SOTT Earth Changes Video Summary - November 2014

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SOTT | Dec 7, 2014 | Sott Editors

It's one thing to have record early cold temperatures and record early snowfalls in both Eurasia and North America. To have the greatest ever snow coverage for the Northern Hemisphere by mid-November is something else. November 2014 was alternately mild and super-freezing as the Polar Jet Stream whip-lashed the North American continent, bringing monster snowstorms that dumped entire annual snowfall averages in many parts of the U.S., not least the city of Buffalo, New York, which was buried under 7 feet (2.25 meters) of snow.
Numerous bright meteor fireballs were caught on camera, including several big ones - probably comet/asteroid fragments - that were seen from huge swathes of the US, Russia, China, Japan and Europe. Buenos Aires was flooded for the second time this year, while record-breaking (in many cases, breaking records set last month) rainfall levels were seen across much of the western Mediterranean, killing many people in Morocco, southeastern France and northwestern Italy.

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Sinkholes from China to Florida opened up to swallow people and cars. Brisbane, Australia was literally smashed by baseball-sized hail in a surprise 'super-storm'. The Great Lakes began to refreeze by mid-November, not 4 months after finally thawing from last winter. Japan's largest active volcano erupted, as did Colima Volcano in Mexico, and Pavlof in Alaska, each sending ash plumes several kilometers high, while lava flows from Hawaii's Kilauea and Cape Verde's Fire Island destroyed homes.

Then there were UFOs over Paris and Iran, pods of deepwater whales seeking shallow waters, and tornado outreaks in the Mediterranean... has the world gone mad? These were the 'Signs of the Times' in November 2014:



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Data indicates pattern of fewer tornado days in U.S. - but more tornados!

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Emerging pattern: fewer tornado
days in U.S. - but more tornados!

SOTT | Oct 17, 2014 | Bob Yirka, Phys.org

A trio of researches with the U.S.'s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has found that though there are fewer total days per year when tornados occur in the U.S., the number that occur on days when there are tornados has increased over the past couple of decades. In their paper published in the journal Science, Harold Brooks, Gregory Carbin and Patrick Marsh describe how they studied weather data over the past half century and what they found when looking for trends.

Tornados happen in many places, but because of its unique geography, the U.S. has more than any other country - mainly due to the lack of a large mountain dividing east and west. There has been speculation recently, that global warming is causing more tornados to occur - though it has also been suggested it only seems that way because of how quickly information about tornadic events disseminates in the modern era. The trio at NOAA decided to let hard facts tell the story. They collected weather data from the national storm database, which goes back to 1954, to see if they could coax out any patterns (they only included tornados at least as strong as an F1).

As it turns out, the trio did find a pattern, they say the data shows very clearly that the U.S. actually has a trend of having fewer days in which there is a tornado over the past two decades - that's the good news. The bad news is that on days when there is a tornado, there are more than there used to be. The data shows that back in the 1970's there were just .6 days a year that had 30 or more tornados - after the turn of the century, that number had risen to 3 days per year. Curiously, the numbers suggest that the country still experiences on average, the same number of tornadoes each year, approximately 1,200 - they're just spread out differently. They also noted that the beginning and end of the tornado "season" in recent years has fluctuated more wildly than the years prior to that.

The researchers cannot say of course why the spread of tornados has changed in the U.S., though some might suggest it's due to global warming or even changes in atmospheric conditions in parts of the country due to pollution or other unknown factors. What is clear, is that something is causing a change, and there is now evidence of it, providing a path for moving forward for better understanding what is really going on.

More information: Science 17 October 2014: Vol. 346 no. 6207 pp. 349-352. DOI: 10.1126/science.1257460
 
Also read: US study finds tornadoes coming in swarms rather than isolated occurrences and
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Truck carried 27 miles by tornado across Arkansas

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A police officer walks past an overturned
car near a home that was destroyed by a
tornado on April 29, 2014, in Vilonia, Ark.

Sott.net | May 2, 2014 | Doyle Rice \ USA Today

A truck was reportedly carried 27 miles by a tornado Sunday night in Arkansas, according to meteorologist Darby Bybee of KHBS-TV in Fort Smith.

