Tracking Atmospheric River for the West Coast; Space Weather Storming Continues

An atmospheric river will bring threats of gusty to high winds and heavy rainfall to California mainly Thursday into Saturday which may bring areas of flooding and wind damage. Heavy snow will be possible over the Sierra Nevada mountains Thursday into Friday associated with the atmospheric river. Minor to severe geomagnetic storming (space weather) is expected to continue into early Thursday. Read More >

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	Northeast Crawford County around 2:40pm. Significant rotation was observed. Photo: Dan Crecelius
	Northeast Crawford County around 2:40pm. Significant rotation was observed. Photo: Dan Crecelius
	Hail in English. Photo: Roy Pickett
	Hail in English. Photo: Roy Pickett
	Storm gathering strength over eastern Crawford County. Photo: Wade Bell
	The storm roars into the Marengo area. Photo sent to us by WDRB.
	Rotating wall cloud with the second supercell, north of English. Photo: Chris Davis
	Huge hail from the second supercell, north of English. Photo: Chris Davis

In the sequence of radar images below, you can see how quickly the storm wrapped up as it crossed northern Crawford County. The last image shows rotation within the storm west of Marengo. The rotation was very strong, and we were amazed that there was no tornado touchdown! Of course, this storm would go on to produce an EF4 tornado just one county later. (Note, too, the second super cell coming up behind it along the same path!)

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Tracking Atmospheric River for the West Coast; Space Weather Storming Continues

March 2, 2012: Crawford County