James McCormick
@60andhatched
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Russ paying tribute to the victims of the 1976 Big Thompson Canyon flood which included friends of my grandparents. My grandmother lived long enough to see my meteorology career start, but the weather, especially hard rain, always made her a touch sad.
Identifying overshooting top behavior even a few minutes’ beforehand would have positive impacts on jet stream aviation. Great talk from Melinda Berman/UIUC.
Icebreakering away from all of the people I don’t know. Haven’t seen any dolphins yet.
360 more miles to finish off an incredibly long two year odyssey from Virginia Beach to Madison.
Buffalo Fork is a magnificent river and it’s actually plausible to see how a big tornado could form when you see the long, broad valleys.
Post mortem: Damage consistent with ~80 MPH winds about 5 miles west of me. Every single time our PWAT gets to 1.75, somebody gets crushed.
Update: windy, but only in the upper end of non-severe range. Here’s to a dryish boundary layer!
1.8" of PWAT, surface dew points in the low 70s as corn season kicks in, and nearly 1300 DCAPE? My downburst senses are tingling again as the MD caps us at 70: "MOST PROBABLE PEAK WIND GUST...55-70 MPH"
Looks like a warning specifically designed for the numerous campgrounds on the rivers.
It was hazy in Cali last week, but coming out of the tunnel to this view after 90 minutes of mountain driving was pretty spectacular.
Meanwhile, in central Nebraska tonight, this sounding looks like a crop-eraser, not a marginal/slight risk event:
This model sounding from SE Colorado feels like a fire sounding. I don't know how well aircraft are going to be able to fly in here, either. Several moderate turbulence reports at the top of the boundary layer from lighter aircraft in the area.
This OU team running through the best teams in the sport is pretty wild.
It’s not aurora or albert lea, but it is june 17th. Looking towards KC.
Not going to make much news but 60 mph beat up our open air art fair in omaha this morning. Models and OAX caught on to the idea around closing time last night; we were outside the day 2 marginal risk. Even if we’d known. Set up and transport is hard. Sometimes stuff just gets beat up.
25 years after Seward and Munden/Narka, my southeastern sky looks kinda similar.
I’m trying to sleep (on the 25th anniversary of my greatest chase ever)
The air is this hot sickness inducing kind of air that i most associate with the joplin day. We are capped but i am not surprised chasers are saying strong tor where the winds are even slightly southeast.
I understand the rationale behind not going tor watch in SE Nebraska, the cap obliterated the first attempt out west, but it’s still not an easy one today. Lot of low level juice and *some* turning.
The pros of chasing in the High Plains. You can see tornadoes without *ANY* chaser convergence. I did run into people in Sidney at the Runza, though. I was admittedly a bit late to this storm but from one spot I was able to watch the same storm for two hours. I will take it.