So I am up at the shop, dyno'ing the RT...when the tornado sirens went off...We all walk outside (like dumbasses) to see wassup, and this is why they went off...Low clouds were flying east, high clouds were going west...Looked like freakin Wichita, Kansas weather...Then we notice this thing had a little rotation to it, and the air looked like it was going straight up into it...Petered out pretty quick, but it had potential...I gave it a C-...Here's a couple of pics...
Great stuff, SB! A budding chaser, are you? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Prepare to be bored: What you've got there is a big rain free base of a well organized supercell. The lowering you see is mostly comprised of scud bombs, which probably indicates the presence of cyclonic shear at the low levels of the storm (further confirmed by your report of east winds at the surface). The anvil cloud matter traveling west gives us 90 degrees of turning (winds at 500 millibars were out of the SW), or very strong directional shear. That's a good recipe for tornadoes. You're right, bro, that storm was showing signs of low level rotation (a mesocyclone). All those ragged scud and Fractus clouds were likely trying to coalesce into a wall cloud, which might have spelled trouble. I'd be interested to know where these pics were taken; I could look at yesterday's archived radar and storm reports to see if this cell actually produced a tornado.
I was near Sioux City, SD yesterday, and what a day it was! We got 11 tornadoes in total. During one sequence of occlusion and new downwind formation, three skinny tornadoes were on the ground, from the same meso, at once! What an incredible, rare sight that was. We also got a half-mile wide masher that moved dangerously close (just west, propagating SE thankfully) to Sioux City. That's three days in a row, almost in the same area, of hoses. This has turned out to be an amazing season. 40 tornadoes so far. That's usually what I see in five years of chasing! The weather gods have been kind to me, brutal to the local denizens.
Thanks, SB. Great shots! You should have given chase, bro! [img]/images/graemlins/supergrin.gif[/img]
These pics were taken at 261 North 26th Ave, Minneapolis, MN...But these formations were about a half mile away to the south...We did get some tornado damage in Buffalo, MN...
I am not a chaser, but spend all my time in the midwest, Minnesota, Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas, and Texas...mostly up here in Minnesota now...So I am used to seeing the occasional twister...
Get the deal with your top and running at the track straightened out yet? Was it an NHRA track?
Yeah...It's an NHRA track...But Saturday's are test and tune days...I found out that last year, an old street rod vert on slicks/skinnies lost control through the traps and flipped several times...The guy didn't make it, so this particular track has tightened up on the test/tune days...It is an NHRA rule that under 13.99 you have to run some type of top, doesn't specify what kind, just a top...So I will comply and run the soft top until I get the roll bar in...
Looking forward to a true field report. I want to hear how it felt like the first time you went WOT and hit the bottle! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
(Pics would be nice too -I want to see how many more poser points you got)
Get the deal with your top and running at the track straightened out yet? Was it an NHRA track?
Yeah...It's an NHRA track...But Saturday's are test and tune days...I found out that last year, an old street rod vert on slicks/skinnies lost control through the traps and flipped several times...The guy didn't make it, so this particular track has tightened up on the test/tune days...It is an NHRA rule that under 13.99 you have to run some type of top, doesn't specify what kind, just a top...So I will comply and run the soft top until I get the roll bar in...
I am trying to find out just what the rules are for your car with its top. I have the 2003 NHRA rule book in front of me and all of the updates to go with it in National Dragster. Just have to find what section it is in.
Do you have a copy?
I bet a tornado would blow the top off. I wonder what the track would say to that? [img]/images/graemlins/laughing.gif[/img]
Doesn't every redneck??? I also sent the NHRA an email asking for clarification, and got an excellent response...gotta run a top of some type until the roll bar install...
Looking forward to a true field report. I want to hear how it felt like the first time you went WOT and hit the bottle! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
I hit the bottle for the first time last Sunday...on my "private" track...Some people refer to is as "the loop" or by its proper name "I-494"...But we all know that the left lane is MINE!
I found myself shifting alot sooner, for obvious reasons, I only had 75hp jets in...with the window switch conservatively set at 3000 - 5000 rpms, it actually felt like a vette, since the vette is freakin gutless in the lower rpm range, and starts to pull in the upper rpms...My window will actually be 2950 - 5650 from now on, but I will elaborate on that later...
With the 75 hp jets in, it honestly felt like the LPE vette I took a rip in late last summer...More later on!
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