Large tornado on the ground in Atlanta ... bottom of thread. *Video*

[Mill]

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Fausto1
Dime-sized hail dropping on my house right now. Yikes.

Where are you? Give me your neighborhood. PM if you must. Checking radar for you know.

This program is running really slow (Stormlab). Maybe they are just overwhelmed right now. Is it slow for you too?

Not really. Do you have the professional version? Don't use a loop. Just use the single image.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Holy sh!t Fausto1 I would take cover immediately :Q

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Fausto1
Dime-sized hail dropping on my house right now. Yikes.

Where are you? Give me your neighborhood. PM if you must. Checking radar for you know.

This program is running really slow (Stormlab). Maybe they are just overwhelmed right now. Is it slow for you too?

Not really. Do you have the professional version? Don't use a loop. Just use the single image.

Loop is off. Maybe they don't let you go as fast in the trial version or something.

 

[Mill]

HAIL IS COVERING the ground on 75!!!!!!!!

WTF!Q

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Fausto1
Dime-sized hail dropping on my house right now. Yikes.

Where are you? Give me your neighborhood. PM if you must. Checking radar for you know.

This program is running really slow (Stormlab). Maybe they are just overwhelmed right now. Is it slow for you too?

Not really. Do you have the professional version? Don't use a loop. Just use the single image.

Loop is off. Maybe they don't let you go as fast in the trial version or something.

Probably so.

 

[Fausto]

This is nuts.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Fuasto1 get off the computer and take cover!

 

[BunLengthHotDog]

I live in Kennesaw, but am at work downtown where we are getting pounded....Wife says Kennesaw missed the first wave, but another one is supposed to be coming.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: Fausto1
This is nuts.

I agree. Man you have to get some pics if things are fine around your house.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
Fuasto1 get off the computer and take cover!

He is in the clear for now. There is another storm 40 miles out that is on the same path. Rotation with it too.

 

[Fausto]

Snapped a pic of some of the hail. It's probably 20% smaller than it was (it's pretty warm out so it melted by the time I got outside to grab some).

Hail.

Sorry it's dark, my camera sucks.

 

[XZeroII]

no offense, but I can't see a thing in that picture. At least you are ok.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: Fausto1
Snapped a pic of some of the hail. It's probably 20% smaller than it was (it's pretty warm out so it melted by the time I got outside to grab some).

Hail.

Sorry it's dark, my camera sucks.

Brightened and on faster server now. Fausto's hail picture/

I am guessing that WAS ping-pong to baseball size hail.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: XZeroII
no offense, but I can't see a thing in that picture. At least you are ok.

Hehe....sorry. The white blobs are the hail, the stick thing is a pen for size comparison.

 

[dugweb]

Originally posted by: Fausto1
Snapped a pic of some of the hail. It's probably 20% smaller than it was (it's pretty warm out so it melted by the time I got outside to grab some).

Hail.

Sorry it's dark, my camera sucks.

i am soooo pumped to be moving there if were gonna have stoms like this

edit: of course though ill be sad if anyone gets hurt :/

 

[Vic]

:Q

 

[Mill]

Anyone from Atlanta getting a vidcap or screenshots from WSB or any other station? If you have something PM me, and I will host.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: Fausto1

Originally posted by: XZeroII
no offense, but I can't see a thing in that picture. At least you are ok.

Hehe....sorry. The white blobs are the hail, the stick thing is a pen for size comparison.

lol, I was gonna ask if you were inside or outside, but thought that might be a bit too mean With Mil's update of your pic I got a better view.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: Fausto1

Originally posted by: XZeroII
no offense, but I can't see a thing in that picture. At least you are ok.

Hehe....sorry. The white blobs are the hail, the stick thing is a pen for size comparison.

lol, I was gonna ask if you were inside or outside, but thought that might be a bit too mean With Mil's update of your pic I got a better view.

Hey the camera was only $40 dammit!



Man, it sounded like someone was dropping baseballs on the roof there for a while. :Q

 

[XZeroII]

Millenium, I assume you know lots about meteorology. I'm taking an intro class this semester in it, but the Fujita (sp?) scale is not applied to a tornado until after the damage is looked at since the Fujita scale measures the amount of damage done, not the wind speed or size. Basically, a tornado could be a mile wide and wind speeds of 500kts and be labeled an F0 because it never hit the ground. Our meterorlogy professor made a big point about that while discussing the movie Twister and how he thinks it was one of the worst movies ever created

 

[Feldenak]

Gah, it's still storming here...people at work were flipping out about a tornado warning when I got here.

