Tornado kills two in Missouri; more tornadoes on tap for today
The tropical Atlantic is quiet today, and none of the reliable models are predicting tropical cyclone formation over the next five days.
At approximately 12:15 am CDT this morning, a tornado near Paris, Missouri, killed two people when it ripped apart their mobile home and tossed them 400 feet away. At least four other tornadoes hit Missouri yesterday, and two tornadoes touched down in Texas, and one each in Louisiana and Mississippi. The driver of a Petal Water & Sewer service truck was hospitalized in Mississippi after strong winds picked up his truck and tossed it across I-59.
Another severe weather outbreak is expected today in the U.S., from the Mississippi Valley northward through the Tennessee Valley and the Great Lakes. Tornado Watches have already been posted, and today's severe weather has the potential to generate a few strong, long-track tornadoes. You can follow the outbreak today on our new interactive tornado map, which will post the tornado damage reports as they are received. The new feature also allows one to plot all the historical tornado activity back to 1950 for any region in the U.S. If you take a wunderphoto of a tornadic storm or tornado damage, and click on the "tornado" type of image flag when uploading it, our software will attempt to match your photo to the storm report for that tornado. These photos will then be available when you click on a storm report on the interactive tornado page. One of the storm reports for Missouri yesterday has several wunderphotos of the thunderstorm that spawned the tornado available, thanks to wunderphotographer Paleohebrew.
Jeff Masters
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That's the first time I've ever heard of such an event occuring, but I'm sure it's happened before. It's amazing that nature can do that.
Northwest Pacific Ocean
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Japan Meteorological Agency
TROPICAL STORM KAJIKI (T0719)
19.8ºN 142.9ºE - 35 kts 998 hPa
Tropical Cyclone Advisory #3
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At 15:00pm JST, Tropical Depression strengthened into a tropical storm and was named "Kajiki". The cyclone has 10 min sustained winds of 35 knots with gusts up to 50 knots and is moving west-northwest at 14 knots.
Expected sustained winds 0600z 20Oct 45 knots.
Gale Warning Area
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60 NM southwest from the center of the cyclone
110 NM northeast from the center of the cyclone
eh shouldnt kiko be a bit stronger than 35kt at this organisaton lv?
noaa get a hurricane hunter plane in there!
its losing its spin by the looks of it (-=
National Hurricane Center advisory from 0300z
"THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY IN THE LOCATION OF THE CENTER AT THIS TIME. SATELLITE INTENSITY ESTIMATES REMAIN AT MINIMAL STORM STRENGTH AND THE INITIAL INTENSITY WILL BE KEPT AT 35 KTS."
II.PACIFIC REQUIREMENTS
1. NEGATIVE RECONNAISSANCE REQUIREMENTS.
2. SUCCEEDING DAY OUTLOOK: PSBL MISSION TO FIX TS KIKO
IF IT THREATENS MEXICO NEAR 18.7N AND 104.3W AT 20/2000Z. (Saturday)
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no plans to fly into KIKO until Saturday afternoon... =/
Looks like I am under the gun today. I have my gear and truck ready. I will be at work till 1pm today then off to chase. According to the SPC looks like a wind / rain event. They have me under a 40% chance for wind damage and 5% for tornados and hail. Acoording to their synopsis we have a chance for bow echos and training supercells.
Prayers to all those who were effected during the last few days of this outbreak and to all those whos lives have been changed forever :(
Link
"Observed at: Atlanta Dekalb, Georgia
Elevation: 1001 ft
[Heavy Rain]
70 °F
Heavy Rain Mist
Humidity: 94%
Dew Point: 68 °F
Wind: 14 mph from the SW
Wind Gust: 22 mph
Pressure: 29.77 in (Rising)
Visibility: 1.5 miles
UV: 0 out of 16
Clouds: Mostly Cloudy 1100 ft
Overcast 1700 ft
(Above Ground Level)"
"Observed at: New Orleans Lakefront, Louisiana
Elevation: 7 ft
[Mostly Cloudy]
76 °F
Mostly Cloudy
Humidity: 50%
Dew Point: 56 °F
Wind: 26 mph from the North
Wind Gust: 37 mph
Pressure: 29.75 in (Rising)
Visibility: 10.0 miles
UV: 0 out of 16
Clouds: Few 1800 ft
Scattered Clouds 4300 ft
Mostly Cloudy 9000 ft
(Above Ground Level)"
seems more like August here then October 66 degree dew points air temp is 68 and that was at 6am. Yuck
Doesn't appear to be October 19 more like August 19th
Time
EDT (UTC) 6 AM (10)
Temperature F (C) 68.0 (20.0)
Dew Point F (C) 66.0 (18.9)
Pressure Inches (hPa) 29.82 (1009)
Wind MPH Variable 5
Raining here outside of Savannah - welcome the wet weather. I have NO idea how to shut the sprinklers off though so I look like a total dork with my lawn being watered while it's POURING outside. Duh. Severe weather from last night moving our way?
look at the post times LOL 7:02 then 6:51 LOL
oh its going to be a fun day *rolls eyes*
Thanks Gulfcoastwatcher. Is kinda wierd they posted that way.
Storm Reports From Yesterday
One person was killed in KALKASKA MI yesteday from a possible tornado around 2340 LT
and 16 during the start :( Thats 44 tornados in 2 days. Hopefully we dont see any more today
Weather. I thought that storm in the PacNW was a Low that came in from Alaska.
in part with Lingling
Basically talking about cyclical trends of major hurricanes making landfall. Not total number of all systems in a season just the major cat canes making landfall in the ConUS. Wasn't good :( Also talked about scientists using hot towers to predict rapid intesification. Also had a professor from NCS that is using a new model he invented to predict a season, again not total numbers just majors and landfalls. According to the show he started in 2004 and was 97% accurate, 2005 was 98% and in 2006 was 100% accurate. BTW he makes his predicitions in April.
They also had an awsome animation of Isabel all the way from its thunderstorm origins in the bay of bengal, across all of africa, the atalantic. Amazing to watch it go from nothing to something.
Just thought I would share with you all. If you get a chance to see it again, the show was titled Hyper Cane's.
Oh and on a darker note from the show, the Northeast is coming into an active landfall period according to ancient climotology.
This was one of the most potent ones...BBL
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