Last Thursday morning I left work around 7:30 or so. Looking E-SE the sky looked pretty wierd then I pass around the corner of the bldg and look wast. Wall cloud moving my way at about 40 miles an hour. Meant to add a post here to see if anyone was out at Possesion or on the Sky. I drove out of its path but not 10 minutes later the Emergency Broadcast Network cut in to the morning radio show with a "severe storm alert." Winds to 70 mph, severe lightning and heavy rains. First time I've ever heard the EBN kick in for a real storm. Yikes.

40 years in W. Wa. and that was the first wall cloud I've ever seen.

Left Texas at about 3 and still have nightmares about tornadoes. I'll be standing there fishing a hog line when I look up and no one is around anymore. Look behind me and there is an F5 bearing down on me. Run, run, run, wake up

I asked my folks about it once. My Mom told me we where heading to a Texas A&M game one Saturday with about 3 or 4 tornadoes on the ground on both sides of the road. My Mom freaked but my old man wasn't going to miss a good football game

Seeing a lot more storm clouds around here the last few years. Saw a couple of storm clouds up to around 50K feet over the mountians this past spring. Work with folks from the midwest and one said he saw a tornado forming over Lk. Wa. but it didn't touch down. News reports confirmed this.

With global warming I think Wa. status as the only state in the lower 48 to never have a tornado caused fatality is nearing an end

And it's Dec?? Could be a wild spring.