3/31 Severe Weather Thread

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Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg

Pissed beyond words. Had I followed my gut instinct I would have been on that tornado. I didn't and that was that.

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You got too caught up in that Taco Bell and it's glorious burritos!

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Originally Posted by RocketDawg

Are you on the Live Chasers network? Just looked at Kelly Williamson's feed from Indianola and it looks pretty dark there.

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I'm not. I'll stream some live video from my phone on UStream that goes out over my Twitter and Facebook for those that follow me or are friends. I just got a dash cam that i think I can stream from. Just got to figure out how. I'm technologically challenged when it comes to things like that.

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Originally Posted by I seen it dawg

You got too caught up in that Taco Bell and it's glorious burritos!

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That may have been it.

OK thanks. It would be interesting to see once you get it up and going. Probably somewhat expensive to do though.

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Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg

Pissed beyond words. Had I followed my gut instinct I would have been on that tornado. I didn't and that was that.

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Live and learn, buddy.

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Originally Posted by TheRef

Live and learn, buddy.

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If I hadn't had a reporter from the paper riding it wouldn't have been so bad. The one day I needed to be on my game and I 17 it up kimchee leaving his motel room.

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Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg

If I hadn't had a reporter from the paper riding it wouldn't have been so bad. The one day I needed to be on my game and I 17 it up kimchee leaving his motel room.

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Haha. It's okay. Today are days you tell the reporter, "You live and learn when chasing. Sometimes you feast, sometimes you only have famine. We took a risk by going after this cell, it ended up being the wrong cell. This is a daily struggle on large systems like this."

I'm still shocked only one tornado warning in the state.

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Originally Posted by I seen it dawg

How much water did West Point get you guys think? Hitting old Waverly in the am...

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I don't know exactly about West Point but most of what we got went through there too. We got a LOT. I wanted to mow my yard tomorrow but I doubt that's going to happen. I don't have a 4 wheel drive mower.

There is a apparently a tornado on the ground near Priceville, AL (power flashes, debris up to 8500 feet) and heading toward my house in Madison. Should be here in about 15 minutes if it holds together. Lots of lightning to my west and southwest. The cats are in the closet, and we may be shortly.

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Originally Posted by RocketDawg

There is a apparently a tornado on the ground near Priceville, AL (power flashes, debris up to 8500 feet) and heading toward my house in Madison. Should be here in about 15 minutes if it holds together. Lots of lightning to my west and southwest. The cats are in the closet, and we may be shortly.

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Hang on! Following it on Weather Channel

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Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg

I'm still shocked only one tornado warning in the state.

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Post my pic of it stark if you don't mind.

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Originally Posted by I seen it dawg

How much water did West Point get you guys think? Hitting old Waverly in the am...

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Waverly is a hell of a course. Last time I played it I came out hot. Shot a 37 on the front and thought that I had her figured out, only to shoot a 49 on the back.

Question for you guys that know.. It seems this thing wasn't near as bad as everybody thought it would be and I'm thankful for it, but what do you guys think caused it? I don't know much about weather but it seems that conditions were pefect for it to be extremely bad today.

Nothing here but heavy rain. It went south of me and apparently dissipated before reaching the residential areas of south Huntsville. There are reports of damage in Priceville, just outside of Decatur. Not sure how much right now.

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Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg

Pissed beyond words. Had I followed my gut instinct I would have been on that tornado. I didn't and that was that.

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Dude, I was storm chasin' from my back deck..... it was a pretty decent one....

I saw a lot of whacky cloud stuff goin on....

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Originally Posted by TUSK

Dude, I was storm chasin' from my back deck..... it was a pretty decent one....

I saw a lot of whacky cloud stuff goin on....

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I told Starkvegas that it looked like it was headed toward TUSKnado alley. Guess it was.

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Originally Posted by Mjoelner

I told Starkvegas that it looked like it was headed toward TUSKnado alley. Guess it was.

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yup, 3 have passed within 2.5 miles the last 2 years........ this one was 'bout a mile away...

I just got off a neighbor's roof from fixin' some stuff..

Treemy snapped this pic 'round 'vegas...

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Here's a pic up my driveway I took from my deck while grillin' deer sausage...

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Thanks for posting that pic, Tusk, for Tree. I pretty much just checked out after my last post and just now saw his request.

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Originally Posted by It_Could_Happen

Question for you guys that know.. It seems this thing wasn't near as bad as everybody thought it would be and I'm thankful for it, but what do you guys think caused it? I don't know much about weather but it seems that conditions were pefect for it to be extremely bad today.

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You're right. They were expecting more tornadoes. We did get a ton of severe storms with large hail and wind, though.

