Severe
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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…
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iWeatherNet.com has a good summary of the Southeast tornado outbreak of January 21-23, 2017 on their website. It lists the storms and provides some maps of storm tracks. This outbreak was the second deadliest in January for the Southeast in recorded history. You can view the report at https://www.iweathernet.com/thunderstorms/january-21st-23rd-tornado-outbreak-second-largest-on-record-in-southeast-u-s.
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Today marks the anniversary of one of the Southeast’s biggest tornado outbreaks in history. From This Day in Weather History’s Facebook post: “Severe thunderstorms spawned sixty tornadoes in the southeastern U.S., killing between 178 and 1200 people and causing three million dollars damage. Georgia and the Carolinas were the hardest hit by the tornado…
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This Day in History posted a story this week on an article published in the Sacramento Bee back on February 11, 1921, describing a terrible tornado which hit the Gardner Settlement near Toomsboro, east of Macon, Georgia on February 10. The tornado track was described as five miles long and half a mile wide and…