[wxqc] OT: High Risk of Severe Thunderstorms Today

[w4ake at att.net]

Hi Dave:  Speaking of storms yesterday I had an interesting observation here in Ft. Lauderdale. We had a tornado warning and I was in the path of the track on radar. I saw no sign of a funnel but the rain was so heavy I could not see in the direction it was coming from but the wind was NW at 35mph and straight line just behind the shelf cloud . However look at my barometer graph on findu ( CWOP Call w4ake ) that shows a near vertical drop followed quickly by near vertical rise in pressure. This was followed by several hail shafts with pea sized hail followed by large Hail that looked like a snowstorm because the stones floated down. I got some on the porch and found them to be flat like silver dollars 1.5in in Dia. others floating by looked even bigger. Strange!! I reported them to NWS MIA and we settled on calling them golf-ball size.

All the best : Dick Long  w4ake
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