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I think it's a bit too far north based on the radar estimate location, which is more towards southern chapel hill down into chatham county. There was a spotter report of 2.4" around 1:30 about a mile north of Chapel Hill, and it was still pouring then. So I'm sure 3-4" is reasonable.

Cool. I might skip this last class and drive down there to case the joint. :D

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Cool. I might skip this last class and drive down there to case the joint. :D

That's what I did. Surprising that the only creek that was flooding minorly was Morgan Creek. Mostly it was urban flooding in Chapel Hill during the heaviest downpours, it seemed. Lots of cars in the ditches (751, 54 and some road in chapel hill)

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That's what I did. Surprising that the only creek that was flooding minorly was Morgan Creek. Mostly it was urban flooding in Chapel Hill during the heaviest downpours, it seemed. Lots of cars in the ditches (751, 54 and some road in chapel hill)

Only creek I could find that IMO shows any sort of major impact.....

http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=rah&gage=rlhn7&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1"

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Pretty frustrating down this way as I was watching all that rain out in the triangle ( 70 miles away) with our 35% humidity and 51 degree DP. Tomorrow is at 30% but MHX is kinda ho hum about it. If we get blanked tomorrow then it looks like another 5-7 days of high 80's to mid 90's.

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RTP got raked pretty good from noon to about 4:30. I saw two good solid bursts of pea-sized hail, one at the front edge of the first cell, and one at about 2:00 as I was walking through a glass-roofed tunnel between buildings out on the GSK campus. It was a little loud in there. :thumbsup: No rain gauge here at my place, but I live less than a mile from a station on Weather Underground that's reported 2.04".

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC

939 PM EDT FRI MAY 27 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

EASTERN LEXINGTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

WESTERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 938 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES

WEST OF GASTON...OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF RED BANK...AND MOVING

NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WEST COLUMBIA...

SPRINGDALE...SOUTH CONGAREE...RED BANK...PINE RIDGE...OAK GROVE...

GASTON AND CAYCE

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Forgive me if this got posted today. Found link off Drudge from yahoo. Melon sized Hail stone in Oklahoma. Never seen a pic of one this large.

I'm pretty sure that is not real. I can't believe yahoo posted it....lol :banned: It looks like someone filled a balloon with water and put it in the freezer :huh:

Here is a link to the largest hailstone in US history http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s2008.htm

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Very glad they are ok, Larry! Those old trees in Buckhead just can't stand all the years of on and off abuse, and every time there is a big wind some go over. When I lived up there it seemed like every big storm took some down.

I'm with you on there having been way more than enough of this. Nature tends to make up for slack years with years like this, unfortuantely. I guess next will be winter tornados. Haven't had any of those in a while. T

Thanks, T. That's the most important thing. It was a big pine. After all of this craziness, maybe we'll reverse back to tranquility next spring?

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Some structure shots I took from this evening of a shelf cloud and its underside. The storms fizzled shortly after these were taken.

Those are some great shots! They look professionally done. Can you get a photographer tag to go with the red tag?! Nice work.

Rain ended around noon here. Picked up 0.14 inches since midnight. But now, a nice little shower has developed overhead. It's pretty much the only game in town right now in WNC, and I happen to have won the lottery. Very peaceful rain.

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Some structure shots I took from this evening of a shelf cloud and its underside. The storms fizzled shortly after these were taken.

Terrific pictures you have. Reminds me of the day a tornado had hit my area on my birthday (this is going back 10 years ago). Very ominous look there. I'd be an excited feller to get shots of something like that with my digital camera.

Meanwhile it still looks like Tuesday and Wednesday of next week will be the worst days to go outside. GFS and Euro are both indicating high temperatures in the mid 90s with upper 90s in some areas with that continued advertisement of the strong 594dm ridge.

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Haven't had much chance to post but we had a hell of a lot of wind damage from the storms the other day...yet amazingly didn't get much of any rain. I was driving home from gainesville and got caught in that line and it was quite incredible, as I was moving in such a manner as to stay in the line as it was moving east. Winds easily in the 60mph range most of the way from pendagrass to athens, including some pea size hail right before athens.

But that's when it changed. The rain stopped there as the line completely fell apart but the most wind damage happened after that. From the athens perimeter to here there was wind damage. Driving home there was numerous trees down, some in the road..one of which I almost hit because was about 7 feet above the road on the right hand side and it was sort of camouflaged.

When I got home though I was shocked to see one of my favorite trees destroyed. It was a 200+ year sweetgum (educated guess) right behind my house. To this day, I have never seen one as large as it. It had limbs the size of fully matured normal sweetgums. The wind broke it off though about 15 feet above the ground. What is amazing about it though is the tree sits on the west side of a patch of woods, where it is protected from west winds. Didn't matter this time though. Talking to folks, winds were even higher than the squall line that went through here a number of weeks ago...and then I estimated winds of near 70. So this had to be up there at 80mph at least, especially considering it did far more damage than that squall line did everywhere.

