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most unstable CAPE(muCAPE), andeffective bulk wind difference. Values of 1 or greater indicate an increased potential for right-moving supercells, should storms fire or move into the region highlighted by the supercell composite index. More details can be ...
Go to the lowest level of a permanent building or storm shelter. If no permanent building is available, follow the tips below for being in the open. If the tornado is far away, you may be able to avoid it by driving in right angles away from the funnel.Nevertry to outrun a tornado...
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) – A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 AM CDT FOR WESTERN JEFFERSON DAVIS…SOUTHEASTERN BEAUREGARD…NORTHEASTERN CALCASIEU AND SOUTHWESTERN ALLEN PARISHES… At 905 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near Gillis, or near Moss Bl...
Now, the professional advice is that once there’s a tornado warning, you should seek shelter immediately. And that’s good counsel. Personally, because the sirens go off even when there’s only suspicious circulation, or when a tornado is on the ground 30 miles from where we live (the ...
rather than relying on visual reports from people on the ground. Officials could then relay the coming threat far earlier than the average 15-minute warning they can offer now, giving people more time to seek life-saving shelter. One day, this technology could be part of a warning system th...
The Tahoe Live music festival at Palisades Tahoe ski resort in California was expected to go ahead as planned Saturday and Sunday in spite of a winter storm warning for the area. Lil Wayne was scheduled to perform Saturday night, with Diplo as the headliner on Sunday, the festival’s we...
By 2 PM, the atmosphere over central Oklahoma was becoming primed as the lingering effects of the morning convection had waned, with a very moist and unstable airmass now residing to the east of an advancing dry line (slide 1). The potent mid level trough continued to move east, reaching...
The tornadoes came on a wild weather day in Texas — wildfires burned in the west and a blizzard warning was issued for the Texas Panhandle, where up to 9 inches (23 centimeters) of snow fell. "There’s absolutely nothing out of the ordinary in terms of what we saw yesterday and we ...
People there had little warning as the tornado touched down, barreling toward a mobile home park directly in its path, he said. “The storm produced a wall cloud very quickly, and that wall cloud tightened up very rapidly and then it just went to the ground very quickly,” Emfinger ...