Basic Storm Spotter Training
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Basic storm spotter training... recorded at the Pelham Civic Complex before a big crowd in March 2019. The trainer is Brian Peters, former WCM (Warning Coordination Meteorologist) for NWS Birmingham, now on the ABC 33/40 Weather Team.
Very Informative!!! I took storm spotter class in Macon, GA back in 2001. This was a great refresher with lots of better imagery. Just wish you could see his laser pointer on UA-cam.
Brian: "Does anybody have an idea what happened right about here?"
Audience member: "The internet."
James: "Doppler radar!"
Brian: (To James) "You're not supposed to answer!"
😂😂😂
I live in Germany, we don't have many tornadoes around here, but in my youth i was interested in all kinds of natural phenomena, i read lots of books about it...one day we had a dirt devil in our area. At this time i was sitting on the roof of our garden shack, the thing came right in my direction...and believe it or not, i was so freaked out i jumped down 3yards down from the roof to the ground and ran as fast as my feet would carry me away...i thought it was a real tornado and that it would blow me away... :D
Fantastic video!!! Man I wish I would have became a meteorologist. I'm a little too old to do it now. But if you are thinking about doing it and you're young, DO IT! Just go and do it. It's such a fascinating field.
This is sooo cool! I love you guys down there at 33/40! Here in Holland we do get supercell storms, though they're much smaller and low-topped. Great program here.
I would have gotten a lot more from this if I could have seen where he was indicating with his pointer when describing the photos and diagrams.
This is a really good presentation even for German spotters
How often do you guys get tornadoes in Germany?
I've never heard of supercells going in a circle or a supercell being truly stationary... I think that the slowest I've heard of in a supercell is like 6mph and that was the jarrell tx tornado. And I'm in the southern plains in Texas lol... I guess they're VERY rare as I've never here for just over 12yrs and been a weather geek for 2-3yrs now or so but even before I would watch weather coverage whenever we were expecting bad weather here
I don't know about the supercell being stationary but yes , the Barrel, TX tornado was stationary. So I'd say the storm front stayed stationary. The supercell was most likely moving.
First time heard from Brian in a while good to see him
12:38 it could be argued the very, very early tornadogenesis has the tornado spin up from the ground but ok
thats way too complex of an idea to introduce in basic spotter training, especially considering thats still a very controversial subject in that we still are basically just guessing how tornadogenesis works,
They DO form from the ground. All tornadoes are miniature versions of low pressure systems
There's been theories of this but I'm most cases, hasn't been able to be backed in data. Though it appears that way in some cases visually, that's not necessarily what's happening. I mean think of it. That would mean dust devils could turn into tornadoes or that the wind is so strong that it swirls all the way up to the storm? No
This video is awesome and James Spann is a national treasure!
1:04:53 - are we sure that's not the tornado down already rather than just a FC? Pretty sure I see some ground debris under it, or am I seeing things?!
Thats def not just u lol
Thanks for the helpful tornado info!
I've had the honor of meeting this man a few times. James Spann is an Alabama icon. And very fun man to be around.
This is very interesting to me James tank you for posting
Where is he mainly pointing to? Nobody knows what he is pointing to.
Because the graphics on what we are seeing on youtube doesn't show it. But to the people in that room what they're seeing is a bright pointer kind of like a laser pointer you use for cats but instead of green it's like a white or something like that
"heighth" isn't a word. You would think a meteorologist would know that.
Actually it is. Look it up in the Webster dictionary. Think or know before you make claims like that.
Heighth : is part that rises or extends upward the greatest distance i.e.- the highest part or summit. It's called a colloquial variant.
@@swayjaayy5495 Colloquial variant, aka a bullshit word.
You cherry-picked one example to prove your point. Everything else I can find says it's not a word.
Why do they have so much very old photographs?
Most of their stuff seems to be 20+ years old.
That makes me think that what they are telling might be outdated knowledge as well.
A tornado from the 1800’s formed the same way they do today. So the age of the photos is irrelevant.
No it's not. Where are you getting that notion or information?