Time machine: 1982 Pampa storm in high-definition satellite

Tim Vasquez

Tim Vasquez

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The May 19, 1982 Pampa supercell through the magic of computer processing and rescue of raw GOES archival tapes:

http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/pampa

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The full story is here, and some photos and video clips are on Panoramio, YouTube, and elsewhere.

More "golden oldies" to come soon. I received a batch of this data and am working to sort it out and get it in a usable format like above.

Tim
 
Wow...what a great idea to post this! I love looking at data from old school events. Some events like April 10, 1979 and April 4, 1974 are well documented, whilemany others have little if any data on them. This Pampa event is a classic gem. I believe the first time I saw your video of this tornado was either on a Tornado Video Classics tape or Tornadoes the Entity (the video with the horror-like music).

Thanks for doing this!
 
I believe the first time I saw your video of this tornado was either on a Tornado Video Classics tape or Tornadoes the Entity (the video with the horror-like music).
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Credit for that would have to go to my alter ego Tim Marshall. I don't know if his description still holds with all the storms that he's seen lately, but Tim used to speak with awe about the anvil structure of the Pampa storm. So it's great to be able to see the fine detail on that anvil. It bears a pretty close resemblance to what the 5/3/99 Oklahoma storms put out (not the 2045Z initiation shot above, but the later shots in the link).

Tim
 
One thing that particularly strikes me is that I notice a cyclonic whorl in the last shot (23:45) covering the entire convective system.
Very amazing.
Thank you for these awesome sequences.
 
Thanks for the great data post Tim! I love pouring over past data: UPA, SAT, and SFC. It's almost a exciting to me as viewing old photos and video.

I and others would love more...

Simon
 
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