The Low Level Jet and Nocturnal Storms……. May 31, 2007

You will often hear us mention on television the formation of a low level jet that feeds into thunderstorms; moreover, LLJ’s serve as a great initiator for overnight thunderstorm complex development, and locating them can be a key to pinpoint thunderstorm formation. Last night we saw a complex of storms called a Mesoscale Convective Complex [...]

Added Moisture Means Fog…… May 30, 2007

This picture was taken from Poteau, Oklahoma from our recent saturated weather pattern. Of course we have all of the ingredients coming together, not only for the rain, but for foggy conditions as well. At 850 mb look at the dominant high over the SE. This high is responsible for pumping moisture off [...]

HAVES & HAVE-NOTS May 29, 2007

It was another day of the “haves” and the “have-nots”; where it did rain, there was plenty, where it didn’t, it just remained warm and muggy! A viewer from Heavener, OK was most certainly among the “haves”. I spoke with her earlier in the evening and she said that around 7:45 PM or [...]

ANOTHER SLOW LOW… (a look at the week ahead) May 28, 2007

… is going to make you mow!
Look over Texas at the blue L. Note how it’s sitting in a carved out green line and this line is by enlarge, alone across the southern half of the country as opposed to being among several others, as is the case in the northen half of [...]

STORM PICTURES May 27, 2005 May 28, 2007

More photos taken by 4029 Storm Tracker Brian Emfinger… THANKS BRIAN!
Loosely quoting him:

“This one was taken NE of Ozark. A wall cloud look alike kinda – it’s where a wall cloud should be (sw corner of storm – pic is looking east) but it wasn’t connected to the tower…so it’s a far less impressive [...]

A FEW STRONG STORMS TODAY… May 27, 2007

4029 Storm Chaser Brian Emfinger sent this photo in today. Thanks!

We saw quite a few terrain induced thunderstorms pop up as we neared peak heating in the mid afternoon. A complex that pushed through regions of Benton and Carroll counties passed right over Beaver lake gathering steam as it pushed into southern MO. A few [...]

FRIDAY’S FOLLY May 26, 2007

So here we are at the unofficial start of summer with the arrival of Memorial Day weekend, but perhaps you’re not quite ready for the hazy, hot and humid stuff and you just didn’t get enough winter… well head south!
High up in the Andes mountains of South America there is snow and plenty of it! [...]

More Impressive Pictures… May 24, 2007

A Storm Chaser Killer…..
Look at the inflow……..

This is a great picture of a mesocyclone

Thanks to 40/29 Storm Chaser Brian Emfinger for these shots!

Oklahoma Panhandle Storms May 23, 2007

Take a look at these pictures from 40/29 Storm Chaser Brian Emfinger. They were taken from his web camera near Canadian, Texas. He’s seen many wall clouds tonight, and that area looks to be active throughout the evening with supercell thunderstorms. The CAP busted around 4 this afternoon, and the storms exploded! There [...]

Outflow Boundary…. May 23, 2007

Look at the outflow boundary from the satellite photo above. On this visible image it shows up as a thin cloud line that is well ahead of the surface cold front which remains in western Oklahoma. This cool air has rushed hundreds of miles ahead of the storms along the front; moreover, it could be [...]