Adam Lucio
EF5
Whoops! you are correct.
The couplet is right over Monticello right now, hopefully its nor producing or the north side of town is going to be taking a hit.
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2/18/09 NOW: KY, TN, MS, AL, GA
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Whoops! you are correct.
The couplet is right over Monticello right now, hopefully its nor producing or the north side of town is going to be taking a hit.
Dave Holder
EF0
Two very healthy cells in east central Georgia... both with fairly significant couplets ATTM
Heidi Farrar
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This is Monticello GA a few scans back:
Matt Hughes
Jeff Russell
EF2
Local TV, no news. Great footage of a tornado on the ground in Henry County, GA.
Mike Smith
Which station has it?
Jeff Russell
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tom hanlon
EF2
I really do not understand the lack of tornado reports.
I am not there so I am not saying that there where tornadoes, but a lack of genuine tornadoes is not usually a barrier to tornado reports.
The video here http://www.wsbtv.com/news/index.html
surpasses the usual scud that gets reported as a tornado.
I see "a rotating cloud , funnel shaped, connected to the cloud base, that appears to contact the ground" I do not see any debris, but I suspect there is some.
In this era of false reports, that one video captured incident certainly seems like it should have been reported to the NWS. If for any other reason than a chance for the NWS to save face, after declaring tornado emergencies and the like.
Maybe over-reporting of tornadoes is a great plains phenomenon. The great plains TV meteorologists, love to describe wall clouds, CAPE and the like. Gets people all excited and stuff. Not to mention the hordes of chasers. Perhaps there is a southern/Great plains bias being observed in terms of reports generated per event.
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Tom
I am not there so I am not saying that there where tornadoes, but a lack of genuine tornadoes is not usually a barrier to tornado reports.
The video here http://www.wsbtv.com/news/index.html
surpasses the usual scud that gets reported as a tornado.
I see "a rotating cloud , funnel shaped, connected to the cloud base, that appears to contact the ground" I do not see any debris, but I suspect there is some.
In this era of false reports, that one video captured incident certainly seems like it should have been reported to the NWS. If for any other reason than a chance for the NWS to save face, after declaring tornado emergencies and the like.
Maybe over-reporting of tornadoes is a great plains phenomenon. The great plains TV meteorologists, love to describe wall clouds, CAPE and the like. Gets people all excited and stuff. Not to mention the hordes of chasers. Perhaps there is a southern/Great plains bias being observed in terms of reports generated per event.
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Tom
Chris Nuttall
EF5
It's worth noting that the NWS office may be getting tornado reports, but they might be chosing not to send out LSRs. There could be many reasons for this, but if they have reports and are sitting on them, my guess is that they question the validity or something else with the report.
This topic of waiting on LSRs has been discussed before. Even though it's preliminary, once it's issued, there's no way to take it back.
This topic of waiting on LSRs has been discussed before. Even though it's preliminary, once it's issued, there's no way to take it back.
John Farley
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Quite a number of wind damage reports say "possible tornado." When these are surveyed in the coming days, I am sure some tornadoes were verified. Some of the videos out there tonight are pretty definitive as well.
Still some action ongoing. A very strong velocity couplet - as strong as any I've seen today - has been occurring the last few minutes in south Georgia a few miles north of the FL state line, about due north of Tallahassee, FL. The Tallahassee NWS is saying a strong to violent tornado is likely on the ground.
Still some action ongoing. A very strong velocity couplet - as strong as any I've seen today - has been occurring the last few minutes in south Georgia a few miles north of the FL state line, about due north of Tallahassee, FL. The Tallahassee NWS is saying a strong to violent tornado is likely on the ground.
Will Tinder
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More bad news on the Florida storm. Latest NWS statement says radar and law enforcement were tracking a large and dangerous tornado, headed straight towards Thomasville in Thomas County. They also mentioned numerous reports of "significant damage" in Thomas and Grady County. Sadly, it seems this storm is verifying at the worst possible time. 
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