tonado WARNING in madtown--real dark sky--mostly north

[rodeodance]

[htuttle]

1. There's a funnel cloud skipping past Token Creek right now

Auntie Em! Auntie Em!

[HereSince1628]

2. Crikey!!! Thanks, it is beautiful in Wauwatosa at the moment..

I love it.

The first morning in 5 months with a temperature above freezing...and the day must be punctuated with a tornado warning!

Keep you heads down guys, let us know how you come through!

[eyesroll]

3. I just got a call from the basement of my BF's workplace...

They evacuated everyone, and he said there was an actual funnel cloud spotted.

Hang in there, Madisonians!

[ewagner]

4. Showed up on radar

on NOAA site.....

also the warning was shown prominently.....

take care everybody.....

be safe...

[ewagner]

5. 3:50PM East of Portage

<http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p37cr/si.karx.shtml>

Looks like the nasty storm is east of Portage now...

also like some storms will be rotating up my way in about 2-3 hours.

[sybylla]

6. That's not good news.

Guess I'd better get my scanner programed and tune in to NOAA.

[ewagner]

8. Just got a call

from my son....he's still in the met lab down in Tallahassee....said that heavy rains were just moving into SW Wood County..said they could "train" over us (means a lot of rain)

He said that two indicators of severe weather were rather low:

the CAPE (Calculated Atmospheric Potential Energy) and HELICITY (shear) were fairly moderate....nothing really bad but there have been funnel clouds reported out of this even with the low indicators....

nice having you own personal meteorologist!

[sybylla]

12. I wish I had a personal meteorologist

Clark county seems to always be the guinea pig for Marathon county. It's amazing how often we get crappy weather, the same crappy weather for which LaCrosse and Minnesota had warnings but we get none. Then it gets near Marshfield (aka over my house) and they call warnings for Marathon County.

It sounds a little looney but you watch, ewag. I'm not making this up.

That's why I have a scanner. In 2001 we had a tornado type event with golfball sized hail and I didn't hear we were even supposed to have bad weather until my mom (north of Marshfield) called and said she heard on her scanner that Clark county spotters reported a funnel cloud 10 miles southwest of me.

We're pretty much on our own out here between the bigger cities where the radar and media live. Channel 13 is the best for us because they focus on Eau Claire & LaCrosse and anything that hits them is likely coming our way. But they will often return to normal broadcasting once the storm passes EC unless it's likely to produce audience building wind damage, tornados or floods.

[ewagner]

13. Almost all you need to know

Is at this site....it's the National Storms Prediction Center....

Use the forcast tools to get the "comp map" and put in what you want to see over our area....CAPE, Helicity, Lapse, Fronts, jet stream etc. Or just punch up the lists of warnings and watches by state....
the professionals use this site a lot....


<http://www.spc.noaa.gov/>

[ewagner]

7. Looks like Beaver Dam

got reports of a tornado

here:

2147 BEAVER DAM DODGE WI 4346 8884 PUBLIC REPORTS OF A TORNADO ON THE GROUND ON THE NORTHWEST SIDE OF THE CITY OF BEAVER DAM. SEVERAL PEOPLE REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS. ONLY ONE PERSON REPORTED A TORNADO ON (MKX)

[ewagner]

9. Warnings now

Mt Calvary and St Cloud....moving NE

Revcheeshead, Bobthedrummer....take cover be safe!

[htuttle]

10. The rain hit when I was about a mile from my house...

...on my scooter. The wind that came with it nearly blew me off the thing.

That was no fun.

(and I got soaked...).

The smell in the air right before the rain was great, though!

[RetroLounge]

11. My wife is on 94 right now

between Eau Claire and Madison, on her way home from the Twin Cities.

She driving with a group from work on the way home from a work meeting. She said the storms west of Eau Claire were nasty...

RL