The pace my life has taken, even after tax season has pretty much ended, is enough to bring Chuck Norris to his knees. I keed. However, I’m managing to stay busy. Check this out: During last year’s ice storm, Nathan and I started a little Twitter account we called TriStateAlerts. We mainly just used it [...]
Today was a good severe weather day for the area. Lots of action and I saw the pinnacle of all things which is a TV station getting a tornado live on the air. Before today, that was the kind of stuff I could only see on YouTube. Hopefully this is a sign of things to [...]
I just told Nick this, but there’s a hell of a line of storms on the way. This is how I look at what’s coming. I have KML files of the NWS warning polygons and several assorted radar images loaded into Google Earth, including storm relative motion and wind velocity data. (Download here.) This is [...]
In anticipation of this BMFWS coming this week, Nathan and I plan on riding it out in the Loch Raven Building and broadcasting live on the internet. Check it out here.
That’s what this is. I apologize for the crappy picture taken from my phone, but I had to capture the moment. The sleet has started now, and I’m planning on letting it lull me to sleep very soon. All the schools closed early today and they’ll all be closed tomorrow, most likely. I just hope [...]
I took this video just before 6 PM on the day of the tornadoes. It was linked to from Wikipedia, so there must not have been many videos of any storms that day. I’ll go ahead and tell you the video isn’t all that impressive. http://youtube.com/watch?v=F1sAQnF7h1U
I managed to get a few shots of the damage left by last week’s EF3 tornado here in Owensboro. Right now it doesn’t look as bad since there has been a lot of cleanup going on, but right after it happened it looked as if a bomb went off downtown. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedrubwerd/sets/72157602583693890/detail/ One thing I couldn’t [...]
CIMG0644, originally uploaded by nedrubwerd. Yesterday was an exciting day. Here in Owensboro we had three rounds of tornadic supercells go through. This is a photo from the first one. If you look at the full-sized photo, you don’t really notice the huge wall cloud, but once you get a smaller size like this it [...]
This is the map as of 5:30 am. I’m charging up the batteries for my weather radio and locating my video camera because today will be a wild ride. I’ll also be putting on the NOAA stream for anyone interested in listening. Here are a few links to get you going:Storm Prediction Center – Day [...]
