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Possible tornado on ground, heading from Gastonia/Belmont area. Concern for path heading towards Charlotte or towards UNC-C campus - especially if folks are getting in their cars and heading North (after Speed Street, for ex).
Gonna be crossing 85 in a few minutes.
Pls contact any friends/family who are outside. There appears to be a wall cloud; this could be very serious.
Text your friends and get 'em moving indoors to safety.
TORNADO WARNING MEANS a tornado has been spotted or is in formation. This is not a WATCH - it is a WARNING.
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Possible tornado on ground, heading from Gastonia/Belmont area. Concern for path heading towards downtown Charlotte or towards UNC-C campus - especially if folks are getting in their cars and heading North (after Speed Street, for ex).
Gonna be crossing 85 in a few minutes.
Pls contact any friends/family who are outside. There appears to be a wall cloud; this could be very serious.
Text your friends and get 'em moving indoors to safety.
TORNADO WARNING MEANS a tornado has been spotted or is in formation. This is not a WATCH - it is a WARNING.
Hey Ani!
We've been having a rip-roaring thunderstorm in Kings Mountain. It looks to be worse in the direction of Cherryville. N/NW when looking out my front window.
Possible tornado on ground, heading from Gastonia/Belmont area. Concern for path heading towards Charlotte or towards UNC-C campus - especially if folks are getting in their cars and heading North (after Speed Street, for ex).
Gonna be crossing 85 in a few minutes.
Pls contact any friends/family who are outside. There appears to be a wall cloud; this could be very serious.
Text your friends and get 'em moving indoors to safety.
TORNADO WARNING MEANS a tornado has been spotted or is in formation. This is not a WATCH - it is a WARNING.
THANKS ANI!!! DS is out with friends at a softball game, smack in the middle of nowhere at the Iredell/Rowan border on 152. Just called to give him the warning. I was just outside trying to walk the dog...LOTS of lghtening in the sky & it's getting VERY windy in east Mooresville.
Fox news just said the sirens are going off in Rock Hill
This storm is very long - formed well into GA/SC.
What concerns me is - we don't have sirens here as folks do in the midwest. When there is a WARNING there, people immediately head to the basement, no questions asked.
Here, the majority of people are not even aware when a warning is issued - and those of us who do know about it just continue about our business. We don't immediately head to a safe room, basement, interior room, stairwell, etc. as we would in the midwest. This is how folks get injured or killed - b/c they don't take action. Yeah, it is a pain in the tookus to take my laptop to the downstairs guest bathroom while waiting to see what happens . . . but at least I won't be caught off guard if my house gets a spankin' from high winds. Flying glass is BAD!
I have been through numerous warnings in the basement - and most were sounded even tho no tornado came near our house. But I have also been in the basement when a tornado passed right over our house (didn't touch down, thank goodness!)
We've been having a rip-roaring thunderstorm in Kings Mountain. It looks to be worse in the direction of Cherryville. N/NW when looking out my front window.
SB: stay safe! Hopefully, this storm will wander over us and fizzle without anyone getting injured.
Really strong wind and some thunder just passed here in Ballantyne. A friend called from Atlanta and they had couple hours of rain is the early evening. Hope we get a little rain here, we sure could use some water to cool off this past week heat.
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