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UKMO suggests highest winds mainly for the south, GFS similar, track of course is key to who gets the worst, keep looking on models hoping for an improvement but not much luck, half term here too
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UK Severe Convective & Storm Forecast - Issued 2023-03-22 10:21:10 Valid: 22/03/2023 0600 - 23/03/2023 0600 THUNDERSTORM FORECAST - WEDS 22 MARCH 2023 Click here for the full forecast -
I was having a scour of newspaper archives the other day & found mentions of a 'whirlwind' that struck Herne Bay just after 2 pm. It seems to follow the normal SW to NE track typical of UK tornadoes, spanning over 3 miles in just under 3 minutes. Newspapers from London Daily News & the local Whitstable Times & Herne Bay Herald both describe the events of the day with a 'brief period of darkness' with residents reporting a 'noise like thunder' before fences were levelled, trees were blown over & windows were blown in. I had not heard anything like this before & I'm shocked I haven't considering the damage & extremity of it with the wind was estimated to be 'blowing at the rate of over a hundred miles an hour.' The long track of this as well as the roaring noise typical of tornadoes suggests that this was no straight line winds & a tornado, probably spawned off an embedded thunderstorm along the cold front arriving that afternoon. I have plotted a rough estimated track of the tornado based on a 1906 map of the town with notable points such as a farm nearby the station being hit & Beltinge sustaining damage as good indication points: I have not been able to find any more details on how wide the tornado was or any pictures of any damage. I believe the track on that map comes just over the 3 mile mark but I cannot be sure. I'd estimate it to be around a T3 tornado. Reanalysis of the day from 12:00 UTC does show colder air arriving from the NW going from 8c 850hpa temps to below 0c 850hPa temps.
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Post your tornado encounters here and tell us about the experience and what other phenomena you saw.
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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the May 3rd 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak that took 40 lives, the highest wind speed ever recorded and a significant portion of it was broadcast live most likely saving 10's if not 100's of lives. Oklahoma 1999 Tornado Outbreak.
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Hi, I went out to America with Netweather this year for the Storm Chase on Tour 1 and got some amazing shots. I found the camera I had (Fuji S2950) with me, a bit difficult to use for the type of photography. It doesn't have much offering for long exposure, and it was very much a guessing game as to whether I caught lightning on it. As well, photography under the storms where its quite dark, didn't really come out brilliantly. I wasn't able to catch the colours that I was actually seeing, in the pictures. I have a budget for a new camera before I go out to America next May, and am asking for suggestions for a new camera, that is really geared towards photography of storms and landscapes. I guess these are my most important requirements:- Camera that has good feedback for learning to capture lightning with Generally good at capturing colours in storms well in darker surroundings (under storms) Long exposure (longer the better) Panoramic photography would be beneficial. My current camera is a bridge camera, and I am open towards suggestions of bridge cameras again or cameras with separate lenses. Budget is upto £500-£600 if the camera is a good one. Any suggestions for cameras that are currently used for similar activities would be massively appreciated. Cheers, Mike.
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Hello fellow weather enthusiasts I have an odd sighting at the region of Ghent in Belgium. I saw what appeared to be a funnel cloud near the inflow bands of a forming thunderstorm. Am I correct in assuming this?
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Some research on tornado tracks that may be of interest.... http://phys.org/news...ns-greater.html
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Just saw this on the BBC News site. Sorry if someone has already posted this but if not, what does everyone think- he's crazy right!? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26492720 -
From the album: My Photos
A screenshot from a video I took around the end of August 2013. The cloud was twisting into itself and sucking in more cloud from the right. -
Ok boys and girls. I guess we've all picked out our tours for next year, so here's a chance to list who's on what tour for 2014
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From the album: Storm Chase T2 2013
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From the album: Tour 2013 - The Fast Start (hopefully)
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From the album: Tour 2013 - The Fast Start (hopefully)
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From the album: Tour 2013 - The Fast Start (hopefully)
The second tornado of the day touches down -
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Kaddy Lee-Preston and her first tornado! -
From the album: Tour 2013 - The Fast Start (hopefully)
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It's come around fast this year - the storm chase starts next week, and as ever we'll be streaming the action live, and the team will be regularly keeping us up to date with the latest forecasts, reports, photos and video. The first chase day for tour 2 is the 9th, so we're about coming in to model range now - the season has started fairly slowly but there are signs of life coming through as we get into next week.. The staff members on tour 2 are: Paul Sherman - team leader Arron Hiscox - GPS and forecaster Ian MIchaelwaite - Driver and technical The guests are: Kaddy Lee-Preston (special guest) Gavin Woolnough Jo Lough Catherine Anderson Stuart Wilson Kathryn Tyler I'm sure Paul, Ian and Arron will share some of the techie and photographic kit they're packing in with them this year, and if any of the guests want to fill us in on any special goodies they're packing, or indeed have any questions about what to take or anything else related to the tour, please shout! The countdown proper starts now
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As we build up to the 2013 chase, we thought now would be a good time to look back at the chases since 2007, and share some of the highlights. Today it's the tornadoes - of which there have been many! These are in no particular order - pick your favourite More to follow....
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29 May 2012, 'Mothership' supercell, OK
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The supercell storm near Piedmont, Oklahoma, that we'd been tracking from initiation, took on the form of the foreboding 'mothership' structure. Tried as it might, the storm seemed just fractionally too high to produce a tornado, but the mobile tornado sirens were issued just in case.© Weather Studios
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Hey can anyone help me on this, planning on going on one in 2014! I'd be really appreciative. Thankyou -
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A video supposedly taken this morning of a tornado in Bray Might be associated with this storm
