May
26
When I watched this video, my jaw dropped.
It shows five days worth of tornado creating super-cell thunderstorms. These storms generated tornadoes in Texas, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Indiana.
This animation includes a satellite view from space of the powerful line of storms that created the Joplin, Missouri EF-5 tornado with wind speeds of 200mph or more. That tornado hit on May 22, 2011… Read more
May
23
Like a scene from a movie.
But this time it’s real and with deadly consequences.
You’re looking at the damage outside St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Missouri, which was in the path of the most powerful kind of tornado there is–an EF-5. This rating means it had wind speeds of at least 200mph as it ripped into Joplin on Sunday evening May 22, 2011.
You can see… Read more
May
17
It’s a battle of rural versus urban.
Country life versus city living.
And man versus nature.
You’re looking at an incredible (and brand new) satellite view of the NOCO Levee near New Orleans, Louisiana. A company named Digital Globe takes images like these.
In this particular picture of Louisiana flooding from space, here’s what we’re looking at: the Mississippi River runs at the bottom and left. Urban areas would… Read more
May
03
Wow.
That’s what I had to say after seeing this new map of tornado tracks across Alabama and the rest of the southeast during the nation’s second deadliest tornado outbreak.
The oranges, yellows and reds are the areas of strongest rotation detected by the tornadoes.
The severe weather experts at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (part of NOAA) put this map together based on what local… Read more
Apr
30
By now we’ve all seen the devastation on the ground and by helicopter. And if you’re reading from the Southeast, maybe you’ve seen it in person.
But this image is the Tuscaloosa tornado track from outer space. A company named GeoEye took this image on April 28, 2011 – the day after the tornado outbreak.
The diagonal brown line (like part of the image has been… Read more
Apr
28
You’re looking at my friend and colleague Mark Prater–in the middle of saving lives on April 27, 2011.
This is a snapshot of him,on the air, with live video of the Tuscaloosa, Alabama tornado as it was destroying homes and buildings and killing people in its path.
And while I was putting together our northwest forecast on Wednesday–worried about getting the numbers right–I suddenly felt it… Read more
Bruce Sussman has been forecasting Northwest weather since 1994. He is the Chief Meteorologist at Koin Local 6 News in Portland, Oregon and a member of the American Meteorological Society. Bruce graduated from University of Missouri and completed advanced Meteorology studies at Mississippi State ....
