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Amatuer weather people!
Topic Started: Sep 14 2008, 08:32 AM (106 Views)
Staci
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There's a few wives I know who think because they've lived in TN/KY for two years, they're weather experts! One of them (from CA I should add) told a wife who's only been here for a couple of months if it hails, a tornado is coming!!! Now that wife is all freaked out! We're starting to get wind and rain from Ike so now there's a bunch of freaked out wives because of careless comments by other people. :angry
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Ravenlost
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Hail usually preceeds a tornado, although it doesn't mean a tornado will touch down in your area. Also, hurricanes/tropical storms will cause tornadoes inland. I don't think the woman from CA was wrong about hail and tornadoes.

The sky will get a weird yellow color before a tornado. It looks pink/purple before snow.
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Staci
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I was raised less than 3 hours from here and just because there is hail, it doesn't always mean a tornado. She was saying there's always a tornado if there's hail.
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Quaker Parrots
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Ravenlost
Sep 14 2008, 01:19 PM
Hail usually preceeds a tornado, although it doesn't mean a tornado will touch down in your area. Also, hurricanes/tropical storms will cause tornadoes inland. I don't think the woman from CA was wrong about hail and tornadoes.

The sky will get a weird yellow color before a tornado. It looks pink/purple before snow.
Yellow to almost green. In Tn, hail is very indicative of Tornadoes, like Raven said, it doesnt mean they will touch down.

Staci, you guys get it pretty bad in the Clarksville area. It wasnt all that long ago that downtown was destroyed by a twister. The thunder storms are very intense in TN. They can be alsmost as scarey as tornadoes.

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Staci
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Oh, I know how the weather is here. I guess I'm not getting my point across very clear.
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Cabann
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You know living in CA as I do, it seems like if we have a good size hail storm, that is when tornadoes are spotted. It doesn't happen very often but however, when they are spotted it is big news. I must add they usually don't touch down.
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Quaker Parrots
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Staci
Sep 14 2008, 06:03 PM
Oh, I know how the weather is here. I guess I'm not getting my point across very clear.
I know what you are saying. Some people like to stir up trouble like your amatuer weatherwatchers, and others believe everything they hear and panic. A good case in point is the Orson Welles rendition of "War of the Worlds" on radio back in the 30's. Look at the pandemonium and mayhem that caused. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio)


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Edited by Quaker Parrots, Sep 14 2008, 08:30 PM.
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