Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Mariner -- was very cool to see TWC going hard for real live coverage like that -- they've been trying to move to this for a couple of years now -- another coupla years and the technology will be up to snuff so they can really pull off that live coverage of storms -- thinking in particular of unmanned drones that could get, and could be counted on to get, not only clear close-in looks at a funnel/tornado underneath the base of a storm, but also close looks at the rotating updraft aloft

that was a substantial storm, classic high plains supercell, out there pretty much all by itself, with no real competition from other storms for its inflow, no outflows from other storms compromising its inflow -- but primarily just a big hailer -- the wind vectors aloft were a bit off, and speeds a bit weak, for optimized rotating updraft core development and corresponding optimized tornado production and sustenance -- every time a good tightly rotating primary updraft core got going aloft and even put down something of a tornado for a bit (which is just the rotating updraft core aloft becoming organized/coherent all the way down into the surface-based inflow), the rear flank downdraft came on too hard and too fast and quickly occluded ( http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=49740637 ) the surfase-based inflow to that tightly rotating primary updraft core -- which then resulted in the formation of a new surface-based-inflow-based tightly rotating primary updraft core farther to the east, still out ahead of the ever relentlessly advancing rear flank downdraft -- over and over again -- the "cycling" to which they they kept referring

as it happens, another very similar and every bit as large and intense (and warned) storm took almost the same west-to-east track over the same general area in the wee hours that night -- part of the enchantment out there -- . . .