Bybee reported that the truck was carried from Mayflower, Ark., to near Vilonia, Ark., a distance of about 27 miles. A report from the National Weather Service in Little Rock notes that an EF4 tornado - with winds of at least 180 mph - traveled 41 miles on a path that included both Mayflower and Vilonia.

The tornado killed 15 people.

Many cars were tossed around and destroyed, some mangled beyond recognition, Bybee said. He said it can be difficult to make an insurance claim on a car that can't be found or identified.

Long-distance transport of large objects in tornadoes has been reported before, though Randy Cerveny, a geography professor at Arizona State University, said, "I haven't heard of trucks being thrown that far."

In 1877, a tornado in Illinois reportedly carried "the spire, vane and guilded ball of a Methodist church" 15 miles, according to his book Freaks of the Storm.

"A 1966 Mississippi tornado reportedly lifted a mother and her 2-year-old daughter in the family Volkswagen into the air and carried it 70 feet through the air," he added. "Finally, the tornado dropped the small car on the top of the local electrical company building.

"Amazingly, the Volkswagen sustained only a couple of dents in the hood and miraculously neither the mother nor her daughter was injured," he wrote.

The world record for the object carried farthest by a tornado: A personal check was carried 223 miles on April 11, 1991, from Stockton, Kan., to Winnetoon, Neb.

World weather records are kept in the World Meteorological Organization's Weather and Climate Extremes archive, Cerveny said.

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An EF4 tornado carved a ferocious 41-mile path through
central Arkansas on Sunday night, killing 15 people.

Watching the U.S. Tornado Outbreak from Space

Watts up With That | Apr 28, 2014 | Anthony Watts

NASA has just released an animation of visible and infrared satellite data from NOAA’s GOES-East satellite that shows the development and movement of the weather system that spawned tornadoes affecting seven central and southern U.S. states on April 27-28, 2014. NASA’s Aqua satellite captured infrared data on the system that revealed powerful storms, high into the troposphere.

This storm system generated reports of tornadoes from Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

Coupled with local weather observations, soundings, and computer models, data from satellites like NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite or GOES-East (also known as GOES-13) gives forecasters information about developing weather situations. In real-time, the NOAA’s GOES-East satellite data in animated form showed forecasters how the area of severe weather was developing and moving.

NOAA’s GOES-East satellite sits in a fixed orbit in space capturing visible and infrared imagery of weather over the eastern U.S. and Atlantic Ocean. The GOES-East satellite is operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NASA/NOAA’s GOES Project at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. created the animation of GOES-East satellite data that covered the period during the tornado outbreak.

The GOES-East animation of visible and infrared imagery runs 31 seconds. The animation begins on April 27 at 00:15 UTC (April 26 at 8:15 p.m. EDT) and runs through April 28 at 14:15 UTC/10:15 a.m. EDT. By 14:45 UTC/10:45 a.m. EDT on April 27 the animation shows the squall line of thunderstorms developing.


To create the video and imagery, NASA/NOAA’s GOES Project takes the cloud data from NOAA’s GOES-East satellite and overlays it on a true-color image of land and ocean created by data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites. Together, those data created the entire picture of the storm system and show its movement.

A NASA satellite also captured an image of the storm, collecting infrared data on it as it passed overhead on April 27. At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. a false-colored image was created of the storm system using data gathered by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite on April 27 at 18:59 UTC (1:59 p.m. CDT). The AIRS image showed very cold cloud top temperatures indicating that the thunderstorms had strong uplift that pushed cloud tops to the top of the troposphere. Some of those thunderstorms had cloud tops as cold as 200 kelvin (-99.6 F/-73.1C). Temperatures drop to just under 220 degrees kelvin at the top of the troposphere (and where the tropopause begins).

“AIRS data shows spatial extent of strong convection [rapidly rising air that condenses and forms clouds] in the slow-moving severe storm system that spawned tornadoes in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Iowa,” said Ed Olsen, creator of the AIRS image at NASA JPL. The AIRS image showed the thunderstorms with coldest cloud top temperatures stretched from eastern Nebraska, through western Iowa, western Missouri, northern Arkansas and southeast into northern Mississippi and Alabama.

