Turtle Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Imagine June 9th, 1953... Probably would look pretty similar to 6/1/2011 Well, it's not the 88D, but here's a shot from the then experimental radar at MIT in Lexington: This was when the tornado was over Holden at 455 PM EDT on 6/9/53. At that time, this was the 4th time that a radar image had caught a tornado on the ground in real time. This is from the Worcester Tornado show I put together. Enjoy! --Turtle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Has anybody seen this before? It appears to be real, but wondering if anybody saw this or deemed it fake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWkVVKKSpGY&feature=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 Scooter I'll try again for the Brockton microburst tonight. Request from NCDC didn't go through yesterday for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Scooter I'll try again for the Brockton microburst tonight. Request from NCDC didn't go through yesterday for some reason. How does that work with GRlevel II? You still have to go through NCDC? I thought maybe you can access via that product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 How does that work with GRlevel II? You still have to go through NCDC? I thought maybe you can access via that product. You go into HAS on the NCDC website... request the date and time range... and then it pops up with a file for each volume scan. Time consuming if you're looking for a lot but if you're only looking for a couple volume scans it's easy. I actually downloaded a bunch of RUC bufkit data from the June 1 tornado and am working on putting together something. If you look at the actual sfc obs you can see the channelled flow up the CT River Valley that probably help lead to tornadogenesis as the storm came down from GC. Also a tongue of higher theta-e air resulted in stronger instability right in the valley. Certainly nothing new for N-S river valleys (Mechanicville, Great Barrington, Cornwall/Hamden 1989, etc) but it seems once again the channelled flow helped the storm go tornadic. Definitely a mini-tornado alley in the river valleys back here in W SNE and E NY with relatively high risk of sig svr compared to other areas around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 You go into HAS on the NCDC website... request the date and time range... and then it pops up with a file for each volume scan. Time consuming if you're looking for a lot but if you're only looking for a couple volume scans it's easy. I actually downloaded a bunch of RUC bufkit data from the June 1 tornado and am working on putting together something. If you look at the actual sfc obs you can see the channelled flow up the CT River Valley that probably help lead to tornadogenesis as the storm came down from GC. Also a tongue of higher theta-e air resulted in stronger instability right in the valley. Certainly nothing new for N-S river valleys (Mechanicville, Great Barrington, Cornwall/Hamden 1989, Windsor Locks, etc) but it seems once again the channelled flow helped the storm go tornadic. Definitely a mini-tornado alley in the river valleys back here in W SNE and E NY with relatively high risk of sig svr compared to other areas around here. Do you go through the Iowa State site for that? Yeah N-S valleys seem to be more prone to tornadoes in these parts. Both from enhanced shear and a deeper moist layer of high dews like you mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 Do you go through the Iowa State site for that? Yeah N-S valleys seem to be more prone to tornadoes in these parts. Both from enhanced shear and a deeper moist layer of high dews like you mentioned. Yeah BUFKIT archive is through IAState. Goes back only to 2010 though. Not sure of anything that goes back more though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 I missed this particular page/report years ago...impressive stuff. http://www.erh.noaa....htm#Preliminary Local Storm Report Holy crap...that's sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Has anybody seen this before? It appears to be real, but wondering if anybody saw this or deemed it fake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWkVVKKSpGY&feature=related I have seen it, but obviously have no idea its validity. There are other home videos of the aftermath that look 'period' and that scene of the towering cu briefly in the distance, looks very much like the pictures that were taken and displayed in the NWS slideshow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guvna Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Has anybody seen this before? It appears to be real, but wondering if anybody saw this or deemed it fake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWkVVKKSpGY&feature=related The first time I saw that video the commentator mentioned that it was from Southboro where the tornado begin to dissipate. Great footage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 25, 2012 Author Share Posted April 25, 2012 Someone may be interested in this... a writeup and video of the 1962 Waterbury-Southington F3 http://ryanhanrahan.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/the-forgotten-20th-century-connecticut-tornado/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Someone may be interested in this... a writeup and video of the 1962 Waterbury-Southington F3 http://ryanhanrahan....cticut-tornado/ Just read it! Pretty awesome write-up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Just read it! Pretty awesome write-up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 I'm also trying to get severeplot to work but I swear there is a tornado in the early 1950's...might be 1951 or 1952 that took a very similar track to that Waterbury and was on the ground for just as long distance wise. EDIT: Well it certainly wouldn't be 1932 b/c there were no confirmed tornadoes in CT during 1952. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 I got it. The event I was thinking of was August 21st, 1951. This was the long-tracked tornado I was thinking about. For some reason I was thinking that this Waterbury tornado was also long-tracked but was not. Once I get severeplot working on my computer instead of using the online version I can zoom in more...tried doing it more online but it wouldn't work. August 21st, 1951 May 24th, 1962: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wackymann Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 On July 21st, 1972, an F2 damaged some homes in my neighborhood in S. Chelmsford. I wasn't living there at the time, but I've spoken to several people who were. Luckily the people who lived in the most heavily damaged house were not home. Rumor has it they had gone down to Fenway for the Red Sox game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Someone may be interested in this... a writeup and video of the 1962 Waterbury-Southington F3 http://ryanhanrahan....cticut-tornado/ Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 gimme dat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted October 14, 2013 Author Share Posted October 14, 2013 Found some video of the 1995 hail storm in CT.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricaneman Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 My fav supercell is 8/10/00. That thing was out of control. I might be wrong but is this the cell that dropped a EF2 tornado in Smithfield RI around 330AM because if so I've never seen so much lightning as that one produced and living in Plymouth, MA at the time it was something you don't see that often Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 I might be wrong but is this the cell that dropped a EF2 tornado in Smithfield RI around 330AM because if so I've never seen so much lightning as that one produced and living in Plymouth, MA at the time it was something you don't see that often It never dropped a tornado. There was wind damage and some hail as far east as Brockton. I was living just north of you in Marshfield as it passed overhead and I agree...it was a strobe light out of control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 I love playing with the old archived radar files in GR2. Here's the Ellington-Lyme supercell from June 20, 1995 that dropped baseballs in a bunch of places in rural CT. It moved due south on a backdoor front and was really beautiful on radar. The thing was a monster though with 70 dbz to nearly 30kft! I remember the cell as being originated actually up near Springfiled Mass - no? I think this image is later in it's life. But yeah, I remember that as a great jealousy storm. We were up safe and sound and bored on the cold side of said BDF up at UML, drooling over radar and sat watching that pig with it's inflow notch and sick core. It moved due south. I am surprised there has never been any video surfaced of that storm more up and personal like ... Usually, someone, somewhere was filming something when one of those happens along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Yeah talk about an odd setup... with NW winds veering with height lol. Huh. Interesting. So DVM should have been in play -- I wonder if the convection somehow tapped into that momentum ... similar to a sting jet. Just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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