Pretty shocking to say the least because everyone in my family has known of this tree ever since my grandparents moved here 70 years ago. I grew up always thinking how awesome this tree was. The shear size of it's canopy and it's trunk always amazed me, especially for being a sweetgum. Pretty saddening to see such a long lived tree destroyed.

As you can see there is a truck there, with a crushed wind shield and damaged cab. Well my brother parked it there thinking it would be protected. :arrowhead:

As for the rain, as I said, picked up virtually NOTHING from that wind storm. In fact the roads were BONE dry most of the way from athens to here, despite damage everywhere. Obviously the winds were a result of this line collapsing and it reformed just a mile or two east of here. For all this trouble, I only picked up 0.25...and virtually all of that was from one t-shower yesterday that lasted 10 minutes. It goes without saying that compared to 99% of the rest of north ga, I got royally screwed. :axe:

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Haven't had much chance to post but we had a hell of a lot of wind damage from the storms the other day...yet amazingly didn't get much of any rain. I was driving home from gainesville and got caught in that line and it was quite incredible, as I was moving in such a manner as to stay in the line as it was moving east. Winds easily in the 60mph range most of the way from pendagrass to athens, including some pea size hail right before athens.

But that's when it changed. The rain stopped there as the line completely fell apart but the most wind damage happened after that. From the athens perimeter to here there was wind damage. Driving home there was numerous trees down, some in the road..one of which I almost hit because was about 7 feet above the road on the right hand side and it was sort of camouflaged.

When I got home though I was shocked to see one of my favorite trees destroyed. It was a 200+ year sweetgum (educated guess) right behind my house. To this day, I have never seen one as large as it. It had limbs the size of fully matured normal sweetgums. The wind broke it off though about 15 feet above the ground. What is amazing about it though is the tree sits on the west side of a patch of woods, where it is protected from west winds. Didn't matter this time though. Talking to folks, winds were even higher than the squall line that went through here a number of weeks ago...and then I estimated winds of near 70. So this had to be up there at 80mph at least, especially considering it did far more damage than that squall line did everywhere.

Pretty shocking to say the least because everyone in my family has known of this tree ever since my grandparents moved here 70 years ago. I grew up always thinking how awesome this tree was. The shear size of it's canopy and it's trunk always amazed me, especially for being a sweetgum. Pretty saddening to see such a long lived tree destroyed.

As you can see there is a truck there, with a crushed wind shield and damaged cab. Well my brother parked it there thinking it would be protected. :arrowhead:

As for the rain, as I said, picked up virtually NOTHING from that wind storm. In fact the roads were BONE dry most of the way from athens to here, despite damage everywhere. Obviously the winds were a result of this line collapsing and it reformed just a mile or two east of here. For all this trouble, I only picked up 0.25...and virtually all of that was from one t-shower yesterday that lasted 10 minutes. It goes without saying that compared to 99% of the rest of north ga, I got royally screwed. :axe:

That's too bad Lookout, looks like the inside of the tree was starting to rot, which probably did not help matters any. I know it was terrible to come home and see that tree done with. That's always my fear, come home and one of my large trees be down. Most of the trees that were down in my neck of the woods were rotten oaks and bradford pears. A few large healthy limbs also were down. I would assume we had 60+ MPH winds here easy.

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That's too bad Lookout, looks like the inside of the tree was starting to rot, which probably did not help matters any. I know it was terrible to come home and see that tree done with. That's always my fear, come home and one of my large trees be down. Most of the trees that were down in my neck of the woods were rotten oaks and bradford pears. A few large healthy limbs also were down. I would assume we had 60+ MPH winds here easy.

Yep, it had a fairly large area of rot on the inside. Still it survived many large wind storms in recent years. But I guess because it was probably at least 120 feet tall (it was taller by a wide margin than all the other surrounding trees including a very large and old pine), the wind must of caught those huge limbs and it was enough to finally take it down.

I feel pretty stupid to be saddened by a tree being taken down when you consider all the damage and destruction so many people have suffered this year from storms though. Still, I grew up playing around that tree (plus it had a creek run over it's roots which attracted me and my cousins even more), so it seems pretty surreal to see and know it's gone.

I had a ton of limbs down in my yard (far more than the squall line) but I'm fortunate to have very healthy oaks (despite being large). So considering how strong the winds must have been, I was lucky.

Although the ride home was really fun, I regret not being here at the time. It had to be a hell of a scene.

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