The Weather Warrior

WHERE HURRICANES, TORNADOES, LIGHTNING, BLIZZARDS, AND FLOODS ARE NO MATCH!

Review: Bullseye Bowdle (May 22, 2010 chase film)

Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 1:13pm EDT
Bullseye Bowdle aims to bring the viewer great video of a fantastic chase day for many
One of the first chaser related films to be released covering the 2010 chase season has some great footage, but the overall production is more on par with a chaser highlights production more than [...]

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Thu, August 19 2010 » Spring 2010, product review, storm chasing, tornado » No Comments

NWS survey found tornado hit Unionville, MD

Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 1:04am EDT
NWS Survey details events of August 12, 2010 double round of storms that hit the greater DC region

FREDERICK AND CARROLL COUNTIES…
…EF-0 TORNADO CONFIRMED SOUTH OF UNIONVILLE MARYLAND…
LOCATION…SOUTH OF UNIONVILLE IN FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND
–DATE…12 AUGUST 2010
–ESTIMATED TIME…503 PM
–MAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING…EF-0
–ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEED…80 MPH
–MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH…50 YARDS
–PATH LENGTH…0.25 MILES
–BEGINNING LAT/LON…39.4403N/77.1837W
–ENDING [...]

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Wed, August 18 2010 » DC area weather, NWS, severe weather coverage, summer 2010, tornado » No Comments

Storm Chase today, tomorrow or Thursday likely for another.

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 at 11:23pm.
Active local storm chasing returns after a quite week or more.
Today turned out to be a interesting chase, a continued increase in severe intercept, and another tornado warned storm with two preliminary tornado reports not far from our position. I did put in for a wall cloud..non rotating (well [...]

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Tue, June 22 2010 » storm chasing, summer 2010, tornado » No Comments

Yazoo City, Mississippi now in recovery mode

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 at 11:01am EDT
Rescue works, red cross, and more in the devastated town of Yazoo City, Mississippi.

The town is now in recovery and rebuilding mode as the main storm threat is over. All kinds of government and civilian assistance organizations are on scene helping the many residents affected by this 1/2 [...]

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Sun, April 25 2010 » DC area weather, Spring 2010, severe weather coverage, storm chasing, tornado » No Comments

Tornado & severe weather threat for today moving east.

***Don’t forget to scroll down, as I am updating other posts from earlier today***

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Radar image form NWS:

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Saturday, April 24th, 2010 at 5:02 EDT (2102z).
Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Alabama now see the severe weather and tornado watches and warnings enter into their regions.

This system has plenty of energy, and likely will continue to spread east toward the [...]

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Sat, April 24 2010 » Spring 2010, severe weather coverage, tornado » No Comments

Yazoo City, Mississippi tornado: Updates

Injury and fatalities reports are coming in:
Apr 24, 4:22 PM EDT
2 killed as tornado strikes Miss.; others injured
By HOLBROOK MOHR
Associated Press Writer
YAZOO CITY, Miss. (AP) — A tornado touched down Saturday in rural Mississippi, killing two people, injuring several others and ripping the tops off buildings, the mayor of Yazoo City said.
The 3/4-mile wide [...]

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Sat, April 24 2010 » Spring 2010, severe weather coverage, tornado » No Comments

Yazoo City, MS and other areas seeing significant damage

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 at 3:58pm EDT
Storms are reeking havoc down in the southern states, other areas affect too (DC tomorrow?)
Yazoo City in Mississippi has apparently been hit by a very strong tornado and currently lots of rescue and recovery units are on the scene of this devestating tornado. Storms chasers and various media [...]

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Sat, April 24 2010 » Spring 2010, severe weather coverage, storm chasing, tornado » No Comments

Lots of tornado action today.

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 at 10:01pm EDT
Reports still coming in, but large and numerous tornadoes reported today.
I’m still following the action and various video streams websites (well mostly one site since another streaming site has been down most of the day). I did see one tornado on the stream, likely would have seen more, [...]

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Thu, April 22 2010 » Spring 2010, severe weather coverage, storm chasing, tornado » No Comments

Well, I saw a tornado today…in Baltimore no less.

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at 11:50pm EDT
Today….I saw a tornado. But I don’t think this one will make the SPC reports and is likely rated an EF negative 1 (EF -1).

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Thu, April 15 2010 » Jason personal, Spring 2010, public display, tornado » No Comments

Rain is (as expect) not as much as thought/Tornadoes in the Bahamas

Monday, March 29th, 2010 at 10:56pm EDT
But still a good amount of rain, and some flooding.
NWS Potomac River Flood State Map–>www.erh.noaa.gov/marfc/potomac.htm
No flooding and only one location reporting higher flow than normal. We were looking at nearly 3″ inches of rain between Sunday and Tuesday. Half way through that period, stations are reporting between [...]

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Mon, March 29 2010 » DC area weather, Fall 2008, Spring 2010, tornado » No Comments