In this short preview, Reed talks about his passion for the most dangerous weather on the planet!
ExtremeTornadoTours.com guides 4 tour guest to several strong tornadoes, with 2 being simultaneously on the ground north of Dodge City Kansas on April 18, 2009!
Video trailer for the NEW 2009 Tornado Extravaganza DVD! Available in the TVN Store!
Incredible time lapse of the life of the Aurora, Nebraska supercell and tornadoes!
Intense powerplant-effect snow near Lake Overholser outside Oklahoma City!
Footage of the June 15, 2009 Elbert County, CO tornado from Verne Carlson! Verne streamed these tornadoes LIVE right here at TornadoVideos.net!
Randy Denzer chasing through central Texas on June 11th, 2009.
Extreme tornado video from SCTV! March 8, 2010 in western Oklahoma!
Amazing, up-close video of the Stromboli, Italy volcano by James Reynolds of TyphoonFury.com!
Storm chasers/meteorologists Ramiro and Matías chased these AMAZING supercells across La Pampa on January 11, 2010! The photogenic quality of storm structure in Argentina is on full display - incredible!!
Extraordinary video from Scott Currens of ViolentPlains.com of the epic May 3rd, 1999 tornado outbreak in central Oklahoma!
Jeff Snyder of TornadoCentral.com captures multiple tornadoes in western Oklahoma!.
There is not really any interesting weather today, but it is St. Patrick's day, and it is also Reed's birthday! He's 30! - Severe weather looks like a good possibility over the lower Mississippi River Valley this weekend, so we will be sure to update on that over the next few days. In the meantime, Happy birthday to Reed!
Parts of southwestern Pennsylvania, western Maryland and West Virginia have been buried in deep snowpack since January; some areas have been covered in 4-5 feet for the past month! Over the last several days, temperatures across this region have risen substantially, with day-time highs making it into the upper 40s to near 60 degrees. This weekend, a large area of low pressure will bring coastal moisture inland along with continued warmer temperatures, and heavy rain is expected to cause major flooding as the snowpack rapidly melts. These areas are especially prone to extreme flash-flooding given the mountainous terrain, and residents are bracing for what may be yet another historic weather event. In 1996, a similar snow-melt event caused catastrophic flooding in Allegany Co, MD., where homes along the usually gentle waters of George's Creek in Westernport and Lonaconing were swept miles down-stream, while several major businesses and car dealerships along Will's Creek in the Cumberland area were complete losses as well. See a related story in the Cumberland Times-News for more.
Check out these videos of water spouts that occurred somewhere off the coast of Brazil on March 7, 2010, emailed to me by a friend down there. These would have been perfect to intercept by jet ski! A sign of future TVN projects maybe?? Enjoy!
Severe thunderstorms capable of tornadoes have initiated over the Arklatex region this afternoon, with a tornado warning currently in effect for Little River County including the town of Ashdown. Meanwhile, a tornado watch has been issued farther east, over areas of Mississippi and Alabama. It is expected that thunderstorms will continue to develop this afternoon and into the evening. An area stretching from Springfield, MO through western Arkansas into northern Louisiana is currently being monitored for development, with a tornado watch having just been issued for most of western AR. Multiple streamers are currently in the field, so be sure to follow along on the Livepage!
A powerful storm system is forecast to eject over the Southern Plains into the Ozark Mountain Region through overnight, firing up a 40+ knot southerly LLJ underneath strong upper-level flow across the entire warm sector including eastern Oklahoma, southeast Kansas, Arkansas, and southern Missouri. This will set the stage for a potentially record-breaking tornado outbreak late this afternoon, and especially overnight across much of Arkansas and southern Missouri. This looks like a classic early spring outbreak pattern, with prime conditions for tornadoes over a large geographical area. Stay tuned for updates, and be sure to check out TornadoVideos.net/Live throughout the day for live streaming video.. In the meantime, here are some incredible pictures taken by Colt Forney from the Hammon tornado yesterday.
Check out this up-close video from Mike Scantlin of StormChase.TV, only a few hundred yards away from the Hammon tornado. This tornado was rated an EF2 by an NWS damage survey team today, and a second tornado was also confirmed further northeast of Hammon, causing no damage. The 00z NAM is showing a potential tornado outbreak tomorrow over extreme northeast Oklahoma and southeast Kansas, southward across most of Arkansas and possibly Northeast Texas. A large area of 1-2 0-1 km EHIs are forecast to reside over the entire warm sector south of a warm front draped across Eastern Kansas into central Missouri by 00z, and any discrete supercells that move through this environment will have a high chance of producing tornadoes. Stay tuned for update, and be sure to check out TornadoVideos.net/live for live streaming video as tomorrow's severe weather event unfolds.
