VORTEX 2: Day 14
The armada spent the night (again) in Hot Springs. Today they headed south to play some marginal supercell environments in Nebraska. I was unable to participate in today’s marginal operations because of my college roomate’s wedding (Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Thompson!). While I have not heard of any successful stories, I do know there was at leats one tornado near I80. This tornado was not the result of larger scale environmental processes, but storm interactions and mesoscale (near storm) processes. However, the simple fact that the atmosphere produced a tornado is an improvement in VORTEX II’s fortunes. Let’s see how the upcoming week pans out…
Tomorrow may have a play to the north or will be a travel day so the armada can head south. We’ll decide this tomorrow morning.
I’ll be back in the loop tomorrow.
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Patrick Marsh is a Ph.D. student at the University of Oklahoma's School of Meteorology. He earned a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Physics (cum laude) from the University of Arkansas in 2005 and a Masters of Science in Meteorology in 2007. In addition to working on his doctorate, Patrick serves as the National Severe Storms Laboratory Liaison to the Hazardous Weather Testbed where his research interests lie in working with operational forecasters, data mining, data visualization, and all things high-impact weather. For more about Patrick's work, check out his complete CV!
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