Mike Hollingshead
I guess I should make this for the 28th since it was early this morning.
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/2008/08-7-28-7292.jpg
Early morning supercell in western IA. Early as in 4 a.m. or something. One was tornado warned around 5:00. There's a softball hail report at 5:11 there. Early in the day that part of the outflow boundary had a nice 14-15c at 700mb sitting on it. When these finally blew up, it cooled to 10-11c there. I think the siggy tor index on the spc page was still at 9 or 10 there at midnight. Three of these supecells got nice hooks on them on radar. That one above I watched explode from little to that supercell just east of Denison. I was like, damn, this thing has a fixed dome/overshooting top now! And a large one at that. I did another time lapse of several still images of this.
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/2008/08-7-28-7350.jpg
Playing with the scene/stars/moon/twilight/storms....cirrus too. It was super clear aloft, though very humid down low. West of those storms on water vapor imagery was showing up a little red/dry/sinking. The stars were just very bright, even with horrible light pollution thanks mostly to the cargill plant not too far west of me(8 miles). More later.
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/2008/08-7-28-7292.jpg
Early morning supercell in western IA. Early as in 4 a.m. or something. One was tornado warned around 5:00. There's a softball hail report at 5:11 there. Early in the day that part of the outflow boundary had a nice 14-15c at 700mb sitting on it. When these finally blew up, it cooled to 10-11c there. I think the siggy tor index on the spc page was still at 9 or 10 there at midnight. Three of these supecells got nice hooks on them on radar. That one above I watched explode from little to that supercell just east of Denison. I was like, damn, this thing has a fixed dome/overshooting top now! And a large one at that. I did another time lapse of several still images of this.
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/2008/08-7-28-7350.jpg
Playing with the scene/stars/moon/twilight/storms....cirrus too. It was super clear aloft, though very humid down low. West of those storms on water vapor imagery was showing up a little red/dry/sinking. The stars were just very bright, even with horrible light pollution thanks mostly to the cargill plant not too far west of me(8 miles). More later.
