04-20-11 Tornado warning in Louisville, KY near Waverly Hills

[ChristineThePikachuA]

On the first activation, being at 11:34pm, April 19, I heard my NWR going off for a Tornado Warning and I was like "Don't say Scott, don't say it!" And then, My NWR said "Scott". and I was all "Uh-oh, we're in DANGER NOW. Where are we supposed to take shelter at?!?" So then, I took shelter at the closet, god, I was sweating hot! At the second activation on April 20, 12:13am, the storm got even worse and got even more tornadic. It produced hail sizes to the quarters and it turned the power out.

[ELTIGREROCKS10NEW]

Do you have a 12-262 (gray on the front), or a 12-521 (all black on the front).

[LouisvilleTorn8o]

@ELTIGREROCKS10NEW I'm totally blind, so I'll have to ask somebody which one it is. I have two of them. They're both almost identical, but one is very slightly different than the other, so I may in fact have both of those models. The softer one is set for all counties, and the louder one is just for my county, so I can tell whether a warning is for me before it even starts talking. The soft one is by the bed, so I can turn it off if I need to, while the loud one is always in Alert mode.

[LouisvilleTorn8o]

I also have three older Realistic weather radios, which my ex girlfriend says are loud enough to wake the dead. I currently use one as a backup when the NWS is having problems with the EAS.

[LouisvilleTorn8o]

@Alpine6227 Since I'm visually impaired, I can't read the model numbers on my two weather radios, but one is about 4 years old, and the other one is about 2. They both sound exactly the same, but I have one set to only go off for my county, and it is set much louder than the other one, so I can tell when a warning is coming out for my county. The other one is set for all counties.

[mykidsarework]

6:04 Radar indicates a severe squall line.

[LouisvilleTorn8o]

@mykidsarework I think I've heard them say that before.

We just don't get this bad of weather around here very often. We've had 3 tornado warnings since October, and that's usually at least 3 times more than we'll get in a single year. Back in 2009, Louisville didn't have a single tornado warning.

[ChristineThePikachuA]

@LouisvilleTorn8o: I have the exact same NWR! I got one being a 12-521.

[ChristineThePikachuA]

YAY! MY TORNADO WARNING GOT CANCELLED. F?CK. YES.

[LouisvilleTorn8o]

@ChristineThePikachuA It was definitely a rough night. You guies across the river got it a lot worse than we did. Clark, Scott, Dubois, and several other Indiana counties had confirmed tornados. New Albany in Floyd County got hammered with straight line winds.