I was just on weather.com to see if the rains were stopping any way soon and found this (red highlighting mine):
I thought the big volcano & earthquakes were the only things we were watching for, but however we might have a tornado today! I haven't been in a tornado in a long time, but I'll never forget the drills in elementary schools!
Issued by The National Weather Service
Seattle/Tacoma, WA
9:59 am PDT, Sat., Oct. 17, 2009
... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON...
A RATHER STRONG EARLY FALL COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP NORTHEAST ACROSS WESTERN WASHINGTON LATE THIS MORNING AND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE FRONT WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A LINE OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS.
BEHIND THE FRONT... THE AIR MASS WILL BECOME UNSTABLE AS COOLER AIR MOVES IN ALOFT MAKING THE REGION RIPE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS. THIS INSTABILITY WILL BE COMBINED WITH STRONG WIND SHEAR IN THE MID LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE. THAT COMBINATION BRINGS ABOUT THE POTENTIAL FOR ROTATION TO DEVELOP IN ANY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS.
ALTHOUGH TORNADOES ARE RARE IN WESTERN WASHINGTON... WHEN WE DO GET THEM IT IS NORMALLY UNDER SITUATIONS SIMILAR TO THIS WHEN THEY HAPPEN... BUT EVERYTHING HAS TO COME TOGETHER JUST RIGHT.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL BE MONITORING THE SITUATION CLOSELY THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS AND WILL ISSUE STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS AS NEEDED. WE ARE ACTIVATING THE SKYWARN SPOTTER NETWORK AT THIS TIME FOR THE POTENTIAL AFTERNOON CONVECTION AND ARE ASKING FOR CALLS RELATED TO UNUSUAL CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY.
3 comments:
The weather has been a bit weird everywhere,huh? OKLA has had an unusual amount of rain lately too!
It's about 51 degrees now!!
Sweet potatoes sound tasty :o)
So how did the weather turn out?
All we had was tons of rain. No tornado! I did hear one clap of thunder and see one lightning bolt which is really unusal for here.
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