Tornadoes, severe thunderstorms kill nine in OK, AR; more severe weather today
Tornadoes and deadly severe thunderstorms tore through Oklahoma and Arkansas last night, killing at least nine people. The action began Thursday afternoon, when a powerful spring low pressure system intensified over western Kansas. The intensifying storm pulled in frigid Canadian air behind it and warm, moist Gulf of Mexico air in front of it, and where two air masses collided over eastern Oklahoma, a powerful cold front spawned a dangerous squall line of severe thunderstorms late Thursday afternoon. Doppler radar indicated the spinning signatures of mesocyclones inside numerous thunderstorms, and the National Weather Service began issuing multiple tornado warnings. At 6:22pm CDT, storm spotters reported a wide "stovepipe" shaped tornado had touched down in south-central Oklahoma four miles south of Milburn in Johnson County. Huge hailstones up to 4 1/2 inches in diameter--the size of softballs--began pelting the ground. The tornado roared to the northeast, ripping through the small town of Tushka, population 350, at 7:23pm. The powerful twister ripped off the roof of the local high school and destroyed dozens of buildings in Tushka, killing two people and injuring 25. The tornado moved over farmland and dissipated a short time later, but the squall line that spawned the tornado moved into Arkansas overnight, spawning severe thunderstorm winds that killed seven more people. The nine deaths made yesterday the deadliest severe weather outbreak of 2011.
Figure 1. Radar reflectivity image of the Tushka, Oklahoma tornado at 7:16pm CDT in Atoka County, seven minutes before the twister hit the town. Note the classic hook-shaped echo of the parent mesocyclone in the rotating severe thunderstorms that spawned the tornado.
Figure 2. Doppler radar velocity image of the Tushka, Oklahoma tornado at 7:16pm CDT in Atoka County, seven minutes before the twister hit the town.
The Tushka tornado brings this year's tornado death tally to five people, which is low for mid-April. In total, yesterday's severe weather outbreak had 10 tornado reports, 122 instances of large hail greater than 2" in diameter, and 91 reports of damaging winds. The action shifts eastwards to Mississippi and Alabama today, which NOAA's Storm Prediction Center have placed under its "moderate risk" region for severe weather. This is the same risk Oklahoma had during yesterday's tornado outbreak. You can follow today's outbreak using our severe weather page and interactive tornado map. This map now shows links to Youtube storm chaser videos of tornadoes, plus any wunderphotos taken of the storm. Tornado warnings have already been posted in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi today. A report visible on our tornado page indicates that a tornado touched down just west of Jackson, Mississippi near noon EDT today, crossing Interstate 20 and ripping the roof off of a bank in Clinton, MS.
Figure 3. Satellite image from 23:03 UTC (5:03pm CDT) April 14, 2011, showing the strong low pressure system over the Plains that brought yesterday's severe weather outbreak. Image credit: NASA/GSFC.
Figure 4. Storm chaser video of the Tushka tornado.
Jeff Masters
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Just really tired of his continued abuse of some on here and getting away with it without nothing being done. I don't think you all realize how many people have left this blog because of him and one other. just stating the truth. But, you are both correct. Sorry to post my feelings!
Don't apologize. Just be more careful next time. There are better ways to go about that. Infinitely so.
You have a good heart Tim, and I respect you.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1134 PM CDT FRI APR 15 2011
ALC017-037-051-123-160515-
/O.CON.KBMX.TO.W.0089.000000T0000Z-110416T0515Z/
ELMORE AL-COOSA AL-TALLAPOOSA AL-CHAMBERS AL-
1134 PM CDT FRI APR 15 2011
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN CHAMBERS...CENTRAL
TALLAPOOSA...SOUTHEASTERN COOSA AND NORTHEASTERN ELMORE COUNTIES
UNTIL 1215 AM CDT...
