Looks like the states are getting some stormy weather.

A spring storm packing tornados, heavy snow and rain tore through
eastern Colorado and Kansas, damaging property and shutting down
schools and roads.

In Texas, separate storms developed over the San Antonio area
Thursday and moved north and east -- dumping as much as 12 inches of
rain. In Bryan, Texas, at least two homes were destroyed when a
tornado moved through.

On 14 May 2004 07:19:14 -0700, (Simon S)
wrote:

Looks like the states are getting some stormy weather.

A spring storm packing tornados, heavy snow and rain tore through
eastern Colorado and Kansas, damaging property and shutting down
schools and roads.

In Texas, separate storms developed over the San Antonio area
Thursday and moved north and east -- dumping as much as 12 inches of
rain. In Bryan, Texas, at least two homes were destroyed when a
tornado moved through.

There was an amazing video on CBS (or NBC) news last night, shown on
Sky or News 24. it showed a pretty big tornado moving over a house
then ripping it to shreds. The roof shot upwards pretty intact before
being torn apart. Wow!

--
Dave

"Dave Ludlow" wrote in message ...
On 14 May 2004 07:19:14 -0700, (Simon S)
wrote:

Looks like the states are getting some stormy weather.

A spring storm packing tornados, heavy snow and rain tore through
eastern Colorado and Kansas, damaging property and shutting down
schools and roads.

In Texas, separate storms developed over the San Antonio area
Thursday and moved north and east -- dumping as much as 12 inches of
rain. In Bryan, Texas, at least two homes were destroyed when a
tornado moved through.

There was an amazing video on CBS (or NBC) news last night, shown on
Sky or News 24. it showed a pretty big tornado moving over a house
then ripping it to shreds. The roof shot upwards pretty intact before
being torn apart. Wow!

--
Dave

Here is the footage of that tornado. Very big download though, about 27mb. Jaw dropping stuff.
http://www.psphoto.com/upload/aticatornadoes.mpg

Regards,

Rob
Chester, UK
http://www.west-cheshire.ac.uk/weather/

"Rob Bale" wrote in message ...
"Dave Ludlow" wrote in message ...
On 14 May 2004 07:19:14 -0700, (Simon S)
wrote:

Looks like the states are getting some stormy weather.

A spring storm packing tornados, heavy snow and rain tore through
eastern Colorado and Kansas, damaging property and shutting down
schools and roads.

In Texas, separate storms developed over the San Antonio area
Thursday and moved north and east -- dumping as much as 12 inches of
rain. In Bryan, Texas, at least two homes were destroyed when a
tornado moved through.

There was an amazing video on CBS (or NBC) news last night, shown on
Sky or News 24. it showed a pretty big tornado moving over a house
then ripping it to shreds. The roof shot upwards pretty intact before
being torn apart. Wow!

--
Dave

Here is the footage of that tornado. Very big download though, about 27mb. Jaw dropping stuff.
http://www.psphoto.com/upload/aticatornadoes.mpg


More images and radar returns.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/cgi-bin/...BER=2004051418

Regards,

Rob
Chester, UK
http://www.west-cheshire.ac.uk/weather/

"Simon S" wrote in message
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Looks like the states are getting some stormy weather.

A spring storm packing tornados, heavy snow and rain tore through
eastern Colorado and Kansas, damaging property and shutting down
schools and roads.

In Texas, separate storms developed over the San Antonio area
Thursday and moved north and east -- dumping as much as 12 inches of
rain. In Bryan, Texas, at least two homes were destroyed when a
tornado moved through.

It's one sounding which such be bookmarked -

http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...300&STNM=72456

Joe

"Joe Hunt" wrote in message
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It's one sounding which such be bookmarked -


http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...300&STNM=72456


.... yes indeed: you wouldn't call the CAPE values 'marginal' exactly ;-)

Martin.

"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
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"Joe Hunt" wrote in message
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It's one sounding which such be bookmarked -



http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...300&STNM=72456


... yes indeed: you wouldn't call the CAPE values 'marginal' exactly ;-)

Martin.

At one point on there the parcel is about 10 degC warmer than the ELR,
imagine if (as it was) the inversion was broken then the parcel would be
about 12-13 degC warmer than the ELR !

Joe

In message , Martin Rowley
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"Joe Hunt" wrote in message
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It's one sounding which such be bookmarked -


http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...E=GIF%3ASKEWT&
YEAR=2004&MONTH=05&FROM=1300&TO=1300&STNM=72456


... yes indeed: you wouldn't call the CAPE values 'marginal' exactly ;-)

Martin.


That level of CAPE implies maximum updraught speeds of something like 70
m/sec. Difficult to visualise!

Norman.
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Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles
England

"Norman Lynagh" wrote in message
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In message , Martin Rowley
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"Joe Hunt" wrote in message
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It's one sounding which such be bookmarked -


http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...E=GIF%3ASKEWT&
YEAR=2004&MONTH=05&FROM=1300&TO=1300&STNM=72456


... yes indeed: you wouldn't call the CAPE values 'marginal' exactly ;-)

Martin.


That level of CAPE implies maximum updraught speeds of something like 70
m/sec. Difficult to visualise!

True. But the inversion has not even been broken at that stage, could we
have seen 3000+J/kg, meaing more like 78/80 m/s ?

Joe

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"Joe Hunt" wrote in message ...

True. But the inversion has not even been broken at that stage, could we
have seen 3000+J/kg, meaing more like 78/80 m/s ?

Joe

Hi all,
I was close to Attica when this tornado struck, although didn't
witness it personally. I did see some of the damage under an hour
after the tornado struck, and saw a tornado after dark south-west of
Harper, which formed a few hundred yards to our south.

The observed/analysed CAPEs from the area of storm initiation were
reportedly close to 7000 J/Kg! We saw the cap "break" and watched an
area of TCu develop into a storm with a severe thunderstorm warning on
it in less than 20 mins! We stood and watched the clouds mushrooming
so fast, it was if we were watching smoke from a fire. It was
awe-inspiring.


Paul K.