My family spent a good part of yesterday evening in my fishing room. We don't have basements in most homes in this part of the country, but we sure need them! Tornado Watches started around 4:00, Warnings around 5:00. At 5:30 the National Weather Service declared a Tornado Emergency, a term that has never been used:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,328745,00.html

Glad you and your family are safe and sound 8-)

Glad you and your family are safe and sound 8-)

X2

Glad you and yours are ok. I heard it was a very violent storm.

Hey Kent,

I saw pics of the sky over your hometown on the weather channel and got that sinking feeling. Glad you and yours are OK.

Ronnie

Glad you're ok RW  

Super glad you and your family are OK RW!! I've been in numerous tornadoes while living in Kankakee and they are the most violent and destructive storm on the planet. Once again, I am super glad you all got through that scary situation OK!!

I saw it heading straight over Memphis and towards you and it freaked me out!  Glad you're ok!!

The "defining intersection" in my little suburb is Poplar & Germantown

Road. The largest, strongest, most intense cell in the system passed

over this spot at 5:56 with 112 mph winds and moving at 75mph.

This "spot" is approximately 1.5 miles from my house.

The "defining intersection" in my little suburb is Poplar & Germantown

Road. The largest, strongest, most intense cell in the system passed

over this spot at 5:56 with 112 mph winds and moving at 75mph.

This "spot" is approximately 1.5 miles from my house.

Holy crap RW.  Good to hear you are all well.

We're all good here. We headed over to my grandmas cuz shes got a basement. It got pretty rowdy there for awhile. My moms best friend, her niece was at Union University which was demolished. She was trapped and it took awhile for them to get her out but shes ok. Like I said Union is completely demolished. They said on the radio that all of the women's dorms were destroyed and all of the mens dorms were destroyed also. A house right down the road from our house has a tree a went right through the middle of it. our family definitely dodged a bullet. Please everyone's prayers go out to all these people. Hey RW is it true that halp the Memphis airport is gone from the tornado?

I got lucky, that storm came through about 11pm-2am, a couple of different storms.  They went just north and south of where I live.  But I heard it took down some houses and a couple of deaths.

Some buildings at the airport were damaged, but the airport is open and the damage is manageable.

 Glad you're OK RW. Thought about you when I heard where it was coming thru. We actually got more wind and rain when the 2nd front came thru. This must have been about 10:00. Seems like the last several spells of bad weather we've had have been morwe south than usual...

                                    As Ever,

                                     skillet

It's much weaker, split into 2 fronts and heading to PA now, we are under a flood watch, lots of rain and run off with frozen ground, nothing major , not as bad as you fellas in Tenn.

1.5 miles.  That is intense.  I'm really glad to hear that it passed you by.  

Glad to here that you and yours are all ok.Prayers to all...

I'm reading that there are 48 dead so far in the mid-south.  It sounds like there was some wicked weather down your way, RW.  I'm glad you and your family are safe.  

Wow glad yall missed that. I had a big tree in my front yard that fell on the house when I was gone to a friends one day. Nothing like that tornado , but it was wild pulling in the driveway seeing a tree on your house.

WOW! That's a lot too close for comfort. Glad to hear you and your family are o.k.

Glad to hear you and your family are safe and sound. I don't think there is anything more frightening than having one of those tornadoes coming at you.

Falcon

Holy crap RW.  Good to hear you are all well.

NO joke! Thats gnarly! Glad to hear that you guys are ok!

glad to hear you're ok RW.

Ditto!  Good to hear you didn't make an unexpected trip to the land of Oz.  A prayer goes out to those who did.

These winter tornados are unreal.  We had one level a small town in SW WI last month.

Our prayers go out to all.

There is a link on a local news website of a tornado filmed in Germantown.  I don't think it's the Germantown here.  It had to have been the one in your neck of the woods.    It's always nerve wreaking to hear them sirens go off.   Good to see you made it ok.