AT 1131 PM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO WITH
SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE IN NORTHERN ELMORE COUNTY. THIS TORNADO WAS
LOCATED NEAR EQUALITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DADEVILLE...CAMP HILL...WIND CREEK STATE PARK...STILL WATERS
RESORT...JACKSONS` GAP...JACKSONS GAP...WAVERLY...RIDGE GROVE...
WEST CHAMBERS AND STURKIE.
Thank you! I just wish others would stand up more and shout out rather than just email me with their thoughts. Many on here just go in hiding without voicing their opinion or just don't come back.
I don't always agree what people say, even you, you provide a great deal of insight to this blog. Just because people left, doesn't mean new people haven't joined, and the communities just keeps on evolving year to year. I try to be nice and if i disagree with someone I take it to private messages and or just plain out ignore them.
No.
When you're talking about major fault lines at crustal plate boundaries, you're talking seriously large masses and forces. Our most powerful nuclear weapons trying to induce an earthquake would be like trying to stop a hurricane with a mosquito fart. Yes, the orders of magnitude of the differences are that large.
However, not all earthquakes are caused by faults. Land settles, magma moves, underground rivers carve, ground becomes saturated, so on and so forth. For example, they've been having "glacial quakes" in Greenland as a result of the retreating glaciers. The weight let's up, the ground flexes back up, and you get very shallow minor quakes.
The New Madrid zone and the surrounding area are part of a rift that, according to what I've read, is made up of weaker materials than the rest of the plate. It doesn't take as much, relatively speaking, to cause a shift here and there. The weaker geological makeup could also cause quakes not related to faults.
At any rate, the highly localized (and relatively shallow) activity in Arkansas is rather interesting. It could very well be fracking is at least contributing to the issue. However it could also be old geological features coming back to life, or possibly a new one beginning (possible). It could be a new "hot spot" and the quakes are representative of a growing magma reservoir (unlikely).
One thing is certain, it will definitely receive more study. :)
Anyway, can't wait for this to come to me tomorrow, looking forward to track some storms.
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1145 PM CDT FRI APR 15 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
CENTRAL COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
EASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT
* AT 1140 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES
NORTHWEST OF BREWTON...OR NEAR I65 AND AL 41...MOVING EAST AT 45
MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
CASTLEBERRY AROUND 1150 PM CDT...
JOHNSONVILLE AND BOYKIN AROUND 1205 AM CDT...
BROOKLYN AROUND 1210 AM CDT...
CAROLINA AND RIVER FALLS AROUND 1230 AM CDT...
ANDALUSIA...LIBERTYVILLE AND HEATH AROUND 1235 AM CDT...
SANFORD AROUND 1240 AM CDT...
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1153 PM CDT FRI APR 15 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN CHAMBERS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...
SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...
NORTHERN TALLAPOOSA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT
* AT 1149 PM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
JACKSONS' GAP...OR 6 MILES EAST OF ALEXANDER CITY. DOPPLER RADAR
SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE
HAS BEEN REPORTED THIS STORM!! TAKE COVER NOW TO PROTECT YOUR
LIFE!!
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LAFAYETTE...STROUD...ROANOKE...NEW SITE...RIDGE GROVE...TRAMMEL
CROSSROADS...SPARKLING SPRINGS...WADLEY...PENTON AND ABANDA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. TAKE COVER NOW. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY
BUILDING.
TROPICAL CYCLONE ADVICE NUMBER 9
Issued at 8:43 am WST on Saturday 16 April 2011
The Cyclone WARNING for coastal and island communities from Kalumburu to Kuri
Bay has been CANCELLED.
At 8:00 am WST Tropical Cyclone Errol, Category 2 was estimated to be
255 kilometres north northwest of Troughton Island and
335 kilometres north northwest of Kalumburu and
moving northwest at 9 kilometres per hour away from the coast.
Tropical Cyclone Errol continues to move towards the northwest away from the
north Kimberley coast. GALES with gusts to 110 kilometres per hour are no
longer expected in coastal areas between Kalumburu and Kuri Bay.
