[BTM]

Some really good ones in Chicago this evening/tonight. Who loves t-storms? Hopefully my power stays on

[Verbiage]

InB4 weird people.

[BTM]

Too late

[CollinsE90]

i have PTSD with weather, i have a good reason

[Verbiage]

Originally Posted by BTM

Too late

Fuck you BTM!




Anyway, if I have a female to sit through it with, I'll enjoy it. Maybe. If I'm home alone, I hide under my comforter.

[Dan in PA]

Originally Posted by Bavarian III

InB4 weird people.

Me. I use WeatherTAP and GRLevel3 to view level II and III NEXRAD radar, it's great because they're relatively cheap products that allow you to view storm tracks, meso/tvs, echo tops, dbZ values, storm-relative velocity, spotter network data etc...WeatherTAP has a better interface and runs as a Java app so it works on Mac.

[Dan in PA]

Originally Posted by CollinsE90

i have PTSD with weather, i have a good reason

When was the date of that tornado? I can post up some radar images for the guys if you'd like (or not, if you'd rather me not).

[CollinsE90]

Originally Posted by Dan in PA

When was the date of that tornado? I can post up some radar images for the guys if you'd like (or not, if you'd rather me not).

3/1/07, enterprise al

i believe it was 300 yards wide, and went for over a mile, there were small tornados that day too but didnt hurt anything, just touched doen in fields

i swear it was the movie twister lived in real life

[Dan in PA]

Originally Posted by CollinsE90

3/1/07, enterprise al

i believe it was 300 yards wide, and went for over a mile

K. Roughly what time?

[CollinsE90]

Originally Posted by Dan in PA

K. Roughly what time?

1:02 pm i believe

[Dan in PA]

Originally Posted by CollinsE90

1:02 pm i believe

Okay, I'll see what I can dig up. The radar at the closest station went into precipitation mode for most of that day, so there was definitely a storm, I'm waiting for them to FTP me the images.

[CollinsE90]

Originally Posted by Dan in PA

Okay, I'll see what I can dig up. The radar at the closest station went into precipitation mode for most of that day, so there was definitely a storm, I'm waiting for them to FTP me the images.

here's video of it, not very good though

[BTM]

embed fail

[CollinsE90]

Originally Posted by BTM

embed fail

fixed

[BTM]

I like this one better

[BTM]

That video is fucking nuts though

[Dan in PA]

Damn. You can clearly see the mesocyclone, rear flank downdraft and tornado itself, still waiting on the FTP

[CollinsE90]

I wont ever foget every detail of that day, remember it like it happened yesterday. Bush flew down, military helicopters from the base(fort rucker is the largest heli base in the US) landing on our football field and medvac'ing people

8 of my classmates died that day and i could of been one of them, or even my brother who was right across the hall

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by BTM

Some really good ones in Chicago this evening/tonight. Who loves t-storms? Hopefully my power stays on

Heading our way. Last thing we need is more rain.

[Dan in PA]

This is actually from wiki and a bit clearer than what I've got available from the archives. There's an obvious hook echo towards the middle of the image, that's the tell-tale signature of a tornado on radar. The area of high reflectivity (red) inside the tornado is caused by debris caught in the vortex.

[BTM]

In my world that's what robovision looks like

[Verbiage]

Originally Posted by Dan in PA

Me. I use WeatherTAP and GRLevel3 to view level II and III NEXRAD radar, it's great because they're relatively cheap products that allow you to view storm tracks, meso/tvs, echo tops, dbZ values, storm-relative velocity, spotter network data etc...WeatherTAP has a better interface and runs as a Java app so it works on Mac.

First plants..

Originally Posted by BTM

I like this one better

WTF?