{"id":4112,"date":"2010-05-01T10:24:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T18:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2010-12-16T12:55:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T20:55:36","slug":"may-1-2010-northeastern-ar-supercells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2010\/05\/01\/may-1-2010-northeastern-ar-supercells\/","title":{"rendered":"May 1, 2010 Northeastern AR Supercells"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bit the bullet and played the high risk area of eastern Arkansas.\u00a0 Heck—we were already in St. Louis, so why not?!\u00a0 Tornadic supercells were raking Mississippi around midday as we made our way into the northeastern corner of AR.\u00a0 A couple of storm towers went up in the vicinity of Fair Oaks by mid-afternoon, and the bases were nearly scraping the ground.\u00a0 Low level wind shear was very strong, and we observed strange “plumes” of condensation beneath a storm base. These were in contact with the ground surface…were they tornadoes?\u00a0 Well, there was definitely no violent rotation associated with the phenomena, so I would have to say that these were not tornadoes.\u00a0 Relative humidity was so high that any convergence beneath the storm base seemed to result in condensation.\u00a0 Here are a few video stills of the tornado-lookalike, or weak tornado, looking southeast at 5:17 p.m. CDT from near Penrose (the storm was very close to the triple-point of Cross, Woodruff, and St. Francis counties, northwest of Forrest City).<\/p>\n

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Anyway, though the low-levels looked impressive on occasion, the towers above were not.\u00a0 We abandoned the Fair Oaks area and headed west and then south to Haven, in time to intercept a strong supercell with frequent CGs and some good low-level structure.\u00a0 It waited until nighttime, though, to go into tornado mode, near Fair Oaks!<\/p>\n

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I bit the bullet and played the high risk area of eastern Arkansas.\u00a0 Heck—we were already in St. Louis, so why not?!\u00a0 Tornadic supercells were… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-42","7":"category-lightning","8":"category-supercells","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5074,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}