According to the Examiner.com, the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center counted 31 tornadoes on Sunday, April 27, however, that number is being refined as reports are analyzed.

CBS News reported that one tornado touched down 10 miles west of Little Rock, Arkansas around 7 p.m. CDT (at around 22:02 UTC in the GOES animation) and stayed on the ground for about 80 miles passing near several suburbs north of the city. That tornado was reported to be one-half mile wide.

The same system that spawned these tornadoes is expected to bring the possibility for severe weather further east on April 28 from Cincinnati, Ohio to New Orleans, La. For more information about current risks for severe weather, visit NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center at: http://www.spc.noaa.gov.

GOES satellites provide the kind of continuous monitoring necessary for intensive data analysis.

Geostationary describes an orbit in which a satellite is always in the same position with respect to the rotating Earth. This allows GOES to hover continuously over one position on Earth’s surface, appearing stationary. As a result, GOES provide a constant vigil for the atmospheric “triggers” for severe weather conditions such as tornadoes, flash floods, hail storms and hurricanes.

To download the GOES animation:  http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/goes/QTmovies/140427-8_tornados.mov

For updated information about the storm system, visit NOAA’s NWS website:  www.weather.gov

For more information about GOES satellites, visit: www.goes.noaa.gov/ or goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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Following is a list of (preliminary) tornado reports from NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center for April 27, 2014 (1200 UTC – 1159 UTC)

Time             Location        County          State            Lat     Lon     Comments

1929             1 N UPLAND           FRANKLIN    NE      4033   9890   TORNADO ON THE GROUND FROM ABOUT 226 TO 229. (GID)

2000             1 N FLORIS DAVIS          IA                 4088   9233   OBSERVER SAW A BRIEF TOUCHDOWN IN A FIELD. THERE WAS NO DAMAGE. (DMX)

2000             LOVILIA       MONROE     IA                 4114   9291   TORNADO TOUCHDOWN OBSERVED. HOUSE ROOFS TORN OFF. TREES SNAPPED OFF. (DMX)

2012             1 N FLORIS DAVIS          IA                 4088   9233   OBSERVER REPORTS GUSTNADO AT 312 PM JUST AHEAD OF STORM ARRIVAL. DIRT KICKED UP IN FIELD PRIOR TO HEAVY RAIN. (DMX)

2141             2 NE MOUNT VERNON     LINN   IA       4194   9140   SPOTTERS REPORTED TORNADO ON GROUND NEAR LINN RIDGE ROAD AND HIGHWAY 1. IT WAS LIFTING BACK UP BY 442 PM. RELAYED BY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. (DVN)

2142             5 N BRADSHAW     YORK           NE      4096   9775   BRIEF TOUCHDOWN NEAR INTERSECTION OF ROADS 18/H THAT LASTED FOR 30-45 SECONDS. WILL PROVIDE VIDEO FOR VERIFICATION. NICKLE HAIL ONGOING AT 448 PM. (GID)

2142             SPRINGVILLE        LINN   IA                 4206   9144   TORNADO TOUCHDOWN JUST SOUTH OF SPRINGVILLE. (DVN)

2218             5 W OSCEOLA       POLK           NE                4118   9764   BRIEF TOUCHDOWN LASTED APPROXIMATELY 1 MINUTE. VISUAL CONFIRMATION VIA LIVE STREAM. (GID)

2218             8 WNW OSCEOLA POLK           NE                4122   9769   THIS IS A CORRECTED … APPROXIMATE TORNADO LOCATION BASED ON STORM CHASER VIDEO AND RADAR DATA THAT SHOWS TORNADO WEST OF HIGHWAY 39. BRIEF TOUCHDOWN LASTED APPROXIMATEL (GID)

2232             QUAPAW     OTTAWA      OK               3695   9479   FIRE STATION DESTROYED. NORTH END OF TOWN SUSTAINED HEAVY DAMAGE. (TSA)

2239             BAXTER SPRINGS CHEROKEE KS      3702   9474   *** 25 INJ *** A TORNADO DAMAGED OR DESTROYED NUMEROUS HOMES AND SEVERAL BUILDINGS IN DOWNTOWN BAXTER SPRINGS. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED 25 INJURIES WITH 9 OF THOSE (SGF)

