re: Southern Severe Weather Threat (Thursday/Friday)

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just get tired of them scaring my family, who are very afraid of bad weather, days in advance, for no good reason.

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When the threat reaches this level is just one of those things where the odds of your house getting hit, even on an all time bad day, are incredibly small but there are multiple households out there who WILL get hit and for those people it won't feel like fear for nothing. God forbid one day it is your house that gets hit, which it could.

Tornado outbreaks are sort of like slot machines. You pull the lever and hope like hell your number doesn't come up and it's basically impossible to forecast on the micro scale where a tornado will be more than a few minutes in advance and even then it's difficult. It's just the nature of it

I'll tell you this, the last thread we had for "southern severe weather" I had 2 tornadoes come very close to my house. Were they strong tornadoes? They were not but given it involves my family including two children I was very thankful that this thread was here and that the NWS/SPC had warned me well in advance so I was in a position to keep my family safe

You can go ask some people around Norman, OK today if they thing all the rabble was unnecessary ahead of what happened there Sunday night. I'm thinking they will say it was very necessary

Of course you are free to ignore these threads and any talk about severe weather as much as you'd like but I promise you many people find them to be valuable