Justin Bailey
EF2
just incredible...cant imagine what it will look like once the sun rises tomorrow and they begin to really get a grasp at the extent of the damage.
At 8:37 the KMXX radar was showing a TVS sporting 147 Kts Maxdv for storm approaching Dadeville. However of course time is now 9:08 and cell has passed that area.
That footage reminds me of the Andover footage from '91. I can't believe the number of horizontal vortices sprawling out from the tornado!
last I checked this system had spun 127 tornadoes (per SPC Storm Reports)
That footage reminds me of the Andover footage from '91. I can't believe the number of horizontal vortices sprawling out from the tornado!
No, it has spun 127 tornado reports. You can see just at a quick glance that some are the same tornado being reported many many times. No matter how many LSRs come in, it's still 1 tornado.
What exactly causes horizontal vortices like that? Reminds me of Dr. Octopus.
What exactly causes horizontal vortices like that? Reminds me of Dr. Octopus.
Real simple, speed shear at different levels. Say, 50kts going south at 100m and 50kts going north at 90m that contains enough moisture to condense.
Chip
If I had a dollar for everytime this had to be said today...
TWC just aired an amazing video of a tornado (I don't know which one) developing from a extemely close vantage point and tearing apart trees and powerlines as it crossed the road. Reminded me of the tight small tornado video from Europe a while back. I can't find a link to it anywhere, can anyone find it?
I find it interesting the media was claiming the frontal boundary to be a dryline and not a cold front, which it obviously was.
ABC33/40 did by far one the most amazing jobs I have ever seen broadcast meterologists do with an outbreak. They kept their cool, knew the area, and understood the importance of the situation, making it as dumbed down as the public needed.
Chip
I'd also be surprised if the total count ends up near the Super Outbreak count. There were a lot of tornadic supercells today, but they primarily occurred over a relatively small area (by comparison to the Super Outbreak); for the most part, most of the tornado reports are from far eastern MS, the northern 2/3 of AL, and adjacent parts of southern TN and northwestern GA (though we can't ignore the other cluster of reports farther northeast). From a pure "totals" standpoint, many of these tornadoes apparently were long-lived, so you'd have 1 tornado per hour compared to maybe 2 or 3 from one supercell. If I remember correctly, we had close to 63 tornadoes in Oklahoma on 5/3/99, and I'm curious to see how many occurred today in AL.
ABC33/40 did by far one the most amazing jobs I have ever seen broadcast meterologists do with an outbreak. They kept their cool, knew the area, and understood the importance of the situation, making it as dumbed down as the public needed.
Chip
If I had a dollar for everytime this had to be said today...
TWC just aired an amazing video of a tornado (I don't know which one) developing from a extemely close vantage point and tearing apart trees and powerlines as it crossed the road. Reminded me of the tight small tornado video from Europe a while back. I can't find a link to it anywhere, can anyone find it?