2240             HAMMOND   BOURBON   KS                3794   9469   A TORNADO PRODUCED AN INTERMITTENT DAMAGE PATH TO THE NORTHEAST OF HAMMOND AFTER DAMAGING A GRAIN ELEVATOR AND OVERTURNING A RAIL CAR. (SGF)

2249             3 ESE PRESCOTT LINN   KS                3804   9465   TORNADO SEEN FROM VIDEO SHOT BY BROADCAST MEDIA. (EAX)

2259             5 ENE MARKS        QUITMAN     MS     3428   9019   TORNADO REPORTED MOVING FROM QUITMAN COUNTY INTO PANOLA COUNTY NEAR HOOD ROAD. WAS MOVING INTO FORESTED AREA. (MEG)

2300             3 WNW HUME        LINN   KS                3811   9463   TORNADO WAS STILL ONGOING AT THIS TIME BUT BEGINNING TO ROPE OUT PER BROADCAST MEDIA VIDEO. (EAX)

0025             ROLAND      PULASKI      AR                3490   9250   TORNADO IS REPORTED ON THE GROUND … AND CONFIRMED BY STATE POLICE. (LZK)

0034             1 SE MAYFLOWER FAULKNER AR      3496   9241   TORNADO HAS CROSSED INTERSTATE 40 AT MILE MARKER 140. SPOTTER ESTIMATED HALF A MILE WIDE. (LZK)

0039             SALTILLO     FAULKNER   AR                3503   9233   SEVERAL HOUSES DAMAGED IN SALTILLO. (LZK)

0042             2 E MAYFLOWER   FAULKNER   AR      3497   9238   ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH HEADQUARTERS EAST OF MAYFLOWER HAS BEEN HEAVILY DAMAGED. (LZK)

0050             VILONIA       FAULKNER   AR                3508   9221   NUMEROUS HOUSES AND FAST FOOD RESTAURANT DAMAGED … ALONG WITH NUMEROUS TREES DOWN. (LZK)

0050             DENMARK    WHITE         AR                3548   9158   STATE POLICE ARE REPORTING A TORNADO AT DENMARK. (LZK)

0050             PLEASANT PLAINS          INDEPENDENCE    AR      3555   9163          THERE IS A REPORT OF A TORNADO JUST SOUTHEAST OF PLEASANT PLAINS. (LZK)

0101             1 N EL PASO          WHITE         AR      3513   9208   STORM SPOTTERS HAVE CONFIRMED TORNADO AT HIGHWAY 64 AND HIGHWAY 5. (LZK)

0120             6 W SEARCY          WHITE         AR      3524   9184   HOUSE WAS DAMAGED ON BLOODWORTH ROAD. A POWER LINE WAS DOWN ON TANNER ROAD. NUMEROUS TREES WERE UPROOTED. (LZK)

0135             STEPROCK WHITE         AR                3543   9169   TIN ON THE GROUND AND POWER LINES DOWN. (LZK)

0150             DENMARK    WHITE         AR                3548   9158   STATE POLICE ARE REPORTING A TORNADO AT DENMARK. (LZK)

0150             PLEASANT PLAINS, INDEPENDENCE   AR      3555   9163   THERE IS A REPORT OF A TORNADO JUST SOUTHEAST OF PLEASANT PLAINS. (LZK)

0205             MACKS        JACKSON     AR                3562   9137   A TORNADO IS REPORTED NEAR MACKS. (LZK)

0205             3 E OIL TROUGH INDEPENDENCE      AR      3563   9141   POWER LINES WERE DOWNED A FEW MILES EAST OF OIL TROUGH. (LZK)

0210             JACKSONPORT     JACKSON     AR      3564   9131   A TORNADO WAS REPORTED AT JACKSONPORT. (LZK)

0224             3 W CAMPBELL STATION JACKSON    AR      3567   9131   SHERIFF HAS THREE DEPUTIES REPORTED TORNADO ON THE GROUND ON HIGHWAY 17. (LZK)

0813             5 ENE HOSSTON   BOSSIER     LA      3291   9381   *** 1 INJ *** HOME DAMAGED ON BUCKSHOT RD (SHV)

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Rapidly Growing Wildfire Spawns Fire Tornadoes In Utah

Rapidly Growing Wildfire Spawns Fire Tornadoes In Utah
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Plasma Storms

600 kilometer per hour winds on Jupiter.
Credit: NASA/Cassini Mission.

