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One of the most spectacular storms of the year was highlighted with grapefruit sized hail, a tornado on the outskirts of Oklahoma city and stormchaser convergence the likes of which I have never seen before.
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One of the most spectacular storms of the year was highlighted with grapefruit sized hail, a tornado on the outskirts of Oklahoma city and stormchaser convergence the likes of which I have never seen before.
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There are some experiences that you just do not want to re-live. As cool an experience as the windstorm was last night in Texas, I am still plucking sand out of my ears and scalp. Every single piece of gear needs to be cleaned because of the dust and sand. I have spent the better part of the morning just cleaning the Storm Spotter Truck. Uugh!]]>;)
Today started with a long drive from Kansas City through the night to our initial target of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Storms were already brewing up in the late morning hours and continued to develop throughout the day.
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Another long day of driving today as we finished last night in North Dakota, drove to Pierre South Dakota where we spent the night and this morning finished the trek to SE Nebraska.]]>;)
Today was straight up ridiculous and the weather gods were not smiling at all! We left Joplin Missouri at 7:30 Monday evening and drove through MO, IA, SD and ND
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There was a very slight risk of tornadoes today in Kansas and Nebraska. I made the long drive into the heart of tornado alley with Sean Schofer. Fate, technology and a little good old fashioned luck put us in contact with a beautiful supercell in SouthEast Nebraska in the late afternoon.
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Everyone knows that a tornado can be deadly and destructive to anything in its path. While not as potent as a tornado, hail can and often does cause structural damage and serious bodily injury.
The National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) has determined that a baseball-sized hailstone falls just about as fast as a major league pitcher can throw—close to 100 mph. You do not want to get hit in the head with that!
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Scientists from NASA and meteorologists from NOAA have again put their heads together for better tornado forecasting with the development of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R, or "GOES-R.”
Expected to launch in 2015, GOES-R will have an Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) that can provide forecasters and scientists tracking tornadoes with twice the spatial resolution, three times as many channels of information, and more than five times the update rate of current satellites. It can identify a tornado even before radar grabs it.
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On the eve of the anniversary of the 2011 Super Outbreak I spent the day chasing severe storms on the high plains in Southwest Kansas and the Oklahoma panhandle.]]>