Jump to content

Calderon

Professional Forecaster
  • Posts

    1,133
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Calderon

  1. Once the hail threat diminished some, that momentum really brought the wind to Smyrna, Walter Hill, and northern Murfreesboro. My folks took some tree damage and there were numerous snapped and uprooted trees near the Siegel schools and the VA Medical Center.
  2. A very intense cluster of storms is headed for the STL area, and this could be a very nasty situation given the hail history combined with both the Blues at home and Cardinals at home this evening. There's at least 70,000+ people downtown for the events, so this is a potentially critical situation evolving.
  3. The circulation is strong but pretty broad, looks more like the RFD undercut it and there is some interference with cells merging in from the south. Thankfully that area is pretty rural and mostly open farmland with only widely scattered homes.
  4. TOR warning for Madison Co., IL, near Edwardsville and moving NE away from the city and the SIUE campus.
  5. And DFW Airport is in the direct path of this exploding storm. Looks like American is about to get some newly dented planes.
  6. Ardmore cell producing again, confirmed near Huntland in Jackson County and will pass less than 5 miles north of the Hytop (HTX) radar.
  7. Damage confirmed to the AL welcome center on I-65.
  8. Apparently a confirmed tornado near Falkville & Lacon in southern Morgan County.
  9. There are zero chasers on live stream on that cell about to cross I-65 near Ardmore.
  10. TDS near Lester, headed directly at Ardmore and the I-65 welcome center for Alabama.
  11. Yep, but thinking this cluster just to the south is keeping it at bay for now.
  12. Tornado confirmed to have gone through Russellville, AL.
  13. New video has been posted of the the monsterous north Alabama EF-5 as it passed near Hackleburg and Phil Campbell. This home was on the very edge of the path and winds I'd say are easily in the 80-100mph range. The sound is incredible and the motion of the funnel for a tornado nearly a mile wide is absolutely astounding.
  14. I'm having a hard time believing that hose pic. Being propelled at such a high velocity, one would expect it to look ragged or torn from going into a tree and it just doesn't seem to be at all. Not to mention I have a hard time believing a hose could be strung out perfectly to drive straight into a hardwood tree's trunk.
  15. 4/27 was a Wednesday and the higher populated sections of the Tuscaloosa-B'ham tornado path was a good mix of homes and apartments
  16. There is the possibility that the Hackleburg tornado is the same one that hit Smithville, MS, we shall see what HUN finds.
  17. That poor town can't ever catch a break. A F5 and F4 the same day, now a probable EF5 takes em out, again.
  18. A very large tornado in Athens, AL (Limestone County), this is the same storm that has pretty much obliterated Tanner from survey reports.
  19. I like how BMX has a status update chart on the damage surveys in their CWA. Of note that Tuscaloosa and JeffCo will take several days. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=event_04272011_surveystatus
  20. Part of the latest PNS from WFO Birmingham: PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1122 AM CDT THU APR 28 2011 ...UPDATED FOR JEFFERSON AND TUSCALOOSA COUNTY SURVEYS... IN REGARDS TO THE JEFFERSON AND TUSCALOOSA COUNTY DAMAGE...SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY WILL BE ARRIVING TODAY TO ASSIST WITH SURVEYS...AND DAMAGE RATINGS WILL BE PROVIDED AFTER A THOROUGH ASSESSMENT IS CONDUCTED.
  21. these storms had tops well over 40k ft, no way a plane would dare try to fly over that mess. I can tell you right now, they avoid these cells like crazy because they technology is more than there for that. Having worked in Navy Aviation, this is for fact.
×
×
  • Create New...