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 440 PM CST TUE MAR 9 2010 ..PRELIMINARY DAMAGE SURVEY - HAMMON OK TORNADO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONDUCTED A DAMAGE SURVEY IN ROGER MILLS AND CUSTER COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON. WHILE WE ARE STILL PUTTING TOGETHER SOME OF THE DETAILS...HERE ARE THE PRELIMINARY FINDINGS...
TORNADO ONE - HAMMON OK THIS TORNADO HAS BEEN RATED AS AN EF2 ON THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE. THE RATING IS BASED ON SEVERAL SPOTS OF SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE... INCLUDING A HOME AND THE COUNTY BARN ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF HAMMON. THE DAMAGE IS APPROXIMATELY 10 MILES LONG.
TORNADO TWO - NORTHEAST OF HAMMON TO NORTH OF BUTLER WE WERE NOT ABLE TO FIND DAMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS TORNADO...BUT EVIDENCE FROM VIDEO INDICATES A SECOND TORNADO DEVELOPED SHORTLY AFTER THE HAMMON TORNADO DISSIPATED. THE PRELIMINARY RATING IS EF0.
CHECK OUR SPECIAL EVENT PAGE AT WEATHER.GOV/NORMAN/?N=EVENTS-20100308 FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. WE WILL CONTINUE TO UPDATE THIS PAGE AS WE GATHER MORE DETAILS.
Video of yesterday's tornadoes in western Oklahoma is still coming in, and the latest can be found above, and by clicking "Read More," below. Includedare clips from Jeff Snyder, as well as a compilation by Stream Thunder, Colt Forney and the team of Terran Kirksey, Cory Mottice and Charles Lubensky. You'll be able to follow all of these chasers this year on the Live page! We'll be posting video from Mike Scantlin, Randy Rhea andMatt Douglas soon as well.
Here is an incredible photo shot by Joel's dad, Jimmy Taylor, from 6 miles NNW of Elk City, OK, just after the tornado touched down. He said it crossed the road about 1/4 mile in front of him, and that we could have driven into it no problem with the Dominator. Incredible video from Mike Scantlin and Jeff Snyder still come!
At least two tornadoes were reported in Western Oklahoma this afternoon, one of which was long-track. Stream Thunder was in the field chasing these tornadoes, so will be posting additional information later--along with pictures and video of course! Stay tuned...
A powerful shortwave trough will rotate out over the Southern Plains today, and cut-off further north over eastern Nebraska by tomorrow as another trough surges east on its heels from the Southern Rockies. If it were April or May right now, and sufficient instability were in place today there could be an outbreak of severe weather and tornadoes across the Southern Plains. However, dewpoints are marginal in the warm sector except for in South Texas where lapse rates are relatively weak, and a huge precipitation shield will further stabilize the atmosphere from Northwest Texas northward. Still though, behind this precip shield, the models are forecasting CAPE values of 500-1000 J/kg to emerge from South Texas, extending northward in an arc toward Northwest Oklahoma just ahead of the upper-level vort max. Even though all models are showing the main LLJ axis to shift east of the instability by afternoon, there still could be sufficient low-level wind shear for weak tornadoes, especially just east of the upper-level low where enhanced vertical vorticity will reside. Also, while the models don't do well in this area, there could be some intense supercells to the southwest of Del Rio in northeast Mexico -- climatology would favor this scenario since March is primetime for Mexican supercells. Each of the model forecast maps shown here are from the 14z RUC for 21z this afternoon, and keep in mind the RUC was way over exaggerating moisture return and instability last year, so we'll see if this holds true once again for 2010. Be sure to check out the live streaming page at TornadoVideos.net/live!
A fairly organized yet compact storm system will move into western Kansas and Nebraska later this afternoon, bringing the chance for thunderstorms and possibly some funnels or a tornado to the Plains for the first time this year. Instability will be limited and dependent on daytime heating; however, more than adequate shear will be in place, so any storms that do form will have the potential to rotate. Verne Carlson is en route to western KS right now, so be sure to follow along on the Livepage!
An 8.8 earthquake struck Chile this morning, and sea-level readings have confirmed that a tsunami has been generated, and is surging west toward Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and even the West Coast of the U.S. Based on the tsunami height model at left, it looks like Hawaii may be on the north side of the maximum height, with a forecast tsunami height of 10-20 feet, which would be devastating for low-lying areas. Sirens have been blaring on Hawaii all morning at 30 minute intervals, creating a very scary scene along the low-lying areas of the island. The tsunami is expected to affect the island beginning around 11:20 am Hawaiian time. Updates can be found at the Pacific Tsunami Warning page (http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/), and we'll be updating the blog here at TVN throughout the event. The following are some of the tsunami warning statements I've found. Sadly, over 120 fatalities have already been reported in Chile, as the 8.8 quake epicenter occurred only 3 miles off the coast, and this number will likely increase substantially as damage reports become available.
