Posted on 04/09/2008 10:20:37 AM PDT by HAL9000
As a strong vort max begins to move out of the Rocky Mountain region today, wind shear and instability will be sufficient for intense supercells with the likelihood of producing tornadoes. 40 knots at 850 mb, and ENE-ly storm motions will combine to create perfect storm relative winds for strong tornadoes. The Storm Prediction Center has issued a moderate risk for today, with a hatched area for EF2-EF5 tornadoes. Tomorrow looks like a historic outbreak, so we'll be making a two-day chase out of this. We'll be using three live streaming vehicles today, and we're continue improving our setup, so hopefully we'll have more continuous live video..
They must've woked up the local NEXRAD repair guy (and obviously he didn't answer). That purple ring is not right. But I'd speculate that all the other colors could be somewhat useful.You see that demarcation streaming down from that "teat". It might be helpful to have video (and geo lat-long along with that in addition to precise time).
I'm not asking for much. Just lie back and think 'bout Iraq and whatnot. O.k. so that wasn't all that motivating mental picture to have. Well. O.k.
Alrighty, then. Grab video camera, video-camera batteries, make sure life insurance is paid up. Get into SUV cross-over thingie and DRIVE right to the stinkin' tornado. Get out and video that stinkin' thing.
Accurate time and position are most important. Don't do it if you're scared, or if electrical spikes of billion amp striking out into the clear blue sky bother you.
SO, I'll just gave to go away (for now).
Sorry 'bout that. It slipped.
Those are beautiful but very frightening pictures. Stay safe.
Who knows what's going on in the below picture. Why even bother study it (it being SO unknown, it mysterious, and therefore weird). So I just leave you with this last shot of somehting that nobody knows what it could possibly be:
I'll go out onto a limb and state this: I've NEVER seen the rain indicated on that picture. I do NOT know what the hell that is.
I'm guessing that people in those parts sort of kinda like that?
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