Last evening was one of those interesting severe weather evenings.
We knew that storms were approaching and I had just seen that there was a tornado warning for our area, but it looked like the storm cell was going to pass south and east of us.
Then our phones started ringing – all three of them.
We’re subscribed to a severe weather warning service from one of the Arkansas television stations. It calls us when there is a tornado warning for our area. It is a lot more specific than the National Weather Service warnings.
It was time to head for the storm shelter.
We only stayed down there for about ten minutes. We waited until we could tell that the intensity of the thunder and lightning was dropping.
Some areas got hit pretty hard, from what we’ve gathered so far. One of the tornadoes had gone very near the Little Rock airport and they had to shutdown operations for a while. Fortunately, our daughter, who had been in Dallas for a week on business, had been on a plane that landed before the severe weather got to the Little Rock area.
Our forecast for today includes the possibility of severe weather, but it’s much less likely than yesterday.
Here’s a short video from my new phone of some of this morning’s rain.
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Glad everyone’s safe. We had a tornado warning last week, but it stayed a few miles away from where I was. I wondered what people do if there’s a warning — stay up all night, just in case? An emergency phone call sounds like a great thing. The most I’ve seen here is an email, not a phone call.
Dot – Thanks. Karen uses ambien to sleep because of her fibro. She will often wait if there is threatening weather to see if there is any danger, because the ambien really knocks her out.
The interesting thing about the phone calls is when the phone rings for severe weather when we are a state or two away from home. The alert is set specifically for our home area.
Hi Friar
Don’t get tornadoes in the UK, perhaps just the odd pretend one and then we talk about it for months.
If your rain could be compared to a sprint race, rain in the UK is more of a marathon or even a triathlon.
Your rain looked and sounded rather exciting, our rain just goes on and on and on.
Truth is Friar… without it, what would we Brits talk about?
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Hi Keith – Thanks for commenting.
First of all, I’m not Friar. The only Friar I know lives up in Canada where tornadoes are also kind of rare, unlike here in west central Arkansas.
The rain in that video is actually pretty mild. The night before it had been quite torrential. I’ve got a series of photos from last year of a torrential rain and, in the sequence, one can actually see a large tree being blown down in the yard across the highway from us.
Of course, one thing y’all have probably been talking about is the wonderfully mild winter that the Met Office predicted or the current issues with the ash clouds.