Posts in the "Other" Category

• Severe Weather Awareness Week 2011

  Awareness
  

  Today marks the first day of Middle Tennessee’s Severe Weather Awareness Week. SWAW takes place from February 20th until February 26th. Events include tornado drills, safety plans, information on various hazards, and the importance of SKYWARN spotters. Each day this week, I will make a post about each topic of the day in the spirit [...]

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• Tennessee Declares State of Emergency

  Awareness
  

  The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency has declared a State of Emergency for the entire state in preparation of the coming winter storm. Snow accumulations of up to 8 inches are possible in many parts of the state, with the entire state having at least 3 inches, with much more likely. Here is the current update [...]

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• The Weight of a Hurricane?

  Awareness
  If you had to make a wild guess at how much a hurricane weighed, what would you guess? How about your typical thunderstorm? Perhaps the lonely fluffy white cloud? If you are reading this, and think, “It can’t be that heavy, it’s floating in the air!” then you certainly need to watch this video. It [...]

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• Fall Severe Weather Awareness Day

  Awareness
  

  Today marks the annual Fall Severe Weather Awareness Day for Middle Tennessee! With the weather getting cooler and the trees changing colors, one would think that they had seen the last of the severe storms for the year. Well, that isn’t entirely true. The graph to the left shows the percentage of all tornadoes by [...]

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• A Ride in the TIV

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  Today, Sean Casey and driver Markus Gutierrez were at an iMAX convention in Chattanooga, Tennessee. They took the opportunity to let fans have a look at the TIV, and a lucky few got to ride around town in TIV2. I got to roadtrip from Nashville to Chattanooga for this event, and I must say that [...]

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• Weather Radar Received High Res Upgrade

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  The National Weather Service office here in Nashville along with many others across the country have upgraded the resolution of their radar data today. This means more accurate warnings and forecasts when using radar, because forecasters will have a better idea of what is going on in the atmosphere. Currently only Base Reflectivity and Base [...]

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• Tempest Chasing Cafepress.com Store!

  Site Updates
  

  As promised, I have been working on an online store for the website. The purpose of this store is to help pay for domain fees, as well as any future additions. Fee free to browse the “store” section of the website, or go to http://cafepress.com/tempestchasing! Clicking on the main abnner on the store takes you [...]

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• A decade gone, a decade to come

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  Happy New Year! It is hard to believe that 2010 is upon us, but it will be bringing some good changes. 2009 was a great year, with the conception Tempest Chasing itself part of it! 2010, however, is going to bring the experience I need in storm spotting. There have been rumors going around on [...]

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• Storm Chasers 2 Hour Season Finale!

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  Discovery Channel’s Storm Chasers season finale airs Sunday night, and will be a 2 hour special jam packed with tornado intercepts! TornadoVideos.Net lead storm chasers Reed Timmer and Chris Chittick get a fistful of speeding glass to the face, and Sean Casey gets the imax footage he has been searching for, after 10 years. Here [...]

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• A Tour Of The National Weather Service!

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  As promised, here are some photos of my awesome time at our local National Weather Service office! There was a presentation in their Briefing Room, a tour of the operations room, their fortified tornado shelter, and they talked about all of their different instruments including radiosondes, radar, rain gauges, and ozone measurers! The slideshow in [...]

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