Lets see some Nexrad!

[Jon Gossin]

Post some of your favorite Nexrad screen captures here. Let's see some eye-candy!

- Jon

[Michael P. Morris]

One of my all-time favorites, from May 29 2004. Created in Weatherscope.http://res.ocs.ou.edu/%7Emmorris/200405300150.png

[Mike Hollingshead]

http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/bartlett0031big.jpg

No it doesn't have a pretty hook, but that is one HUGE storm. It is in central NE, July 12, 2004 and radar indicated tops were 65,000 to 70,000 feet for about an hour. Oh and about this same time it has a wedge on the ground as well as a smaller tornado to the west of the wedge. Nothing beats a slow moving beast like that during the summer.

[Dan Robinson]

2132 Z - Jackson County, IL 9/22/06

http://wvlightning.com/sept2206/2132z.jpg

Velocity: Three sups, three couplets

http://wvlightning.com/sept2206/2132zvel.jpg

[Jeff Snyder]

I probably have more than 100 radar captures on my computer from various outbreaks, supercells, and 'interesting' days (at least in terms of radar imagery)... That said, this is one of my faves:

http://www.tornadocentral.com/now/incrediblehookecho.png

EDIT: I found a few images that I think are cooler than the above image, but for different reasons... Here's a set of images from TLX (Oklahoma City) that shows evidence of superrefraction "bending" the radar beam down to the surface... This isn't uncommon by itself, but it picks up traffic on I40 west of OKC and I44 southwest of OKC. This shows up best on spectrum width (which isn't surprising, since the beam volume is likely filled with cars going different directions and speeds), followed by base velocity and base reflectivity:
TLX spectrum width (http://www.tornadocentral.com/now/TLXtrafficSW.png)
TLX base velocity (http://www.tornadocentral.com/now/TLXtrafficBV.png)
TLX base reflectivity (http://www.tornadocentral.com/now/TLXtrafficBR.png)
TLX base velocity (different time) (http://www.tornadocentral.com/now/TLXtrafficBVb.png)
TLX base reflectivity (different time) (http://www.tornadocentral.com/now/TLXtrafficBRb.png)

[Scott Olson]

September 16, 2006: Minutes before Colton Tornado
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/2104/64007531mn3.png (http://imageshack.us)

June 2nd, 2005: Motherships of Colorado
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/5249/55889538xs6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

April 2nd, 2005: From Marmaduke to Carthursville
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8526/knqa20060403000402aj0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Jason Boggs]

Nice hook SW of Big Spring, TX on May 4th 2006. Pic is NW of Big Spring about 20 minutes before the radar image was taken.
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/3425/dsc04746filterednc8.jpg


http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6015/hook6qnaf7.jpg

[Mike McDonald]

Don't know how to explain the circular reflectivity.
http://www.m2ei.com/wxpics/circle%20reflectivity%20crop.png

Bad day near Omaha.
http://www.m2ei.com/wxpics/oax%20radar%20stripes.jpg
http://www.m2ei.com/wxpics/circular%20reflectivity%20crop.png

[Tom Stefanac]

My favourite of all time... ever! I remember watching this on the PC while listening to skywarn and scanner feeds from the net with the satellite locked onto one of the local KY news channels.


http://www.vaughanweather.com/chase/archive/05_01_02/BWER_loop.gif

http://www.vaughanweather.com/chase/archive/05_01_02/bwer.gif

[MJ Poore]

This one happened last year and is the best I've seen this summer. It was around for at least six hours, producing tornadoes and everything else. Note the hook echo on the northern end.

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i133/mjpoore/DN2.gif

[Terrence Cook]

My choice would have to be the two supercells that formed in North Eastern Illinois on April 14th 2006 and moved South East making direct hits to the downtowns of my home town: Attica, IN, then Crawfordsville, IN followed by downtown Indianapolis. Because of the prolific hail from the southern storm (HP) many car dealerships were completely destroyed (hail to 2.5 in.). In the end the storms caused an estimated $1 Billion dollars and put Indiana at number one for storm claims in 2006.

I chased this storm from Attica to just north of Crawfordsville and it was the best structure I have ever seen!

