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Oh lordy.  I see Allan's site is now pay.

 

Since so many people used it, I feel a backlash coming soon.  Hopefully not, but now I gotta get a dedicated server/gempak/grads to generate my own. UGH.

 

Accuweather Pro + other data sites are going to capitalize on this big time.

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Oh lordy.  I see Allan's site is now pay.

 

Since so many people used it, I feel a backlash coming soon.  Hopefully not, but now I gotta get a dedicated server/gempak/grads to generate my own. UGH.

 

Accuweather Pro + other data sites are going to capitalize on this big time.

 

Yep. There is already a thread in OT.

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Nice Shawn, I might try it lol.

It's honestly annoying and costs a good bit.  I wouldn't try it on a large scale to make money unless you have money to invest.  If someone could recreate accuweather with ryan maue's graphic resolution and had a fair price with fast data.. whew that'd be supreme.  I think with raleigh going pay, someone's gonna pop up with something like it eventually.

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I don't want to come off as being stupid for saying this, but after hearing the El Reno tornado was upgraded to EF-5 because of measured winds from radar data, yet only caused EF-3 damage structurally, what would be the point of having a scale that measures tornado intensity by structural (including roads, sidewalks, trees, etc.) damage if you're taking radar data as the more credible source for determining the strength of the tornado?

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I don't want to come off as being stupid for saying this, but after hearing the El Reno tornado was upgraded to EF-5 because of measured winds from radar data, yet only caused EF-3 damage structurally, what would be the point of having a scale that measures tornado intensity by structural (including roads, sidewalks, trees, etc.) damage if you're taking radar data as the more credible source for determining the strength of the tornado?

Exactly!! Now you will have people thinking they lived through an EF5 when the damage wasn't of those levels. And if this is how they want to rate tornadoes, there would have been plenty more EF5 in the 2011 April 27 outbreak and during any other outbreak.
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I think the experts that do the surveying for a living, know what they are talking about.so if they saw EF 5 damage, and call it an EF 5 , I'm gonna take there word for it , just sayin

Bro, they gave it an EF5 rating because mobile radar data measured winds of 296mph. The damage in El Reno was only EF3 which is significant still but definitely not higher. Just saying.

Edit: I deleted my post my accident.

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There's some controversy over whether or not it's the widest and the instruments/methods used to determine width.

 

Via Facebook:

 

Word today that El Reno Tornado was an EF5 with winds approaching and insane 300mph. If the EF scale were extended beyond EF5, that would be closer to an EF7. Word was flying around that the 2.6 mile width was a record, and I too retweeted that.

It now appears that isn't a record. Page 33 of this article documents the Mulhall, OK tornado of 3 May 1999 was 7KM wide (>4 miles). Here is the article.

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/BAMS-88-1-31

 

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How long is the NAM going to hold this west solution? At 36 hours out, it still wants to send the low to Eufala, AL.

I was thinking the exact same thing. Every run, I keep expecting to see it move east (we all know it will), but it keeps holding west. The GFS was off the coast and is now just inland. It still has a sharp precip cut-off east of the Triangle, but the 6Z beefed up the precip a bit. Euro and CMC were west but came east last night, more in line with the GFS. CMC keeps going nuts with the precip, but it's never right. I have no idea what the Euro's precip output looks like.

I'm hoping for some heavy rain, but I'm not holding my breath. It always finds a way to go west, through the western Piedmont and foothills or east along/east of I-95. Would sure be nice if some of our SE mets would update their blogs with their thoughts.

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Well I see a post by Allen on the front page, click it and get this:

 

"You must purchase a subsciption to view this article."

 

This seems like a bad sign to me.  Like it's beyond just the "bandwidth/model data" now.  I think it would have worked better off site, like Robert did.  Well, maybe not.. considering so many users here did use those maps.  Idk.

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