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27 April 2010
6 Reasons Not To Ride Out A Tornado In A Mobile Home
Number 1: Number 2. Number 3. Number 4. Number 5. Number 6 If you live in one, have a NOAA radio that is programmed properly, and a place to go to during a tornado watch. Never, ever, stay in one during a tornado warning. Any questions? Thanks to the unnamed gentleman who gave me these pictures of the damage from the Albertville, AL tornado Saturday night.
26 April 2010
High Risk- The Day After
The last several posts have been about the high risk of tornadoes over the Southeastern United States on Saturday. You probably have already heard of the tornado that hit Yazoo City in Mississippi . It left 10 dead and horrible damage. Later Saturday night, the tornadoes dropped again from new thunderstorms. These were much closer to home. We were on the air many hours as the storms moved across North …
25 April 2010
Tornadoes Strike North Alabama- Damage and Injuries
Major damage and some injuries are being reported in Albertville, Alabama and in Geraldine Alabama from a tornado Saturday night. These tornadoes follow the twister that hit Yazoo City in Mississippi on Saturday afternoon. That storm left 10 dead. The image above is showing winds toward and away from the radar. I circled the velocity couplet showing very strong winds toward the radar next to winds in the opposite direction. …
24 April 2010
Large Tornado Crosses Mississippi- Heavy Damage/Deaths
Reports of heavy damage in Mississippi continue to come in. Madison Parish and Yazoo City seem to be the hardest hit. There were reports of cars blown off the road along Interstate 55 in Central Miss. Update 6PM Huntsville time: 7 deaths in Yazoo City reported. Video shows widespread severe damage.
NOAA- Rare High Risk of Severe Storms For SE USA Saturday
The Storm Prediction Center in Norman Oklahoma has upgraded the moderate risk of severe weather to a HIGH RISK for a large area of North and Western Alabama and much of Mississippi for Saturday. New model guidance tonight indicates that wind shear and instability will be very conducive for the formation of super-cell thunderstorms and some long track tornadoes. The greatest threat will exist from mid morning Saturday through the …
23 April 2010
Update: Deadly Tornado Outbreak More Likley Now
A deadly weekend tornado outbreak is becoming more likely this evening. Conditions are coming together for potentially violent long track tornadoes across much of Mississippi and Alabama on Saturday. Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana are also threatened. It is quite possible conditions may reach the threshold for a rare High Risk outlook from the Storm Prediction Center (NOAA) in Norman. Several of the tornado watches tomorrow will be PDS watches. (Particularly …
Deadly Tornado Outbreak This Weekend??
It may sound crass and I do not mean it to be that way, but there are likely to be deaths from tornadoes in the next 48 hours. If only we could only say exactly where! What we can say is that conditions are coming together to make the development of a few strong tornadoes and they will likely be in Mississippi and Alabama on Saturday. Here in Alabama there …
20 April 2010
The Ash Is Thinning!
Great news for air travelers this evening. The eruption in Iceland is now putting out much less ash and the cloud is much lower. The low level ash is not headed toward the UK as the image above shows. The snow-cap that covered the volcano has melted away. This has reduced the steam/ash combination that was climbing to over 3,000 meters. Even more good news tonight. The upper level and …
19 April 2010
Gorgeous NASA Shot of Iceland Ash Cloud- Heathrow Reopening?? (Updated 0230GMT)
There is actually some good news tonight. The ash cloud over Europe has diminished and begun to sink south of Paris and London. Here is the outlook for tomorrow regarding the no go areas. Late word tonight that the eruption has picked back up. The current wind flow will steer the new ash cloud toward the UK, Central England in particular. So the openings of the airports tomorrow may be …
12 March 2010
Why You Should Put The Car In The Garage During A Severe Thunderstorm Warning…
This happened last night in Dekalb County, Alabama. The storms kept me up until 5am. It was a real dark and stormy night! Notice the grill on the window A/C unit! Later, Dan
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.