Severe
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Today there is a large tornado outbreak underway in Louisiana, and the system is moving east and will affect our area on Monday. The screen capture of today’s radar below shows not only a strong line of severe storms moving through Louisiana today but multiple individual supercell thunderstorms ahead of the line. Many of these…
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Our NWS radar has come a long ways from the days of the old black and white radars! Now we have dual-pol doppler radar in multi-color with all kinds of bells and whistles, but this image shows what they had to work with in 1973. The hook echo just to the southwest of the center…
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The WunderBlog noted last week that we are off to a very active severe weather season this year, the most active start since 2008. We have seen some of the impacts of the season in the Southeast, with two large severe weather outbreaks in January this year. The central part of the US is likely…
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Here is a link to a fantastic video of a supercell thunderstorm simulated by a supercomputer. The work was done by Dr. Leigh Orf, who was a graduate student at University of Wisconsin-Madison at the same time I was. He is now doing these super in-depth visualizations of supercells and discerning how they form and…
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Project VORTEX studied tornadoes in the Southeast last year after several previous projects looked at tornadoes in the central part of the United States. They started a second year of research on March 8 and it will go until May 8. So on severe weather days you may see convoys of radar trucks and chase…
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NOAA has a web page available which contains a variety of resources on spring safety. You can access it at https://www.weather.gov/wrn/spring-safety. It includes information on preparing a spring emergency kit, high surf, lightning safety, and other related topics.
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My Facebook feed exploded yesterday once news of actor Bill Paxton’s demise following heart surgery was made public. Bill Paxton was a well-regarded character actor who was in many famous films, including “Alien” and “Titanic” and in the HBO series “Big Love.” (Interestingly, he was in Dallas and saw President Kennedy earlier in the day…