Not sure what this thing is, it is at the old Shoffner Gin area in Shoffner. They were hit by a tornado last night. A Church was destroyed, nothing left of it. Notice the legs of this thing, just pulled them out of the ground.
Tornado captured in Sardis Arkansas. It was twilight when and this was shot at ISO 6400 thus it is noisy. Tornado was about 3/4 miles from us during this shot. I clicked 3 frames and we hauled booty. The tornado crossed the road at this exact place a few moments later. moved on to East End Arkansas where id did extensive damage.
Flood damage in Hollow Rock Tennesse (
Criqet)
A railroad crossing washed out from torrential rains in Carroll County Tennessee. Over 6 inches of rain logged in with my weather station KTNHOLLO!
Many more photos coming.....thanks for viewing
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If we have anything spin up in May, it will likely be something along the lines of what Tropical Depression One was last year: a relatively weak, marine interest tropical cyclone whose origins are from an upper-level trough moving off the east coast.
My daughter Suzette lives 2 miles from the Nashville, TN AP. She said things in Nashville are terrible, flooding and flood damage everywhere!!
Civil Emergency Message
TNC081-031200-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
CIVIL EMERGENCY MESSAGE
TENNESSEE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY NASHVILLE TENNESSEE
RELAYED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1157 AM CDT SUN MAY 2 2010
THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TRANSMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE HICKMAN
COUNTY MAYOR...STEVE GREGORY.
HICKMAN COUNTY IS IN A FLOOD EMERGENCY.
THERE IS NO POWER IN THE COUNTY AND RADIO COMMUNICATIONS ARE OUT.
THERE ARE THREE EMERGENCY SHELTERS AVAILABLE FOR THOSE AFFECTED
BY THE HISTORIC FLOOD. THE SHELTERS ARE BON AQUA METHODIST CHURCH...
FAIRFIELD CHURCH OF CHRIST...AND THE CENTERVILLE CHURCH OF CHRIST.
MANY ROADS ARE FLOODED WITH REPORTS OF MUD SLIDES. RESIDENTS ARE
ASKED TO CONSERVE RESOURCES.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
INFORMATION.
$$
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TNC001-003-005-007-009-011-013-015-017-019-021-023-025-027-029-
031-033-035-037-039-041-043-045-047-049-051-053-055-057-059-061-
063-065-067-069-071-073-075-077-079-081-083-085-087-089-091-093-
095-097-099-101-103-105-107-109-111-113-115-117-119-121-123-125-
127-129-131-133-135-137-139-141-143-145-147-149-151-153-155-157-
159-161-163-165-167-169-171-173-175-177-179-181-183-185-187-189-
031200-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
CIVIL EMERGENCY MESSAGE
TENNESSEE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY NASHVILLE TENNESSEE
RELAYED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1042 AM CDT SUN MAY 2 2010 /1142 AM EDT SUN MAY 2 2010/
THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TRANSMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE
TENNESSEE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY NASHVILLE TENNESSEE.
STATE EMERGENCY OFFICIALS ARE ADVISING THAT TRAVEL IS HAZARDOUS
ON MANY INTERSTATE AND HIGHWAYS DUE TO FLOODING IN WEST AND MIDDLE
TENNESSEE.
LOCAL ROAD AND STATE HIGHWAY CLOSURES ARE POSSIBLE AT ANY LOW-
LYING AREA. DRIVERS ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.
MOTORISTS VIOLATING ROADBLOCKS OR ROAD CLOSURES ARE SUBJECT TO
CITATION BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
INFORMATION.
But as usual, we shall see....
Later, all.
Patrap, was there not some kinda testing by the gov last year if I recall correctly on the early invests? I remember some controversy and someone wrote some emails to them and it was preliminary or something. Not disagreeing with the events at all.
