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May is here and now its our turn... We just had a hook echo pass over us on Doppler, and about 2-3 miles NE of us something took out a building real close to where my buddy has his business. The local weather people were paying more attention to a Doppler tornado more to our south and only after this thing passed over us did they notice it had rotation and may be a tornado. Thanks guys, we saw it before you did.
That same hook echo ended up traveling about 30 miles to the NE and it started forming right before getting to us. Whew...
We saw the hook on the radar and were wondering why the weather people weren't paying attention to it, so we figured it didn't have the in-out flow of air needed for rotation, After it passed us it developed into a massive in-out flow. Winds blowing toward the radar are green and the wind blowing away are red. The hook echo had a large green area completely within a larger red area. It even had the weather guy amazed, I'd never seen that much contrast in wind directions. Anyway, the weather guy was explaining that the storm bowed out to our south as straight line winds but as it does that the north and south ends of the storm (we're at the north end) can curl like the wisps of vapor coming off wings so while the winds are straight line for most of the front the ends of the storm are getting winds coming in different directions.
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May is here and now its our turn... We just had a hook echo pass over us on Doppler, and about 2-3 miles NE of us something took out a building real close to where my buddy has his business. The local weather people were paying more attention to a Doppler tornado more to our south and only after this thing passed over us did they notice it had rotation and may be a tornado. Thanks guys, we saw it before you did.
That same hook echo ended up traveling about 30 miles to the NE and it started forming right before getting to us. Whew...We saw the hook on the radar and were wondering why the weather people weren't paying attention to it, so we figured it didn't have the in-out flow of air needed for rotation, After it passed us it developed into a massive in-out flow. Winds blowing toward the radar are green and the wind blowing away are red. The hook echo had a large green area completely within a larger red area. It even had the weather guy amazed, I'd never seen that much contrast in wind directions. Anyway, the weather guy was explaining that the storm bowed out to our south as straight line winds but as it does that the north and south ends of the storm (we're at the north end) can curl like the wisps of vapor coming off wings so while the winds are straight line for most of the front the ends of the storm are getting winds coming in different directions.
Official storm thread
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