News DetailMarch 30, 2006 Update
Posted At: March 30, 2006 @ 3:00 AM
Posted By: Reed Timmer
Related Categories: Tornadoes
It is now 2am on Thursday, early in the morning before a potential major severe weather outbreak later this afternoon. We are extremely anxious for tomorrow, since we had difficulties on March 12th keeping pace with the fast moving storms after getting pounded by baseball-sized hail. Our windwhield is replaced, and we are eager to redeem ourselves after a difficult, yet exciting beginning to the season. Our intial target area for tomorrow is in east-central or northeast KS, where low-level shear and CAPE will be maximized. The main reason for selecting this location over southeast NE or southeast KS/northeast OK is that the forecast hodographs look slightly more favorable in northeast KS, with the storm motion vector making a near 90 degree angle with the base of a very long 0-1 km shear vector, which is extremely favorable for strong tornadoes. The hodographs over the rest of the warm sector are still impressive, but not quite as favorable as that of northeast KS. Joel and I are departing at around 6 am, since we expect the show to begin early tomorrow. Stay tuned for breaking news updates, and look for a detailed account in the chase logs page will soon follow.
UPDATE: Three supercells were intercepted in E KS, but only brief funnels were observed.
UPDATE: Three supercells were intercepted in E KS, but only brief funnels were observed.
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Tornado researchers have found similar vortex structure in big tornadoes. Tornado pioneer Ted Fujita (for whom the F-scale of tornado intensity is named) noticed this decades ago. Time-lapse movies revealed smaller vortices within the main tornado rotation, and Fujita called these "suction spots." He also suggested that most of the damage from a tornado occurs beneath these suction spots (now usually called suction vortices). In one remarkable case, there were three buildings side by side, all within the path of a big Midwest tornado. One was a new, strong brick church. Next door was a wood frame house, and next to that a ramshackle old shed. After the tornado passed over, the church was completely leveled, the house moderately damaged, and the shed apparently untouched. When Fujita saw this picture and visited the site, he concluded that a suction vortex has passed directly over the church. The shed, though in the middle of the tornado path, was spared because it was just outside the path of the small vortex. Suction vortex winds have been estimated at well over 300 mph."
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"A few years ago, I was on a bike ride with my daughter, Annie. As we rode past a smooth, freshly-plowed field, we saw a large dust devil form. It was about 40 feet in diameter, and as it rotated we saw four smaller vortices spinning within the main vortex. Imagine a merry-go-round rotating slowly, with four ballet dancers pirouetting rapidly on it. Vortices within a vortex!
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The smaller vortices must have been spinning about three times as fast as the main vortex. This occurred all the way across the field, until the dust devil hit a grove of trees at the end and then died.
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I've seen similar occurrences since then, but never as distinctly or from as close.
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Make it a point to notice if you're near a big dust devil - it's an unforgettable sight.
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Make it a point to notice if you're near a big dust devil, it's an unforgettable sight.
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Mark, here is another interesting desc-ription from off the internet.
"A few years ago, I was on a bike ride with my daughter, Annie. As we rode past a smooth, freshly-plowed field, we saw a large dust devil form. It was about 40 feet in diameter, and as it rotated we saw four smaller vortices spinning within the main vortex. Imagine a merry-go-round rotating slowly, with four ballet dancers pirouetting rapidly on it. Vortices within a vortex! The smaller vortices must have been spinning about three times as fast as the main vortex. This occurred all the way across the field, until the dust devil hit a grove of trees at the end and then died. I've seen similar occurrences since then, but never as distinctly or from as close. Make it a point to notice if you're near a big dust devil - it's an unforgettable sight.
Tornado researchers have found similar vortex structure in big tornadoes. Tornado pioneer Ted Fujita (for whom the F-scale of tornado intensity is named) noticed this decades ago. Time-lapse movies revealed smaller vortices within the main tornado rotation, and Fujita called these "suction spots." He also suggested that most of the damage from a tornado occurs beneath these suction spots (now usually called suction vortices). In one remarkable case, there were three buildings side by side, all within the path of a big Midwest tornado. One was a new, strong brick church. Next door was a wood frame house, and next to that a ramshackle old shed. After the tornado passed over, the church was completely leveled, the house moderately damaged, and the shed apparently untouched. When Fujita saw this picture and visited the site, he concluded that a suction vortex has passed directly over the church. The shed, though in the middle of the tornado path, was spared because it was just outside the path of the small vortex. Suction vortex winds have been estimated at well over 300 mph."
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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2007/06/26/tornado-viz.html?ref=rss
"Leave storm p-o-r-n to professionals, urge weather experts"
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A while back on tv.net there was a discussion about how to get warnings out to citizens on time. Here is an interesting article from Indiana. They are talking about a law REQUIRING weather radios in mobile homes. Sounds like a good idea to me. Why not? Mobile homes are death traps in tornados.
Law Requires Radios in Ind. Mobile Homes
By RYAN LENZ 06.29.07, 2:19 PM ET
As a deadly tornado bore down on southwestern Indiana in 2005, the National Weather Service issued a radio warning urging people in the twister's path to seek shelter.
But many of the most vulnerable residents didn't hear the alert because they had no radios equipped to receive it. That will change Sunday when Indiana enacts a law requiring mobile homes to have weather radios.
"My family would be here had I known that weather radios existed," said Kathryn Martin, who pushed heavily for the reform after the tornado shattered the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park and killed dozens of people, including three of her relatives.
The Indiana regulation is one of hundreds of new laws taking effect July 1, when most states begin their fiscal year. The rules offer a glance at states top worries and priorities, such as crime, taxes and social policies.
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