We may have severe storms this Saturday - May 1st

Good afternoon Weathermaniacs! It seems more certain we will get strong, possible severe storms tomorrow. Here is what I am picking up from NWS, Jym, and CH10. We will have rain tomorrow morning, and they are saying the strong storms will arrive late afternoon/early evening.

For that to happen, look for the following scenario: After the morning rain stops, the clouds clear heating up the atmosphere to make the environment unstable when the LOW approaches. DEW POINTS, DEW POINTS, DEW POINTS! Check our dew points. We need dew points 60 or above for severe storms. The more above 60, the more severe.

I will be following tomorrow's events from the Weathermania Command Center. Please feel free to call or text me at 614-545-8032, I will also be on Twitter (JohnForesman). Look forward to hearing from you!

From NWS:

Hazardous Weather Outlook

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
453 PM EDT FRI APR 30 2010

INZ050-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>065-073-074-012100-
WAYNE-HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE-
MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON-FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-
GREENE-FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY-FAIRFIELD-ROSS-HOCKING-
453 PM EDT FRI APR 30 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL
INDIANA...CENTRAL OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

SEVERAL ENHANCED PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
OBSERVED THIS WEEKEND. THE FIRST PERIOD OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP EARLY SATURDAY MORNING AS A COLD FRONT
STALLS OUT TO OUR WEST. WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA ON SATURDAY.

A SECOND ENHANCED PERIOD OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED
LATE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH
REGION. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE DURING THIS
TIME PERIOD WITH DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL BEING
THE MAIN THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED SATURDAY. 

Below is NWS Day2 Convective Outlook & Henry's Severe Weather potential. Notice we are right on the line for TS2/TS3 storms (Looks like he has us TS3). NWS Day2 Convective Outlook should become Day1 Convective Outlook around 8 am Saturday morning

That's All for Now...Ciao!!!

NWS Day2 Convective Outlook

Henry's Severe Storm Potential

Heads up for Saturday !

Good Morning Weathermaniacs! Possible severe weather for us this coming Saturday. More updates as details become available over the next day or so. It appears I will be virtual storm chasing the next 3 to 4 days! 

And That's All For Now Weathermaniacs..Ciao!

Sever Weather Season Kicks Off For REAL

Hi Weathermaniacs! This is going to be a quick blog. Yesterday saw the first major tornado outbreak for 2010. At this time there were a reported 30 tornadoes yesterday. I had a highly successful Virtual Storm Chase day. Saw three live tornadoes on te ground. One I watched crossing the road. You could see the rotation! Talk about insane. The other two were huge rain wrapped tornadoes.

Also followed Reed in the Dominator. There was a bar across his feed that said discovery.com/stormchasers, so I wonder if he was out shooting film for the upcoming season of Stormchasers. Pretty cool I think!

As I am writing this, this is day two of the outbreak, and there is another scheduled tomorrow so I look to be busy following all the action. Let me hear from you and your take!

Also, we may have some severe storms here in Columbus land tomorrow and/or tomorrow night so heads up!


Ciao! for now.

Last Night's Storms and 'Nados!

Experienced some excitement during last night's severe storms that rolled through Central Ohio. This happened sometime between 8:30 pm and 9:00 pm. I noticed what appeared to be a hook echo approximately SE of West Jefferson. The track took it NE between Hilliard and Columbus. Shortly thereafter a TVS signature showed on the GRlevel3 radar. By this time the thunderstorm was producing pea-sized hail. My car was parked outside during the hail storm. I have not been able to determine yet if there is any damage to the car. In this type of storm, what's the next step? You got it, we lost power (bye bye radar)! By the time power was restored, a short time later, the TVS signature was gone. There was no tornado warning issued for this event and neither Channel 4 or Channel 10 interrupted normal broadcasting. So it was over as quickly as it started. Not sure if we had brief rotation or the hail triggered the TVS signature.

Speaking of tornadoes, this is Tornado Week on The Weather Channel. The have new episodes of "Storm Stories" and "Storm Riders". Meanwhile, I am going to have Johnsweathermania's version of "Tornado Week". Recorded coverage of the May 3, 1999 tornado that hit Oklahoma City. The classic movies "Tornado" and "Twister" (I would enjoy these movies much more if they would have left out all the 'Global Warming' crap!!). New this year are all three seasons of "Storm Chasers" ! Hopefully, this will carry me over until the severe season kick into full gear! The Gulf of Mexico seems to be warming up and Dew Points are now starting rise so it should be soon, as a matter of fact, Henry says there will be severe storms over the next few days. That's all for now Ciao!     

Email Updates - NOAA - National Weather Service

Email Updates - NOAA - National Weather Service


Email Updates
The National Weather Service (NWS) is proposing an experimental use of email updates to provide NWS information.
To provide this, the services of GovDelivery, Inc. has been procured. GovDelivery provides similar services for a number of other government entities and offers unique ability to allow NWS customers to not only subscribe to NWS bulletins, but to also learn about email updates available from agencies with missions related to NWS.
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This experiment is intended to explore methods to increase dissemination and availability of NWS information and to allow consolidation of several existing email dissemination systems and reduce duplication of effort within the agency.
Sign up for NWS alerts and updates by email  (Note, emails will be sent from the email address nws.noaa@service.govdelivery.com - please set your email spam filter to accept emails from this address to ensure timely delivery).
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The available updates and bulletins include:

• National Hurricane Center:
  • Hurricane, marine, and tropical weather forecasts and advisories
• Storm Prediction Center
  • Severe weather watches and status updates
  • Severe weather mesoscale discussions
  • Convective Outlooks (Days 1, 2, and 3, and Days 4 through 8)
  • Fire Weather Outlooks
• Colorado Basin River Forecast Center
• Water supply forecasts

This list will be updated as more bulletins are added during the course of the experimental period. Severe weather watches, warniongs, and advisories will be added later this spring.

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