Monday, May 17, 2010

Small White Pill Marked Ky2

Funnel vicino a Carlsbad, NM, 17-05-2010.

In the morning we leave from Lubbock, TX, after we met with our friend hunter Dean Gill, who arrived from Switzerland a few days ago with 2 other friends. We head to Seminole, taking us on the edge of the boundary cells dell'outflow morning. After a quick lunch, we moved to Hobbs, NM. After an hour of waiting, the first cells leave the mountains behind Carlsbad and Roswell. We move to Carlsbad and we stop at a point where we have visibility across multiple cells. The nearest to us produces a very basic and probably turbulent rotation. Shortly after we reach the rain, so we move. As we move when we are almost out of the rain, fall sparse, rather large hailstones. A hit the body of our car just above the windshield, leaving a decent mark. Meanwhile all the different cells have become one, leaving little room for photos. We start in the direction of Roswell and a new cell develops to our left. We stopped to take some pictures and suddenly a funnel is formed under the base dell'updraft and persists for several minutes. When we dissolve a crossroad that leads us closer to the base. We make some photo stops and after some ten minutes, the cell organizes itself and forms a nice mesociclone, with the sun illuminates it from behind. The supercell is very photogenic and produces a lot of lightning. A lightning strike probably falls close to the pylons, because all of a sudden i fili dell'alta tensione iniziano a produrre un forte ronzio. Dopo altri 20 minuti circa, il mesociclone si dissolve e anche il temporale si indebilisce. Partiamo verso Clovis ormai al tramonto con il cielo costellato dai mammatus delle incudini dei temporali.

1° temporale



VIDEO di Niccolò Ubalducci.

2° temporale che produrrà il funnel

Funnel



Ci avviciniamo alla base

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Fotogrammi video.




VIDEO di resoconto della caccia.

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Friday, May 14, 2010

Putting Yankee Candle Tart In Scentsy Warmer

Multicelle e supercelle in Texas, 14-05-2010

After a night in Abilene, TX, we move to SW near Odessa. The sky is overcast, with a few drops of rain and some thunder. Along the way we may even find the fog. Shortly after starting the first 13 cells: remain isolated for a while, but then tend to linearize immediately. Intercept closest to us south of Big Spring, but it is not scorgibile no basis, just heavy rain and wind. As we move towards its southern edge as we see now tends to regenerate itself continuously further south. After a few shots, we move to a new cell. A glance it seems a single cell, with a large core of precipitation. Entering Midland after his passing are all flooded streets, with parked cars in the points where the road has potholes. We reach the cell that is now located to the west and showing a good rotation, at least photographically, it's definitely better than the previous cells. The storm drains toward you a great cloud of dust from all the neighboring fields. After observing her for a while and when it weakens, we move to the new cell to the west again. We pass to the small town of Rankin, and soon after, almost perpendicular on our heads, formed a new updraft with a long and well defined flanking line. The newborn also produces a fast medium funnel level. After a few shots back slightly back to avoid the core of hail and rain. Intercept the base that has a tail that extends into the rain, but do not have any kind of turbulence, or inclination towards the core. Perhaps a weak rotation can have him, but nothing special. After fifteen minutes we observe that started producing spectacular lightning, so that you can catch some by hand. The cell is close to us, so we continue to move in order to have visual and stay out of the rain. The storms are still moving very slowly, so you can move without problems. WX to notice the presence of a new cell ineressante and further west, near Ozona, as we move towards it. As we approached the base we see clearly illuminated by the sun setting behind it, with constant lightning just as spectacular. We stopped to take pictures: very frequent lightning strikes and shots from postcards. Night falls and this time we move favoring the movement of the storm. We continue to take pictures as long as the cell pulls too far south ... Mexico is very close and so we decided to greet the storm and go to a motel in Ozona.

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Video lightning to Ozona.

Video Flash Flood in Midland.

Video summary of the day.
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Monday, May 10, 2010

How To Get Free Points In Poptropica

Oklahoma High Risk: 3 tornado intercettati a Medford, 10-05-2010.