Plasma Storms
July 8, 2013 | Thunderbolts.info | Stephen Smith

Why do planets farthest from the Sun have the fastest winds?

Earth’s average wind speed is approximately 56 kilometers per hour, with a maximum of 372 kilometer per hour gust recorded on Mount Washington, New Hampshire in 1934. Some isolated wind phenomena, such as tornadoes and hurricanes, can sustain average velocities of 480 and 320 kilometers per hour for short periods. The maximum 24 hour speed record of 205 kilometers per hour from 1934 still remains, however.

Tornadoes continue to be a mystery to consensus science, as well as Electric Universe advocates, although it seems that they are more like rotating electric discharges than anything else. The electric charges in a tornado are whirling at many meters per second, so they probably form an electromagnetic field called a “charge sheath vortex.”

It is commonly believed that weather is driven on Earth primarily by the Sun’s thermal influence on the atmosphere. As we rotate beneath our primary, gases and dust absorb solar radiation at varying rates and in varying degrees. When any particular region heats up, the air expands and loses density, creating a relative low pressure area. Cooler air, being denser, will naturally flow into the bottom of the warm, low pressure region, causing an upwardly rotating convection cell to form.

Most weather systems on Earth are thought to be based on that simple kinetic explanation: winds blow when the cooler, denser air flows into the warmer, buoyant air.

The kinetic model of weather does not take into account the fact that planets much farther out in the Solar System have sustained winds that make those on our planet seem like gentle breezes. The average wind speeds on the gas giant planets are fantastic.

Jupiter’s winds clock at 635 kilometers per hour around the Great Red Spot; Saturn’s average wind speed is up to 1800 kilometers per hour; Uranus 900 kilometers per hour; and Neptune comes in at 1138 kilometers per hour. On Neptune the winds are blowing through an atmosphere that measures minus 220 degrees Celsius. Why is it that the most remote planets, receiving small fractions of the solar energy bathing Earth, are able to convert that small fraction into much larger effects?

As mentioned in previous Pictures of the Day, Earth is a small charged body moving in a large cell of plasma, so physical phenomena on or near the planet must take the electrical nature of plasma into account. Contemplating the larger picture will help to add new details to the study of everyday phenomena, such as the weather.

Lightning could be the force that powers the wind. Neptune has some of the strongest winds of any planet in the Solar System, yet it is farthest from the Sun. Perhaps hurricanes, tornadoes, and even prevailing winds are due to the electric currents endemic to planetary atmospheres?

The Electric Universe hypothesis agrees with conventional theory that wind is movement of air molecules, but that there are other explanations. What are those other agents of movement?

If conventional theory explains wind solely as the result of convection and gas kinetics, Electric Universe proponents insist that electric discharges must also be considered. Electromagnetic forces in plasma move and accelerate charged particles, so collisions between charged and neutral particles drag the neutral air molecules along with them. Close observation of laboratory arc discharges reveals that an electric “wind” surrounds and often precedes an electric arc.

The plasma discharge sweeps up the surrounding air along with the charge carriers, or ions. The wind appears as inflows and updrafts as well as outflows and downdrafts. It can lift dust particles and erode surfaces. By analogy, we must then question the accepted explanation of thunderstorms as being caused solely by convection of hot air and the climatological movement of winds by the Sun’s heat alone.

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Insane timelapse of a rotating supercell looks like an alien spaceship

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An impressive, gorgeous, powerful
supercell northwest of Booker,
Texas from June 3rd, 2013.

SOTT: Insane timelapse of a rotating supercell looks like an alien spaceship
June 17, 2013 | Universe Today | Nancy Atkinson


Photographer and storm chaser Mike Olbinski has captured some incredible storm footage over the years (such as this apocalyptic haboob in Arizona in 2011.) But his latest timelapse was something he's been chasing down for over four years: a rotating supercell. Mike lives in Arizona, where that type of storm doesn't happen. But he regularly visits the US Central Plains and said on his website that he's been hoping to capture footage of "clouds that rotate and look like alien spacecraft hanging over the Earth."