TNC001-003-005-007-009-011-013-015-017-019-021-023-025-027-029-
031-033-035-037-039-041-043-045-047-049-051-053-055-057-059-061-
063-065-067-069-071-073-075-077-079-081-083-085-087-089-091-093-
095-097-099-101-103-105-107-109-111-113-115-117-119-121-123-125-
127-129-131-133-135-137-139-141-143-145-147-149-151-153-155-157-
159-161-163-165-167-169-171-173-175-177-179-181-183-185-187-189-
031200-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
CIVIL EMERGENCY MESSAGE
TENNESSEE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY NASHVILLE TENNESSEE
RELAYED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1042 AM CDT SUN MAY 2 2010 /1142 AM EDT SUN MAY 2 2010/
THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TRANSMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE
TENNESSEE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY NASHVILLE TENNESSEE.
STATE EMERGENCY OFFICIALS ARE ADVISING THAT TRAVEL IS HAZARDOUS
ON MANY INTERSTATE AND HIGHWAYS DUE TO FLOODING IN WEST AND MIDDLE
TENNESSEE.
LOCAL ROAD AND STATE HIGHWAY CLOSURES ARE POSSIBLE AT ANY LOW-
LYING AREA. DRIVERS ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.
MOTORISTS VIOLATING ROADBLOCKS OR ROAD CLOSURES ARE SUBJECT TO
CITATION BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
INFORMATION.
Sorry just saw this.
It's at the end of the articles. Each article usually starts a new blog.
Link
Thank you Sir, that goes into the Fav's. Thanks for sharing :)
Here is a good one from last year if ya don't have it.
http://www.wxcaster.com/models_main.htm
my cousin said that the water is now at her back door..she has sent her children to my Aunt's house and she is now preparing to move furniture and get ready for incoming water..never in a million years would I have thought the water would get this high - never!
In all the years I lived in Nashville, there was never anything like this..I hope your daughter is safe and sound.
Link
Good night everyone! God Bless!
First time since late March.
http://www.wsmv.com/video/9624406/index.html
Hope your family evacuates safely.
My daughter, her fiance and my grand son are safe and sound!
Nashville, TN has received 2 1/2 months of rain in less than 48 hrs. The Cumberland River is causing serious flooding problems near downtown. NWS Nashville, TN has shattered every single rainfall record for the city.
AMAZING!!
Probably will just die off though, like all of the other EPAC "closed low systems." Hurricane season there starts in 13 days, so it won't be terribly unusual to see one 6 days from now.
Link below LIVESTREAM TV LIVE from Nashville, TN:
Link
shear
I hope that your daughter will be okay... :(
Dunno,but here's Dr. Masters entries from May last year.
, Season's first tropical depression forms
Posted by: JeffMasters, 10:43 AM CDT on May 28, 2009
Nature is jumping the gun a bit this year, with the season's first tropical depression forming four days before the official start to hurricane season. The area of disturbed weather (91L) that we've been watching, about 250 miles east-northeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, has developed enough heavy thunderstorm activity and spin to be classified as a tropical depression. QuikSCAT imagery from last night revealed a closed surface circulation, but top winds of only 20 - 25 mph. Satellite estimates (using a cloud pattern recognition method called the "Dvorak" technique) were saying this was a tropical depression this morning, though, so the NHC elected to upgrade the system.
My family in Nashville, TN is safe and sound.
Seems like there has to be some sort of expolsive device available that could be utilized. The pressure alone seems like it would seal the well if aided by an explosion.
[rolls eyes wildly] lol
Welcome to the World of Deep-water Risk
According to Vetco paperwork that I've seen, the Class H riser sections have a 3.5 million pound
load-carrying capacity. That's the equivalent weight of about four fully fueled
Boeing 747s. These risers are super strong.
Still, it's not just any one single piece of riser section that does it all. These sections all get bolted
together, for 5,000 feet in this case. The riser sections all have to work together as a system. The whole string is only as strong as the weakest spot. And yes, even the strongest steel will break if you apply enough stress.
It all has to work together. You've got the riser sections, along with things called HMF flanged riser connectors. Then there are HMF riser joints; flex joints; telescopic joints; and, near the top, things called "fluid-bearing, nonintegral tensioner rings." Together, these all comprise the marine riser system.
In general, the riser components compensate for heave, surge, sway, offset and torque of the drilling vessel as the ship bounces around on the sea surface. The bottom line is to maintain a tight seal -- what's called "integrity" -- between the subsea blowout preventer stack and the surface
during drilling operations.
