Tornado alley 2008 nowcasting and forecasting

**maxvrita** · 14/06/2008, 13:43

Foto pazzesche in arrivo dagli States del Midwest nuovamente colpiti da devastanti tornadoes...

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gal...do-iowa/1.html

Questa però è incredibile! Uno scatto sensazionale...

**NikoDj** · 14/06/2008, 18:22

merda ragazzi ma che supercella era!?!?!?

**Aragorth** · 15/06/2008, 23:02

wow guys quite a nasty setup today... classic very large hail bombers and extreme winds event in place!

But this is first time I see such WW... PDS for severe thunderstorm watch... awsome

Oh and for the target... Emporia or Eureka, KS looks good. Although west OK into TX PAnh along the very sharp dryline looks juicy too.

**Aragorth** · 21/06/2008, 00:10

Here is one crazy report from Steve Miller, TX...

The storm moved then east of Muleshoe by a few miles. I was close to it and about to take a south option to get around it again. I felt I had a good, safe distance from it like so many storms I've danced with before. Without any warning, on the road in front of me, a large white "artillery shell" exploded in a shower of ice chunks. Oh, shit! I immediately made a 180 while creatig some new colorful expletives. ;-) The barrage then ensued like a scene out of a WW2 movie with artillery raining down all around me. I was trying to be brave like John Wayne, but was in a bit of panic mode cursing and praying at the same time.

The smallest of the hail was tennis ball...most of it baseballs. A good number of them were softball size. A few were even larger than that to grapefruit. I even saw one in particular falling from the sky ahead of me that was larger than grapefruit. I swear under oath that this thing was probably cantelope sized....at least. No exaggeration. That image of it dwarfing every other chunk of ice hurtling to earth is burned in my mind. When it hit the road, it was by far much larger than any of the other chunks that were exploding on the road surface. The showering chunks from it tumbled into my lane and looked like golf balls!!

Man I would love to see such monster hail once!