Check out this video of a fire tornado. Then, head over to the website to read more about it. This is crazy!
Here’s the link: Fire Tornado via UK [...]
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It’s hard to beleive that we’ve posted 1,000 stories on the weather blog. We started with a page on the main WJACTV.com website. That didn’t have enough adaptability, so we moved to Blogger and later to WordPress. We’ve been on WordPress for a while now. This is officially our 1,000th post according to the stats system that we use. I have a feeling that we hit 1,000 a while ago, but this is a great opportunity to look back and see some of the cooler topics we’ve talked about over the last 3 years. Below the jump is a list of 13 categories with some of the cooler topics. You can click on the category to go to a list of the posts about that topic. Click in for the list. (Read More)  Filed in: Atmospheric Optics, Baseball, Election, Experiment, Numerology, Out and About, School Visit, Time Lapse, Tornado, WX Factor, Weather Kid, lightning |  Comments: None yet |  Share:
 Downburst in Walker Township The National Weather Service has ruled that the damage in Mingoville, Centre County was caused by a powerful downburst. WJAC-TV reporter Bill Wadell went along with NWS officials as they surveyed the damage from Sunday morning’s storms. While the damage was significant, it wasn’t caused by a tornado, as some had claimed. Take a look at the video by clicking the link below. Downburst Video from Mingoville There’s another picture after the jump.  Tornado Captured by KMBC-TV You see pictures of tornadoes all the time. It’s not too often that you see a tornado forming, however. That’s what you’ll see if you click into the link below or the picture. The video comes from Sedalia, Missouri as the chopper stays with the rotation from start to finish. This video is really impressive and I urge you to take a look.
Stairway to Safety It is almost severe weather season here in the Alleghenies and with that… the risk of tornadoes. When doing school visits, I always get asked where the best place to be during a tornado would be. I give them the usual answer of ‘the basement.’ Another good answer would be [...] It’s hard to believe that we’re already talking tornadoes… but we are. Yesterday, there was severe weather in Oklahoma that caused a tornado that took out several houses. I found this video at MSNBC.com.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking [...] Scary Looking Clouds, or SLCs for short, are clouds that look scary but have a bark that’s worse than the bite. The National Weather Service in Milwaukee started something called the ‘Scary Looking Cloud Club’ and they’re encouraging people to send in their pictures of scary clouds. Here’s a picture of one of the [...] I’ll be the first to admit that I like wind farms. They help provide energy in a time when we need it and I actually think they look cool. I get mad when people complain about them, but that’s just me. (This does not necessarily represent the views of WJAC-TV.) Tonight’s weather trivia question asked how many tornadoes Pennsylvania sees, on average, every year. The correct answer was 10. I found a great website that helped me come up with that question and provided a lot of other great information about tornadoes. If you’re interested in checking out the site, just click here. I promised some pictures and a detailed re-enactment of what went down yesterday when I went with Dave Ondrejik of the National Weather Service. Here it is… Tim Tender went along with the NWS to northern Pennsylvania to survey damage from Sunday’s thunderstorms. Here’s a few photos from Jay Township, Elk County, where a tornado moved through:
 Here’s a report from the NWS in State College: PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE [...] Saturday, July 11th was a busy day for PARTS of the viewing area. Other parts didn’t see much of anything. The heaviest hit areas included the Northern Alleghenies and counties like Elk and Forest. They were actually under a Tornado Warning for a while Saturday evening. For more on the storms, click into the post… We have a risk of severe storms and even tornadoes tonight across parts of the area. Take a look:
 Western parts of Indiana, Westmoreland and Fayette counties are most at risk. The cooler air (50s and low 60s) across most of west-central PA should keep a lid on the activity, but [...] First off… Did you hear about the tornadoes in Denver? Last I heard, the NWS out there confirmed 5 tornadoes from Sunday. We have video of one of those tornadoes forming. Click the link below to go to the WJAC-TV video page to watch it. http://www.wjactv.com/video/19689911/ We also talked about VORTEX 2 a little [...] Seems the Vortex team have perhaps left their mission a bit late in the season, although a possible opportunity may present soon. That said I feel ambivalent about it as new twisters can cause folks damage even though the team wants them! I hope they get at least one opportunity however. Also hoping to [...] Take a look at this video and decide for yourself: http://www.wjactv.com/video/19605637/index.html The first Tornado of 2009 in Pennsylvania struck Lancaster county this weekend, with up to 95mph winds. Here’s a summary report from the National Weather Service in State College: Here’s a look at severe weather reports from across west central PA dating back to 1950. (Info courtesy of NWS CTP) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjbtxGfRhbk] Many of you by now have seen the images of the terrible tornado that roared through downtown Atlanta. NCAA fans were shaken in the Georgia Dome during a game, the CNN newsroom took a direct hit, and skyscraper glass littered the downtown streets this morning. This made me think of a classic tornado myth [...] Veronica from Osceola Mills asks: I was looking at the maps of the recent tornado and didn’t know what a couple of them mean. Can you help us out? Veronica, I’d love to shine some light on the topic for you.This picture on the left is the path of the tornado overlaid onto a [...] Filed in: Early Warning Doppler 6, Tornado, Viewer Questions, theweatherprediction.com | Comments: None yet | Share:
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