All I know is it better clear up some before I go see the Cheesebrokers at The Dump tonight.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: XZeroII
Millenium, I assume you know lots about meteorology. I'm taking an intro class this semester in it, but the Fujita (sp?) scale is not applied to a tornado until after the damage is looked at since the Fujita scale measures the amount of damage done, not the wind speed or size. Basically, a tornado could be a mile wide and wind speeds of 500kts and be labeled an F0 because it never hit the ground. Our meterorlogy professor made a big point about that while discussing the movie Twister and how he thinks it was one of the worst movies ever created

This is true, however, experience has shown that large tornadoes tend to create way more damage than smaller ones. Now, what you described is not a true tornado because it didn't touch down. Only storms that touch down can be rated like you said. If there was winds of 500kts and a mile wide, it would be cause considerable damage if it touched down. You can get small compact rope tornadoes that cause F4-F5 damage but that is fairly rare. The larger the tornado, for the most part, the more damage it can create. The reason I said it looked like a F4 was because it was such as large tornado. Since damage reports have not yet said much wind damage, it could have been much smaller. I was relaying information from someone who has a lot of experience with severe weather. Until an actual NWS storm survey takes place, everything is speculation. I can tell you, however, that the last time I saw a tornado like that on the ground was in December of 2000 in Tuscaloosa County. That tornado was captured on ABC 33/40's towercam and later destroyed their storm chasing van. Here is the video of the storm from that day. One other thing... the Fujita scale is BASED on damage done, and then give a wind estimate for the tornado. Twister was a pretty unrealistic movie, but it had some truth.


I actually would not consider myself to know a lot about meteorology. I am a storm buff, with knowledge of computer models, radar, and other things. If you really want to learn stuff about meteorology and the like go to here and start participating in the forum. The Bham NWS has a presence on the forum, as does several meteorologist from ABC 33/40, WAFF 48, WJHG, and others.

 

[Mill]

Damage reports:

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
816 PM EDT FRI APR 25 2003

TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....

0538 PM ESOM HILL GA FUNNEL CLOUD
04/25/03 POLK

0552 PM CEDARTOWN GA 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/25/03 POLK

0602 PM 5SW CEDARTOWN GA TORNADO
04/25/03 POLK REPORTED BY POLK
SHERIFFS' OFFICE.
TORNADO TOUCHDOWN. ONE
BARN DESTROYED AND
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.
REPORTED BY 911.

0610 PM ARAGON GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/25/03 POLK PUBLIC REPORT.

0615 PM DALLAS GA TORNADO
04/25/03 PAULDING REPORTED BY PAULDING
COUNTY 911. POSSIBLE
TORNADO TOUCHDOWN.

0615 PM ROCKMART GA TORNADO
04/25/03 POLK POSSIBLE TORNADO REPORTED
BY PUBLIC.

0615 PM VAN WERT GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/25/03 POLK PUBLIC REPORT.

0630 PM NEW HOPE GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/25/03 MADISON PUBLIC REPORT.

0630 PM 5W DALLAS GA 0.88 INCH HAIL
04/25/03 PAULDING PUBLIC REPORT. NICKEL
SIZE HAIL COVERING GROUND
SEVERAL INCHES DEEP.

0635 PM HIRAM GA TORNADO
04/25/03 PAULDING REPORTED BY PAULDING
COUNTY 911.

0640 PM 7SE DALLAS GA 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/25/03 PAULDING PUBLIC REPORT. GOLF BALL
SIZ HAIL COVERING THE
GROUND.

0640 PM POWDER SPRINGS GA 0.88 INCH HAIL
04/25/03 COBB NICKEL SIZE HAIL COVERING
THE GROUND.

0655 PM AUSTELL GA 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/25/03 COBB PUBLIC REPORT.

0712 PM SMYRNA GA 0.88 INCH HAIL
04/25/03 COBB PUBLIC REPORT. NICKEL
SIZE HAIL COVERING THE
GROUND.

0717 PM ATLANTA GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/25/03 FULTON REPORTED BY SPOTTERS.

0735 PM DECATUR GA 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/25/03 DEKALB PUBLIC REPORT.

 

[StageLeft]

Nice links, millie!

 

[Mill]

I hope someone shoots the stupid Prom people on WSB. Assholes.