US Storm Chasing 2011

[littleheaven]

Looks like the season is getting off to an early start, with a moderate risk setup a day or so ago and another for Arkansas/Missouri over the next 24 hours. Reed tweeted that SW Kansas may see some daylight action. Should be chasers streaming life at both Tornado Videos.net and Severe Studios sites.

[NZstorm]

Could be an early tornado season over there this year.

[Tornado Tim]

My Friend in Huntsville TN, had a Tornado greet his county yesterday (our this morning).
1 Person died as a result of being in a mobile home at the time it hit unfortunately.
His Lightning Detector detected 36000 CG flashes in this system today! Seems like a MCS!

My other Weather friend in Madison Alabama is preparing for full use of his underground tornado shelter this year

[Robert_Edmonds]

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[03Stormchaser]

"A suspected tornado has ripped through a town in the US state of Loiusiana, killing one woman and injuring 11 other people."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12658092

[Tornado Tim]

My U.S friends are preparing for a slight chance of tornadoes tomorrow.

Since so many have occurred on a slight risk they arnt taking any chances.

I will be watching there boltek's tomorrow and see the event pans out.

[NZstorm]

The slight risk tomorrow is in Mississippi/Alabama which is known as Dixie tornado alley. They actually get as many tornadoes there than tornado alley but the chase country is not good. SPC reckon there is a 10% tornado prob, 30% large hail.

The slight risk is the standard severe weather outlook and in reality there is nothing slight about it. The term slight/moderate/high relate to severe thunderstorm coverage.

[NZstorm]

Early morning in USA and there is already a lot of lightning with some severe warned storms for 1inch hail.
Elevated convection along the warm front.

[Tornado Tim]

My friend said to me he has been hearing thunder for 22 hours now, with only a couple of breaks of about an hour between.
Man I want to go there to experience that

The slight risk is the standard severe weather outlook and in reality there is nothing slight about it. The term slight/moderate/high relate to severe thunderstorm coverage.

thought that, but it said in the text slight chance of a tornado so mentioned it.

[NZstorm]

A clip of a wall cloud in Alabama yesterday, sped up to show the effect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghcGQvhMgTw

[Tornado Tim]

My friend just emailed me (from Huntland, TN), hes now under a Severe T-storm Warning, with a storm to his north potentially producing Hail at Baseball size!!!!

As you can tell, hes getting nervous, as I would be in that situation.

Lightning Count is 587 Strokes per min atm.

[Orion]

Looks very menacing...

[NZstorm]

A lot of wind/damage/hail reports from a massive squall line that crossed SE USA today.

SPC reports chart.

[Tornado Tim]

Just watched ABC world news which had some good footage of the storms, very strong winds!

8 people died due to large trees falling on houses.

Apparently wall on a Hospital collapsed and windows blown in in Memphis, TN!

[jamie]

Oh man as usual at this time of year I get ants in my pants and just want to get over there. This time last year I was already on my big holiday in Perth and then headed over to USA. Take me back take me back. Need a decent storm.

[03Stormchaser]

Oh man as usual at this time of year I get ants in my pants and just want to get over there. This time last year I was already on my big holiday in Perth and then headed over to USA. Take me back take me back. Need a decent storm.

Tell me about just watched stormchasers on Discovery this morning, found my self with itchy feet looking at flights...... if any one is keen???

[tgsnoopy]

I wish I could, sadly there is no way I can.

[NZstorm]

There is a big weather system affecting the midwest in the next couple of days. The US media are promoting it. I see SPC have a mod risk in their day3 outlook for the upper midwest. So the spring severe weather season is in full swing now. I have a hunch the traditional tornado regions such as Oklahoma/Texas will miss out this year while the upper midwest/northern plains will get hammered.

[NZstorm]

Clip here of a tornado at Mapleton Iowa this afternoon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCpQuYyp ... youtu.be&a

[03Stormchaser]

Maybe (a big MAYBE) heading over after all but depends on next 2 weeks, Aaron and I are both in similar situations were it depends on a couple plays in the markets, I already have the leave anyway so thats no a problem.

[spwill]

The season has certainly started a lot further north than usual, chasing in Canada by the end of May ?

[Tornado Tim]

Yea it seems like it skipped Texas completely so far....

[NZstorm]

There is a bad drought in Texas and Oklahoma which doesn't bode well for the tornado season in those states.

[03Stormchaser]

There is a bad drought in Texas and Oklahoma which doesn't bode well for the tornado season in those states.

SPC got a mod risk out back in traditional better chase country, KS, OK and TX on thursday afternoon into the evening. Quick look over GFS I would think setting up somwere on I35 around Norman, before waiting to see what fires and then head east.