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2410250550040169191DUbYPp

[David Drummond]

Some of you will remember this day. One of the more interesting ones in 2006.

http://wx5tvs.com/ST/quints.jpg

[Laura Hedien]

This was from the Stoughton WI F3 Aug 18, 2005.
Laura

[Paul Stofer]

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i137/stormpursuit/torn.gif
not sure what day this was.. but it was fun to watch on radar

http://www.stormpursuit.com/archives/march28ftworth.gif
March 28th, when forth worth got hit

[Alexandre Aguiar]

Well, as we do not a high resolution radar system in Brazil and we do not even dream tro have a Nexrad, i think you would be interested in a weather radar picture depicting a tropical system off the coast of Rio Grande do Sul in February 2006:

http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/7541/ciclone22022006radarwa7.jpg

[Aaron Kennedy]

Another example of traffic... (AMA is well known for this)
http://hal9000.metr.ou.edu/nice_AMA.jpg

A nice squall line...
http://hal9000.metr.ou.edu/squallline.jpg

Stereotypical 3-D structure of a large, cyclic supercell (what you see more often than not based off my experience; supercells' 3-D Z structure can actually vary quite substantially)
http://hal9000.metr.ou.edu/ktlx053004.jpg

Just a nice typhoon...
http://hal9000.metr.ou.edu/typhoon.gif

Too many to post! Props to Tom for displaying the 5/1-5/2/2002 supercells. The southern storm goes down as one of the most impressive I've personally witnessed on radar. It tracked from St. Louis to N.C.

Aaron

[Jon Gossin]

Thanks for posting the pictures! Those are some very impressive storms. I'm trying to dig up some that I took last year, but I'm having problems finding my flash drive....doh.

I was curious if anyone has some Nexrad captures with returns in 75+ dbz range? Lets see those big hailers!

[Paul Austin]

A nice squall line...


Nice? What you have there is monstrous in terms of scale. I like the traffic grabs you and Jeff submitted. Radar anomalies can be very enlightening. Here are my submissions:

Two Springfields in one evening...

Springfield, MO 03-12-06 - 22:19 CST
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a234/StormGuyFromFlorida/Springfields/Springfield_MO_2219_CST.jpg


Springfield, IL 03-12-06 - 20:20 CST
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a234/StormGuyFromFlorida/Springfields/Springfield_IL_2020_CST.jpg



Storms fire along an outflow boundary near Odessa, TX 05-04-06
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a234/StormGuyFromFlorida/Bats/WUNIDS_map.gif


Bats leaving their cave north of Uvalde on the same night 05-04-06
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a234/StormGuyFromFlorida/Bats/cb6b7bd6.gif

[John Hudson]

Sure are some great screenshots here. Really like the 3-D images, which software package produces them?

While not as spectacular due to our EC radar page, the storm that produced the images did some spectacular damage, and almost landed a 200+ year-old tree in my living room. In the pic, my house is on the left.


John
www.skywatch7.com (http://www.skywatch7.com)

[Wesley Luginbyhl]

Here is a storm that hit Amarillo, TX on June 21, 2004. It had 4+ inch hail (that i was able to stay out of) and 4 or so confirmed tornadoes (all F0 or F1).
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q122/not_a_leader_of_men/ref0047.gif

Here are a couple pictures of what the hail did across western Amarillo. I drove around that side of town the next day and there were trees branches down everywhere and just about every car was missing a window. Definitely the worst hail damage I have ever seen.
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q122/not_a_leader_of_men/18169_512_jpg.jpg
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q122/not_a_leader_of_men/18168_512_jpg.jpg
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q122/not_a_leader_of_men/18199_512_big.jpg

Also here is a link to the radar loop for the afternoon.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ama/June212004/radarloop.htm

[Jarrod Cook]

From August 24, 2006 in South Dakota:
http://www.wx9jc.com/public/StormTrack/supercell_2.png

Reflectivity at the time of the Roanoke, IL F4 (it was hitting the Parson's plant at this time; hence the area of high reflectivity at the tip of the hook from debris):
http://www.wx9jc.com/public/StormTrack/roanoke5_2.png

Storm Relative Velocity of the Roanoke, IL tornado:
http://www.wx9jc.com/public/StormTrack/roanoke3_2.png

[Doug Raflik]

http://www.wxnut.net/okhook.jpg

[Matt Haworth]

The first few grabs were from a storm that I caught moving across the northern side of the Houston area. It produced close to baseball sized hail and the best structure I have seen here along the gulf coast. It had bright white hail streaks coming out of the back of it and at the same time my friend was caught in golf ball sized hail that severely damaged his car. As you can see from the radar, this storm topped out above 50kft!

