rrrr
04-05-2003, 11:21 PM
We had a weather event tonight. In the spring, cold air moving from the Northwest collides with warm, moist air streaming up from the Gulf of Mexico. This is what produces our springtime tornados.
There was a fairly robust set of thunderstorms tonight, and at my house we experienced a little hail around 1/2" in diameter.
My wife is a pet sitter, she goes to people's houses when they are out of town to feed dogs, cats, birds, ferrets, rabbits... you get the idea.
Because of the weather I told her I would drive her around tonight. After the passage of the storms we went to do the rounds, and while driving found a couple of major streets blocked off in Plano.
We went around the police roadblocks, and to our amazement found an area that had received over 14 inches of hail. What was really spooky is that the area was only around 4000 feet long and 800 feet wide. I checked the area on a map when we got home.
I'm not making this up. There was a place that had 12 inches of hail on the east side of a six lane street, and the other side was completely clear. I have never seen anything like it.
There was nothing else in the area around this that had any hail standing on the ground at all. The ambient temperature at the time was 63 degrees.
Wow! Once again the forces of nature humble me.
There was a fairly robust set of thunderstorms tonight, and at my house we experienced a little hail around 1/2" in diameter.
My wife is a pet sitter, she goes to people's houses when they are out of town to feed dogs, cats, birds, ferrets, rabbits... you get the idea.
Because of the weather I told her I would drive her around tonight. After the passage of the storms we went to do the rounds, and while driving found a couple of major streets blocked off in Plano.
We went around the police roadblocks, and to our amazement found an area that had received over 14 inches of hail. What was really spooky is that the area was only around 4000 feet long and 800 feet wide. I checked the area on a map when we got home.
I'm not making this up. There was a place that had 12 inches of hail on the east side of a six lane street, and the other side was completely clear. I have never seen anything like it.
There was nothing else in the area around this that had any hail standing on the ground at all. The ambient temperature at the time was 63 degrees.
Wow! Once again the forces of nature humble me.