The National Weather Service Office in Peachtree City, GA, has posted storm survey results for the severe weather outbreak of April 5 and 6. I post this because the storm survey for the Dooly County EF-2 shows a wind maximum right at the location of the UGA Byromville weather station,…
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As a follow-up to a post earlier this week, here is some more information about our station in Byromville. The National Weather Service did a post-storm survey of the location and found that due to the wind speed of 129.3 mph measured on our station along with damage to grain…
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If you live in the Southeast, you know that today, April 5, 2022, was a day that had a lot of severe weather action. I watched the radar and our University of Georgia weather network today to keep an eye on what was happening. I noticed in late afternoon that…
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After seeing the terrible destruction of the tornadoes in the Midwest last weekend, you might think that there is no way anyone could survive a direct hit from a major tornado. Sadly, death is often a part of the losses that these powerful storms cause. Destruction can be especially bad…
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Another tragedy due to wild weather occurred this week in Kansas, as the hurricane-force winds that occurred across the central Plains led to out-of control wildfires that destroyed homes, barns, and livestock. This storm system also brought tornadoes as far north as Minnesota and central Wisconsin, something that is just…
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The past few days have been unprecedented in the location and magnitude of severe weather in the central U.S. In spite of the number of tornadoes and their occurrence at night and at an unusual time of year, the total number of deaths was (at least as far as we…
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UGA’s Dr. Marshall Shepherd of the Atmospheric Sciences program wrote an article for Forbes.com about the deadly tornadoes that occurred overnight in Kentucky and surrounding states that may be useful for us here in the Southeast as well. His main points: 1) Tornadoes are often deadlier at night because people…
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