USA Severe Weather 2019

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Tornado in Davis, California
who would have thought!
( know this place well, spent a year there as a exchange student...its right in the middle of the inland valley)
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Awhituobs wrote: Mon 30/09/2019 07:51 Tornado in Davis, California
who would have thought!
( know this place well, spent a year there as a exchange student...its right in the middle of the inland valley)


I saw some clips of that. Looks like a landspout? either way got very close to some people.
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Reed Timmer said it was associated with a supercall (you can see the CB cloud right above and behind it)
Inland valley CA basicly normally does not get any significant weather
just some winter rain...rest of the year its normally just hot and sunny!
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Awhituobs wrote: Mon 30/09/2019 09:10 Reed Timmer said it was associated with a supercall (you can see the CB cloud right above and behind it)
Inland valley CA basicly normally does not get any significant weather
just some winter rain...rest of the year its normally just hot and sunny!
its been confirmed as an ef0. heres a good picture of it.

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There is a cool season tornado climatology in parts of California similar to what we get in NZ. Tornadoes are not frequent but certainly occur from time to time. There is the coastal type which we are familiar with in NZ and an inland type triggered by wind shear in the valleys, such as Sacramento valley.
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So Sean Casey has sold the TIV2 (Tornado Intercept Vehicle)

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/c ... 45031.html

Purchaser is a well known US chaser Ryan Shepard who used to drive it for Sean. Hopefully it will be put to good use and we will see footage from it again in the future.
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crazy footage of a destructive night time tornado north Dallas coming in
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Awhituobs wrote: Mon 21/10/2019 21:03 crazy footage of a destructive night time tornado north Dallas coming in
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Major ... 2151.html?

Pretty significant too...
A radar-confirmed twister hit the ground at about 9 p.m. near Love Field Airport and moved northeast through the city. There were no reports of fatalities or serious injuries, according to a release from the city of Dallas, but Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said three people were hospitalized for evaluation of injuries that were not life threatening.

A damage estimate for Sunday night's storms has not been released, but the storms cut power to more than 140,000 customers, knocked down trees, overturned cars and ripped roofs from homes.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/stories/ ... 24671.html

Lots of the stuff that was posted was geolocked, these links were working from NZ when I watched them earlier.
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Thundersnow in Amarillo today with 4inches reported.

Snow is rare in October.



Model gfs sounding for 00Z today.
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lightning hole in concrete.jpg
Tim Marshall in Facebook wrote:DRIZZLE SIZZLE: Lightning bolt during this mornings rain created a 15 foot wide, 3 foot deep hole in the concrete parking lot in Fort Worth. Yikes ! NMP. — in Fort Worth, Texas
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater
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^ Video clip here: https://www.fox4news.com/news/lightning ... arking-lot

Seems very curious, did it ignite some volatile compound from the nearby gas station? 0_o
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Skip Talbot has released another great video.

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there has just been some deadly tornadoes around the states.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50820442
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Merry Christmas all,

A compilation of time lapses I've made from the last two years or so from the U.S.



Enjoy
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^ Wow! Absolutely gorgeous! :yum: _b
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Some great storms there and well captured _b
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Looks like that Jarrell tornado started more like a landspout ( no sign of the RFD cut) and then ramped up to a supercell tornado. CAPE levels were in excess of 6000 j/kg.
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must have been one of those video cameras with a real good zoom on it (this was back in the 90's this footage and has only been recently digitised?)
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Another great video from Pecos Hank. 2019 season...
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tgsnoopy wrote: Wed 05/02/2020 21:45 Another great video from Pecos Hank. 2019 season...

saw that. such a great chaser he is. he is always calm and relaxed.
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tornado wrote: Wed 05/02/2020 21:47 [

saw that. such a great chaser he is. he is always calm and relaxed.
Interesting too, with his mention of animals as well
He mentioned Darwin with it the storms there.
He didn't catch up the you, Will?
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