Friday, December 31, 2010

Major Tornado event unfurling in Missouri and Illinois!




METD WEATHER
Akshay Deoras
Severe Weather Forecaster

TOP PHOTO-
THE TORNADO DAMAGE IN THE TOWN OF CINCINNATI

CONDITIONS WERE/ARE SIMILAR TO A MODERATE RISK TYPE SETUP

An Insane trough of 140kt is digging in South Central states of USA bringing tremendous risk of Severe Weather with tornadoes widely in Missouri and Illinois.
The threat began when the perfectly destabilized atmosphere over North Eastern Oklahoma-Arkansas border produced supercells in the 2000J/Kg CAPE,Dewpoints upto 55- 60F and blend of low level shears for rotations.

***The tornado in Cincinnati in Arkansas was the killer tornado with unconfirmed reports of around 4 fatalities killing an old couple aged 88 and 78 years old,another old man aged 78 who was a dairy farmer who was milking the cows in the morning***

Reaching an area of Low level jets nearing to 50kt and classic shears,
The Squall line thunderstorm dropped more tornadoes over Robertsville,MO,BYRNES Mill,MO , Sunset Hills also where the tornado caused damage to houses and business.
Recent Tornado 2SW of Petersburg,IL has uprooted large trees and roof tops also!

Weather alerts are being issued on the the blog at the top and the related warning also

( Attached image ( top one) is of the rainwrapped tornado as seen on radar 4 miles NW of Waterloo around 1800hrs GMT

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