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Last night there was severe weather in the OK/Ark. area and it ended badly in Mena.
Today/tonight there is another huge area that has tornado/severe thunderstorm warnings. I just hope that everything turns out ok. There have been several tornadoes spotted and one hit Murfeesburg, Tn. just a bit ago. It's not going to be a good Easter for the southeast area of our country.
You can watch a live stream of ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Alabama from James Spann (one of the best in the business of covering storms) here:
ABC 33/40 Main, Ustream.TV: Watch LIVE RADAR as well as video streams from StormChaser ABC 33/40. Travel&Nature,Weather,News,Local News (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/abc-3340-main - broken link)
CARTER CLAIBORNE COCKE
GRAINGER GREENE HAMBLEN
HANCOCK HAWKINS JEFFERSON
JOHNSON SULLIVAN UNICOI
UNION WASHINGTON
Short Term Forecast
SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
628 PM EDT FRI APR 10 2009
TNZ015>018-042>047-VAZ001-002-005-006-008-110030-
HANCOCK-HAWKINS-SULLIVAN-JOHNSON-NORTHWEST GREENE-
SOUTHEAST GREENE-WASHINGTON TN-UNICOI-NORTHWEST CARTER-
SOUTHEAST CARTER-LEE-WISE-SCOTT-RUSSELL-WASHINGTON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SNEEDVILLE...ROGERSVILLE...KINGSPORT...
BRISTOL...MOUNTAIN CITY...GREENEVILLE...CEDAR CREEK...
JOHNSON CITY...ERWIN...ELIZABETHTON...ROAN MOUNTAIN...
JONESVILLE...WISE...NORTON...GATE CITY...LEBANON...ABINGDON
628 PM EDT FRI APR 10 2009
.NOW...
THROUGH 830 PM EDT...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH ACROSS NORTHEAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST
VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING
WINDS...AND VERY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO THREE
QUARTERS OF AN INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE
Well, I can't talk in meteorological terms, but what I gather from it is that the warm Gulf air is kind of colliding with cooler northern air and BOOM!!!! Horrible weather and tornadoes. It's actually a very normal occurence in the springtime.
I just hope it settles down and everyone can have a safe and peaceful Easter Sunday. It is tornado season but seems rather active so far.
What I don't get is the overnight storms, seems to me there are more reports of tornadoes after midnight lately.
I've always been a weather hound, always fascinated me, plus living in mobile homes for 30 yrs. before I moved to Wisconsin. Now I have a house with a basement! Mobile home living makes you weather aware (or it should)!
My dad loved storms and he always took us down to Lake Michigan when there was a NE wind. He really taught us to respect weather.
That was sad. We were down near that area a few years ago. They have a beautiful "drive" down there called the Talimena Drive. It stretches between Talihini (sp?), OK and Mena, Ar. It takes you through a beautiful area of the Ozarks and a lot of people love driving through it in the autumn.
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but what I gather from it is that the warm Gulf air is kind of colliding with cooler northern air and BOOM!!!! Horrible weather and tornadoes. It's actually a very normal occurence in the springtime.
Mobile home living makes you weather aware (or it should)! 
Manchester SD 6 yrs later.
