Cloud Stalker: Tornado fest in the plains, Sunny and beautiful in Florida

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Tornado fest in the plains, Sunny and beautiful in Florida

I sit outside in my backyard with a genital breeze on my shoulders, My long black hair pulled back so it doesn't blow in my face. I am Drinking a nice tall glass of sweet ice tea with a slice of lemon and I am watching my dog Maddie hunt for lizards, kinda funny she lifts things up to look under them she knows where they hide and yes if she catches it she will kill it.

Weird, my dog the lizard slayer.

I have windows 7 on my laptop which is cool cause you can have your windows side by side so as i write this I have on ChaserTV . A very cool web site for this time of the year. I am watching a awesome storm right now, the shelf clouds are amazing. I wish there was sound, the wind is what I love, the many different sound that it makes. Music to my ears.
Kansas and Oklahoma got nailed yesterday, numerous tornado reports A beautiful multivortex Tornado was caught on video you can see that on Chaser TV
Today looks good for another round of beautiful storms, I so wish I was there. Right now i am there virtually with David Drummond in Kansas, riding along wishing for sound.
Florida weather,Gotta love it. If your into Beautiful blue skies, white puffy clouds

and a warm genital breeze on your shoulders.
There is no rain in our forecast.

Jordan is getting big, three months old now and what a cutie!!

Still hard to believe I am a grandma,where did the time go... Speaking of time it's time to make dinner.
But before I go, I did catch an anvil last week, way inland.A beautiful Seabreeze storm. It didn't last long they never do here. I will end this entry with those photo's.

Keep your eyes on the sky!
Jess
Cloud Stalker

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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.