Tornado Watch in Effect Tonight-NETN-SWVA (Knoxville, Murfreesboro: 2009, living in, shoppers)

[jabogitlu]

Issued by The National Weather Service
Knoxville/Tri-Cities, TN
2:56 pm EDT, Fri., Apr. 10, 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 133 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

IN TENNESSEE THIS WATCH INCLUDES 14 COUNTIES

IN EAST TENNESSEE

CARTER CLAIBORNE COCKE GRAINGER GREENE HAMBLEN HANCOCK HAWKINS JEFFERSON JOHNSON SULLIVAN UNICOI UNION WASHINGTON

IN VIRGINIA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES

IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA

LEE RUSSELL SCOTT WASHINGTON WISE

IN VIRGINIA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 2 INDEPENDENT CITIES

IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA

CITY OF BRISTOL CITY OF NORTON

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF... ABINGDON... BRISTOL... DANDRIDGE... ELIZABETHTON... ERWIN... GATE CITY... GREENEVILLE... JOHNSON CITY... JONESVILLE... KINGSPORT... LEBANON... MAYNARDVILLE... MORRISTOWN... MOUNTAIN CITY... NEWPORT... ROGERSVILLE... RUTLEDGE... SNEEDVILLE... TAZEWELL AND WISE.



This is a big storm guys. It's already proven fatal in TX and very damaging in AK and especially Murfreesboro. While I doubt we'll see anything like that (our mountains do tend to protect us ) Please, please be safe out there tonight!

[odessa3]

Be careful, all! Contrary to popular belief, mountains or not, tornados will still come down from the sky. In our mountainous area of northeast PA, we've had several F-2 tornados.

[jjbradleynyc]

When I was a teenager living in Church Hill in the late 80s, there was a tornado that ripped through Kingsport's East Stone Drive, and tore off part of the once "Old Mall" area. I know Montgomery Ward's (when it was there) had some damage. There was some nasty wind and some roofs were blown off also.
Tornadoes are rather scarce in East Tennessee but can happen.

[Tennesseestorm]

I know...

Wow, we are getting a terrible thunderstorm right now!

[Tennesseestorm]

Well, it cleared up nice after that storm, but it started raining here again around 1:30 and still pouring here. Looks like we are the only place in the area with rain now. lol.

Thankfully the storms were not too severe here.

[jabogitlu]

Nope, no rain here at all tonight after the front. How odd that Bristol's getting rain?

It was mostly just windy here with some pretty intense lightning and thunder. I was outside to smoke and boy was it coming down! Didn't stop people from coming in to shop though. Target shoppers are like the post office - rain, shine, sleet, hell returneth...

[Tennesseestorm]

Originally Posted by jabogitlu

Nope, no rain here at all tonight after the front. How odd that Bristol's getting rain?
...

I know, it was odd. I looked at the radar and it was a big blob of rain right over Bristol and most of Sullivan County, but that was it.