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Last year there was a tornado warning on the first day!
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Huddled under the wing of a C-310 while the lightning was putting on a real show was certainly not the best place to be but I was wondering about the odds of our plane getting hit with the 10000 other planes on the field. I was also worried about the high winds with planes anchored in soggy ground. I wasn?t worried about hail though.
Casual weather observation: I lived most of my like in Jacksonville Florida (home of the ordinance) and arguable the thunderstorm/lightning capital of the world. Now I live in Northern California.
The thunderstorms in Florida would sometimes be so nasty that the street lights would turn on it got so dark. These storms would have serious lightning, it would rain so hard you couldn?t see across the street, the winds would often be gale force. Hail was an oddity though. Sometimes years could go by and I would never see any hail. If it did hail, it was small and the quantity was light.
In Northern California, thunderstorms are rare and they are really, really wimpy by comparison to Florida storms. What's weird is there is
always hail associated them.The quantity of hail is sometimes amazing.
Can anyone explain why this is? I assume that humidity plays a large part.
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And yes I do worry. Last year there was a tornado warning on the first day! My buddy and I had rented a house and stayed out on the front port half the night looking for tornados in the dark! 
Kinda silly but it gave us something to do with our nervous energy. The next day some planes that were not secured very well were blown around and dammaged due to microburst activity on the field. We were very glad we hadn't camped! We saw tons of sleeping bags laid out to dry the next day by their (I suspect) very sleep-deprived owners.
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