Over the next two weeks this class of WKU met students will track storms across the great plains and you can follow along using the links below. Not much in terms of hazardous weather is expected soon so I will leave this post up and we can sit back and follow there journey. By early next week chances for severe weather could increase in Nebraska and South Dakota.
Go to http://www.spotternetwork.org/feeds/grlevelx.txtUse your browser’s find function (click ‘Edit’ and then click ‘Find on this page’ on the dropdown menu or type Ctrl+F) and type in Grady Dixon or Josh Durkee (I would probably use Grady Dixon as I don’t know if Dr. Durkee is set up to be tracked yet but I know Dr. Dixon is). When you find him, the line above his name will have a set of 2 numbers. These are the latitude and longitude coordinates. Go to http://www.gorissen.info/Pierre/maps/googleMapLocation.phpand under ‘Coordinates’ type the lat and lon to find our location. And of course, go to http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ and click on our location to bring up the nearest NWS office. There should be a link for radar on the left side of each office’s page. Click on that and see if we are on some storms. Also, go to http://fastforecast.blogspot.com/. This is a blog of one of the people on the trip and we will all be updating it daily.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1240 PM EDT THU MAY 20 2010
KYZ061-070>072-201800-
BUTLER KY-LOGAN KY-WARREN KY-SIMPSON KY-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…MORGANTOWN…RUSSELLVILLE…
BOWLING GREEN…FRANKLIN
1140 AM CDT THU MAY 20 2010
…HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL KENTUCKY…
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE SPREADING EASTWARD INTO SOUTH-
CENTRAL KENTUCKY AT THE MOMENT. THROUGH 100 PM CDT…THESE SHOWERS
AND STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES…ESPECIALLY FOR AREAS NEAR THE
TENNESSEE BORDER SUCH AS RUSSELLVILLE…ADAIRVILLE…FRANKLIN AND
SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES. RAINFALL TOTALS OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO
WILL RANGE FROM ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH UNDER THE HEAVIEST
RAINFALL. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND LOWERED VISIBILITIES
FROM THE RAIN WILL OCCUR AS WELL SO USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING aa
some weekend notes
1. the class out in the plains did catch a couple of tornadoes on video yesturday
2. we need 1-2 inches of rain for the wettest may on record
even more success out in the plains a total of 10 tornadoes has been observed by our group in the plains!!!!! It looks like they will have a few more chances out there over the next several days. However for those of us in the lower Ohio valley our chances for severe weather should increase by the middle of next week.