FESA-State Emergency Service advises of the following community alerts:
ALL CLEAR: People in or near communities between Kalumburu and Kuri Bay,
including coastal and island communities are advised that the cyclone threat
has passed.
Details of Tropical Cyclone Errol at 8:00 am WST:
.Centre located near...... 11.7 degrees South 125.1 degrees East
.Location accuracy........ within 35 kilometres
.Recent movement.......... towards the northwest at 9 kilometres per hour
.Wind gusts near centre... 130 kilometres per hour
.Severity category........ 2
.Central pressure......... 989 hectoPascals
No further advices will be issued for this system unless it moves back towards
the coast. Please refer to the Tropical Cyclone Information Bulletin (IDW24000)
which will be issued by 3:00pm WST Saturday and the Tropical Cyclone Forecast
Track Map (IDW60281) for more details.
There have been some really good storm chaser videos posted on this system... keeping a close watch on how close it gets to Macon GA, its tracking that way.
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1238 AM CDT SAT APR 16 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...OPP...ANDALUSIA...
* UNTIL 130 AM CDT
* AT 1235 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF ANDALUSIA...OR NEAR CAROLINA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
LIBERTYVILLE...HEATH...SANFORD...HORN HILL...BABBIE AND ONYCHA
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
Check out the Tornado on the Southern part of the RADAR......HOLLY COW!
0115 VINEGAR BEND WASHINGTON AL *** 3 FATAL, 3 INJ ***
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CONFIRMS THREE FATALITIES IN THE VINEGAR BEND/DEER PARK AREA. THE FATALITIES WERE A MOTHER AND HER TWO CHILDREN. THE FATHER (MOB)
0355 6 NW PRATTVILLE AUTAUGA AL ** 3 INJ ***
CR 40 SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE. 3 HOMES DESTROYED, 3 CRITICAL INJURIES, 3 PEOPLE MISSING. EMA REPORTS SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE IN THE ENTIRE AREA.
Very SERIOUS Tornado on this RADAR.....OMG
Tropical Cyclone Bulletin
TROPICAL CYCLONE ERROL (29U)
3:00 PM WST April 16 2011
==========================================
At 2:00 pm WST, Tropical Cyclone Errol, Category Two (986 hPa) was located near 11.3S 124.7E, or 395 km north northwest of Kalumburu has 10 minute sustained winds of 55 knots with gusts of 80 knots. The cyclone is reported as moving northwest at 5 knot.
Dvorak Intensity: T4.0/4.0/D1.0/24 HRS
Storm Force Winds
==================
20 NM from the center
Gale Force Winds
==============
60 NM from the center
Tropical Cyclone Errol continues to move towards the northwest away from the north Kimberley coast. The cyclone is not expected to affect the WA coast in
the next 48 hours.
Errol is expected to cause GALES and heavy rain over the West Timor and Rote areas of Indonesia from late Saturday.
Forecast and Intensity
========================
12 HRS: 10.6S 123.9E - 55 knots (CAT 2)
24 HRS: 10.3S 122.9E - 45 knots (CAT 1)
48 HRS: 10.6S 120.8E - 30 knots (Tropical Low)
72 HRS: 11.4S 118.1E - 30 knots (Tropical Low)
Additional Information
=========================
The current position is based on visible imagery.
The 2155 UTC tc_ssmis image showed deep convection wrapping completely around the LLCC. An eye emerged on EIR imagery between 2330 UTC and 0130 UTC with DTs
between 4 and 4.5.
Tight convective banding on recent visible images gives a wrap -1.2 yielding a DT of 4.0. MET was 3.5 based on a D- trend and PAT was 3.5. With clear DTs, FT and CI were set to 4.0 with max winds [10 minute] of 55 knots.
The system is expected to move towards the west-northwest, over SSTs of 28-29C, as a mid-level ridge develops to the south of the system. Consensus of NWP indicates good confidence in the forecast west to northwest track in the next 72 hours.
