Cloud Stalker

Monday, October 22, 2007

This picture was taken May 21,07 Leaving Missouri onward to south Dakota
I loved the hills so beautiful! I have been feeling a little claustrophobic living here on Florida's peninsula wrapped by water and where everything is flat. No severe storms for my area all summer just a sub tropical system went over

what I want to see is a

yup A wall cloud.
I am hoping that with the next couple months and cold fronts trying to make it down here i will find what i am looking for:)

Today well it looks like it will be yet another hot and humid day this is what NWS had to say about it...
..HEAT IMPACT...
SWELTERING CONDITIONS FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR WILL RETURN THIS
AFTERNOON. THE COMBINATION OF TEMPERATURES NEAR OR JUST ABOVE 90
WITH MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY AROUND 55 PERCENT WILL CREATE
APPARENT TEMPERATURES AROUND 100. RESIDENTS SHOULD TREAT TODAY AS
A DAY IN LATE AUGUST OR EARLY SEPTEMBER BY DRINKING PLENTY OF
WATER BEFORE DURING AND AFTER ACTIVITY...AND WEARING LIGHTWEIGHT
AND LIGHT COLORED CLOTHING. THOSE MOST SENSITIVE TO HEAT SHOULD
REMAIN IN AIR CONDITIONED LOCATIONS TODAY.
and of course:SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. Story of my life
Maybe the next front will make it down(I'm not holding on any hope for it)
If anything exciting happens I will post, for now.....
KEEP YOUR EYES TO THE SKY!
Jess;@

3 comments:

Dewdrop said...: LOVE the new look!; October 22, 2007 at 1:46 PM
Dewdrop said...: So cool that we were both remembering our chasecations on the same day... lol kindred spirits.; October 22, 2007 at 1:47 PM
CloudStalker said...: Yes we are! Meso mamma's! we need to figure out a way to make to the plains next spring.; October 22, 2007 at 1:58 PM

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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.