Posted on 05/19/2024 4:28:21 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The central US is bracing for what could be a potentially dangerous end to the weekend as forecasters track the threat of severe weather on Sunday, including the potential for a derecho that could sweep across portions of Kansas and Oklahoma with destructive wind gusts higher than 100 mph and baseball-sized hail.
This comes on the heels of another deadly derecho that barreled across Texas and Louisiana on Thursday, blasting the Houston metro area with winds up to 100 mph that left at least seven people dead and more than 1 million customers without power.
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“derecho”. Latest fear mongering word to frighten people. It is just a big thunderstorm with lots of rain, as has been happening since forever.
Does that include wind?
NWS and EPA’s fault.
I think they should call it a “chingaso”.
If we had more Gorebal Warning wouldn’t the hail melt?
Is there hail on Venus?
Mercury?
will we see Stephanie’s Abrams amble bosom?
“Spanish: To strike someone. Hard. Usually in a fight, but sometimes by accident. The plural of this is chingasos.”
Learn something every day.
Better declare pre-emptive states of emergency with shelter-in-place orders
I never, in all my years, heard of a derecho.
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NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) increased the severe weather threat on Sunday and is focusing on central Kansas, where the threat of destructive wind gusts and large hail is highest.
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Because of the threat, the SPC placed nearly 570,000 people in Kansas in a Level 4 out of 5 risk on its 5-point severe thunderstorm risk scale.
Acts 2
1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
19 May 2024, Pentecost Sunday
The derecho that swept through our town back in 2012 was a “little” more than that. We cleaned up trees from our property for days, and was without power for more than a week. In the city, no less.
And not a drop of rain. Just a wall of straight-line winds.
The “Latest fear mongering word,,,” “derecho”, since 1888.
lol
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was.
Haha
According to the National Weather Service (NWS) criterion, a derecho is classified as a band of storms that have winds of at least 25 m/s (50 kn) along the entire span of the storm front, maintained over a time span of at least six hours. Some studies add a requirement that no more than two or three hours separate any two successive wind reports. A more recent, more physically based definition of “derecho” proposes that the term be reserved for use with convective systems that not only contain unique radar-observed features such as bow echoes and mesovortices, but also for events that produce damage swaths at least 100 km (60 miles) wide and 650 km (400 miles) long.
“derecho”, when a bomb cyclone just isn’t enough
Look out Salina, KS. There’s s strong storm just outside the city:
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=38.85;-97.79;7&l=wind-10m&t=20240520/0000
(This is wind speed)
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