Of Andrew and Melissa and I have
been watching this very closely.
Let's take a look at our
camera one more time.
Here we not only have those strong winds,
it looks like we're seeing a little bit of
hail in association with that too. Andrew.
Melissa, is that what you're seeing there?
A little bit of hail. It's hard to see.
I gotta tell you, it looked ferocious.
Look at the flagpole itself
blowing in the winds.
We normally just see the the flags
themselves, but the actual pole is blowing.
It does look like hail.
Yeah, this is a live look right now in
Rome as a tornado warning is just now.
Issued for Floyd County,
Bartow County and also into Gordon County.
It's going to be in effect until 3:15.
Our tower Cam is getting a look at the
brunt of what we have going on right now in
the Rome area with the very strong winds.
We've been telling you all along.
We're talking about strong winds even
outside of any severe thunderstorm warnings.
We also have our storm Tracker
Thunder truck in Rome right now.
If you all have that shot,
we would love to take that so we
can see how things are looking right
now up in the Floyd County area.
This is storm tracker.
Under truck.
This is in the downtown area now in Rome,
where of course we're turning
around there in a shopping center.
It looks like with the very heavy
rain that is coming down now,
very strong winds up in Floyd
County right now.
Let's go back to radar because
I want to show you the latest we
have with our velocity couplet.
This is where we would have
that potential rotation.
Really this whole area that you're
seeing here where we have these
winds moving in different directions,
that's what our Doppler radar and the
velocity mode here is able to detect.
And that's where we have that
potential rotation that's coming
through the Floyd County area that
would move into Bartow County,
the northern parts of Bartow,
we think, and also into Gordon County.
There's Calhoun,
here is I-75 right now there is a Dyersville,
Adairsville,
you are in this warning area as
well if you are in this red Polygon,
again that includes parts of
northern Floyd County,
includes the Rome area
over toward Adairsville,
over toward Calhoun and northern
Bartow and into parts of Gordon County.
You need to get in your tornado.
Safe position.
These are very strong winds
in association with this.
And then we're seeing some of the
rotating winds with that as well,
just to the South of our murchie,
just a little bit to the north of
the Rome area where we're seeing that
rotation that is moving through that area.
Right now.
We're getting in a little bit closer.
Here's Pinson, there is Shannon,
there's Plainville.
Here's the part right here where we
see that rotation near old Dalton Rd.
NE. That's just South of our murchie
and just to the north of the Rome area,
north and east of Rome.
We've been seeing those strong winds in
Rome right now and in Floyd County where
we were showing you our tower Cam there.
But as you can see this moves northward.
It will continue to move toward
Adairsville and also on up toward
the FarmVille area where we have
that warning that is in effect.
These are moving through pretty quickly.
Andrew and Melissa let me know what
you have on the speed of that from that
warning as these storms are moving up
toward the north and also to the east.
Andrew, that's a 65 mph and we have that
right on in with our forecast cone here so.
That that tells you the exact time
as the storm is moving at 65 mph,
but we're toward Pinson at around 3:02
into Plainville 307 McDaniels at 319,
blackwill at about 3:24 if it holds together,
moving up toward the north and
also to the east here.
I'm going to go back to that tower
Cam in Rome at remote 58 if we can.
I'm just curious to see how
things are looking right now.
These are moving through very quickly.
The wind is still very strong there in Rome,
but the rain is not as heavy
as it was just a few minutes.
Ago.
But that wind is still really whip whipping
up and that's what I want all of you to know.
Even outside of these storms
that we're having today,
the wind is going to be an issue.
We have a history of this storm system
even not in a tornado warning and even
outside of the storms where the winds
have been whipping up and we've had
trees down even in areas where it's
not raining from those strong winds
that continue to push on through.
So this is that live look that we
have in Rome right now where the winds
are still very strong, dark clouds.
There,
but in the downtown area already it's
not as bad as it was just a few minutes ago.
Back full here,
I wanna go back to velocity so we can
see this couplet that we're watching
with those strong storms that are
pushing through the area right now.
This is the part right here where we're
seeing that difference of the wind
moving toward the radar site and the
winds moving away from the radar site
where we get that rotation within that.
And that is right there where you see the
Reds and the Greens right in this area
right here of those storms where we have.
That potential rotation that has prompted
this tornado warning for Bartow County,
Floyd County and also into
Gordon County and this is going
to be in effect until 3:15.
This is all part of the line that does
have a history of producing damage.
This goes all the way
back into Texas last night
when we were tracking these storms
moving through and it did cause
damage there numerous power outages.
We do have some reports of power outages
over parts of North Georgia right now.
Here's a look again at the
larger part of that that.
Extends up into Tennessee
and also into Kentucky.
We're on the tail end of this
part right here and especially
in Northwest Georgia right now.
That's where most of the energy
is located for these storms to
be very strong and extending
over into North Georgia too.
We also have a tornado watch in effect.
The original watch was for northwest and
West Georgia to expire at 5:00 o'clock.
The National Weather Service just
expanded or actually issued a new.
Watch to include areas now east of Atlanta,
this is roughly along and north of I-20.
So now earlier Metro Atlanta was
not included in that first watch.
Now with the second watch,
much of Metro Atlanta is included in this,
again roughly along I-20 and northward
that extends over to the east,
over toward Athens,
north of Lake Oconee and into
parts of North Georgia.
It is in this area of North Georgia where
we have more of those ingredients right
now that give us that better chance.
For those stronger storms,
it is a level three of five
risk in North Georgia right now.
For those stronger storms,
the main threats we're talking
about damaging winds,
heavy rain and tornadoes possible
and we are now seeing a radar
indicated tornado warning that is
up into parts of Floyd County here
also moving into areas of Bartow
County and also into Gordon County.
Andrew,
Melissa and I have been noticing
the lightning with this has been
very strong on the northern part
of this line moving in.
On the southern fringes of that,
not quite as impressive.
Right now we've got about 23
lightning strikes in the past 15
minutes and that's mainly from
this part right here and that main
core of that storm that does have
the circulation with it right now.