It was a bumpy ride for us here in the Midwest over the weekend but things have calmed down. While we saw plenty of warnings across the area, both severe thunderstorm and tornado. Good news for us, we did not see any tornadoes here in the viewing area. You can take a look at the storm reports from Saturday for yourself:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/100424_rpts.html
Clearly Mississippi was hit extremely hard with large tornadoes. The tornado that hit Yazoo City was the most powerful and destructive. Preliminary reports showed that it measured 1 3/4 of a mile in width and lasted for about 150 miles. 10 people were killed with this storm outbreak.
Dr. Forbes from the Weather Channel wrote an interesting blog himself about the tornado. You should take a look. It was pretty interesting. http://www.weather.com/blog/weather/ You will see a radar picture that has all the colors we would normally see with a destructive storm, with the exception of the pinkish/purple color. Now while this might normally indicate large hail, it was not the case with this storm cell. The circular shaped area actually showed the debris from the tornado. Pretty wild huh?
Here in Central Missouri, we saw a lot of problems with flash flooding. With this particular storm, we saw record rainfall amounts for the day. In the viewing area, most of us picked up between 2-4 inches of rainfall in 24 hours. Always remember that you should NOT drive through a roadway that is covered with water. You never know how much water is over a road, and you don't even necessarily know if there even is a roadway left under the water.
As for this week.... Things look to be calm Tuesday through Thursday. We will see pleasant weather around the area until we get to the weekend. Looks like we could even have a repeat of last weekend. As we get closer, I will have a better idea of what to expect. Until then, enjoy the beautiful spring time weather!
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