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NE TN/WNC should be watching the weather Weds. looks like a good bet for some nasty storms possible tornadoes.
TWC's Exclusive TOR:CON index - weather.com (http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/torcon-daily-forecast_2011-03-24 - broken link)
Flash flood warnings for western NC, very common here in heavy rains and thunderstorms. No tornado warnings, mostly any tornado activity or conditions will break up as they go east over the mountain range. There may have been a small one in Shelby NC a while ago, but that is not in the mountains, it is pretty much at seal level, southeasterly in flatlands on the way to Charlotte NC and southeast SC.
Yep - very rare. There's been a minor trend this year of big or destructive storms hitting relatively unexpected places, so if I still lived in the mountains I'd be paying at least a little attention to this one.
Might be a big flood threat as well. That might be the greater thing to brace for.
Historically, for the sake of trivia, 2 of the more notorious tornado events in Western NC:
1884 March 25: A thunderstorm spawned weak tornadoes near Murphy, and later a storms that destroyed several houses north of Franklin. A second storm spawned a tornado that killed at least 2 people in Lenoir. Thunderstorm # 3 that day produced a tornado between Morganton and Hickory that tracked straight through Newton, where several blocks were heavily damaged, and then passed immediately south of Statesville, which wasn't hit, though the storm was highly visible from downtown.
1974 April 3, 4: Several waves of tornadic storms moved into W NC from north Georgia and SE Tennessee. The first produced a weak tornado near Murphy, a large tornado that cut through Stecoah in Graham County, where several houses were destroyed, and dissipated N of Bryson City in the national park. This storm shorty thereafter produced very large hail over Waynesville. The second storm produced an F4 tornado that tracked through the southern and eastern part of Murphy; there were 4 different tornadoes, spawned by 3 different thunderstorms in Cherokee County over about 14 hours that afternoon, evening, night, and morning. A thunderstorm down in the foothills produced a weak tornado over downtown Morganton, and another destructive storm near Granite Falls. Yet another thunderstorm never became tornadic, but did more than a million bucks in hail damage in the Greenville-Spartanburg area, before dropping baseball sized hail in Gastonia.
Well, I seriously hope that we finally get some nice big storms for once. That is one of the most frustrating things about this area: big formations of rain/snow depending on the season will hit the mountains to the west and break up, and they go around Asheville. They will hit as close as Hendersonville to the south and Weaverville to the north, but Asheville misses them. I'll see a forecast in the winter for a nice 4-6" of snow, and then, what do you know, I'm disappointed again as the storm literally goes around Asheville and reforms to the east once it gets past Black Mountain, or sometimes not even that far. So frustrating.
I hope that we get a nice, big, house-rattling thunderstorm tomorrow. I do NOT hope that I lose power, but at my house, that's pretty much guaranteed if the wind is blowing more than 20 mph because all the power lines in my neighborhood are LITERALLY wrapped in and around the trees! So if a tree is swaying hard, the power flickers, and if a limb breaks or something, boom, power's gone. Progress Energy has been pretty good this year about restoring outages in a timely manner, but it's still frustrating that they installed the power lines that way. Or maybe the trees grew up around them, but they should go in and fix the problem, I think.
I hope we don't get any 'damaging' storms. If I want to watch damaging storms I'll turn on the weather Channel!
I agree...from a personal pt of view, 'weather' up here on the E/SE facing ridge of Eagles Nest Mtn, at 5,000 ft elevation, is pretty dramatic on 'normal' days. We are also well ahead of 'norm' for precip thus far this year.
GL, mD
^ Yeah, see that's why if I were to stay in WNC for the rest of my days, it would have to be at a very high altitude like that. I get a lot of enjoyment and amusement out of weather, and weather at altitudes like that is no joke. I was up at 5600 feet the other day and this incredible storm blew in, and you could see the clouds at eye level with you, cascading over the mountain right in front you. It was so cool, and then it starting just DUMPING rain, super impressive storm. Stuff like that just makes my day; it was quite a storm to behold.
And the snowstorms are much better and much more frequent in the winter months, too!
^ Yeah, see that's why if I were to stay in WNC for the rest of my days, it would have to be at a very high altitude like that. I get a lot of enjoyment and amusement out of weather, and weather at altitudes like that is no joke. I was up at 5600 feet the other day and this incredible storm blew in, and you could see the clouds at eye level with you, cascading over the mountain right in front you. It was so cool, and then it starting just DUMPING rain, super impressive storm. Stuff like that just makes my day; it was quite a storm to behold.
And the snowstorms are much better and much more frequent in the winter months, too!
I am surprised that you did not choose a career as a weatherman...that would be so interesting! you have a real knack for it.
I am used to hurricanes in Fl but I have to agree that the weather here is very dramatic even at 3500 feet elevation!!!!
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