Environmental wind shear is favorable, with the 06Z CIMSS analysis of 2.6 m/s. Intensity is maintained at 55 knots for the next 12 hours. Errol may still be at category 2 intensity as it approaches the eastern Indonesian islands although there is a fair degree of uncertainty in the intensity forecast. This is mainly due to the likelihood of dry air intrusion. The system is also likely to weaken due to the interaction with land. Shear is forecast to increase in the next 24 to 48 hours which will further weaken the system.
The next tropical cyclone bulletin from Perth Tropical Cyclone Warning Center on Tropical Cyclone Errol will be issued at 13:00 PM UTC.
Tropical Disturbance Advisory #12
DEPRESSION EXTRATROPICALE 09-20102011
10:00 AM RET April 16 2011
======================================
At 6:00 AM UTC, Extratropical Depression 9 (995 hPa) located at 37.0S 49.6E has 10 minute sustained winds of 35 knots with gusts of 50 knots. The depression is reported as moving southeast at 12 knots.
Gale Force Winds
================
60 NM radius from the center extending up to 120 NM from the center in the eastern semi-circle, reaching locally 45 kts and high seas in the eastern semi-circle
Near Gale Force Winds
====================
80 NM radius from the center extending up to 160 NM from the center in the eastern semi-circle
Forecast and Intensity
=======================
12 HRS: 40.5S 53.3E - 35 knots (Depression Extratropical)
24 HRS: 43.1S 59.5E - 35 knots (Depression Extratropical)
48 HRS: 42.0S 70.2E - 30 knots (Depression Extratropical)
72 HRS: 41.0S 79.9E - 25 knots (Se Dissipant)
Additional Information
======================
According to the last available satellite imagery, the low level circulation structure remains well organized. ASCAT data at 19.19z suggest a weakening of intensity, and the beginning of extratropical transition.
Convection is always present in the eastern semi-circle, but is expected to rapidly disappear as the vertical wind shear increase in the next hours. It is tracking regularly southeastward on the southwestern edge of the subtropical ridge. System is expected to weaken rapidly but the wind field structure should become asymmetrical with winds by the order of gale force winds in the northern semi-circle up to Sunday night, according to the own movement of the system and by gradient effect.
This is the final tropical cyclone advisory issued for this system.
Tropical Cyclone Advisory #2
TROPICAL DEPRESSION 15F
18:00 PM FST April 16 2011
===================================
At 6:00 AM UTC, Tropical Depression 15F (1000 hPa) located at 23.4S 161.9E has 10 minute sustained winds of 30 knots. The depression is reported as moving south southeast at 10 knots. Position poor based on visible/infrared imagery and peripheral surface observations.
Organization has slightly improved in past 12 hours. Convection has not increased or deepened much. System lies in a moderately sheared environment and is moving towards decreasing shear environment. Sea surface temperature is around 27C. System steered south southeast by northwest deep layer mean flow.
Dvorak analysis based on 0.3 wrap LOG10 spiral yielding DT=2.0, MET=PT.
Dvorak Intensity: T2.0/2.0/D1.0/24 HRS
Global models agree on south southeast movement with little intensification.
The next tropical cyclone advisory from Fiji Meteorological Services will be issued at 14:30 PM UTC..
The death toll in Alabama due to Friday and Saturday's severe weather is climbing. WSFA 12 News has confirmed three fatalities in Autauga County after an apparent tornado touched down around 11:00pm. There are numerous injuries in the 2200 block of County Road 59 area.
Chief Joe Sedinger with the Autauga County Sheriff's Department says it looks like the area took a direct hit.
Sedinger said there are 3 known fatalities and 7 known injuries, including 1 fireman. There are also numerous houses damaged, as was Boone's Chapel Baptist Church in the Posey's Crossroads Community. "We think we have everyone accounted for, but we are not real sure," Sedinger said.
The National Weather Service is also reporting one death in Marengo County, with at least four injuries. "An apparent tornado struck Bellington Circle approximately 6 miles south of Linden..."
