Newark International is starting to experience delays over 2 hours on arrivals due to weather (click here)
Due to WEATHER / LOW CIGS, there is a Traffic Management Program in effect for traffic arriving Newark International Airport, Newark, NJ (EWR). This is causing some arriving flights to be delayed an average of 2 hours and 28 minutes.
In viewing the Oklahoma film of the vorticity actually 'on the ground' it was noted that it jumped in more instances than not as the 'drag' by the ground was causing skids of the upper winds that sheered off the funnel only to redirect its energies into still another funnel cloud. The tornado also lasted a long time in the video. Poses huge danger in its capacity and ability to direct its own path.
May 3, 2008
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UNISYS Water Vapor GOES West Satellite (12 hour loop click here)
In this West Coast view of the same system there is a moisture feed off the equator into the continental vortex that will add heat 'capacity' with increased water vapor, hence, causing greater turbulence and more danger.
May 3, 2008
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UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite (click here)
In 12 hour loop, noted the system spawning tornadoes in the middle of the continent actually extends from the equator to the Atlantic. Noted that the extreme turbulence over the continent is a result of the 'severe' tornatic activity over the Northern Atlantic causing an acceleration of the air masse over the continent, with accumulation of velocity that causes an independant vortex formation over the North America continent.
May 3, 2008
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UNISYS Water Vapor Hemisphere Satellite
Tornados Kill 7 in Arkansas (click here)
DAMASCUS, AK (CBS/AP) -- Tornadoes and severe storms ripped through four states Friday, leaving homes and businesses damaged and killing seven people in Arkansas, including a teenager while she slept in her bed and a father and his son.
Police said the 15-year-old girl was killed when a tree fell through a bedroom where she was sleeping at her home in Siloam Springs in north Arkansas. The father and son were in their mobile home in central Arkansas when they were killed, the Conway County Sheriff's Office said.
Three deaths also were confirmed in Van Buren County and another person was killed in Pulaski County. At least 13 people were injured throughout the state, emergency officials said.
In Oklahoma, storms produced tornadoes, strong winds and large hail, causing structural damage and power outages but no serious injuries, authorities said.
About 10,000 electric customers in the state lost power at one point, but most were back on by Friday afternoon.
At least three tornadoes raked across central and northern Oklahoma, including one in Osage County near Tulsa that was an estimated 100 yards wide.
The enormous weather-maker produced 24 tornadoes in 24 hours, reports CBS News correspondent Hari Sreenivasan....
