Travelogue: October 2007 Archives

Not actually, thank goodness. But I enjoyed a wake up call at 2:30 am last night courtesy of the local air raid sirens. A major storm front blew though Alabama last night, including a radar detect tornado. As it turns out, the radar detected tornado just means that there's a cyclonic doppler return at altitude in the storm system. There's no guarantee that a "radar detected tornado" will turn into a will turn into a "kill the wicked witch tornado". But it is guaranteed to get the radar watchers jumpy and pushing the alarm buttons...