Down at the bottom, at the seafloor, the risers are connected to the blowout preventer by a connector device. The GE-Vetco spec is for a device that accommodates 7 million foot-pounds of bending
load capacity. That's about eight fully fueled Boeing 747s.
What's the idea? You want a secure connection between the high-pressure wellhead system and
the subsea blowout preventer stack. That's where mankind's best steel meets Mother Nature's high pressures.
High pressures? You had better believe it. And in this case, Mother Nature won. So looking forward, there's going to be a lot of forensic engineering on the well design and how things got monitored
during drilling. Transocean drilled the well, but BP designed it. So the key question is how did the down-hole pressures get away like they did?
What Happens
Now?
It's a good thing that the Deepwater Horizon didn't settle right on top of the well. At least there's room for the remotely operated vehicles to maneuver. Also, there's still a lot of riser still floating in the water column. So there's some element of integrity going down to the blowout preventer.
It's absolutely imperative to shut off that oil flow. We just have to hope and pray that the BP and Transocean people can get the blowout preventer shut off. Or that there's enough integrity to the risers somehow to get in there and control the leaks, perhaps with some sort of plug. One other idea is to lower a large "hood" over the leak and capture the oil so it can be pumped up to a storage tanker ship.
Meanwhile, the relief well has to go down -- carefully and safely. This Macondo well is history. Seal it. Mark it. Give it back to the sea. Move on. Don't tempt fate on this
one. And wow... for a relatively modest-sized deep-water discovery, this
thing sure has turned into the well from hell.
Welcome to the World of Deep-water Risk
As I've said before, this accident is Mother Nature's wake-up call to everyone. Deep-water drilling is a high-stakes game. It's not exactly a "casino," in that there's a heck of a lot of settled science,
engineering and technology involved. But we're sure finding out the hard way what all the risks are. And it's becoming more and more clear how the totality of risk is a moving target. There's geologic risk, technical risk, engineering risk, environmental risk, capital risk and market risk.
With each deep well, these risks all come together over one very tiny spot at the bottom of the ocean. So for all the oil that's out there under deep water -- and it's a lot -- the long-term calculus of risk and return is difficult to quantify.
There's more to discuss, but I'll end here today. I'll update you as things evolve. This is big news all through the offshore industry. There are HUGE environmental issues, and certainly big political repercussions. I won't go there just now. For now, I'll just send out collective best wishes to the people at Transocean, BP, the Coast Guard, Minerals Management and so many more. I'm sure they're doing their best.
Only one buoy. Draw your own conclusions, but it seems there was quite a bit of daily variability in the temps until April 30th.
That would place this buoy pretty much in the yellow zone on this chart on 04/30:
Direct Link to Graph
42040 Metrological Data-prev 45 days
This was an unusual weather event caused by an 100KT Jet Streak, a surge of deep tropical moisture into the MS Valley. Add a slow moving cold front and a huge Upper Level Low slowly moving to the east, you have an unfortunate flooding event!
The plan is to set the domes over the oil leaks with 5,000 foot long piping to the surface. If they create a slight suction on the piping, it will cause the oil to flow upward into the dome and rise in the piping to be contained and separated.
This has never been tried in deep water before, but has worked successfully in shallow water. The physics is the same, so it should work at least at some level. If only 50% successful, then that dome is worth it's weight in gold (submerged weight, anyway).
On the Nashville flooding... there's an old saying that "its an ill wind that blows nobody good". Well, if the Mississippi river rises a bit and has increased discharge... it may have the effect of creating stronger than normal off-shore flow, keeping the oil away from the Mississippi delta region.
We'll see. I spent part of the weekend cutting new boards for hurricane season. Hope I won't need them this year, but better safe than sorry.
Explosives would work just fine at that depth, there is only 2200 psi at 5000 ft.. 44 psi per 100 feet but all they would do is open the wellhead with no way whatsoever of stopping it without drilling a relief well.
Sure thing, gcd!
One might jump to the conclusion that oil on the water leads to an increase in temps.
Millions of gallons of unexpected water rushing down the Mississippi River, hits the oil, shoves back out towards the middle of the GoM.
Naaa never mind, never happen. ;)
edit: TexasGulf, you have ESP? LOL
I definitely agree with this.
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