Storm Chasing and other Weather pictures by Daniel Cook
Cod’s Trip 2 is leaving tomorrow; our current targets are bouncing between Olathe, Kansas and Salina, Kansas. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday look pretty bleak as the remnants of the ridge that was dominating the weather pattern finally moves towards the east coast.
Wednesday - Sunday look decent for chasing as the GFS and the Euro are showing a deep trough in the west.
Looks like some Good ole’ fashioned corruption is going on in Crane County, Texas over the Brian Barnes incident. Apparently the arresting deputy is the son in law of the Sheriff, so he’s standing by his son in law’s arrest of Barnes, saying that
“Mr. Barnes took it upon himself to recklessly disregard a reasonable request or order to leave the immediate vicinity where our deputy believed him and fellow passengers to be in a dangerous proximity to funnel clouds that had already produced one reported tornado.”
From the video posted at the KWES news site, Brian did nothing that should have ended up with him being arrested. It sounds like the Sheriff Department in Crane County is just stupid.
KWES in Texas is reporting that Brian Barnes from Silver Lining Tours was arrested and charged for “obstruction of a highway or other passage way”. The article states that he was on a road side park and multiple witnesses said that he wasn’t blocking traffic at all.
The deputy in question sounds like a real winner too. Here are some quotes from the article:
“His first words to me were, ‘are you a blankety-blank idiot?’ He told me if I didn’t leave, I was going to jail, flat out.”
“He jumped out and put me in handcuffs. I turned around and I remember him slamming me up against his vehicle, and then it all got kind of scary.”
…A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
OSAGE COUNTY…
AT 855 PM CDT…WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM SPOTTERS
CONTINUED TO TRACK A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO. THIS
TORNADIC STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PAWHUSKA…MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. A LARGE TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED…TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY!
Looks like the site is back up. Apparently on April 18th, someone exploited a vulnerability in Coppermine and gained access to PHP files on the server. That enabled him to put in some code that would redirect people to a malware site. I found this out tonight and stripped down all of the offending code that I could find. Coppermine’s been upgraded as well.
It finally reached 70 degrees yesterday after almost 6 months. Today it even almost reached 80.
The Mississippi valley area is currently under a Day 2 Moderate risk for a major severe weather outbreak tomorrow.
They even contemplated going with a Day 2 High Risk; something that has not been done since April 2006.
A tornado just went though Little Rock, Arkansas. There was debris reported at the National Weather Service office. The local Fox 16 TV Meteorologist made a huge snafu as he stated that the tornado was weakening right as it entered the “code of silence” by the NWS radar; damage reports are pouring in.
Well the TRV900 went back to the seller; he never bothered to mention the massive water damage to the camera that prevented it from recording audio via both an internal and external microphone. Back to eBay for more searching.
