Beau's Journey

  The area was hit very hard this morning and again early this afternoon.  I thought maybe the storms would develop just east of us this morning – they did not.  They formed right over us.  Numerous reports of large hail were received from South Illinois, West Kentucky, and West Tennessee.  Numerous tornadoes have hit KY/TN/MS/AL/GA.  Some deadly.  Not sure on the death toll, yet.  More than 100 have been injured.  Not a good day for weather.  It was a long night and a long morning.  Glad it is over.

  A large hook echo and wall cloud moved across southern Graves County, KY.  No damage that I know of – it passed south of Mayfield.  The wall cloud passed, once again, near Joey’s parents.  Seems like they always get it. 

  This afternoon I met Jason and Jess up at the farm.  We ran conduit.  We have to bury all of the cables for the OEM antennas/radios.  Also the weather instrument wires – tower cam wires – and so on.  It was MUDDY.  VERY MUDDY.  It was actually the muddiest that it has been since we started this project.  Hopefully it will dry out a bit in the coming days.  Although, more heavy rain is likely Sunday night and Monday – more severe weather is possible.  Go figure.

  Some photos from today’s mud-fest

 

Jason and I – putting the anemometer on top of the big tower. 

 

All in the name of "meteorology" 

 

 

 

 

And the tower cam

 

PROJECT COMPLETE!!!!

Running lots and lots and lots of wires.

 

Jason – checking out the size of the pipe.  Bobby came up to help put everything in place.  It was MUDDY.

 

 

MUDDDDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY – trenching wires!  Jason and Joey

 

  Here are some photos I took from the Round Knob area of Massac County – just south of my farm.

 

Trampoline blown into a tree – 2 miles south of Round Knob

 

 

 

HOOK ECHO PASSING INTO GRAVES COUNTY, KENTUCKY – TORNADO WARNING WAS ISSUED FOR THIS
INCLUDING THE CITY OF MAYFIELD.

 

 Hail storm in Reidland, Kentucky – earlier this morning (towards noon)

 

Photo by Justin Adams – Reidland Fire Department

 

 Tommy’s mom sent him this photo from West TN

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