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Shadow Blasko		2012-03-02 10:12:39 AM

We've already had two SSwarns here, and dozens of cells lining up.

This is one of the nastiest situations I have seen in years.

adiabat		2012-03-02 10:26:33 AM

TOR-Con of 9??? I don't think they've ever issued a TOR-Con of 9.

Idea for folks in Central KY & North Central TN: Drive west!

Shadow Blasko		2012-03-02 10:30:04 AM

adiabat: TOR-Con of 9??? I don't think they've ever issued a TOR-Con of 9.

Idea for folks in Central KY & North Central TN: Drive west!

They have, but never this early in the year..

Doppler indicated tornado now in Northern Alabama

Shadow Blasko		2012-03-02 10:31:50 AM

Debris confirmed in Huntsville area.

Shadow Blasko		2012-03-02 10:35:10 AM

Dunno if this will post..

Updating image.. I'm sitting at the crosshair on this map.

(fairly zoomed in)

Shadow Blasko		2012-03-02 10:36:56 AM

Tornado #2 reported.. Near Nashville.

St_Francis_P		2012-03-02 10:41:35 AM

Good thing Fark's servers are over here on the east coast.

/We'll miss you, Drew.

Shadow Blasko		2012-03-02 10:44:58 AM

St_Francis_P: Good thing Fark's servers are over here on the east coast.

/We'll miss you, Drew.

I though Fark was hosted at Blue One in Lexington?

Sliding Carp		2012-03-02 10:45:44 AM

RIP KY

St_Francis_P		2012-03-02 10:46:07 AM

Shadow Blasko: St_Francis_P: Good thing Fark's servers are over here on the east coast.

/We'll miss you, Drew.

I though Fark was hosted at Blue One in Lexington?

Dunno. He may have moved it again, but I thought it was hosted out of Reston.

GAT_00		2012-03-02 10:48:21 AM

Shadow Blasko: Debris confirmed in Huntsville area.

Woah where? And where's the nashville one?

Shadow Blasko		2012-03-02 10:51:20 AM

GAT_00: Shadow Blasko: Debris confirmed in Huntsville area.

Woah where? And where's the nashville one?

Nashville storm..

... A Tornado Warning remains in effect for eastern Putnam and
southern Overton counties until 1000 am CST...

At 942 am CST... National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a
severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado. This dangerous
storm was located near Cookeville... moving east at 40 mph.

This dangerous storm will be near...
Algood around 950 am CST.
Monterey around 1000 am CST.

Precautionary/preparedness actions...

Take cover now. Move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
sturdy building. Avoid windows. If in a Mobile home... a vehicle or
outdoors... move to the closest substantial shelter and protect
yourself from flying debris.

Huntsville :

... A Tornado Warning remains in effect until 1000 am CST for
northwestern Madison and east central Limestone counties...

At 943 am CST... National Weather Service Doppler radar continued to
indicate a tornado. This tornado was located near French Mill just
east of Interstate 65... or about 5 miles southeast of
Athens... moving east at 50 mph.

Other locations in the warning include but are not limited to
Capshaw... harvest... Toney... Ryland... Alabama a and M University...
Moores Mill and Meridianville.

Precautionary/preparedness actions...

The safest place to be during a tornado is in a basement. Get under a
workbench or other piece of sturdy furniture. If no basement is
available... seek shelter on the lowest floor of the building in an
interior hallway or room such as a closet. Use blankets or pillows to
cover your body and always stay away from windows.

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 300 PM CST Friday afternoon
for northern Alabama and central Tennessee.

The Hunstville AL storm is confirmed on the ground with damage and debris still in the air.

Shadow Blasko		2012-03-02 10:52:54 AM

Re- Nashville:

Tornado located near Hazel Green and Meridianville moving east at 50 mph. #Tornado approaching New Market, AL and TN/AL border.

St_Francis_P		2012-03-02 10:54:16 AM

Shadow Blasko: St_Francis_P: Good thing Fark's servers are over here on the east coast.

/We'll miss you, Drew.

I though Fark was hosted at Blue One in Lexington?

You're right; from the FAQ:

What platform do you run all this on?

The software is all homebrew stuff, written in-house in mod_perl and back-ended by MySQL, all running on about a dozen FreeBSD boxes. It was cobbled together as a quick hack, which then evolved over the years into an even bigger hack. There are other systems out there with more/better stuff, but, hey, we like being unique. :)

The hardware is co-located at Blueone.net here in Lexington, Kentucky. (We have a webcam on it, but the lights are usually off...) Offsite backup is co-located at Bluegrass.net in Louisville, Kentucky. They're both very cool ISP's.

Shadow Blasko		2012-03-02 10:54:48 AM

Another tornado on the ground .. Southern Tenn

MorrisBird		2012-03-02 11:00:39 AM

Be careful, Farkers.

GAT_00		2012-03-02 11:02:08 AM

Jesus. I have friends still in Madison AL and the eastern side of Huntsville, plus my mother lives in south Williamson County TN. Hence the concern and phones suck for this.

