoomed onto my house on the map.

holy shit.

5/5/2009 7:37:06 PM

...pics?

5/5/2009 7:38:18 PM

5/5/2009 7:39:08 PM

haha i didn't take any pictures... i didn't want to be a statistic.

5/5/2009 7:43:29 PM

worthless without....i mean glad your ok

5/5/2009 11:27:33 PM

for future reference, the fairgrounds is a particularly good place to view storms coming in from the west. if you park in the tailgating lot at the corner of Blue Ridge & Trinity, you get a decent view of the southwestern horizon. WRAL and ABC11 were out there taking footage when the storms hit.

there was definitely rotation in the clouds as they passed over Raleigh, but I didn't see anything come close to reaching the ground.

i doubt there was a tornado in the Raleigh/Cary area today, but judging from pictures on WRAL there had to have been a touchdown over near Wilson. the tops of trees were twisted off -- a signature damage pattern for a tornado.

5/5/2009 11:43:12 PM

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?cl=13319436

pretty neat

5/6/2009 12:03:09 AM

5/6/2009 12:04:14 AM

closest thing i can remember to a deracho(sp?) was like 12th grade when some 65mph straight line wind came and cut in half like 30 pine at burlington city park

5/6/2009 12:05:28 AM

Random downpour thar.

More free cleaning for my car, lol.

5/6/2009 12:15:59 AM

say waord

5/6/2009 12:16:49 AM

we have another shot at some severe storms today and tonight.

the first round will come this afternoon. the more sun we see today, the more unstable the atmosphere will become, and the better the storms will be.

the second round comes tonight sometime between midnight and daybreak tomorrow associated with an upper-level disturbance. these storms will be in a squall line fashion and give us our best chance at seeing any severe weather. too bad most of us will be asleep when this blows through.

5/6/2009 11:09:41 AM

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"i doubt there was a tornado in the Raleigh/Cary area today"

yesterday, from a friend's phone. he was off jones franklin rd.

5/6/2009 11:21:52 AM

That's not necessarily a tornado. Or something. I'm no Greg Fish.

[Edited on May 6, 2009 at 11:24 AM. Reason : still scary as fuck]

5/6/2009 11:24:00 AM

wow

5/6/2009 11:24:13 AM

^^ yeah. tornado or not, i'd shit my pants.

5/6/2009 11:25:27 AM

I did!

5/6/2009 11:29:14 AM

damn facebook being blocked here at work

someone upload the pic to TWW and post it so i can see

5/6/2009 11:30:10 AM

with thunderstorms you often see very low clouds (called 'scud') formed by the storm's outflow racing out ahead of the storm. we have lots of tall trees around here leaving the horizon obscured so these clouds often appear to be reaching the ground when in reality they're not.

the weather service gets flooded with calls by people mistaking these for tornadoes and yesterday was no exception.

[Edited on May 6, 2009 at 11:41 AM. Reason : thumper: http://www.wral.com/weather/image_gallery/5087962/]

5/6/2009 11:35:02 AM

well you obviously know more about weather than me, so i believe you. (seriously, not being an ass)

i see low clouds like that and i'd think "tornado!" apparently i'm not alone.

[Edited on May 6, 2009 at 12:13 PM. Reason : k]

5/6/2009 12:12:40 PM

yeah that pic is awesome

5/6/2009 12:24:49 PM

couple that picture with the fact the radar saw circulation and

5/6/2009 2:04:36 PM

yeah, there was definitely circulation aloft in that storm. too bad it didn't reach the ground.

5/6/2009 2:10:53 PM

Is today going to be part 2?

I wanted to go to the dog park

5/6/2009 4:42:56 PM

Quote :

"with thunderstorms you often see very low clouds (called 'scud') formed by the storm's outflow racing out ahead of the storm. we have lots of tall trees around here leaving the horizon obscured so these clouds often appear to be reaching the ground when in reality they're not. "

its amazing how fucking stupid some of the people are that sent in those WRAL pics, captioned ZOMG TORNADO FUNNEL CLOUD THINGY!!!1!!!

5/6/2009 7:52:05 PM

Quote :

"its amazing how fucking stupid ignorant some of the people are that sent in those WRAL pics, captioned ZOMG TORNADO FUNNEL CLOUD THINGY!!!1!!!"

Fixed. Can't blame people for not knowing a damn thing about meteorology.

5/6/2009 8:26:42 PM

WIND IN FIVE POINTS

5/6/2009 8:28:26 PM

a cool time-lapse.

http://stormhighway.com/blog/may509raleigh1.shtml

[Edited on May 6, 2009 at 8:29 PM. Reason : adsf]

5/6/2009 8:29:18 PM

that's hot

5/7/2009 10:22:15 AM

^^That's pretty cool. Just glad Raleigh wasn't a repeat of the Salt Lake City and Atlanta tornadoes

5/7/2009 10:38:32 AM

I stepped outside during the time they said Cary/Apex was getting rotation and you could definitely see lower clouds moving the opposite direction of the higher clouds, and the sky had the same green eerie glow associated with a tornado forming. I never really saw any of the clouds moving into much of a funnel though.

5/7/2009 11:12:41 AM

bttt

5/7/2009 11:36:50 PM

thunder off lake johnson

5/7/2009 11:39:22 PM

/32

5/7/2009 11:40:17 PM