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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But how can they be so wrong? The models really screwed this one up. The problem is next time when they give a strong warning, no one will listen. [/quote]

Because the cells just didn’t explode the way they could have. Conditions that are perfect FOR a tornado don’t GUARANTEE a tornado. Just meant everything was in place along with a strong line of storms to create a worst case that we luckily did not get! [/quote]

But this was the first time in my life (I'm 43) I can remember anything premptively closing/cancelling for a forecasted thunderstorm. They acted like something was DIFFERENT this time. There are lots of storms that have the potential to throw off tornados - we don't cancel for all of them. Why did they think this on was so extra and why were they wrong?[/quote]

The NWS was giving us a pretty severe weather warning, the likes of which they didn’t give this area since 2013 and before that was the Derecho in 2012. People were understandably freaked out. Plus, it actually was bad in parts of western NoVa and there are still power outages in Sterling and in Frederick and Carroll Counties in MD. [/quote]

I live in Sterling. Absolutely nothing happened here. We've had worse storms already this summer. It wasn't even top 3 for THIS year. [/quote]

That’s great, you’re lucky![/quote]

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