Extreme/severe weather photography

03/24/2021

Heres the severe weather outlook for Thursday. SPC in Norman Oklahoma has upgraded the risk to a moderate risk for severe weather. The timing on this system will be from 2pm to 12am.

Have a safety plan ready and make sure to stay WX aware for tomorrow's weather. Be sure to have a NOAA weather radio or a device to receive watches and warnings. I'll be posting updates on this system once more updates come in.

03/23/2021

Thursday is looking at a chance for strong to severe storms. Will post updates on timing on this system.

03/23/2021

Here’s some photos of the Good Friday tornado in Murfreesboro in April 2009.
Look at the right of the tornado. Looked like a possible multi vortex.

03/17/2021

BE WX AWARE TODAY.
Strong to severe storms are possible through the midstate. Down south on the other hand just issued a high risk for severe weather and long tracked tornados. I wouldn’t be surprised if they issue a PDS watch
I’ll be posting more updates when I see anything
Be sure to have a NOAA weather radio for watches and warnings.

03/07/2021

Check this out

SUNDAY MORNING reading is the incredible journal article by Orf et al. (2017) on the super-high resolution (30 m) simulation of a tornadic supercell that produced an EF5. Tornadogenesis and tornado maintenance explored wrt to horizontal vorticity rivers or SVCs. Check it out here: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/98/1/bams-d-15-00073.1.xml

03/29/2020

NEW: SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PARTS OF RUTHERFORD AND MAURY COUNTY.

03/29/2020

Strong to severe storms possible over night hours. Have a plan to get to a safe place or most interior room of your house or basement or storm shelter.

Day 1 Convective Outlook NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0758 PM CDT Sat Mar 28 2020 Valid 290100Z - 291200Z ...THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM A PORTION OF THE TENNESSEE AND OHIO VALLEYS INTO THE MIDWEST REGION... ...SUMMARY... Scattered severe storms posing a threat for tornadoes, damaging wind and large hail will continue this evening into the overnight from a portion of the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys into the Midwest region. ...Midwest region... The warm sector is in the process of being pinched off across northeast IA suggesting the tornado threat in this region should end by 02Z. However...additional storms are developing farther south across northwestern and west central IL and will move eastward into central and eastern IL where the 00Z RAOB from Lincoln indicated around 800 J/kg MLCAPE, large low-level hodographs and 80 kt effective bulk shear. This environment will continue to support organized storms incuding supercells capable of producing tornadoes, a couple of which could be strong this evening. ...Tennessee and Ohio Valleys... A secondary branch of the low-level jet is forecast to strengthen tonight from middle TN into the OH Valley in association with a strong upper jet moving through the base of a progressive trough situated across the Midwest. This will contribute to modest low-level theta-e advection with MUCAPE from 500 to 1000 J/kg as well as large hodographs with 300-400 m2/s2 0-1 km storm-relative helicity within an otherwise strongly sheared environment. The band of scattered storms developing along the warm conveyor belt from southwest IN into western TN and northwest MS will likely maintain embedded organized structures including supercells and bowing segments capable of tornadoes, damaging wind and large hail as they develop eastward into the overnight.

03/29/2020

Here are a few photos of some recent weather events that I shot....