GoBoB Chasing

At 2:30AM CDT we seem to be sitting on loaded bomb weather wise. In most ways, I was hoping a large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) would scour the atmosphere clean. It did not!

The latest computer model runs are coming into better alignment. With the dryline setting up somewhere between the I-35 and 75 corridor across Oklahoma on Thursday afternoon/evening. As with all these early storms, Very large hail is possible as are some tornadoes early in the event before storms become more linear.

GoBoB. com is proud to bring you high resolution Radar centered on OktoberFest. The Beer Stein is the festival site. The time stamp at the bottom right is in UTC which is also displayed on the left.

This image is Base Reflectivity.

This is Storm Relative Velocity

Those of you with a smart phone can link to the radar image at:
http://www.wisesky.com/gr/kinx_br1.png

After an upper respiratory infection and a DNS problem GoBoB and GoBoB.com are both back among the living. These unseasonably warm temperatures may well portend the end of chase season. If I had to pick two seasons to miss these are probably the best two. VORTEX2 and their embedded armada of The Weather Channel, Discovery, and the TIV have pretty much destroyed what used to be a fun hobby.

I’m not really a fan of Dr. Charles Doswell. He is pompous, articulate to the point of wordy, and in this case correct. Please see: http://www.flame.org/~cdoswell/chaser_convergence.html

My good friend Steve Miller’s video (not work friendly unless you mute the audio first): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMdJy3qMak

I don’t know whose video this is but his/her in car camera setup is awesome and another nail in the coffin.

Much fewer chances of tornadoes, but severe weather still expected.

SPC has upgraded to a High Risk for much of Oklahoma today. Please monitor the weather this afternoon/evening.

Hopefully there weren’t any season finales you were planning to watch this evening.

Chased 486 Miles Wednesday with Robert and Karen Hall and didn’t see squat. At 4:50AM on Thursday the 13th a Tornadic storm misses their house by a couple of miles. Most of Tulsa sleeps through the event or does not hear warning sirens.

I bought another NOAA All Hazards Radio tonight so I can have one that only warns on Tulsa and Creek counties and one that warns on all of Eastern, OK that I can unplug. Unplug is what I did at 4:00AM (STUPID) and I slept through the whole thing. Thankfully no one was badly hurt, but these overnight events are typically the ones that have high death tolls as no one seeks shelter because they are asleep. Please heed this warning and get a NOAA All Hazards Radio with SAME encoding and program it for your county and maybe one to the south and west as an early tripwire.