This may sound weird but tornadoes are actually pretty delicate things. They have to have a perfect environment to form and if something is just a hair off you can forget about it. What that one thing was yesterday I don't know.

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Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg

You're right. They were expecting more tornadoes. We did get a ton of severe storms with large hail and wind, though.

This may sound weird but tornadoes are actually pretty delicate things. They have to have a perfect environment to form and if something is just a hair off you can forget about it. What that one thing was yesterday I don't know.

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Exactly... it would be interesting to hear a more advanced look at the conditions.
Over here in DFW, Steve Mccauley (Who got his degree at State) posts a lot of info on his facebook now that he is a teacher instead of on air weathermen. I remember he broke down some info about the Day after Christmas tornado that did such damage in East Dallas.
It was also interesting that he posted Yesterday morning explaining what happened overnight and why we did NOT get the 2nd round of storms that was very possible to happen. Some of the better models were showing Strong supercells marching towards DFW early thursday morning. There was a strong dryline to the west. No CAP at all and energy in the Atmosphere was primed, peaking at around 3000 over the entire DFW metroplex.. which should have feed any storms coming off the dryline. Instead... nothing because sinking air moved in over the area after the first wave of storms wed morning.

I say Let's put Ref to the test haha...

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Originally Posted by ScoobaDawg

Exactly... it would be interesting to hear a more advanced look at the conditions.
Over here in DFW, Steve Mccauley (Who got his degree at State) posts a lot of info on his facebook now that he is a teacher instead of on air weathermen. I remember he broke down some info about the Day after Christmas tornado that did such damage in East Dallas.
It was also interesting that he posted Yesterday morning explaining what happened overnight and why we did NOT get the 2nd round of storms that was very possible to happen. Some of the better models were showing Strong supercells marching towards DFW early thursday morning. There was a strong dryline to the west. No CAP at all and energy in the Atmosphere was primed, peaking at around 3000 over the entire DFW metroplex.. which should have feed any storms coming off the dryline. Instead... nothing because sinking air moved in over the area after the first wave of storms wed morning.

I say Let's put Ref to the test haha...

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Put me to the test on what? Why it wasn't as bad as some thought? I mean we weren't expecting a tornado outbreak yesterday. But it certainly was a little lackluster on the tornado side. The reason was because this quickly turned from an isolated cell event to a QLCS (Quasi-linear Convective System) event, so the chances for strong supercells to have energy all to themselves died off. Usually when you have a cell all by itself, it has an endless supply of energy to draw from, which means you're more likely to have the strongest possible cell for development and spin. Alas, yesterday quickly turned linear, and became more of a straight-line wind event. But we did have 70 MPH winds associated with this system. So to say this wasn't a severe weather event is simply wrong. But we didn't have as many tornados as some thought we would. Just remember, when everything is in a line (especially when the line is oriented almost completely N/S) each cell is eating the energy and cold air from the other cell. This means a weaker set of cells as a whole.

I'll admit I spent most of the say zoomed in on particular storms on radar and not the system as a whole but I thought I remembered a lot of discrete or semi-discrete cells. I know the storms I finally made a play on around Canton and Jackson went linear 15 minutes after I took off after them and fizzled, but I don't remember a lot of other line segments. Not doubting you. I just honestly didn't notice.

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Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg

I'll admit I spent most of the say zoomed in on particular storms on radar and not the system as a whole but I thought I remembered a lot of discrete or semi-discrete cells. I know the storms I finally made a play on around Canton and Jackson went linear 15 minutes after I took off after them and fizzled, but I don't remember a lot of other line segments. Not doubting you. I just honestly didn't notice.

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If you looked at the system as a whole, after about an hour or two of discrete cells, everything meshed together and turned into a QLCS.

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Originally Posted by TheRef

Put me to the test on what? Why it wasn't as bad as some thought? I mean we weren't expecting a tornado outbreak yesterday. But it certainly was a little lackluster on the tornado side. The reason was because this quickly turned from an isolated cell event to a QLCS (Quasi-linear Convective System) event, so the chances for strong supercells to have energy all to themselves died off. Usually when you have a cell all by itself, it has an endless supply of energy to draw from, which means you're more likely to have the strongest possible cell for development and spin. Alas, yesterday quickly turned linear, and became more of a straight-line wind event. But we did have 70 MPH winds associated with this system. So to say this wasn't a severe weather event is simply wrong. But we didn't have as many tornados as some thought we would. Just remember, when everything is in a line (especially when the line is oriented almost completely N/S) each cell is eating the energy and cold air from the other cell. This means a weaker set of cells as a whole.

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Ok that was too easy for you.....

practicing