6/26/09 NOW: CO/SD/NE

[Stuart Robinson]

Very impressive Tornado warned Supercell just West of Julesburg, NE.

65dbz core, VIL's maxed out at 75 kg/m2 and Tops to 70 k feet (KLMX Radar) 65 K feet (KCYS Radar)

 

[Bill Hark]

Mods: You may want to add Florida.

I just got of the phone with Jason Persoff who was watching a nice tornado in the Jacksonville area. The tornado probably crossed I-95.
The storm had striations and beaver tail per Jason. The tornado ended but there is a new wall cloud as of about 15 minutes ago per Jason.

Nice sea breeze interactions on the radar loop.

Bill Hark

 

[Andrew Stoller]

Wesley Luginbyhl on TVN has a stream up on the supercell in the southeast NE panhandle. He's on I-80 just to the east of it. Looks like an atomic bomb!

Todd Thorn is on it as well, but the connection is sketchy.
http://www.chasertv.com/index.php?o...9:todd-thorn&catid=20:chaser-pages&Itemid=82"

 

[Mark Farnik]

SPC just upgraded portions of Severe Thunderstorm Watch #519 to Tornado Watch #520. The tornado watch area is from roughly Wiggins, CO to Ainsworth, NE. The MD associated with the watch upgrade mentions the environment over the watch area will become increasingly favorable for tornadic supercells as the evening goes on. I'm flying out the door within the next half hour and will be racing northeast on I-76 towards Fort Morgan.

Unfortunately, one of the supercells is currently bearing down on my parents farm north of Fort Morgan and has 2.00" hail indicated with it and is starting to develop a couplet... I'm pretty concerned for them and for my dad's crops attm

 

[Bill Hark]

A local station is streaming video in Jacksonville with nice video clips of the storm. At this point, it may have been a very large waterspout and it is unclear if there was any damage on land. The video clips are impressive.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/6pm/default.aspx

Bill Hark

 

[Aaron Kennedy]

Crappiest storm in existence is plaguing the GFK area with tornado warnings/reports. Finally got out of a thesis celebration dinner for a friend and couldn't resist heading out for a look when a tornado was reported just west of town. Locals are out in full force and are in full fledged freak out. Went out and wasted 30 minutes of my time hearing about 200000 bazillion funnel clouds only to view a shelf cloud picking some dust up along the leading edge. Don't let the storm reports fool you... not missing out on too much.