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15 May 2011
The Great Mississippi Flood Rolls South
The image below is the Miss. River on 10 May, 2010 from NASA’s Aqua satellite. The image below is 6 May, 2011 Now the reason why; the image below is the rainfall departure from normal over the past 30 days. Click the image for the full resolution. Late word (this evening), that the Morganza spillway has been opened to reduce the threat of massive flooding in the cities along the river. …
8 May 2011
Mississippi Tornado Upgraded to EF 5. Takes Road With It.
The supercell responsible for this, killed three people and was the first EF 5 in Mississippi since 1966. The fatalities happened when a strapped down double wide mobile home was thrown 300 yards in the air and into a line of trees, and obliterated. You can read the storm survey from the NWS here.
4 May 2011
Geo-Eye Image shows Destruction from Tuscaloosa Tornado
GeoEye is a commercial satellite imagery company and they released a high-resolution image showing the damage path from the EF 4 tornado through Tuscaloosa, Alabama on Wednesday April 27. Click the image for a much higher resolution. You can also download an image file for Google Earth showing the track of all the strong tornadoes in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee here. Once you load it into Google Earth you can …
3 May 2011
Tornado Hits Auckland! Alabama EF 5 Track visible from space!
Tornadoes in the Southern Hemisphere mainly rotate clockwise (about 99%) which is just the opposite of those in the Northern Hemisphere. Two fatalities were reported with this tornado, and yes they are very rare in New Zealand. NASA has released an incredible image from the Aqua satellite showing the path of the EF 5 tornado that was on the ground for 132 miles from near Hackleburg, AL to Franklin County, …
2 May 2011
The Most Amazing Storm Survey I’ve Ever Read
A large and deadly tornado, on the ground for 132 miles! This is a little longer than the 130 mile track of the deadly tornado that took a very similar path on April 3, 1974. PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 959 PM CDT SUN MAY 1 2011 …LONG TRACK EF-5 TORNADO CONFIRMED ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY… THIS IS UPDATED INFORMATION CONCERNING CUMULATIVE STORM SURVEY INFORMATION OF …
29 April 2011
500,000 without power in North AL
Madison County, AL is in the dark tonight. Every main feeder line into the area was destroyed by the tornadoes yesterday, and you can walk outside and see the sky the way my great grandparents saw it 90 years ago! I am writing this post using the generator that is running the five lights in our studio, and (we are told) no power is likely for at least 4 days. …
28 April 2011
Deadly Tornado Swarm Pounds Alabama
I write this post from a hotel in Birmingham tonight. My flight was diverted coming back from a climate change seminar in Oklahoma and it was one wild ride into Alabama. I rarely get nervous on a plane, but I did this time. My last post was about the high risk outlook from the Storm Prediction Center and it is quite obvious that the warning was a good one. …
28 February 2011
One Dead in Tennessee Tornado
A busy day for me today. Lots of wind damage across North Alabama and a tornado just over the line in Tennessee. This is what the radar looked like at the time of the touchdown. Damage is heavy across the north end of the county, and three mobile homes near Estill Springs are just gone. One of the fatalities occurred there. While on the air, the image below is what …
17 February 2011
“Wow” Video of X-Class Flare From NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
Take a look at this! The X class flare was caught by the SDO and it’s expected to kick off a nice geomagnetic storm starting tonight. I am betting on some great pics of the Aurora by tomorrow morning! The incredible video, of the flash below, is from two spacecraft. The sun itself is from the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the red region around it is from the SOHO spacecraft. …
14 February 2011
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre- The real weather that day.
Perhaps no single event in the era of gangsters and prohibition is the crime known as the Saint Valentine’s Day massacre. Many movies have been made, and dozens of books written, about the event. Almost all put the blame (where the experts say it belongs) on Al Capone. Most people have seen the movie about the crime and it shows a cold and quite snowy day leading up to the …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.