Cloud Stalker: April 2009

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Tornado's in pasco???

Tornado Reports .
1231 4 E HOLIDAY PASCO FL 2819 8268 TORNADO DAMAGE REPORTED IN TRINITY OAKS SUBDIVISION. (TBW)
1250 2 SSW LAND O' LAKES PASCO FL 2819 8247 PUBLIC REPORT OF A TORNADO JUST NORTH OF INTERSECTION OF STATE ROAD 54 AND U.S. HIGHWAY 41 MOVING EAST NORTHEAST. (TBW)
1300 3 NNE WESLEY CHAPEL PASCO FL 2828 8231 POSSIBLE TORNADO. NWS ON ROUTE TO DO SURVEY. (TBW)SOURCE
Well it's about time we had some action around here! Wouldn't you know it i was working in a warehouse without windows, so every chance i got i would open the back door and watch the sky, it was beautiful. All I had was a camera phone but i still got some cool lighting video.
It definitely was not chase able storm anyway, and if there were tornadoes they were rain wrapped speaking of rain were received 1.52inches of much needed rain.
Click HERE for some story's on today's weather event.
Now the action has past its time to sit back and enjoy some beautiful weather. Tomorrows high is a perfect 75.
Gottta go for now, A mother job is never done.....
Keep your eyes to the sky!!
Jess
Cloud Stalker

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.