Tornado Warning

Nws Confirms 3 Tornadoes Hit Davidson, Williamson, Wilson Counties

... rain, hail and straight-line winds, causing power outages and downed trees across Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky. The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency is working with officials across the state to monitor where state resources need to be deployed. The National Weather Service issued five tornado warnings Wednesday morning, beginning in Williamson County at 5 a.m. The storm went south of Interstate 40 to Cookeville and Crossville, which is when tornado warnings were issued around 9 a.m. NWS is sending storm survey crews to evaluate possible tornadoes in several areas, including Cool Springs, Pettus Road in southeastern Davidson County, the Nunnelly area of Hickman County, Davidson Road in Belle Meade and Watertown in Wilson County. The Nashville Fire Department received at least 23 calls about downed power lines on Wednesday morning. At one point, there were almost 18,000 NES customers without power due to broken poles and downed trees. Metro's Office of Emergency ...

A 20-minute Tornado Touchdown Warning? Alabama Scientists Go For It

... cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud lightning. They see farther than ground detectors and allow scientists to study the relationship between lightning, precipitation and storm energy. Beyond their predictive value for storms, Christian said the lightning mappers have purely scientific value. They will increase our "basic understanding of physics.". Storms can produce "as much energy as an atomic bomb," Christian said. "That's a lot of energy. A thunderstorm is a vertical machine that helps raise that heat up higher in the atmosphere. It all works to cause a nice, stable environment.". The lightning mapper on the space station turned on this week. The mapper on the weather satellite is already working but still in testing mode. "There are a lot of knobs we have to go through to optimize it," Christian said. "We don't want forecasters to have the data before it is optimized. They get the wrong idea and think it's not as good as it really is. We want to make sure there's no false signatures. It's important.". The team will fly a third lightning sensor in NASA's ER-2 high-altitude airplane in April to help calibrate and validate the data from the weather satellite ...

Nws Confirms 2 Tornadoes, Investigating A Potential Third

... path, he said. “We’re just getting started,” he said. For many Middle Tennesseans, the day began with lightning slicing the sky and without electricity. Blankets of rain were so thick some residents couldn’t see the end of their driveways, only a blur. Clouds as dark as ash plumes forebode of the weather to come, carrying cracking thunder into the Midstate. Winds slammed car doors shut, toppled trees and power lines and rattled and shattered windows. In some areas, residents reported hail nearly the size of golf balls pelting down. Some Midstate districts under fire for not delaying school during storm. Many families grappled with a choice: heeding sounding tornado sirens or sending their students to school. Several area districts sent out early notifications that classes would be ...

Severe Storms Prompt Tornado Warnings, 2 Confirmed

... counties, including Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, and Wilson. So far, the National Weather Service in Nashville had confirmed a small tornado touched down in the Monticello area and traveled to the area of Cool Springs Galleria. Other areas were still being surveyed to determine if more touched down. Heavy damage was reported at the Sun Trust Bank on Galleria Boulevard. The storm and tornado passed through during the peak of rush hour traffic. Sirens began sounding in Nashville while reporter Dan Kennedy was on the air. Davidson County remained under a Tornado Watch until 10 a.m. Franklin Police have reported several lines down, as well as trees and power lines. Travelers were advised to use extreme caution during commute. A warm front brought scattered showers to the area on Tuesday, and those storms essentially primed the atmosphere ahead of Wednesday's cold front. The Emergency ...

Tornado Warning Alerts Inconsistent Across Northeast Ohio

... PM, Mar 1, 2017. 5 hours ago. Did you get a tornado warning alert. Copyright 2017 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Show Caption. Thousands of residents woke up to the sound tornado sirens Wednesday morning but inconsistent alert systems across Northeast Ohio left many people unaware. The tornado warning technically spanned from Northeast Medina County, Southeast Cuyahoga County, most of northern Summit County, and parts of Northwestern Portage County and Southwestern Geauga County. But tornado sirens blared in areas far outside the warning area. Each municipality has it’s own guidelines as to when the sirens sound. The City of Cleveland doesn’t have sirens while cities like Macedonia chose not to use them. And the sirens aren’t meant to be heard inside of your home; they’re meant to alert people outdoors. That’s where the Wireless Emergency Alerts managed by the FCC come in handy. “There’s Amber alerts, weather alerts and then there’s government ...