EnviroDude		2012-03-02 11:03:57 AM

MorrisBird: Be careful, Farkers.

ditto

Shadow Blasko		2012-03-02 11:06:04 AM

GAT_00: Jesus. I have friends still in Madison AL and the eastern side of Huntsville, plus my mother lives in south Williamson County TN. Hence the concern and phones suck for this.

Back to back tornadoes. Still monitoring two active tornadoes just north of Huntsville, AL

GAT_00		2012-03-02 11:11:19 AM

Shadow Blasko: GAT_00: Jesus. I have friends still in Madison AL and the eastern side of Huntsville, plus my mother lives in south Williamson County TN. Hence the concern and phones suck for this.

Back to back tornadoes. Still monitoring two active tornadoes just north of Huntsville, AL

I did see that from the radar. Somewhere between Huntsville and Ardmore. Harvest and New Market might have just disappeared.

Shadow Blasko		2012-03-02 11:11:49 AM

GAT_00: Shadow Blasko: GAT_00: Jesus. I have friends still in Madison AL and the eastern side of Huntsville, plus my mother lives in south Williamson County TN. Hence the concern and phones suck for this.

Back to back tornadoes. Still monitoring two active tornadoes just north of Huntsville, AL

I did see that from the radar. Somewhere between Huntsville and Ardmore. Harvest and New Market might have just disappeared.

New Market is about to get hit again..

Shadow Blasko		2012-03-02 11:20:25 AM

Crap:

Damage reported at Buckhorn High School. This #tornado is large and heading towards the New Market, AL area.

quickdraw		2012-03-02 11:48:43 AM

Tornadoes scare the fark outta me. Head for the basement fellow farkers! Hurry!

oh wait.....

make me some tea		2012-03-02 12:10:21 PM

Holy crap guys. Stay safe!

GAT_00		2012-03-02 12:14:15 PM

Nrn Alabama tornado hit at least one school and a jail, as well as numerous houses. Reports of cars flipped with people inside them as well.

choo		2012-03-02 12:27:58 PM

Watch out for the torNYANdos!

/seriously, be safe :(

Smeggy Smurf		2012-03-02 12:40:52 PM

As long as there is a Florida, there will be a Fark somewhere

wambu		2012-03-02 12:42:53 PM

sucking and blowing
loses a trailer

/obligatory

Jake Havechek		2012-03-02 12:42:53 PM

I hear he packs a mean bowl.

wambu		2012-03-02 12:46:02 PM

Shadow Blasko: [radblast-mi.wunderground.com image 640x480]

Dunno if this will post..

Updating image.. I'm sitting at the crosshair on this map.

(fairly zoomed in)

1. Capture Google Street View of your house
2. Take same picture after tornado
3. Post on FARK
4. Internet Hero For A Day
5. Begin removing debris . . .

Felgraf		2012-03-02 12:48:17 PM

Okay, perhaps I wasn't paying attention before, but..

... It's just now the beginning of March. Have we *normally* had this many deadly tornados by this time of year? Isn't this, um, a wee bit early?

The Mind Boggles		2012-03-02 12:51:16 PM

Felgraf: Okay, perhaps I wasn't paying attention before, but..

... It's just now the beginning of March. Have we *normally* had this many deadly tornados by this time of year? Isn't this, um, a wee bit early?

its very early to see activity like this.

PlatinumDragon		2012-03-02 12:51:42 PM

This early in the day?

WTF is going on? It's March bloody 2nd and tornado outbreaks are already happening?

This is going to be a fun spring/summer.

/stay safe, get to the basement

PowerSlacker		2012-03-02 12:52:17 PM

Further proof that God is sick of the SEC's shiat.

/stay safe out there

CognaciousThunk		2012-03-02 12:52:57 PM

They rarely hit the mark with sending the on-air talent to 'dangerous' places. Lexington is probably the safe spot; radar doesn't show anything coming at it right now.

Accuweather is comparing this to the 1974 Super Outbreak, lots of coverage there. I remember that one too. Me and the other kids in the hood, throwing golf-ball-sized hail at each other ;0

ocelot		2012-03-02 12:55:42 PM

Everybody panic! This is unprecedented.

SamJohnson2		2012-03-02 12:56:24 PM

adiabat: TOR-Con of 9??? I don't think they've ever issued a TOR-Con of 9.

Idea for folks in Central KY & North Central TN: Drive west!

I seem to recall that Alabama had a TOR:CON of 9 during the tornado outbreak that included that massive Joplin Tornado. Going merely by memory (which is admittedly unreliable), today's forecast might actually be generally worse. It seems like there are a lot more places over a wide area with very high numbers.

tgregory6		2012-03-02 12:58:20 PM

Just stand naked and throw a bottle of Jack Daniels into it.