In Washington County there are at least 3 confirmed fatalities.
There are numerous injuries being reported across the state, and at least 94 reports of tornadoes are recorded for the system dating back 24 hours.
Copyright 2011 WSFA 12 News. All rights reserved.
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Ike that's not precip...a lizard got into your rain gauge and thought it was an outhouse.
A very SMALL lizard.
lol.
Looks like it's going to stay dry here for at least the next 7 days.
You've got a small chance of rain today....
Today: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before
2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. Breezy, with a south wind
between 13 and 21 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph.
They were only 20kiloton bombs... an amount of power routinely reproduced (and exceeded) during strip-mining operations through use of fuel-fertilizer explosives. Again very little effect on faults because the power displaces surface and near surface earth.
The effect of water-injection on faults is a little trickier... There was a strong enough correlation between the two that Basel halted a geothermal power project because of the sudden appearance of a large number of earthquakes. There are several others that have been either scaled back or halted because of similar observations (eg MammothMountain).
The creation of reservoirs is strongly correlated with 90 incidences of new seismic activity, and less convincingly to several stronger earthquakes (though the "coincidence"s in timing suggest a causal connection): eg filling the reservoir behind the ZipingpuDam and the 2008SichuanEarthquake (a couple of local geologists objected to the reservoir during dam construction due to fear that the fault line it straddled would be activated). Possibly due to fault lubrication along with wide-area overpressure continuously pressing down on the surface and the narrower high pressure columns produced as the water forces itself down the faults beneath.
probably have a better chance of lizards...
Here it comes!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!
Ours went off at 0555 hrs this morning with a Tornado Warning. And it went off before the local fire department siren went off.
A super cell thunderstorm came through Macon with a Doppler Indicated Tornado at 0615 hrs.
That radio gave us 20 minutes to prepare, call our kids and warn them, and track the storm on the laptop with Wunderground and the local channel 13 news station that uses a radar system over google maps to show you what streets the storm is moving on.
Storm came in from the SW to NE just to the NW side of Macon about a quarter mile nw of our house. High winds, heavy rain, small hail, lots of lightning, lots of trees and power lines down, emergency crews and police are out checking for damage now.
Love that weather radio. :)
That's about .01 more than I got. :(
I think it's getting more likely to.....wait for summer and afternoon thundershower time.
527 BahaHurican "Isn't this like an absolutely weird direction for a storm to be going? talk about Errant Errol..."
Once ya get useta folks hangin' by their toes to keep from falling off the Earth as they walk about, who's to say what's weird?
Besides, hurricanes do occasionally take a southwestward jag.
I think you should celebrate your family's safety by going out and buying some big sweet sticky cinnamon buns and coffee, and make it a family event.
a "de-stress" kinda thing, a happy ending together as a family.
Tropical Cyclone Bulletin
TROPICAL CYCLONE ERROL (29U)
9:00 PM WST April 16 2011
==========================================
At 8:00 pm WST, Tropical Cyclone Errol, Category Two (986 hPa) was located near 11.0S 124.7E, or 425 km north northwest of Kalumburu has 10 minute sustained winds of 55 knots with gusts of 80 knots. The cyclone is reported as moving north northwest at 4 knot.
Dvorak Intensity: T3.5/4.0/W0.5/24 HRS
Storm Force Winds
==================
20 NM from the center
Gale Force Winds
==============
60 NM from the center
Tropical Cyclone Errol continues to move towards the northwest away from the north Kimberley coast. The cyclone is not expected to affect the WA coast in the next 48 hours.
Errol is expected to cause GALES and heavy rain over the West Timor and Rote areas of Indonesia during tonight and on Sunday.
Forecast and Intensity
========================
12 HRS: 10.6S 124.1E - 50 knots (CAT 2)
24 HRS: 10.1S 123.0E - 40 knots (CAT 1)
48 HRS: 10.4S 120.1E - 30 knots (Tropical Low)
72 HRS: 11.7S 117.7E - 30 knots (Tropical Low)
Additional Information
=========================
The current position is based on recent microwave imagery. The earlier 09 UTC fix was re-analyzed on the basis of a 0933Z Windsat microwave image.
