Thursday, May 16, 2013

The "heat sink" in the area. Cities and towns are heat sinks. They spawn their own tornadoes. It has been a bit of a trend.

The reason the tornado formed over the city itself is because it was the hottest spot in the area. It has been a characteristic for some of the tornadoes in a hot troposphere.

If one recalls the tornado that caused significant damage to St. Matthews Church in Memphis years ago. I think it was Memphis. It was a place where tornadoes never happened before.

This was the tornado that occurs in Massachusetts.



City and town are heat sinks. It is irrelevant whether the tornadoes are an outbreak or not, heat sinks are creating their own tornadoes in a hot troposphere.

At Least 6 Confirmed Dead from Possible Tornado in Texas (click here)

Published: May 16, 2013, 7:27 AM EDT weather.com 
Officials awaited daybreak to fully assess the scope of the destruction left in the wake of a deadly tornado in Granbury.
Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds said he hoped the death toll from the tornado would hold at six, with about 50 people injured and 250 people left homeless....
I thought tornadoes were becoming such common place in the USA they weren't being noticed in the media, so much as just another weather event. I guess this one is in Texas so 'it matters.
This tornado outbreak, noted below, occurred in January. The first of it's kind for the month of January. We should still be talking about this, but, other than local coverage I think it mostly went unnoticed. So, while everyone is traumatized over the predictable Texas tornado, I thought I'd bring up this historic event.
Posted: Jan 28, 2013 5:35 PM ESTUpdated: Feb 19, 2013 3:09 PM EST
Tornado 1: An EF2 in Mt. Juliet in Wilson County near the intersection of Mount Juliet Road and Lebanon Road.

Tornado 2: An EF0 from south of White Bluff in southeast Dickson County to Kingston Springs in southern Cheatham County.

Tornado 3: An EF2 has been confirmed in Hickman County near the Coble Community.

Tornado 4: An EF0 from Shute Lane in southwest Gallatin in Sumner County through Fairview Plantation, to Bay Point to Bledsoe Creek State Park.

Tornado 5:
 An EF0 has been confirmed in Sumner County, between Millersville and Gallatin.

Tornado 6:
 An EF0 has been confirmed in Sumner County, from HWY 25 and Harsh Lane to the Sumner County RC Fliers area.

Tornado 7: An EF1 has been confirmed in eastern Robertson County near Highway 76 between Springfield and White House including the Pinson School Rd area to Bethlehem Rd and Baggett Rd. This tornado continued into western Sumner County.

Tornado 8: An EF1 has been confirmed in north-central Wilson County from along Mann Rd. to southern Trousdale County near Highway 141.

Tornado 9: An EF0 has been confirmed in southwest Macon County about 7 miles southwest of Lafayette.

Tornado 10: An EF0 has been confirmed in northeast Macon County about 7 miles northeast of Lafayette.

Tornado 11: An EF0 has been confirmed in Cheatham County in Ashland City.

Tornado 12: An EF1 has been confirmed in Rutherford County near Eagleville.

Tornado 13: An EF0 has been confirmed in Williamson County in Franklin.

Tornado 14: An EF0 has been confirmed in Coffee County near Manchester.

Tornado 15: An EF0 tornado was confirmed in Davidson County near Dickerson Pike.

Tornado 16: An EF0 tornado was confirmed near the Sumner-Trousdale County line.

Tornado 17: An EF0 tornado was confirmed in Cannon County.

Tornado 18: An EF1 tornado was confirmed in Humphreys County.

Tornado 19: An EF1 tornado was confirmed in Wayne County.
Tornado 20: An EF1 tornado was confirmed in Lincoln County from just southeast of Dellrose to six miles west of Fayetteville.