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"so do i need to sleep in my closet tonight or what? i don't want a tornado to come at like 3am and not know about it. "

4/24/2010 9:04:00 PM

Answer below the update. Here is the update:

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"TONIGHT: CONVECTIVE COVERAGE AND INTENSITY SHOULD THEN INCREASE DURING THE OVERNIGHT... WITH THE ARRIVAL OF A 40-50 KT LLJ DOWNSTREAM OF AN UPPER IMPULSE CENTERED NEAR DEL RIO TX AT 18Z AND BENEATH CONTINUED UPPER DIVERGENCE IN THE AFOREMENTIONED STJ EXIT REGION. LOW LEVEL THETA-E ADVECTION IN A BREEZY SOUTHWEST LOW LEVEL FLOW SHOULD PARTIALLY OFFSET OTHERWISE MARGINAL... NEARLY MOIST ADIABATIC DEEP LAYER LAPSE RATES.. AND CONTRIBUTE TO UP TO SEVERAL HUNDRED J/KG MLCAPE AND 500-1000 J/KG OF MUCAPE BETWEEN 06-12Z. FORECAST SOUNDINGS SUGGEST CONVECTION SHOULD BE SLIGHTLY ELEVATED WITH JUST ENOUGH NEAR SURFACE-PARCEL CIN... HOWEVER... WHICH WOULD TEND TO LIMIT MOST OF THE SEVERE THREAT. NONETHELESS... THE ARRIVAL OF THE LLJ AMIDST STRONG MID-UPPER WIND FIELDS WILL CREATE FAVORABLY LONG AND SLIGHTLY CURVED HODOGRAPHS TO SUPPORT A CONDITIONAL TORNADO AND DMGG WIND THREAT WITH ANY SUSTAINED UPDRAFTS ROOTED IN THE SURFACE LAYER. THOUGH AGAIN... AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS INFLOW PARCELS MAY INDEED REMAIN SLIGHTLY ELEVATED AND MITIGATE THAT THREAT. TEMPERATURES QUITE MILD GIVEN THE BREEZY SOUTHWEST WIND... WITH GENERALLY LOWER TO MIDDLE 60S EXPECTED. SUNDAY: GIVEN THE AFOREMENTIONED FORCING AND DESTABILIZATION... A BAND OR BANDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS -- PERHAPS IN THE FORM OF SYNOPTIC SCALE QLCS -- SHOULD BE ONGOING AND SPREADING EAST ACROSS CENTRAL NC EARLY SUNDAY. THE CONVECTION SHOULD BECOME INCREASINGLY NEAR SURFACE-BASED WITH EARLY DAY DIABATIC HEATING AND CONTINUED LOW LEVEL THETA-E ADVECTION AS IT PROGRESSES EASTWARD WITH THE LLJ THROUGH THE I-95 CORRIDOR/COASTAL PLAIN THROUGH MIDDAY. ACCORDINGLY EXPECT THE SEVERE THREAT (PRIMARILY DMGG WIND AND TORNADO THREAT) TO INCREASE AFTER SUNRISE... THOUGH IT WILL LIKELY BE LIMITED TEMPORALLY IN CENTRAL NC BY THE MIDDAY DEPARTURE INTO EAST-NEIGHBORING WFO CWA/S. DEPENDING ON THE EXACT TIMING OF THE LINE AND ATTENDANT SURFACE COLD POOL... SOME PRE-COLD POOL DISCRETE (HIGHER PROBABILITY OF SEVERE) DEVELOPMENT IS ALSO POSSIBLE."

Get up early basically.

Read the text, you can just skip over the complex words, the bolded text should make enough sense for you to see what I mean though. The first paragraph is today (Up to midnight), the second is tomorrow (From midnight on, obviously). This is what real weather folk read son!

4/24/2010 9:05:54 PM

k. i got severe threat to increase after sunrise. and i saw some central nc in there which is me. so BE PREPARED in the morning. got it.

4/24/2010 9:08:06 PM

Good job hon!

4/24/2010 9:12:33 PM

i don't even think we can call what happened this morning in gboro a storm

i'm unimpressed, really

4/25/2010 4:51:21 PM

TORNADO WARNING!!!

4/25/2010 8:11:13 PM

its got a nice hook echo. looks like a mini supercell. watch out rocky mount, or just north of there!


k, well it did.

4/25/2010 8:12:47 PM

All images from WRAL:


A viewer photo taken Sunday, April 24, 2010, on Riley Hill Road in Zebulon.



A viewer photo taken Sunday, April 24, 2010, on Riley Hill Road in Zebulon.

4/25/2010 8:19:11 PM

Pretty sweet pics

4/25/2010 8:20:36 PM

thats awesome

4/25/2010 8:22:15 PM

how come we never seem to get any kickass storms like that in boone...? sure it would be wicked scary, but it would be wicked awesome too...

