ski MRG Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 58/41, overcast and cool just as Spring should be. Absolutely no sign of a torch, just cool refreshing air. U.S.A.!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 58/41, overcast and cool just as Spring should be. Absolutely no sign of a torch, just cool refreshing air. U.S.A.!!! W.E.E.N.I.E !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 I think that "project" is a high end condo place now... edit... "mixed use" Yeah Harbor Point, I had a few friends who lived in that area. "Mixed Income" ....yikes, it is still a glorified project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Did you guys see this? Insane * ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 210 MPH * PRELIMINARY RATING: EF-5 * PATH LENGTH: APPROXIMATELY 106.9 MILES (FOR THE HUNTSVILLE CWA - CONTINUATION FROM MARION COUNTY ALABAMA). TOTAL PATH LENGTH 132.1 MILES. * MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH: 1.25 MILES * FATALITIES: UNKNOWN TOTAL * INJURIES: UNKNOWN TOTAL FRANKLIN AND LAWRENCE ALABAMA: FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS SURVEY, THE PATH BEGAN AT THE SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY LINE WITH MARION COUNTY NORTH OF HACKLEBURG. FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE TORNADO PATH IN MARION COUNTY...CONSULT INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM. THE SURVEY TEAM TRAVELED THROUGH PHIL CAMPBELL AND WITNESSED CONTINUOUS SIGNIFICANT DEVASTATION THROUGHOUT THE CITY. PROLIFIC DAMAGE WAS NOTED FROM THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD 51 AND ALABAMA HIGHWAY 237...TO THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD 81 AND COUNTY ROAD 75. WITHIN A 2 MILE CORRIDOR EITHER SIDE OF THE RAILROAD TRACKS THE DAMAGE WAS SIGNIFICANT. WITHIN THIS CORRIDOR...SEVERAL WELL CONSTRUCTED HOUSES WERE DESTROYED. ALONG BROWN STREET...BLOCK HOMES WERE LEVELED TO THE GROUND. ALONG BONNER STREET...MULTIPLE BLOCK HOMES WERE LEVELED TO THE GROUND WITH THE BLOCK FOUNDATIONS DESTROYED. A 25 FOOT SECTION OF PAVEMENT WAS SUCKED UP AND SCATTERED. CHUNKS OF THE PAVEMENT WERE FOUND IN A HOME OVER 1/3 MILE DOWN THE ROAD. THE DAMAGE IN THIS AREA WAS DEEMED TO BE EF-5. IN ADDITION...AT LEAST 3 CHURCHES ALONG THE PATH SUSTAINED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE. ONE CHURCH IN PHIL CAMPBELL WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED WITH ONLY THE SLAB REMAINING. MULTIPLE MOBILE HOMES THROUGHOUT THE PATH WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED...AND THEIR MANGLED FRAMES WERE TOSSED 25 TO 50 YARDS. CARS WERE TOSSED AND DESTROYED THROUGHOUT THE PATH OF THE TORNADO...WITH ONE CAR WRAPPED AROUND A DEBARKED TREE IN PHIL CAMPBELL. ALL ALONG THE PATH LENGTH...THOUSANDS OF HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD TREES WERE SNAPPED. HUNDREDS OF TREES WERE ALSO DEBARKED AND TWISTED...AND HAD ONLY STUBS OF LARGEST BRANCHES REMAINING. EF-5 DAMAGE CONTINUED SIMILARLY NORTHEAST FROM PHIL CAMPBELL...ROUGHLY ALONG COUNTY ROADS 81 AND 82 TOWARD THE COMMUNITY OF OAK GROVE. IN OAK GROVE...THE TORNADO MAY HAVE REACHED A RELATIVE MAXIMUM IN INTENSITY WELL INTO THE EF-5 CATEGORY AS THE DAMAGE WAS SLIGHTLY MORE INTENSE AND THE PATH WIDTH WAS AT A MAXIMUM OF GREATER THAN ONE MILE. A LARGE SWATH OF COMPLETE DEVASTATION WAS NOTED IN OAK GROVE ALONG COUNTY ROADS 38 AND SMITH LANE. A LARGE WELL CONSTRUCTED HOME WITH EXTENSIVE ANCHORING WAS RAZED WITH DEBRIS CARRIED WELL AWAY FROM THE SITE. A CORVETTE WAS MANGLED AND THROWN A MEASURED 641 FEET. ANOTHER LARGE VEHICLE IS STILL MISSING. A BLOCK HOME NEXT DOOR WAS ALSO DISINTEGRATED. ALONG SMITH LANE A BLOCK HOME WAS WIPED OUT AND THE ONLY REMAINS OF A NEARBY CHICKEN HOUSE WAS A SMALL PIECE OF A METAL TRUSS. IN THIS SAME AREA...THE TREE DAMAGE WAS COMPLETE AND A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF TREES WERE STRIPPED BARE. THE TORNADO CONTINUED TO TRACK NORTHEAST INTO LAWRENCE COUNTY AS AN EF-5 NEAR THE MT. HOPE AREA WHERE SIGNIFICANT DEVASTATION WAS INCURRED TO SINGLE FAMILY HOMES AND A RESTAURANT. NOTHING BUT THE FOUNDATION