Agreed. I've followed many storms; severe weather is a hobby. I have never been more nervous about a cell's proximity to me than last night. I'm just a jog from West Broad, along the path of the cell, and I believe that if it was tornadic I was easily less than a half-mile from where it would have produced - I dare speculate closer to a quarter mile.
It was kind of odd how it shook down - I got up to get a drink of water, awakened by distant thunder. I walked out of my room, turned off a hall light I assumed our roommate left on when she went to bed, but she called down to me and said there was a tornado warning and asked if that was why I was up. I had no idea as it was still very calm, flipped on the TV and caught a glimpse of the radar while the thunder and lightning amped up 1000% percent in what seemed like a few seconds. Poked my head out the door and the wall cloud was just becoming visible as I looked to the immediate north with the west blocked from view by my porch - that was all I needed to see to know that if it was tornadic, we were right in the worst place. I woke my wife up quickly, glued one eye to the radar, and watched the wall cloud roll by just to the north of the house. I haven't been that close to a wall cloud since my early SkyWarn days - kind of makes me wish I hadn't given it up.
So, anyone feel like helping me cut a hole in my house for a second sump pump drain?