🌪️05/17: The LIFT project used LiDAR & mobile mesonets to sample ground-level wind flow on a strong tornado in Nebraska.
This type of data of both the tornado itself AND its formation at such close range and proximity to ground is rare and valuable.
🔗: inside.nssl.noaa.gov/nsslnew…
Fantastic deployment by @NOAANSSL mobile mesonets doing a “circuit maneuver” around the St. Libory, NE tornado capturing surface data from all four quadrants of the vortex. Initial analysis yields promising insights that describe the surface flow of this tornado
🌪️🌩️ "LIFT" campaign is in full swing.
👀 At a glance:
🚛📡 LiDAR: ground-level winds inside the tornado.🌬️
💎🎥 HailCam: Data on hailstones in free-fall
🚁 Drones reporting before & after the storm
👩🔬💬 Social scientists perfecting safety info
🔗: inside.nssl.noaa.gov/nsslnew…
For all the HRRR deniers I’ve seen today, the mixing bias historically has been able to handle lake breezes quite well into the mid-summer across Chicagoland. My hunch tells me these solutions are worth using as guidance. Happy to chat
I'm as CAM-skeptic as the next person, and didn't even chase this one, but it will never cease to amaze me how confidently, consistently, and unanimously CAMs are wrong