The convective structure has shown signs of weakening in the last 3 hours. The 0728 UTC TMI microwave image showed a small, tightly wrapped convective band to the south, however, subsequent passes of tc_ssmis indicate weaker curvature of the southern band and development of a secondary band to the northwest of the system.
Dvorak analysis of EIR imagery has been difficult, with the LLCC located beneath a CDO. Current DT is 3.5 based on a 1.1 wrap. On a 24hr W- trend, the Pattern adjusted MET would be 2.5, however this is constrained to 3.5 based on a change of 0.5 over 6hrs. CI is maintained at 4.0 on initial weakening.
The system is expected to move towards the west-northwest, over SSTs of 28-29C, as a mid-level ridge develops to the south of the system. Consensus of NWP indicates reasonable confidence in the forecast west to northwest track in the next 72 hours.
Environmental wind shear remains favorable, with the 12 UTC CIMSS analysis of 3.3 m/s. Intensity is maintained at 55 knots for the next 6 hours, then weakening as Errol begins to interact with land. Errol may still be at category 2 intensity as it approaches the eastern Indonesian islands although there is a fair degree of uncertainty in the intensity forecast, particularly if the recent weakening trend continues. Shear is forecast to increase in the next 24 to 48 hours which will further weaken the system.
The next tropical cyclone bulletin from Perth Tropical Cyclone Warning Center on Tropical Cyclone Errol will be issued at 19:00 PM UTC.
Going to be a nice day in South Louisiana
Just for us procrastinators out their,Don't wait to start your preparationsons and reinforcing your supply's for the up and coming storm season check your generators if you have one ect. we know the drill
Thanks
blsealevel
Kyodo News Article...
What does this mean? That residents in Namie--again, 30 kilometers from the nuclear plant--have been exposed to as much as 17,000 μSv, about the same as if they had received 3,400 dental X-rays in the past five weeks. Now while it's true that this amount isn't generally considered enough to cause serious health problems, it's still a lot--and it's more than 200 times what the average person living within 16km of Three Mile Island received during that incident.
Nice.
(I also see that radioactivity in seawater inside the containment fence at Fukushima spiked today, rising from yesterdays 42 becquerels/cm3 to 260 becquerels/cm3--only about 6,500 times the legal limit. Doubly nice.)
Amen to that.
Just washed my car. I'm sure I'll have numerous bird droppings on it by Monday.
Looks like your rain moving in is drying up:(
Thanks for the comments on the oil Exploration and Earthquake relationships.
Interesting stuff there, and lots more to learn.
Wash cars, caulk gaps in a detached workshop, and finish building a deck.
And no rain here (Covington). Well, we did have a moderate rain for 20 seconds.
Tropical Cyclone Advisory #3
TROPICAL DEPRESSION 15F
0:00 AM FST April 17 2011
===================================
At 12:00 PM UTC, Tropical Depression 15F (1000 hPa) located at 23.8S 163.0E has 10 minute sustained winds of 30 knots. The depression is reported as moving south southeast at 10 knots. Position poor based on infrared imagery and peripheral surface observations.
Organization has slightly improved in the last 12 hours. Convection has not increased or deepened much and confined to the southeast of low level circulation center. System lies in a moderate to highly sheared environment. CIMSS indicates decreasing shear along the forecast path. Sea surface temperature is around 27C. System steered south southeast by northwest deep layer mean flow.
Dvorak analysis based on shear pattern less than 0.75 degree, Yielding DT=2.5, MET=PT.
Dvorak Intensity: T2.0/2.0/D1.0/24 HRS
Global models agree on south southeast track with little intensification.
The next tropical cyclone advisory from Fiji Meteorological Services will be issued at 20:30 PM UTC..
lol...more than I got too!
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