VORTEX2: May 29, 2009 - 19 days. Operations provided for in the field: interception.
Miles traveled today: 655. Total miles traveled: 6000.
sunny and hot this morning in Topeka, Kansas. The briefing led by Yvette Richardson tells us about hunting opportunities for today and the next day. For today, a cold front is approaching from the northern states and between the north-eastern Nebraska and western Iowa is a good overlap between the instability and wind shear, the unknown and the amount of moisture that can go up to the latitude in which we find ourselves. The possibilities for today is one able to carry out an interception with the time but have a high base, but not necessarily will be less interesting.
During the briefing shows two possible targets. The first in the south-central Nebraska, where one or two thunderstorms will form along a line of convergence at the surface during the afternoon. The second is in the north-western Missouri and northeastern Kansas. This second target appears to be less favorable in terms of weather that the morphology of the terrain.
Miles traveled today: 655. Total miles traveled: 6000.
sunny and hot this morning in Topeka, Kansas. The briefing led by Yvette Richardson tells us about hunting opportunities for today and the next day. For today, a cold front is approaching from the northern states and between the north-eastern Nebraska and western Iowa is a good overlap between the instability and wind shear, the unknown and the amount of moisture that can go up to the latitude in which we find ourselves. The possibilities for today is one able to carry out an interception with the time but have a high base, but not necessarily will be less interesting.
During the briefing shows two possible targets. The first in the south-central Nebraska, where one or two thunderstorms will form along a line of convergence at the surface during the afternoon. The second is in the north-western Missouri and northeastern Kansas. This second target appears to be less favorable in terms of weather that the morphology of the terrain.
The decision then is to move to Nebraska and to reassess the target during the morning and early afternoon in the journey along the I-80 west, the first objective, however, is Lincoln.
This will be the first in a series of targets that will be changed gradually in succession. With the passage of time during travel is becoming increasingly clear that the ingredient that is now little more moisture is present only in the central-western Nebraska. This fact leads the commanders in chief of the operations to move gradually increasing the target to the west, in the hope that some time can be formed. In eastern Nebraska is now the shear and the atmosphere is quite prepared to accept the vertical motions but lack high humidity and to the west where there may be a little more moisture will be lower than the shear.
go along Interstate 80 to Grand Island until finally the first time
appear to radar, but unfortunately they are very distant and near the border with South Dakota. When you arrive at Elm Creek head north with the intention of intercepting the cells.
Fill the tanks several times because beyond a certain distance from Interstate I-80 north of the probability of finding gas stations decreases rapidly as the scarcity of places of habitation that characterize this area. The direction of
spostamenteo of thunderstorms to the southeast and This simplifies our task. Finally, we can approach the most interesting time to show whether the echoes of very high reflectivity (79 dBZ) and also features supercellulari but for few minutes. The lack of moisture in the lower layers causes the type of temporal and high-based with the base that is very high. Wide bands of hail and dense curtains of rain fall from the base of large cumulonimbus as we approach more and more.
is quickly organized the placement of all the radar in order to be able to collect dual-Doppler data types (two or more radar observing the same time with a cover superimposed so This data can then be combined in the analysis).
go along Interstate 80 to Grand Island until finally the first time
appear to radar, but unfortunately they are very distant and near the border with South Dakota. When you arrive at Elm Creek head north with the intention of intercepting the cells.
Fill the tanks several times because beyond a certain distance from Interstate I-80 north of the probability of finding gas stations decreases rapidly as the scarcity of places of habitation that characterize this area. The direction of
spostamenteo of thunderstorms to the southeast and This simplifies our task. Finally, we can approach the most interesting time to show whether the echoes of very high reflectivity (79 dBZ) and also features supercellulari but for few minutes. The lack of moisture in the lower layers causes the type of temporal and high-based with the base that is very high. Wide bands of hail and dense curtains of rain fall from the base of large cumulonimbus as we approach more and more.
is quickly organized the placement of all the radar in order to be able to collect dual-Doppler data types (two or more radar observing the same time with a cover superimposed so This data can then be combined in the analysis).
The mission ends in sunset light, away from the hotel chosen for the night, which is 150 miles away, that is almost three hours ... Tomorrow will probably not be a day of a mission and there will be time to rest and to review our photographer Gino who has since decided to rejoin the ranks for another week of intense shots.
Finally we arrive at the hotel just before midnight. Surely it was the most tiring day of all because of the great distance covered on means; 655 miles or kilometers are transformed in the figure of 1050 which is little more than the distance between Turin Brindisi!
0 comments:
Post a Comment