4/25/2010 8:25:23 PM

man, i had no idea it had even rained in Cary til i stepped out to return a Red Box movie

some wicked storm

4/25/2010 8:39:00 PM

anyone who can see south of downtown. whats that shit look like? there are too many trees in my way to tell if we about to get another tornado


oh god its headed straight for zebulon. they are already dead, ppl past them take cover

[Edited on April 26, 2010 at 3:36 PM. Reason : f]

4/26/2010 3:33:15 PM

i would prefer than any rain between ncsu and garner hold off until after 4:15 at the earliest

4/26/2010 3:40:51 PM

already raining in garner, b.

4/26/2010 3:43:32 PM

well, i don't have to go to garner, really...so long as it stays dry in raleigh

4/26/2010 3:46:52 PM

4/26/2010 5:24:25 PM

STORM IN COLLEGE STATION!

4/26/2010 8:46:08 PM

bump... good stuff north of Raleigh

5/6/2010 9:22:08 PM

Quote :

"CRUCIAL LIGHTNING ABOUND"

[Edited on May 6, 2010 at 9:24 PM. Reason : ]

5/6/2010 9:24:08 PM

^

http://www.strikestarus.com/index.aspx?id=70

[Edited on May 6, 2010 at 9:26 PM. Reason : i think their map is a little off... ]

5/6/2010 9:25:34 PM

well, looks like it's working its way SSE

5/6/2010 9:52:54 PM

I really hope this holds together through Wake county so we can get some rain

5/6/2010 9:55:50 PM

Looks like it will go northeast of Raleigh.

5/6/2010 10:05:52 PM

And here I was thinking it was heat lightening...

5/6/2010 10:09:55 PM

And here I was thinking it was heat lightening...

5/6/2010 10:10:33 PM

it was for a bit. now its real lightning

5/6/2010 10:13:22 PM

And here I was thinking it was heat lightening...

5/6/2010 10:13:41 PM

From tonight:

5/6/2010 10:51:59 PM

Good shot, I would frame that

5/6/2010 10:52:49 PM

^^that picture is fucking awesome

wicked thunder/lightning off of seabrook

5/7/2010 12:27:59 AM

Yeah that's a great picture!

Lots of lightning on my ride home tonight.. so pretty.

5/7/2010 12:28:46 AM

I hear the thunder. Hopefully its a good nasty storm

And here I was thinking it was heat lightening...

5/7/2010 12:29:03 AM

lightning - abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light

lightening - descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped


SPELLING IS IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW PEOPLE

5/7/2010 12:32:21 AM

I'm just copy/pasting what others have posted

Fuck spelling

Okay 'lol' at the definition of lightening

[Edited on May 7, 2010 at 12:34 AM. Reason : wtf haha]

5/7/2010 12:33:55 AM

i figured as much

but still, es no bueno

5/7/2010 12:34:36 AM

where was the photo taken? It looks like Ivy Chase/Campus Edge, but don't recognize the road.

5/7/2010 12:37:17 AM

s'over

back to bed

5/7/2010 12:56:05 AM

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"where was the photo taken? It looks like Ivy Chase/Campus Edge, but don't recognize the road."

It was taken in the far western portion of Cary, almost to Chatham County.

Thanks guys.
I've done a bit of lightning photography before -- honestly it isn't too difficult and can produce some great results. Use a tripod, point the camera towards the lightning, set it to take photos that are 5-10 seconds long, and just take a lot of them. I have a Nikon D40 and use the remote clicker thing -- I stand a few feet away from the camera and just click it for 10-15 minutes while I watch the storm.

I probably took 100 photos this way last night and this was the best. Just click the button right after the shutter closes to take another photo, and do this as long as you want.

Depending on the intensity of the storm, ~80% of the photos won't have lightning (although I've done storms that 95% of the shots had lightening -- that was crazy). A few shots will have some small lightening strikes; if you get really lucky the shutter will be open long enough on a select few photos to have multiple strikes within the same shot. Those are the ones that look awesome!

5/7/2010 8:54:28 AM

Not that anyone in NC is gonna care, but it's coming down in buckets here. Thunder, lightning, the works.

5/14/2010 6:11:21 PM

JEALOUS

5/14/2010 6:51:34 PM

INORITE

Some of my rain barrels are beginning to sound hollow.

5/14/2010 6:56:51 PM

you have rain barrels.


EVEN MOAR JEALOUS

5/14/2010 6:57:31 PM

Easy enough to make.

Yall got gutters?

5/14/2010 7:24:25 PM

2 of my rain barrels are empty and the 3rd is about half empty

5/14/2010 7:26:20 PM

IT'S RAINING!

OMG, IT'S RAINING IN RALEIGH!

5/15/2010 12:36:29 AM

i just heard some thunder yay!!

5/15/2010 12:44:43 AM

Holy shit, we are about to get a huge rain cell over us.

5/15/2010 4:25:09 AM

sun's out

5/15/2010 9:49:03 AM

It's been helluva busy week for severe weather here in Texoma. I managed to survive the May 10th Oklahoma tornado outbreak, survive a bow echo with 75 mph sustained winds overnight Wednesday, and survive flooding last night....all in one week! It's been a 14 hour day at the TV station nearly everyday this week!

5/15/2010 10:47:44 AM