Vortex 2 Radar Data

[Ryan McGinnis]

Caught this link off of Tim Marshall's FB page -- Vortex 2 has posted a few sample radar animations from the La Grange tornado and a couple other storms:

http://vortex2.org/dowloops/

Takes forever to load, but pretty dang cool!

 

[Greg Blumberg]

I'm getting some weird code from this. What format are these files?

 

[Joey Ketcham]

Yeah I can't open them either, they have no file extensions.

 

[Jeff Snyder]

I'm getting some weird code from this. What format are these files?

I think they are animated GIFs. Note that some are also ~50+ MB, so your best bet may be to download / "save as", then open in something like Internet Explorer. The lack of a file extension confuses Firefox... If you can do that, you'll see DOW5/RapidDOW almost get hit by that tornado, which passes within ~200 m (from my eyeballed estimate) of the radar.

 

[Travis Davis]

Opened fine for me with Internet Explorer.

 

[Marcus Hicks]

Used IE as well and it worked fine. They do take a little time to load.

 

[Andrea Griffa]

I can see only one image, opening it with quick time, but no animation...

Anyone could upload an mpeg or mov file with animation? This thing is too fine, guys, please, do it.

 

[Jim Zandonai]

I didnt have a problem opening it just took a longtime to download..once it fully D.L you should see the animation..awesome images.

 

[Wesley Luginbyhl]

That loop is amazing. We have really fast internet and it took a couple hours for me. Going to download it this time.

 

[Jim Zandonai]

Yeah the server is extremely slow putting out data at 'dial up' speed so one has to be very patient..nevertheless the images are excellent.

 

[Jared Farrer]

Yeah I saw that they almost got hit from one of Joshs radar recalls. I guess the rapid dow. Who was leading that by the way. Was it Karen? Thankfully it was a barely on the ground with windspeeds below 45 m/s2 so therefor did really no damage to the rapid dow. I saw the image too what a close call! LOL!

By the way thank you Tim Marshall for putting this up!

 

[John Lavin]

Thank you both for posting this! I am currently working on a research project on June 9th, 09 storms. The data from that day really helps with it!

 

[Ryan McGinnis]

Thank you both for posting this! I am currently working on a research project on June 9th, 09 storms. The data from that day really helps with it!

You might try giving one of the steering committe members a ring or an email - I'd guess they'd be quite happy to share even more data with you for your research, if it's a scientific research project.

 

[John Lavin]

You might try giving one of the steering committe members a ring or an email - I'd guess they'd be quite happy to share even more data with you for your research, if it's a scientific research project.

Well, its nothing really formal. Just a study I am doing for a Synoptic 2 course. I am thinking about expanding it for my senior seminar next semester, however.