To quote Mike again, "Boy, did we find it."

On June 3, 2013 he and his team were following storms near Booker, Texas. "We chased this storm from the wrong side (north) and it took us going through hail and torrential rains to burst through on the south side. And when we did...this monster cloud was hanging over Texas and rotating like something out of Close Encounters."

Watch it below:


A supercell near Booker, Texas from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo.
It never turned into a tornado, thankfully.

The timelapse was shot on a Canon 5D Mark II with a Rokinon 14mm 2.8 lens.

Mike says:

It's broken up into four parts. The first section ends because it started pouring on us. We should have been further south when we started filming but you never know how long these things will last, so I started the timelapse as soon as I could.

One thing to note early on in the first part is the way the rain is coming down on the right and actually being sucked back into the rotation. Amazing.

This video has gone viral, and unfortunately some sites aren't crediting Mike as the photographer. But just to be clear, this is a Mike Olbinski original!

Read more on his website, and see more of his videos on his Vimeo page.

Gigantic line of storms threatens 20 percent of Americans

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Gigantic line of storms threatens 20 percent of Americans
June 12, 2013 | RT

A series of severe storms are forecast to rip through the US on Wednesday, bringing tornadoes, lightning, hail and power outages to 20 percent of all Americans.

Meteorologists are warning that a massive derecho could bring devastating weather conditions to 64 million people across 10 states. Cities including Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Columbus are expected to experience severe conditions 45 times higher than a normal day in June.

The line of storms will span at least 240 miles, with winds of at least 58 mph. The derecho is a rare weather phenomenon that usually only occurs in the Midwest once a year. Meteorologists say that predicting such a storm system is difficult, but that it is highly likely to occur Wednesday.

“It’s like predicting a large tornado is going to happen,” said MSNBC Meteorologist Bill Karins. “No one can do that. The only thing we can do is say conditions are favorable for one to happen.”
 
Nick Wiltgen, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel, said conditions are favorable for a derecho, and "maybe more than one", in the US this week.

But if weather conditions are as severe as meteorologists forecast, millions of Americans could experience large hail, dangerous lightning, and destructive winds. Trees may be uprooted, branches may litter the roads, utility poles and wires could be brought down, and power outages could occur across the country.

Bill Bunting, operations chief at the National Weather Service’s Oklahoma-based Storm Prediction Center, told AP that although he does not want Americans to panic, it is important for the to be aware of the risks.

“It’s a pretty high threat,” he said. “We don’t want to scare people, but we want them to be aware.”
Jeff Masters, meteorology director at Weather Underground, told AP that Wednesday’s predicted derecho “might be the worst severe weather outbreak for this part of the country for the year.”
 
Although the worst of the storm is expected to occur in Midwest, cities including Detroit, Baltimore, Washington, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and Louisville have a risk level of weather 15 times more severe than normal.

And even if a derecho does not form on Wednesday, the region will still experience powerful thunderstorms and destructive weather conditions that could bring down trees.

In 2012, a derecho caused $1 billion in damages across 11 states spanning from Chicago to Washington, D.C. The weather system came with wind gusts as high as 100 mph, Thirteen people were killed, 4 million were left without power, and 34 people died from the heat wave that followed the storm system, AP reports.
In the US, derechos are most likely to occur between May and July. Wednesday’s storms will move quickly, and leave behind days of oppressive heat.

“By the time you see the dark sky and distant thunder you may have only minutes to get to safe shelter,” Bunting warned.

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Devastating Tornado Cuts Path of Death in Oklahoma

A child is pulled from the rubble of the Plaza
Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., and
passed along to rescuers Monday, May 20,
2013. A tornado as much as a mile (1.6 kilometers)
wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph)
roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday,
flattening entire neighborhoods, setting
buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on
an elementary school. (AP Photo Sue Ogrocki)

Devastating Tornado Cuts Path of Death in Oklahoma
May 21, 2013 | Common Dreams | Jon Queally

Officials in Oklahoma have confirmed the death of 91 people, including 20 children, following a tornado on Monday that devastated the town of Moore and other suburbs outside Oklahoma City.  Hundreds more are injured and the death toll is expected to rise as the search for survivors continues.

