Tornados

Last night, I was distracted in church thinking about tornado imagery. got a piece in progress and I think I want to use more tornado language. Going to start with this articlehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/paul-douglas/tornados-climate-change_b_1403642.html?ref=tw
Convergence
EF-5 200 mph winds
"finger of God"
Tornado fatigue
Doppler only works on big ones
pinpoints spinning supercells
EF-0 60-70 mph winds
70-80% false alarms
most US homes are built to only withstand 90 mph winds
mobiles can flip in 70mph winds
highest winds ever in OK in 1999 301 mph
rain wrapped
wedge tornadoes fat writhing
Tornado sky= eerie yellow sky
white sunlight being scattered by big hailstones
Wall clouds mutating thunderstorm spinning violently produces rain then hail
spinning lowering cloud base at the rear flank is called a wall cloud focus of violently rising air
large hail larger the stronger updraft needed to keep them suspended mid air
baseball size or larger? more likely to have a tornado
Isolated supercell forms 20-75 miles ahead of a squaw line
Warm front/dry line
wind shear(changinng winfd speed/direction with altitude)
dew points 60F enough juice to spawn storms
Severe storms flare up along the leading edge of dry desert air the "dry line"

During the spring in the Central Plains, thunderstorms frequently develop along a "dryline," which separates very warm, moist air to the east from hot, dry air to the west.