Cloud Stalker

Monday, May 7, 2007

Indeed we did get some rain. in fifteen mins we got.50 of rain.Then it was gone.
just like that. No pictures( my daughter had my camera)

I can't beleive all the weather events going on, my hubby is getting sick of the weather channel..lol.. not me!!
Cheak out my chaser links to see everthing that happened this weekend.
I pray for all those in Greensburg,Kanas, I agree with dew in saying I can't believe only 10 lost there lives in the EF5 tornado, 2 miles this wedge tornado was and the devastation is katrina like.Unbelievable.

Florida has seen it share of severe weather too, nothing like the plains but the south has got some much needed rain.YEA!!!

I have to take my son to school now but I will put up another post soon on the low spinning off east coast shore, keep and eye on Jeff Gammon's blog he is covering this weather event..
toodles....Jess

3 comments:

Mike Wilhelm said...: Y'all sure need the rain. The devastation in Greensburg must be among the worst tornado disasters of all time. 1.5-2 miles wide by 22 miles long. That's about 40 square miles of destruction. It's amazing and miraculous that more did not die.; May 8, 2007 at 12:07 AM
Dewdrop said...: Truly amazing.; May 8, 2007 at 9:23 AM
CloudStalker said...: I agree, I was reading that a spotter was responsible for the number being so low!!
Thats why I want to be a spotter!!!; May 8, 2007 at 9:49 AM

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HAIL (3/4 inch or greater)

Hail can cause significant damage to your vehicle, break windows and damage roofs of homes and businesses.
Hail can cause significant bodily injuries such as broken bones and even blindness if wind blown.
Softball (4.5 inches) sized hail was reported in Lake Wales, Florida on March 30, 1996.
Haildrifts, up to four feet deep of dime to nickel sized hail, occurred in low-lying areas near Zephyrhills, Florida on January 29, 1997.
Hailstones the size of softballs can fall at speeds faster than 100 mph

supercell

Supercells derive their rotation through tilting of horizontal vorticity (an invisible horizontal vortex) caused by wind shear. Strong updrafts lift the air turning about a horizontal axis and cause this air to turn about a vertical axis. This forms the deep rotating updraft, the mesocyclone.
A cap or capping inversion is usually required to form a downdraft of sufficient strength. The cap puts an inverted (warm-above-cold) layer above a normal (cold-above-warm) boundary layer, and by preventing warm surface air from sinking too far, allows one or both of the following:
Air below the cap warms and/or becomes more moist
Air above the cap cools
This creates a warmer, moister layer below a cooler layer, which is increasingly unstable (because warm air is less dense and tends to rise). When the cap weakens or moves, explosive development follows.
In North America, supercells usually show up on Doppler radar as starting at a point or hook shape on the southwestern side, fanning out to the northeast. The heaviest precipitation is usually on the southwest side, ending abruptly short of the rain-free updraft base or main updraft (not visible to radar). The rear flank downdraft, or RFD, carries precipitation counterclockwise around the north and northwest side of the updraft base, producing a "hook echo" that indicates the presence of a mesocyclone.