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Sep 16, 2010 7:03 PM
Some nice low topped supercells today. Looks like damage reports coming in from Delaware, Franklin, Fairfield, Pickaway, Hocking counties etc....
Sep 16, 2010 7:03pm
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Sep 16, 2010 7:33 PM
we had a tornado warning here in granville (licking co) for a half hour, the storm came, but it was nothing more than a lottttt of rain and some lightning...no hail, was overly windy for a storm, no branches down on campus at least and never lost power...kind of anticlimatic
Sep 16, 2010 7:33pm
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Sep 16, 2010 7:51 PM
I almost blew away on the 5th floor of my apartment building here in Athens!
Sep 16, 2010 7:51pm
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Sep 16, 2010 7:54 PM
Nice living in extreme southern Ohio, except for the fact that it sucks and there is nothing to do. :D It seems like most of the storms always either pass us to the north or are south of us.
Sep 16, 2010 7:54pm
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Sep 16, 2010 7:57 PM
Storm wasn't too bad in Newark but we did have quarter sized hail for a couple of minutes.
Sep 16, 2010 7:57pm
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Sep 16, 2010 8:02 PM
I guess some pretty nasty damage in The Plains. Trailers blown over and houses gone.
Sep 16, 2010 8:02pm
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Sep 16, 2010 8:26 PM
Tornado touched down in Wooster earlier this evening. Lots of damage south of town. Emergency crews are not allowing people out to see the damage.
Sep 16, 2010 8:26pm
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Sep 16, 2010 8:42 PM
Tornado touched down in New Philadelphia
Sep 16, 2010 8:42pm
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Sep 16, 2010 8:47 PM
Athens City schools are closed tomorrow. Significant damage to the high school. The Plains is an absolute wreck. trailers scattered everywhere. Businesses are demolished. Pretty serious stuff.
Sep 16, 2010 8:47pm
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Sep 16, 2010 8:55 PM
My wife works in The Plains. She works right by McDonalds. She thinks her building is still standing, but the rest of the town is destroyed.
Sep 16, 2010 8:55pm
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Sep 16, 2010 8:59 PM
Athens H.S.

Sep 16, 2010 8:59pm
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Sep 16, 2010 9:25 PM
guess some high winds knocked the roof off the auxilary gym @ Olentangy HS....

those cells moved through Northwestern Pennsylvania but we came out ok
Sep 16, 2010 9:25pm
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Sep 16, 2010 9:30 PM
I took a short trip to Baltimore and saw some trees down as well as some debris. I saw something can't confirm a tornado though.
Here are the reports so far I'm sure there will be many more to come once the page is updated and damage surveys confirmed.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today.html
Sep 16, 2010 9:30pm
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Sep 17, 2010 12:23 AM
Athens HS had 2 AC units ripped off the roof, some other roof damage.

Their football field is FUCKED. Scoreboard is on the 20 yard line, half the light standards are down. Press box smashed through the concession stand and some cars, visitors stands didn't fare too well either. There was a soccer game, but fortunately most had evacuated up to the school. Only a few injuries. They'll be playing elsewhere the rest of the year.

In Athens, AutoTech Service Center (out on E. State past Walmart, by the 50/32 exit) was FLATTENED.
Here's what my meteorologist friends said about the damage out there:
It was very heavily damaged, but not wiped clean as the SPC report made it out to be. Looking at the damage and the way the debris was blown around, the winds at this location were very, very strong. However, all the debris was laid out in a west to east fashion that is typical of a downburst/microburst. The only evidence that there may of been a tornado was the debris caught on both sides of the fence
I'm no longer in Athens, but I've not yet seen any tornado pictures from anyone, just funnel clouds. Same goes for the OU meteorology majors I talked to. Seems like the Plains one has a damn good shot at being a tornado though. A microburst could do that too, but we shall see what the NWS says tomorrow.
Sep 17, 2010 12:23am
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Sep 17, 2010 9:19 AM
Only reason I'd say they were tornadoes that the storm didn't collapse and usually after a microburst that signals a storms end. These storms continued into WVA with apparent tornadoes.
Sep 17, 2010 9:19am
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Sep 17, 2010 1:19 PM
Confirmed Tornado touchdown near Tarlton looks to be a low end EF1
Sep 17, 2010 1:19pm
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Sep 17, 2010 1:30 PM
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Sep 17, 2010 1:30pm
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Sep 17, 2010 1:39 PM
Good video from the DR.
Sep 17, 2010 1:39pm
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Sep 17, 2010 2:54 PM
gerb131;486980 wrote:Only reason I'd say they were tornadoes that the storm didn't collapse and usually after a microburst that signals a storms end. These storms continued into WVA with apparent tornadoes.

With the Athens one, it would have been tornadic from Nelsonville to the Plains, then as it died gone out as a microburst by Athens. There was a funnel over Athens though, but it was way up in the sky.
Sep 17, 2010 2:54pm
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Sep 17, 2010 3:15 PM
ts1227;487283 wrote:With the Athens one, it would have been tornadic from Nelsonville to the Plains, then as it died gone out as a microburst by Athens. There was a funnel over Athens though, but it was way up in the sky.

But that storm continued to produce through Meigs County and into WV where a fatality is reported.
Sep 17, 2010 3:15pm
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Sep 17, 2010 3:27 PM
Big_Mirg_ZHS;487325 wrote:But that storm continued to produce through Meigs County and into WV where a fatality is reported.
I wasn't around to see the radar (was at work)... did the storm stay strong all the way through, or did it perhaps cycle through (die out and have a new one fire off of the end of it)? I know most of the shit was moving due east, and the Meigs OH/Wood and Mason WV stuff is to the south, making me think another one fired along the line off to the south after Athens.
Sep 17, 2010 3:27pm
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Sep 17, 2010 3:31 PM

Same cell twenty minutes later.
Sep 17, 2010 3:31pm
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Sep 17, 2010 3:36 PM
I just read the warning text too.

Looks like this to me:
What first came through (Nelsonville, The Plains, Athens) was going east until about Athens.
What issued the second tornado warning for Athens County (Albany) fired off of the back and went into Meigs, moving SE

Both definitely have a nice couplet... the strong winds between Albany and McArthur on the second first grab wrapped up and was what is on the Athens/Meigs line in the second grab. The original Athens one is the one on the OH/WV line.
Sep 17, 2010 3:36pm