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Would You Believe in December

SyntheticShield

SyntheticShield

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Well for those that dont know, I chase storms (yes, in my Grand Prix), so Im kinda a weather enthusist. I love lightning and so I focus on that a lot and take a great deal of pictures of that.

But anyway, I get up this morning and am looking for where the snow might be that was supposed to be here late yesterday. So I pull up my software that I use for chasing storms and low and behold I get an alert for a Tornado warning, but its for the eastern TX area. Its December and there are still tornado warnings. That just doesnt seem right to me, though there is not one month in the year in which a tornado hasnt touched down somewhere in the U.S. and every state in the U.S. has had a tornado touchdown.

Anyway, here are some snap shots from the software. The pink box indicates the warned area, the white lines you see that have the x's on them indicate storm movement. Enjoy.

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Hey I'm not suprised. A few years ago here....I think it was the week after thanksgiving. It was in the upper 70's and it brewed a Tornado that fortunately did a lot of damage, but didn't hurt anyone. And the day after that went through, our temps went right down to 0* for about two weeks.
 
Crazy friggin' weather I tell ya. Ive been chasing storms for a long time and I can tell you there has most definitely been a major shift in the weather patterns. I did hardly any chasing this year at all. The last major storm season, well for me anyway, in 2003 I was so sleep deprived chasing storms that in many cases I was chasing all night long, pulling up in the parking lot at work and sleeping just a couple hours and then working a full day.

It was insane but I got some really good pics.
 
To watch what a tornato can do to things
is something else.
When i was a kid we had one rip through our camp
ground Near Windsor Ont....
We had lots of warning as the tornator alarms were
set off but seeing the damage afterwards was unbeliveable...
Same thing with the Town that we live by now BridgeNorth
Seems like every 2 years a big one will rip through there
Very scary stuff..
The thing that really opens your eyes though are the trenches
it makes comming across fields and stuff ...
I take my hat off to anyone that chases these sort of things WTG

John
 
It is quite amazing just what such a rotating column of air can do.

My experience as a kid with tornadoes was one came near our house (I lived in the south east at that time) and while it didnt really damage the house, it held up well for the winds it was exposed to. However, it took a sheet of tin off the barn behind our house (maybe 75 meters from the house) took it to the barbed wire fence that surrounded the house and wrapped it around the top strand of barbed wire.

The strands were maybe 8 - 10" apart and it was 4 strands (I dont remember the exact spacing of the strands but it was standard posts and standard barbed wire. Its been a very long time since I ran barbed wire) and that long piece of tin (standard sheet of tin) was wrapped around the top strand without breaking any of the other strands, nor damaging any of the posts.

We had to go and cut the thing off the strand of wire as we couldnt un-twist it off there. I SOOOO wish I had a picture of it. I just stood there for the longest time in awe of how such a thing could happen.

Ive never seen trenches caused by twisters, but I havent been around any of the bigger tornadoes either. But I was chasing a EF0, EF1 tops a couple years ago and you could see the circular pattern in the grass where the twister traveled.
 


Im not sure to be honest. I wasnt chasing that storm and at the time I didnt think to look at the Base Velocity or the Storm Relative Velocity nor did I check the spotter network to see if they had eyes on anything.

I guess the news would have something if one did touchdown.
 
Thats awesome. Ive been out a few times myself chasing after storms. Not in my GP though. Ive been interested in meteorology since i was a kid. I started in that major in college but then switched to engineering.
 


Yep. Soldier Field aka The Mother Ship, was poised for take-off. Although I was in Madison at the time, I guess Whitewater was a **** storm for awhile there.
 
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