/good luck kentucky

SamJohnson2		2012-03-02 12:58:41 PM

CognaciousThunk: They rarely hit the mark with sending the on-air talent to 'dangerous' places. Lexington is probably the safe spot; radar doesn't show anything coming at it right now.

Accuweather is comparing this to the 1974 Super Outbreak, lots of coverage there. I remember that one too. Me and the other kids in the hood, throwing golf-ball-sized hail at each other ;0

Commentary from last night seemed to suggest that much of the bad weather in the central KY area would likely end up popping out of nowhere. And we're not due for bad weather for a few more hours now.

ronaprhys		2012-03-02 01:03:38 PM

Jim Cantore is head for Lexington. Could this be the end of Fark? Midwest tornado outbreak thread

Did Lexington not have a head before? Is here there to kneel and bob? What are the particulars here?

Fallout Zone		2012-03-02 01:07:31 PM

SamJohnson2: adiabat: TOR-Con of 9??? I don't think they've ever issued a TOR-Con of 9.

Idea for folks in Central KY & North Central TN: Drive west!

I seem to recall that Alabama had a TOR:CON of 9 during the tornado outbreak that included that massive Joplin Tornado. Going merely by memory (which is admittedly unreliable), today's forecast might actually be generally worse. It seems like there are a lot more places over a wide area with very high numbers.

Two different outbreaks. Joplin was in May and more isolated in nature. The massive Alabama & SE outbreak was in late April and Forbes did go with a TOR:CON of 10 because it was set up to rival the great outbreaks. And it did. Not sure if this one will be quite in that league.

PlatinumDragon		2012-03-02 01:09:35 PM

CognaciousThunk: They rarely hit the mark with sending the on-air talent to 'dangerous' places. Lexington is probably the safe spot; radar doesn't show anything coming at it right now.

Accuweather is comparing this to the 1974 Super Outbreak, lots of coverage there. I remember that one too. Me and the other kids in the hood, throwing golf-ball-sized hail at each other ;0

Oh c'mon, that's gotta be hyperbole. A couple dozen would be bad enough.

Is it really looking that bad already?

Ashyukun		2012-03-02 01:10:20 PM

I'm hearing schools here are actually letting out early on the weather predictions, something I usually only see happen when there's the threat of snow (seemingly ANY snow, to the amusement of someone who moved here from the North-East...). Going to be an interesting afternoon... If anything hits, I'll have a good view from my office building here downtown...

CognaciousThunk		2012-03-02 01:11:53 PM

SamJohnson2: CognaciousThunk: They rarely hit the mark with sending the on-air talent to 'dangerous' places. Lexington is probably the safe spot; radar doesn't show anything coming at it right now.

Accuweather is comparing this to the 1974 Super Outbreak, lots of coverage there. I remember that one too. Me and the other kids in the hood, throwing golf-ball-sized hail at each other ;0

Commentary from last night seemed to suggest that much of the bad weather in the central KY area would likely end up popping out of nowhere. And we're not due for bad weather for a few more hours now.

Not trying to be casual about it. Was just going on what I'm looking at now: http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php Agreed, this stuff can and probably will pop up on the back side.

re: 1974, that event changed a lot of people's attitudes about tornadoes; I insist on having a place with a basement now, and even my old crusty dad will run downstairs when the sirens go off. The Xenia tornado was not that many miles up the road from our place; just the luck of the draw if it doesn't hit ya.

imontheinternet		2012-03-02 01:12:59 PM

The Storm Chasers from the Discovery Channel show are in Lexington, gearing up for a tornado this afternoon or evening.

TobiasStauhf		2012-03-02 01:13:08 PM

porkchopsandwiches.jpg D: be safe out there, y'all...

GQueue		2012-03-02 01:13:43 PM

The Mind Boggles: Felgraf: Okay, perhaps I wasn't paying attention before, but..

... It's just now the beginning of March. Have we *normally* had this many deadly tornados by this time of year? Isn't this, um, a wee bit early?

its very early to see activity like this

Just another example of SEC SPEED.

Form124		2012-03-02 01:13:54 PM

Fort Knox just got an early release order.

/RUN AWAY!

A Terrible Human		2012-03-02 01:14:44 PM

Lol I live in Laurel county,Ky and from the storm I saw the other day I'm not that farking worried. This apartment has yet to lose electricity during a bad storm,it only flickered once and that was during hail. Watch me post this and the city of London get demolished knowing my luck though.

JustGetItRight		2012-03-02 01:15:44 PM

GAT_00: Nrn Alabama tornado hit at least one school and a jail, as well as numerous houses. Reports of cars flipped with people inside them as well.

Watching coverage from Huntsville TV right now. School's fine, took out part of the roof and some other stuff. All the kids ok.

The 'Jail' is actually Limestone correctional facility, a huge state prison with about 2500 inmates. Apparently it got smacked pretty good. They're reporting injuries, but it sounds like the main areas got missed with most of the destruction being secondary structures.

No reported deaths yet, but it is awful early in the day.

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