News DetailCentral Gulf Coast tornadoes possible!
Posted At: April 14, 2007 @ 10:25 AM
Posted By: Reed Timmer
Related Categories: Tornadoes
The severe weather outbreak expected today in the Central Gulf Coast region is now underway. A powerful high-precipitation (HP) supercell has exploded in southeast MS and has now moved into AL just north of Mobile. This storm has a very strong couplet, and may have a rain-wrapped tornado on the ground. Here are some radar images as of 12:30 pm CDT.
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Trained weather spotters reported a wall cloud at 12:00 pm just north of Yellow Pine, AL in Washington County.
Looks like Montgomery AL is right in its track!
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That storm is responisble for the whole line of wind reports that are on spc. It lost it's circulation once it reached Eastern Clarke Co. but regained strength. A church and several homes are damaged in Monroe Co. AL from this as well.
New England is bracing for heavy rain!! Water is going to be coming down from the sky in heavy amounts. In other words, people who do not have umbrellas will - and this is a certainty - get wet. Like wicked soaked. Tornadoes r 4 pussies. Try chasin F7 caliber rain, biatch!! Check out dub dub dub rainvideos net if you want some real footage, folks.
Holla,
Ger
either they like to jump the gun in Georgia or..something is really up anyways Reed could u tell me; when there is a medium DBZ rating like yellow orange or beginning red can u get major tornados? (btw it looks kinda like theyre all spawning close to a major eye..very strange cause im sure its not the real eye of the Low)
Gerry please. if you really believe that rain is more exciting than tornadoes i think you might need some help. besides, you aren't the only one that gets rain. what kind of weather do you think forms tornadoes?
Cors: A storm definitely doesn't have to have high radar reflectivity (DBZ) to be producing a tornado...although most tornado-producing supercells do have high DBZ on radar because of the presence of large hail and heavy rain in the core adjacent to a very intense updraft. However, I've seen low-precipitation (LP) supercells that were producing tornadoes and could barely be seen on radar! Storm relative velocity is definitely the parameter you should be using to determine the presence of a mesocyclone and the possibility of a tornado.
cors, the dbz on radar is showing precipitation. most precipitation in supercells is located in the downdraft region of the storm. the tornadic rotation of the supercell is located in the updraft region. it takes much more than colors on a radar to find a tornado. in high-precipitation sups, there can be tornadic circulation imbedded in the precip, but dbz still wont help you. base velocity on radar will help, if you know what you're looking at. heres a link to more information on supercells.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercell
hah. sorry reed. i didnt know you had responded already.
THX for the info guys!
85.46°F today in the Netherlands. Warmest april day ever! This is Insane..GLOBAL WARMING!
We are having a rain event today in NY. Buckets of water are being dumped into the streets flooding most major roadways. It's pretty nuts.
That storm produced an EF 2 in the next county.
According to JY, that storm also did not have a tornado warning at the time of the tornado! Surprising...because it had a persistent, strong circulation.
Connor, call me Ger. This rain is f'ing insane! We have branch damage on several of the local trees. And there was a wind gust so strong today, that the metal shaft of my umbrella swung and hit me in the head as I was trying to walk to work. I'm sorry, but this is some intense weather up here in New England. Wimpy chasers stay in the plains. Only the strong survive!!
Holla,
Ger
Ok Ger, I'm sure you have gotten a lot of rain, but it still doesn't compare to one of those spring storms here in Texas. and about that "strong wind," try 300+ mph.