Reports indicate the tornado was more than a mile wide at times, contained winds of over 200 miles per hour, and simply destroyed everything in its path. Whole neighborhoods were flattened, cars flung, roofs ripped off and even schools where children huddled for safety were not spared.

As The Oklahoman reports Tuesday morning:

As Monday turned into Tuesday, the town of Moore, a community of 41,000 people 10 miles south of the city, braced for another long, harrowing day.

“As long as we are here … we are going to hold out hope that we will find survivors,” said Trooper Betsy Randolph, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

More than 120 people were being treated at hospitals, including about 50 children. Amy Elliott, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office, said Tuesday that there could be as many as 40 more fatalities from Monday's tornado.

Families anxiously waited at nearby churches to hear if their loved ones were OK. A man with a megaphone stood Monday evening near St. Andrews United Methodist Church and called out the names of surviving children. Parents waited nearby, hoping to hear their sons' and daughters' names.

The New York Times reports:

Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore was reduced to a pile of twisted metal and toppled walls. Rescue workers were able to pull several children from the rubble, but on Monday evening crews were still struggling to cut through fallen beams and clear debris amid reports that dozens of students were trapped. At Briarwood Elementary School in Oklahoma City, on the border with Moore, cars were thrown through the facade and the roof was torn off.

“Numerous neighborhoods were completely leveled,” Sgt. Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Police Department said by telephone. “Neighborhoods just wiped clean.”

This time-lapse video shows that path the tornado cut:
Action News 5 - Memphis, Tennessee

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This photo provided by KFOR-TV shows homes flattened outside Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. A monstrous tornado as much as a mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. (AP Photo/KFOR-TV) 

Aerial view of homes hit by a massive tornado between SW4th and SW 19th in Moore, Monday May 20, 2013. (Photo By Steve Gooch, The Oklahoman)

This aerial photo shows the remains of homes hit by a massive tornado in Moore, Okla., Monday May 20, 2013. A tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. (AP Photo/Steve Gooch)

Venus' Mysterious South Polar Cyclone

Venus' Mysterious South Polar Cyclone
Apr 13, 2013 | ThunderboltsProject

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Summary of successful Thornhilll predictions: http://www.thunderbolts.info/thunderb...

Caught! Waterspout Comes Onshore in Tampa

A waterspout hit Tampa this morning at 11:12
a.m., according to the National Weather Service.
CREDIT: Robert Siegel/National Weather Service

Caught! Waterspout Comes Onshore in Tampa
Feb 26, 2013 | Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet

As a waterspout sped toward Tampa, Fla., this morning (Feb. 26), a quick-thinking weather watcher snapped the vacation photo of a lifetime.

Robert Siegel, a spotter for the National Weather Service's volunteer program, was on vacation in Florida when the waterspout appeared in northern Hillsborough Bay at 11:12 a.m. Siegel, who lives in Colorado, shot photos and emailed them to the National Weather Service, which shared the waterspout image via Twitter.

The photos show dark, stormy skies and water swirling above the bay. The waterspout came ashore as a tornado with 60 mph (96 kph) winds, according to a statement from the National Weather Service's Tampa Bay office.

The Tampa waterspout transformed into a tornado
when it hit land, damaging roofs and five vehicles.
CREDIT: Robert Siegel/National Weather Service

The tornado then hit the Westin Hotel and proceeded down a channel between the Tampa Bay Times Forum and Harbour Island, the NWS said. The twister lifted just east of the Florida Aquarium, traveling about 4,500 feet (1,360 meters) in all. Wind gusts associated with the tornado reached 75 to 85 mph (120 to 136 kph).

No injuries were reported, but damage included roofing, condo furniture, downed light poles and five vehicles, the NWS said.

The entire Tampa Bay region was under a tornado watch for the morning as a cold front moved in from the north. The watch was canceled around 1 p.m. EST.

Reach Becky Oskin at boskin@techmedianetwork.com. Follow her on Twitter @beckyoskin.