JP Santiago
EF1
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- Jun 22, 2005
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I was watching the recent midwest storms over the last several days and noticed that the other night there were a few 55K echo top storms in western Kentucky. That got me thinking if there's any record of the highest echo tops observed? A friend told me that he'd seen some over 60K and another who is a cargo airline pilot recounted to me a storm over Texas last year where he was flying at FL310 and there was a good 50% more of the storm above his flight level as he deviated around the weather.
A cursory search of the Internet didn't find anything right off, but one weather site stated that the max height that can be reported is 70K.
A cursory search of the Internet didn't find anything right off, but one weather site stated that the max height that can be reported is 70K.