Those microbursts/down bursts are fascinating and often just as dangerous as most wind/storm related casualties and fatalities are from falling trees. The wind blows down vertically, which hits trees at their weak point and pushes branches down and rips them along the grain. V/Y shaped trees will almost always loose at least half of the tree in such events
Very informative. I'm new to reading radar so it's hard for me to get my head around it. I find it fascinating though. I hope to continue my learning. Videos like this really help a lot. Thank you for a great presentation.
@@regengamma7271chasing and spotting is very different. Spotters stay in one area and require spotter initiation. Chasers are people who travel global to see severe weather
NormanNWS created this video and is located in Norman Oklahoma. As for my original comment I was addressing the NormanNWS office that created this video and thanking them for it.
I really appreciate these types of videos. I don't intend to go out storm spotting, but I do definitely get value from being able to look at the reflectivity and velocity radars, and know what danger is headed my way.
Thank you for this most useful lesson. I finished my first two weeks of storm chasing this past late May/early June and am using the time before I’m out again to build on my knowledge (taking screen shots of most of the images and annotating them!) I hope you’ll continue to help us learn more.
Cool. Thanks. I've been a radar watcher since way back with Gary England on my TV. Jump back and throw me down Loretta! It's Friday night in the big town.
I don't fully understand the hard right turns of the right split supercells. I know that they make them. We've all heard of "right-turners" but I don't quite know the reasons. I think it's because they are moving into more saturated, warmer air. What else could it be?
Brief and weak from multicellular storms? Come on over to the East a bit and ask Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia residents about tornadoes from squall lines and MCS's. I'd like to see more about spotting rotation within multicellular storms like we get over here. Having witnessed several tornadoes in GA as well as lucking out on quite a few, I'd like to learn more about rotational signatures within constantly moving, shape-shifting and developing systems like we get. The Albany, GA Ef3 had a MASSIVE rotation. I could see rotation in the clouds well before it got to us (barely missed luckily). I have trouble verifying signatures using velocity and distinguishing between basic wind events and actual rotation....with squall lines, as severe as they have been, the velocity signatures are everywhere.
Do you have a video on how to read radar but for beginners? I’m not a storm chaser or spotter. I’m a firefighter in Florida that’s basically a weather nerd and would love to have this knowledge when hurricane season rolls around (now)…Thanks!
Really enjoy your videos, I purchased the Radar Omega Alpha version and have been really interested in learning more. How do you get the historical data such as you show on your video for Oklahoma Tornado in El Reno?
Not giivng a commercial (paid or anything like that) plug here but I really like WSV3 as a program for real time Level II and Level III nexrad products. If you download the pro version from wsv3.com it'll automatically work for 14 days, free. Good produt... more and more broadcast tv weather stations are using it now. I don't really know any other way to get actual real-time sweeps either. IF anyone else does, I'd be curious
Could the data be interpreted to detect if energy has been gained or lost by the radar signal? If so could this data then be used to detect the hot smoke of forest fires?
So, what is it that causes radar features like straight lines protruding from a center point out in all directions seeming to flash and become greater and lesser. And what causes perfect circles like those just mentioned above to "overlap" in areas creating many different lines, colors and circles like those seen here:https: //ru-vid.comttLN_D3FCz4 I am really interested in knowing how these unnatural patterns keep appearing and are intensifying in strength and frequency lately. Any takers? Anybody?
Brief and weak tornadoes from a squall line? Haha, not anymore say us in the SE. Guess you're going to have to update your lesson from saying sporadic tornadoes mostly short lived and weak to, "we really dont know what to expect from these types of systems anymore." Hahaha
You guys teach how to read velocity, but you don’t use it. There have been 7 unwarned tornadoes this year (2017), it looks like you’re the one that needs to be taught...
