Archive for April, 2011
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Currently in a southern suburb of Birmingham, AL
Yesterday:
Historic tornado outbreak in Dixie Alley yesterday with a reported 162 tornadoes (as of SPC this morning). All of the severe weather parameters were textbook perfect, with sickle-shaped hodographs everywhere in Mississippi and Alabama, and with incredible low level ...
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Currently in Palestine, Texas
April 24:
Witnessed three tornadoes near Baird, TX. One of those tornadoes was a large multi-vortex tornado along the forward flank of the supercell. Original target two days ago was around the Abilene, TX area. Forward-flank tornadoes are very difficult to deploy instruments on, as ...
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Currently on the road from St. Louis, MO
Yesterday, April 22:
We had an original target of a few miles north of the St. Louis, MO area, where a warm front was lifting northward providing excellent low level (0-1 km) shear. Model data suggested that storms would fire along ...
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Currently in Norman, Oklahoma
Our program objectives are described in detail on our website:
www.twistex.org
The following items will be new for this year:
* X-band RADAR provided by EWR located in St. Louis, MO.
* Revised tornado in-situ instrument with additional wind speed measurement capability and acoustics monitoring. A new wind speed ...
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