Researchers from UAHuntsville are studying what has become known as “Dixie Alley.” Like the Midwest’s Tornado Alley, the Southeast including Mississippi & Alabama is increasingly hit by big tornadoes but the South’s are harder to spot. 🌪️
Apr. 05, 2023, 10:51 a.m.
“We kept seeing the cloud ceiling lower as the storm progressed closer to us,” Leffler said. “Cloud-to-ground lightning increased and a hail core was spotted using MAX’s radar, which usually indicates a storm’s intensity is increasing.” The university’s MAPNet Mobile Alabama X-Band Radar is known as MAX.
Using mobile equipment and vehicles from UAH’s Severe Weather Institute and Radar & Lightning Laboratories , the team set up around Greenville, Miss. “Between 4-5 p.m., our weather balloons and wind-profiling instrumentation picked up wind speeds increasing and turning rapidly with height, creating that spin in the atmosphere needed for tornadoes,” UAH Research Associate Preston Pangle said. “Also, the data showed instability ramping up.
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