http://weather.xonelabs.com/050406%20Hail%20Core%20Cross%20Section%202138z.png

http://weather.xonelabs.com/050406%20MEHS2%20Zoom.png

http://weather.xonelabs.com/050406%20ref1.png

The next few are from the March 2000 Fort Worth tornado.

http://weather.xonelabs.com/Fort%20Worth%20Ref.png

http://weather.xonelabs.com/Fort%20Worth%20vel.png

http://weather.xonelabs.com/Fort%20Worth%20032800%20Hail%20Core.png

[Bart_Comstock]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a71/Bart_Comstock/home.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a71/Bart_Comstock/tornado2-3.gif
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a71/Bart_Comstock/tornado1.gif
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a71/Bart_Comstock/small_track.png

This was about as close of a "backyard" chase as I ever want to have, lol. It hit the apartment complexe i am living in now, and missed the guy's hose who was chasing with me by about 1/2 a mile at the most.

[Justin Turcotte]

Hallam, NE is getting torn apart about this time.
http://www.plainschase.com/photos/2004/storm05222004/radar22.gif

[Mickey Ptak]

May 3 1999 - As the tornado was in Bridge Creek, OK.

Image is very big sorry:
http://www.mesomick.com/temp/05031999.jpg

Just my favorite!

Mick

[Tom Dulong]

This from 29 May 2004 in northern Kansas...we were at the point of the arrow. Couldn't see ##!?#:p

http://dulong.pbwiki.com/f/Narka_Zoom.JPG

[Nick Smith]

Nashville radar showing three supercells over Middle Tennessee on 11/10/2002 at 2339 UTC. The lines show the projected motion over the next 60 minutes (they are training).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/hookecho80/OHX20021110-2339.png

Memphis radar showing a supercell with a hook echo at extremely close range on the evening of 11/09/2002.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/hookecho80/NQA20021110-0250.png

[Jim Tang]

I'll start off by saying, sorry for the "shameless plug".

I'm awfully obsessed with radar images of classic supercells. That's why I follow severe wx so much despite being in the area I live in.

Here's my weather page: http://www.geocities.com/wxmann_91/weather.html

A lot of grabs in the "Severe Wx" section of events and outbreaks. Yeah page is a little ugly looking but I'll update it in the future. Anyway enjoy...

[Jon Gossin]

Mickey Ptak -

What program are you using to display that radar? Looks nice.

[Kiel Ortega]

Here are a couple captures from WDSS-II during the SHAVE project. First 2 are of an LP storm in N KS on 5/26. The tilt is 2.4 and the height was somewhere b/w 4-6 km (exact height escapes me). The last is from 7/1 in Oconto Co., WI...this thing had some of the most amazing TBSS. I have another storm in AZ that had a ~30 km hail spike, but I can't find the capture....enjoy!

[Nick Smith]

Northeast Arkansas on 4/2/06 at 2309 UTC

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/hookecho80/NQA20060402-2309.png

Cross section of the previous image. Each line represents 10,000 feet of height. Display is earth curvature corrected

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/hookecho80/NQA20060402-2309xsection.png

Northwest Tennessee at 0419 UTC on 4/3/06

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/hookecho80/NQA20060403-0149.png

[Mickey Ptak]

Mickey Ptak -

What program are you using to display that radar? Looks nice.

Jon I was using the NCDC's Java NEXRAD Viewer (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/radar/jnx/). It is an alternative to the GRLevel stuff yet does not have "live" data or many of the other great functions the GRLevel software does. Regardless though, it is free to download and use.

[Jon Gossin]

Thanks. I might give that a try just for the heck of it. Do you know if there is a way to import that highly detailed background map you were using into GRlevelx?

- Jon

[Sean McMullen]

When I was stuck on I-70 March 12, 2006 I took this picture of my threat net, along with it you can also see the tornadoes that just missed us as they passed by as well as read my account of what happened.

http://www.twisterchasers.com/tornadoes_at_night.htm

[Bart_Comstock]

The SPC's Cool Image page has a pretty cool storm they dubbed the "Tornadocane" because of the way it resembled a hurricane on radar.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/coolimg/nc_storm/nc_storm.gif
here is more info on it: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/coolimg/nc_storm/index.html

I'm sure that a lot of you have seen it before, but I posted it for those who may not have.