Tornado in 15 minutes

[jeff m]

Just got an unnerving warning signal on TV. New Jersey, US.
Seems we have a tornado on the way. We already have a quite violent thunderstorm with the promise of "quarter" (about 5/8ths") size hail.

Not really much time to do anything like move stuff outside that could become "mobile". Filled a few water containers, charged my various batteries.

We do seem to right in it's path, well within one mile of predicted path. Not usual for this part of the country.
There is also a warning for "straight wind" not sure exactly what that is.

I'm now moving to the basement.

[Hedders]

Hope it all goes ok!!

[TomE]

Good to see that you have got your priorities right and you are posting on here to let us all know rather than running around screaming (which is what I would be doing!)

Hope everything is ok!!

[a contrario]

Good luck...have you got internet down there?!

[jeff m]

a contrario said:

Good luck...have you got internet down there?!

Yep, it needs 'lectic though and that's the first thing to go here.

It has just gone very quiet, not sure if that's a good thing
I'm not worried, I'm as prepared as you can be 30 min warning.

[Funk]

The calm before the storm...?

[a contrario]

Well, hold on tight mate, we're rooting for you here in the UK.








Where there is a slight breeze and a bit of drizzle.

[Asterix]

Hot and sticky here in Dubai - had a bit of a sandstorm earlier and the sky went orange.

[lost in espace]

Give Dorothy my best.

[NiceCupOfTea]

Good luck mate!

[blowy84]

wonder whats happening........

[TomE]

blowy84 said:

wonder whats happening........

I imagine your name might be a good description.

[Nickyboy]

First time i went to visit my Dad in the US we had a massive storm and tornado warnings. We were sat in the basement which was slowly filling with water as my step mum mumbled about losing the house they had worked for and Dad was whinging that he had left his cigarettes upstairs.

Missed us by about 2 miles but was rather exciting

[jeff m]

Gazboy said:

If you've come back from the basement to read PH, how close to NYC are you?

I'm about 100 miles South of NYC, SW of Philly.

Well it was a bit of a non event. We lost our electric for a while, but back on now (obviously)

We've never had a tornado in NJ since I've been here but I've seen the damage from mini twisters that don't qualify as tornados and was quite impressed.

I've just put on the TV and they are playing baseball in Phillidelphia in bright sunshine

[Dogwatch]

Safest indoors. The roads will be full of looney tunes in vans full of technology with one eye on a laptop screen, the other on the skies looking for a twister and paying no attention to the road at all