Billy Griffin
An active weather day, with nice low-level shear, created an environment supportive of funnel clouds and borderline severe storms.
I left the office at about 3:30 this afternoon, to intercept a line of intense storms coming into Pierce and King counties. As I was heading south on the 'Valley Freeway,' officially known as WA 167, I managed to catch an intense convective cell, producing numerous funnel clouds and torrential pea-sized hail. The hail was so intense that the freeway was at a STOP for nearly ten minutes! Wind damage was also reported/observed widespread between Renton and Auburn, WA.
Continued frustration that the public was generally 'unaware' of the potential SVR due to NO warnings or not even a special wx statement.
Here's the link to the video, formatted into WMV file. It's 25MB to download, so plz be patient.......
http://www.billygriffin.com/video_gallery/Seattle Weather.wmv
Hail video here: http://www.billygriffin.com/video_gallery/MVI_2043.wmv
As typical, I sound like a dork on camera... ignore the audio, enjoy the video!
I left the office at about 3:30 this afternoon, to intercept a line of intense storms coming into Pierce and King counties. As I was heading south on the 'Valley Freeway,' officially known as WA 167, I managed to catch an intense convective cell, producing numerous funnel clouds and torrential pea-sized hail. The hail was so intense that the freeway was at a STOP for nearly ten minutes! Wind damage was also reported/observed widespread between Renton and Auburn, WA.
Continued frustration that the public was generally 'unaware' of the potential SVR due to NO warnings or not even a special wx statement.
Here's the link to the video, formatted into WMV file. It's 25MB to download, so plz be patient.......
http://www.billygriffin.com/video_gallery/Seattle Weather.wmv
Hail video here: http://www.billygriffin.com/video_gallery/MVI_2043.wmv
As typical, I sound like a dork on camera... ignore the audio, enjoy the video!
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