AND A PILE OF DEBRIS REMAINED IN THIS AREA...AND A SMALL PORTION OF THE RESTAURANT FOUNDATION BUCKLED. THOUSANDS OF HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD TREES WERE SNAPPED...WITH A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF TREES TWISTED AND DEBARKED WITH ONLY STUBS OF BRANCHES REMAINING. MANY MOBILE HOMES WERE ALSO DESTROYED WITH THE FRAMES MANGLED...AND A SINGLE FAMILY HOME WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED WITH THE WALLS AND CONTENTS STREWN OVER A HUNDRED YARDS. FURTHER NORTHEAST THE DAMAGE WAS SLIGHTLY LESS INTENSE (HIGH END EF-3 TO LOW END EF-4)...WITH MORE TREES SNAPPED AND TWISTED AS THE TORNADO REACHED HIGHWAY 24. AT THIS LOCATION 4 CHICKEN HOUSES WERE DESTROYED WITH MUCH OF THE DEBRIS WRAPPED AROUND DEBARKED TREES. TVA HIGH VOLTAGE POWER LINE TRUSSES WERE ALSO DESTROYED AT THIS LOCATION. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Yeah that's nuts Kevin. I'm still in awe from this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Yeah that's nuts Kevin. I'm still in awe from this. That part about it ripping up the pavement and depositing it 1/3 of a mile down the road is just sick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 2, 2011 Author Share Posted May 2, 2011 I will never, ever live in a tornado prone area. How the heck did ORH have an F4/F5? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 310 tornadoes in a single day last week in the conus, just unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 How the heck did ORH have an F4/F5? Bombing low to the north with huge warm sector in early June after a big heat wave: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Bombing low to the north with huge warm sector in early June after a big heat wave: And an EML to enhance mid level lapse rates and associated CAPE. I believe reconstruction came up with something like 4000J of CAPE over ctrl mass. At least something around that, iirc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 And an EML to enhance mid level lapse rates and associated CAPE. I believe reconstruction came up with something like 4000J of CAPE over ctrl mass. At least something around that, iirc. Its still amazing how it managed to morph into that type of a storm. We've had a lot of days where we get 4000 joules of Cape but we normally do not have the low level windshear and forcing at the same time. That system basically had a dryline with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 310 tornadoes in a single day last week in the conus, just unbelievable. Kev said 300- 500 was impossible in two weeks, nevermind one day. AccuHenry got a forecast right (though it was a fairly obvious one given the pattern) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 56/45, just finished 9. Cloudy cool evening with a few brief showers. Nice walking the deserted course listening to the Spring birdsongs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 W.E.E.N.I.E !!! When your forecasts go wrong you don't have to stoop to name calling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 3, 2011 Author Share Posted May 3, 2011 When your forecasts go wrong you don't have to stoop to name calling. Why didn't you ski Sunday? Too snobby for Sugarbush? I just didn;t know until I had already made plans. Maybe next year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 You like this, Joe? How about this cool cauliflower? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 You like this, Joe? How about this cool cauliflower? My lilacs just budded out Friday, different world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Why didn't you ski Sunday? Too snobby for Sugarbush? I just didn;t know until I had already made plans. Maybe next year Busy, busy, busy. Sunday was the last day I could burn legally until 1/15/12 so I made the most of it. (I can have a bonfire on the 4th of July ) I'll be at Tuckerman's at some point this month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 My lilacs just budded out Friday, different world. My lilacs still look dormant, different