Cloud Stalker: Leaving Sunday

Friday, May 18, 2007

Leaving Sunday

See that way in the background....
That's the only thing that's going on here well there. At least someone is seeing some rain. Its been over a week now since we saw are whole 1/2 inch of rain.
but that's o.k. I'm leaving Sunday for my tornado chasing expedition.!!!!
YEA!!!!
I will be chasing thru the week.WAHOOOOOOOOO!!
Remember when you were small and it was the day before Christmas or your birthday, remember that special feeling you had.....That is what i'm feeling right now!!
I going loaded too.Camcorder camera camera phone.I'm gonna tape the whole experience!So much too do, its hard to think about anything else.
I don't know what i will be able to blog about when i get back but i will find out!!
what an adventure...me going into the field with experts.
I cant wait to meet everybody!!! I so hope to see some action.
Just seeing the country is adventure on its own.
I'm flying to Kansas city and then were driving to South Dakota a 4-5 hour road trip.
Sound like a long drive but I get to see a part of my country I've never seen before.
I haven't really seen or been any where so this a chance of a life time for me.
Truly a once in a life time trip, The budget were on could never allow a trip like this. I need prayers!! I leave you now as Jess when i come home I will be a true " cloud stalker"

Keep your eyes to the sky
Jess

2 comments:

Dewdrop said...: No, Jess, you will be a true storm chaser!; May 18, 2007 at 9:56 AM
Dewdrop said...: I can't wait to see your pictures!!!; May 26, 2007 at 8:34 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.