... A WIDESPREAD TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT ...
A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR
CHILE / PERU / ECUADOR / COLOMBIA / ANTARCTICA / PANAMA / COSTA RICA / NICARAGUA / PITCAIRN / HONDURAS / EL SALVADOR / GUATEMALA / FR. POLYNESIA / MEXICO / COOK ISLANDS / KIRIBATI / KERMADEC IS / NIUE / NEW ZEALAND / TONGA / AMERICAN SAMOA / SAMOA / JARVIS IS. / WALLIS-FUTUNA / TOKELAU / FIJI / AUSTRALIA / HAWAII / PALMYRA IS. / TUVALU / VANUATU / HOWLAND-BAKER / NEW CALEDONIA / JOHNSTON IS. / SOLOMON IS. / NAURU / MARSHALL IS. / MIDWAY IS. / KOSRAE / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / POHNPEI / WAKE IS. / CHUUK / RUSSIA / MARCUS IS. / INDONESIA / N. MARIANAS / GUAM / YAP / BELAU / JAPAN / PHILIPPINES / CHINESE TAIPEI
EVALUATION
A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN GENERATED THAT COULD CAUSE DAMAGE ALONG COASTLINES OF ALL ISLANDS IN THE STATE OF HAWAII. URGENT ACTION SHOULD BE TAKEN TO PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY.
A TSUNAMI IS A SERIES OF LONG OCEAN WAVES. EACH INDIVIDUAL WAVE CREST CAN LAST 5 TO 15 MINUTES OR MORE AND EXTENSIVELY FLOOD COASTAL AREAS. THE DANGER CAN CONTINUE FOR MANY HOURS AFTER THE INITIAL WAVE AS SUBSEQUENT WAVES ARRIVE. TSUNAMI WAVE HEIGHTS CANNOT BE PREDICTED AND THE FIRST WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST. TSUNAMI WAVES EFFICIENTLY WRAP AROUND ISLANDS. ALL SHORES ARE AT RISK NO MATTER WHICH DIRECTION THEY FACE. THE TROUGH OF A TSUNAMI WAVE MAY TEMPORARILY EXPOSE THE SEAFLOOR BUT THE AREA WILL QUICKLY FLOOD AGAIN. EXTREMELY STRONG AND UNUSUAL NEARSHORE CURRENTS CAN ACCOMPANY A TSUNAMI. DEBRIS PICKED UP AND CARRIED BY A TSUNAMI AMPLIFIES ITS DESTRUCTIVE POWER. SIMULTANEOUS HIGH TIDES OR HIGH SURF CAN SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE TSUNAMI HAZARD.
THE ESTIMATED ARRIVAL TIME IN HAWAII OF THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS
1105 AM HST SAT 27 FEB 2010
MESSAGES WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY OR SOONER AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.
A snowstorm on the northeast coast, another textbook nor'easter system, is continuing to dump snow on parts of New England. In particular, inland parts of Maine are receiving copious amounts of the white stuff at present. The system has already been responsible for dumping some of the highest amounts of snow we've seen in quite some time! 43 inches in Randolph, NH, 21 inches in New York City, 36 inches in Oakland, MD, 52 inches in Woodford, VT, and 53 inches in Potter Hollow, NY! Amazing!
The latest in a series of nor'easters is currently wreaking havoc across the central Atlantic into New England. States from Vermont to West Virgina are experiencing some of the most brutal conditions of the season today as a monstrous low pressure system wobbles over the region, bringing HEAVY snow and near hurricane-force winds. Blizzard conditions have been causing serious problems all across the northeast, including power outages, massive flight cancellations and major road closures. These conditions are likely to persist until sometime tomorrow! Included are photos from New York City, which has picked up nearly 20" of snow, and western Maryland, where another 3+foot snow event is underway. Thanks to everyone who contributed!
The latest in a series of coastal lows is gathering strength today, as the "weekly nor'easter" prepares to impact the central Atlantic states from now into the weekend. Heavy snow is anticipated over parts of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia, with some areas likely to pick up 18" or more. Very strong winds will be a big problem in addition to the snow, with blizzard warnings likely later today and tomorrow. Needless to say, people in the threatened area should prepare for power outages and to be "snowed in." What a crazy winter for the east coast!!!
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