3/18 NOW: Tornado warning in KY

[George Tincher]

....A little bit of surprise action taking place just N of me as of 6:36 PM EST. A tornado warning has been issued for Fleminging County, Kentucky and just as a I type this the warning has been extended for Rowan County. The storm is showing a TVS on WeatherTap and it has had a persistent mid level meso for a while now. WxTap is also showing hail possibly as large as 1.25". The cell is giving off 60 DBZ returns with a VIL of 35. Considering how cool it feels outside right now, getting a storm like this sort of surprised me. Temps in the storm environment are only 53.6 degrees F with a dewpoint of 48.2. A spotter did report a funnel cloud over Fleming Co. with this cell but this has been a good way for me to get some practice tracking storms!

[George Tincher]

OK, not much sooner than I entered my above post, the tornado warnings have been cancelled. I suppose the storms started to run into that cooler, drier air and it's having an effect. But a new storm behind the first one has prompted a new svr t-storm warning.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p19r0/si.kjkl.shtml

[George Tincher]

Here is an image of the storms about 15 minutes after the last tornado warning was issued. The cell responsible for the warnings is the one near Morehead.

http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/gdtincher/detail?.dir=/f2fa&.dnm=318a.jpg

I wish I would thought to save an image when it looked more threatening, but the season is just getting started and I am out of practice at this stuff :)

[George Tincher]

Dangit! I go through the trouble of saving these images and creating an account for a hosting page just for the purpose of sharing them.....and all I get is the dreaded "red X's". What gives? Oh well...lol. I can never have any luck posting photos on message boards. Ever.

[S.P. McCool]

Usw the "IMG" button and put the URL of the graphic (i.e., http://www.swamphen.net/graphics/weather/s...ere/twister.gif (http://www.swamphen.net/graphics/weather/severe/twister.gif) ,) between the "IMG" tags...

http://www.swamphen.net/graphics/weather/severe/twister.gif

[Tim Vasquez]

Most of those free sites suck for posting images... they either have a dynamic link that changes or they shut down after too many accesses. I have yet to hear of a good free site for sharing images.

Tim

[mrobinson]

www.photobucket.com

thats what I use and its awesome and FREE

[George Tincher]

Thanks Tim and Mel. I was using the Yahoo photos page since I had a Yahoo email account still active. Evidently it isn't gonna get the job done though. I'll give the Photo Bucket site a try and see how it works.