Friday, July 22, 2011

A Tornado Warning in a Very "Unlikely" Place...


A Tornado Warning was recently issued on this storm between Houlton and Presque Isle, Maine. Yes, I said Maine. No ground-truth reports yet, and the wind velocity (wind speed & direction)  mode of the radar (see below) tends to indicate strong, gusty winds blowing out of the storm rather than pronounced rotation.  With that said, brief (and generally weak) tornadoes sometimes spin-up on the leading edge of such storms...



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