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Weather radar experts, what is this seen on radar in Fayette County, TN tonight?

Posted on 5/1/18 at 10:32 pm
Posted by East Coast Band
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 10:32 pm
From the Twitter page of the NWS out of Memphis

quote:

Strange object detected on radar around sundown tonight in Fayette County, TN? Anyone want to take a guess at what it is? (Hint: it's not ??'s) #tnwx


Any gifs made of the tweet above will be appreciated. TIA
Posted by RummelTiger
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 10:35 pm to
Well, if it’s anything like the weird-arse signals we get here in Austin, then it’s a cluster of bats.
Posted by HailToTheChiz
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 10:35 pm to
Posted by MMauler
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 10:37 pm to
Posted by junkfunky
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 10:40 pm to
Solar flare sent an electromagnetic pulse towards the Earth that was discharged in the atmosphere in the direction of the nearest pole.
Posted by castorinho
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 10:47 pm to
Posted by rmnldr
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 10:48 pm to
Probably smoke or dust because of the color in the upper right box
Posted by Jim Rockford
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 10:48 pm to
Posted by ThatMakesSense
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 10:51 pm to
It was an explosion with smoke.

Some high schooler figured it out.

I didn't even know what I was looking at.
Posted by Jim Rockford
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:00 pm to
That's what they want you to believe.
Posted by gingerkittie
Member since Aug 2013
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:01 pm to
It looks like a fart cloud. That's all I got

So Fayetteville County farted, tried to play it cool like it didn't. But the radar guys busted them in the act.

Posted by tigerbutt
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:05 pm to
So it’s bats
Posted by TheFonz
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:09 pm to
quote:

So it’s bats


Posted by rmnldr
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:27 pm to
Yeah that color indicates something thick like a tornado debris cloud but obviously there’s no tornado
Posted by AlonsoWDC
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Posted on 5/2/18 at 2:36 am to
Damn.

I lived in Fayette until I was 22, before moving into Memphis proper. Fayette is immediately east of Memphis. 2015 population at 39K, 40% of which has happened in the past twenty years.
This post was edited on 5/2/18 at 2:50 am
Posted by Bullfrog
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Posted on 5/2/18 at 2:48 am to
quote:

I lived in Fayette until I was 22
Well it almost goes without saying the you were damned lucky to have dodged that bullet.
Posted by AlonsoWDC
Memphis, where it ain't Ten-a-Key
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Posted on 5/2/18 at 2:50 am to
Lol I know what you mean.

Just saying, I never thought I would see a thread about my home county on the OT.
Posted by starsandstripes
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Posted on 5/2/18 at 4:23 am to
Seems to be something coming from the ground up and pinpoint. Smoke plume, fire, maybe factory related?
Posted by AlonsoWDC
Memphis, where it ain't Ten-a-Key
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Posted on 5/2/18 at 5:39 am to
Not a lot of factories at all in Fayette.

But maybe.
Posted by YNWA
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Posted on 5/2/18 at 6:44 am to
Meth lab explosion
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