world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 48/46, Where's the Torch? I'll be lucky to get out of the 50's in the next 7 days. Torch Phail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 3, 2011 Author Share Posted May 3, 2011 48.6F:/46F 65 for a high today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Nice to see the cool snap has vanished from the forecast. Now only 1 day in the 50's AWT. And now a day or 2 in the 70's. Also AWT...Euro was wrong about ULL after ULL locking over the area. Looks like from Saturday onwards beautiful warm spring wx continues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Nice to see the cool snap has vanished from the forecast. Now only 1 day in the 50's AWT. And now a day or 2 in the 70's. Also AWT...Euro was wrong about ULL after ULL locking over the area. Looks like from Saturday onwards beautiful warm spring wx continues Yes ensembles have looked a little better over the last couple of days. We still may have some days with onshore flow, but this time of year...all you need is th sun. Hopefully that's the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 You like this, Joe? How about this cool cauliflower? Beautiful! Lilac exploding all over the place! Another defeat for the doom~and~gloomers.............this week was touted as rain and 40f......with snow in the higher terrain. Sun has just broken out here, and the temps will bust badly, hoping for 80f today. D&g's turn your frowns upside down and enjoy the best spring ever!!! :sun: :sun: :sun: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 3, 2011 Author Share Posted May 3, 2011 Beautiful! Lilac exploding all over the place! Another defeat for the doom~and~gloomers.............this week was touted as rain and 40f......with snow in the higher terrain. Sun has just broken out here, and the temps will bust badly, hoping for 80f today. D&g's turn your frowns upside down and enjoy the best spring ever!!! :sun: :sun: :sun: I'm actually all for the cooler, greyer conditions of this week through Friday. Keeps my clients quieter. This past weekend was just about perfect for me in the mid-spring. Should get to 65F, maybe 70F imby today. Enjoy the sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Yes ensembles have looked a little better over the last couple of days. We still may have some days with onshore flow, but this time of year...all you need is th sun. Hopefully that's the case. Just had a feeling the Euro would bust. Tough to have a parade of ULL's like that for 10 straight days. Onshore flow days can be great..esp from ORH west..Like Sunday was 70 and sun. Looks like alot of those types of days coming up once past Thursday/Friday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 50ish, cloudy with occasional filtered sun. Nice but even in the cooler temps the black flies are active. Torch? No torch, just cool and cloudy. As it should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 I got a road trip coming up on Thursday. I am heading out to a site in Greenfield, MA. 2 hour drive, one -way. Anyone know of any good place to stop for a bite to eat? Should be there around noon time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 3, 2011 Author Share Posted May 3, 2011 I got a road trip coming up on Thursday. I am heading out to a site in Greenfield, MA. 2 hour drive, one -way. Anyone know of any good place to stop for a bite to eat? Should be there around noon time. If you are taking 495 to 2, or something like that, try the King Phillip restaurant in Phillipston, MA. Decent food, close to Rte 2. About a half hour east of Greenfield. Say hi to HappyValley (Greenfield Chris) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 If you are taking 495 to 2, or something like that, try the King Phillip restaurant in Phillipston, MA. Decent food, close to Rte 2. About a half hour east of Greenfield. Say hi to HappyValley (Greenfield Chris) I'll be heading out I-90 to I-91N. That's the quickest route. I guess I could stop in North Hampton for some brews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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