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18-20 March 2012 severe prospects


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What a crazy night. Both Cory and I are ok...we are at work. He was on shift and I was called in for OT before it hit the fan. The tor hit a couple miles from my place.

Happy to here everyone is alright Baro, any news for the tornado's path?

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Ended up filming three tornadoes today on the SW OK Supercelll. I;m still about two hours from home. How is Monday looking with the 0Z data?

From the 00z NAM, the apt word is trouble, towards Dallas/FW East/NE earlier in the day from around 15-00z and then the focus shifts south overnight/Tuesday morning as shear parameters become absolutely diabolical as the secondary low shifts a bit eastward towards San Antonio, Austin, Houston, College Station/Bryan and the other large population areas in southern/eastern TX, in the presence of greater 1000 J/kg CAPE and 65 degree sfc dewpoints...

I mean, are you kidding me with this hodo between Austin and College Station at 3 AM Tuesday morning?

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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 81

NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK

1050 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2012

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

WEST TEXAS

EFFECTIVE THIS SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING FROM 1050 PM UNTIL

500 AM CDT.

HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70

MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 75

STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 50 MILES EAST

SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON TEXAS TO 50 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF

CHILDRESS TEXAS. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE

ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE

FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH

AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR

THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS

AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY

DO PRODUCE TORNADOES.

DISCUSSION...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS RAPIDLY DEVELOPED AS THE

PACIFIC COLD FRONT OVERTAKES THE RETREATING DRYLINE. STORMS ARE IN

AN ENVIRONMENT CHARACTERIZED BY STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES AND

AMPLE LOW/DEEP LAYER SHEAR...BUT ALSO WITH CONSIDERABLE CAP. GIVEN

THE LINEAR NATURE OF THE FORCING AND THE STRENGTHENING CAP...BELIEVE

THAT DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS.

HOWEVER...WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR CAP STRENGTH AND STORM TRENDS FOR

POSSIBILITY OF A TORNADO RISK.

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Tornado watch on the way for Texas until 5 AM CDT Monday...

SEL2

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 82

NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK

1125 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2012

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A

TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

WEST CENTRAL TEXAS

EFFECTIVE THIS SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING FROM 1125 PM UNTIL

500 AM CDT.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND

GUSTS TO 75 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE

AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 40 STATUTE

MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 50 MILES SOUTH OF LUBBOCK

TEXAS TO 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF PLAINVIEW TEXAS. FOR A COMPLETE

DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR

TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH

AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR

THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS

AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 81...

DISCUSSION...SEVERAL CIRCULATIONS HAVE RAPIDLY FORMED ALONG THE

DEVELOPING SQUALL LINE OVER WEST TX. DESPITE THE RATHER STRONG

CAP...IT APPEARS THE RISK OF TORNADOES IS SUFFICIENT TO UPGRADE THE

ONGOING SEVERE TSTM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TX.

AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL

SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE

WIND GUSTS TO 65 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO

500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24035.

...HART

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As has been mentioned earlier, SPC is having trouble with their map graphics tonight.

Looks like Lubbuck is having trouble with theirs too. They have a link at the top of their page saying tornado watch till 5 that takes you to the SPC. The SPC says no Watches are in effect. Lubbock's map does not have counties highlighted for tornado watch at all.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lub/

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http://www.spc.noaa..../md/md0281.html

Northern TX, W OK, SW KS...

mcd0281.gif

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0281

NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK

1137 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2012

AREAS AFFECTED...ERN TX PANHANDLE...NWRN OK INTO SWRN KS

CONCERNING...SEVERE POTENTIAL...WATCH LIKELY

VALID 190437Z - 190530Z

POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SQUALL LINE TO DEVELOP AS FAR NORTH AS SWRN KS

AND NWRN OK INTO THE EARLY MORNING. DESPITE THE LINEAR MODE...A FEW

EMBEDDED SUPERCELLS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP WITHIN THE LINE. THE MAIN

THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL...BUT ISOLATED

TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

STORMS ARE DEVELOPING FROM SWRN TX INTO THE TX PANHANDLE AS DEEPER

BAROCLINIC ZONE INTERCEPTS THE DRYLINE. THIS ZONE OF STRONG FORCING

HAS RESULTED IN RAPID LINEAR UPSCALE GROWTH. HOWEVER...THE STORMS

EXIST WITHIN STRONG VERTICAL SHEAR CHARACTERIZED BY LARGE 0-2 KM

HODOGRAPHS. THIS ENVIRONMENT WILL SUPPORT ORGANIZATION INCLUDING

BOWING/LEWP SEGMENTS AND EMBEDDED SUPERCELLS AS ACTIVITY DEVELOPS

EWD/NEWD WITHIN A MODERATELY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT.

..DIAL.. 03/19/2012

ATTN...WFO...OUN...DDC...AMA...

LAT...LON 34900135 35770134 37130123 37800046 37689927 34940005

34900135

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What a day. We were on the massive OK cell. We got 3 tornadoes with the first rope crossing about 100 yards in front of us. Most of these were the same tornadoes Ben Holcumb got. That was the most impressive cell I've ever seen in person... and its not even close. That thing looked like the mothership on steroids. Uploading video as we speak. Hopefully I can keep connection. Will link it when I get it up.

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What a day. We were on the massive OK cell. We got 3 tornadoes with the first rope crossing about 100 yards in front of us. Most of these were the same tornadoes Ben Holcumb got. That was the most impressive cell I've ever seen in person... and its not even close. That thing looked like the mothership on steroids. Uploading video as we speak. Hopefully I can keep connection. Will link it when I get it up.

Sweet Zack keep on updating and be careful man. Wow!

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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE

1128 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2012

..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...

..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....

..REMARKS..

0920 PM TORNADO 4 W NORTH PLATTE 41.13N 100.85W

03/18/2012 LINCOLN NE EMERGENCY MNGR

REPORTED 15 TRAIN CARS FLIPPED OVER WITH EXTENSIVE DAMAGE

TO PRIVATE VEHICLES ON THE PLOT.

Looks like the rail yard definitely was hit.

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Thanks for the update Baro...A number of us were concerned for you both given how quickly that storm developed and moved.

I was concerned for my own place as I was watching that couplet passed just west. We had confirmed tornadoes at that point...it was hard to focus for that brief time while taking calls/reports.

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Can someone explain to me how to read EHI... I believe this is correct - that Odessa is showing an EHI of 8 right now... Here's the data I'm looking at

It is CAPE times storm relative helicity divided by 160,000. It is a composite index, showing two values used to assess thunderstorm strength, multiplied.

(In this case, it is 1km storm relative helicity instead of the 3km variety.)

Maybe you could think of it as (CAPE/1600 J/kg)*(SRH/100 m2/s2)

There are other composite indicies using a multiplication of CAPE and Shear, and possibly other values:

Supercell Composite Parameter

Significant Tornado Parameter

Craven-Brooks Index

Significant Hail Parameter

Derecho Parameter

VGP

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