After many days of "silence" gone to sleep in motels and shopping, May 10 all the ingredients suggest the possibility of development of violent storms is likely to have strong tornado. From the day we were joined by May 5 Meso Team, a group of American hunters. Upon waking up the sky is cloudy with rain, temperatures are still quite low, but unlike previous days (where we have reached 31 ° F in Kansas) is almost 100% humidity. At 9 am we depart from our motel in Woodward, OK, and we head to our prior target, Perry, Ok. Once in Perry met dozens of other chasers on hold. After about 1 hour and 30 minutes the sky begins to open and start the first cells to the NW of our position. After some indecision about what to do, we decide to head on the cell closest to us, in Grant County. We start to run and the time we reach them in about half an hour just outside Medford. Looking to the WX, shows a shear of 138 mph and also GrLevel2 the radials are at full scale. We stopped to take pictures along the edge of the road and a fair wind to prevent inflow of opening the doors to leeward. Override the backpacks in the back seat and position it in the field beside me, near the other chasers and the distance you hear the sirens of Medford. The cell is approaching fast and soon produced the first tornado touchdown. Remains on the ground after being lifted a few moments and touches earth again. At this moment the wall is producing a tornado multivortex that dissolves after a few seconds. In short, the wall cloud approaching menacingly at us, it's all over our heads. Southwest formed a new wall, which in turn gives rise to a new brief tornado. At times later, we reached RDF and precipitation, so we put ourselves in running along the cell. At the moment there's no tornado on the ground. After a few minutes generates a new short tornado. The cell is moving toward the northeast and south have a new supercell. We decide to give up this and the second intercept. We are a little undecided on the roads to be taken as the risk of hitting the core of hail (also provided for up to 4 inches) is great. We decide to wait until the core steps to intercept the wall in front of us. When the core moves we move toward her and fall to little rainfall. Here we see small debris flying through the air, but mostly leaves of trees in the vicinity ... even the shadow. We opt to stop, because a tornado could be very close, according to reports even 5 minutes before the radio announced a tornado 5 miles south of us. When we share a wall is not defined and can not see any tornado. We lose half of our group of hunting and stopped to call them and find them. After a while we decided to leave the cell at a time just before we were chasing and re-encounter others later. We look at the radar at the Oklahoma City supercell which has several reports of tornadoes and has a beautiful hook and well defined. The supercell is directed almost straight east, moving undaunted in the face of the rest of the time. We plan to try to reach e partiamo in direzione Tulsa, Ok. Dopo più di 1 ora di rincorsa, è evidente che non raggiungeremo mai quella cella: siamo troppo lontani e lei si muove troppo verso est. Allora rinunciamo e, dopo aver provato a raggiungere quella più a nord che poi non ha più mostrato segnali interessanti, ci dirigiamo verso Ponca City dove gli altri del Meso Team ci stanno aspettando ad un motel.
In totale nella giornata del 10-05 sono stati riportati circa 35-40 tornado tra Oklahoma e Kansas. Purtroppo nella zona di Oklahoma City, Norman e Moore ci sono stati 4 morti. Un tornado ha colpito lo Storm Prediction Center di Norman. Uno dei tornado della nostra cella è passato appena a sud di Wakita, dove hanno registrato Twister. A Moore è caduta grandine di 4.25 inches (almost 11 cm).

VIDEO
Medford Medford 2
Supercell Supercell

Here are the radial cell of our tornadoes

The shear on the Wx

Reflectivity
Always the same supercell
a little further north


Photos of Allan Detrich (MESO TEAM) THE HUNTING OF May 10

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2nd tornado (you can glimpse the debris to the ground)


3rd tornado



Video "a little agitated" tornado of Nicholas Ubalducci.
Video dei tornado di Wes Carter, membro del Team Meso con cui abbiamo cacciato.
ALTRE FOTO A BREVE

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Sunday, May 2, 2010

How Much Are Old Pop Bottles Worth

High risk in Ar-Tn 01-05-2010

Per oggi SPC ha emesso un high risk per diverse zone compresi Arkansas e Tennesse con alta probabilità di tornado: 95% tornado, 80% tornado uguali o > di EF2; alta probabilità grandine anche superiore a 2 pollici e alta probabilità di venti forti.
Al mattino presto ci muoviamo da West Plains in Missouri verso le zone a nord di Little Rock in Arkansas. Già dal primo pomeriggio partono diversi temporali, ma nessuno di rilievo. Ci fermiamo così in una stazione di servizio together with other hunters and Wait for the supercells important. At about 17.30 to 18 leave the first cumulonimbus. He began hunting on the highway. We try to bring in the first supercell, then listens for another. The cells run fast and now darkness falls. The cloud to ground lightning strikes are frequent and very close, the bases of the thunderstorms are very low. We try to see something under the bed, but not seen funnel. After more than an hour of catching up and we end up near the gas station had to stop to refuel. Here we decided to go to intercept the cell that hit Memphis, TN, now that we're running too far north.
Party and, after traveling winding streets, we enter into highway. Here we encounter the first supercell of the downdraft. The visibility in some sections is reduced to zero. We have our eyes glued to the road and the PC to follow the movement of the supercell. Lightning strikes are frequent and neighbors: at some point one hits a transformer exploded not far away and when the sky turns green. A little later after the visibility can be even worse than it was before the light and suddenly jumps on the highway. A point on the highway is particularly flooded, traveling about 50 mph and we come across a huge pool of at least 40 cm of water: almost nailed, most do not understand even if we are still on the road, but "look" the puddle at speed. Riusciamo ad uscirne e piano piano usciamo anche dalle precipitazioni. La supercella non ha più un grande uncino; arriviamo a Memphis e sentiamo le sirene a tutto spiano, ma di tornado, wall cloud o qualsivoglia formazione non si vede nemmeno l'ombra. La cella sfila veloce a nord, la visibilità che era già pessima prima a causa di alberi ed oscurità ora è azzerata dalle case. Quando riusciamo ad uscire da Memphis la rincorriamo ancora un pò sulla highway, ma senza più riuscire ad intercettarla.
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Fulmine fotografato a mano libera...fulminazioni frequentissime!

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VIDEO TORNADO SIRENS IN MEMPHIS


OTHER SHORT VIDEO.

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