Tornado Alley North......

balsum fractus · June 16, 2011, 06:12:05 PM

after a record winter snowfall, everything dried up too quickly, then wildfires spread like, well, you know....then the rains came, and now this.....

QuoteTornado watch for
City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park continued

Conditions favourable for the development of funnel clouds or weak tornadoes exist across much of Central Alberta this evening.

Conditions are favourable for the development of funnel clouds or weak tornadoes. These types of funnel clouds form out of large cumulus clouds or very weak thunderstorms and normally do not have the energy to reach the ground. However one or two of these funnels may briefly touch down and can become destructive over a very small area. Treat all funnel clouds and tornadoes seriously and avoid when possible. Should one develop overhead take shelter until it dissipates. Remember these funnel clouds will normally appear with little or no warning.

jetmex · June 17, 2011, 10:35:58 AM

Hey Nony, you can come down here and spend hurricane season with us. You get a little more warning, but they last longer....

balsum fractus · June 17, 2011, 06:12:36 PM

thanks for the invite...I'll put it on the to-do list....

guess what? .....nothin' happened...some rain, a bit of hail, and that was it...

Onepoint · June 17, 2011, 07:07:50 PM

Yeah because we got it. Had some neighbors up the road lose a grain bin, and we missed some major hail just a mile north. We did get an inch of rain and 60 mph wind that laid flat what I had not cut and scattered out what I did.

So next time you order that, make sure they have the right address.

balsum fractus · June 17, 2011, 10:12:40 PM

oops.....

I better be more careful next time........

Onepoint · July 03, 2011, 08:22:45 AM

Man we have had some wild weather besides being wetter than I can remember it. Yesterday we dodged a tornado, but not quarter sized hail. Lost a couple windows in out buildings and it shredded anything growing as well as dumped an inch in about 10 minutes. Torrington had a tornado touch down in town, but I have not heard yet about damage, but there was flash flooding all over the place, including our county road that it ran over just west of the house.

jetmex · July 03, 2011, 04:13:11 PM

Honcho, that almost sounds good from down here. We had more 100 degree days in June than we had all of last year, and no appreciable rain since the end of February. Farmers and ranchers are not happy campers right now.

Hope no one got hurt and that all of yours are ok.

balsum fractus · July 03, 2011, 05:05:25 PM

We had a cloud like that on Wednesday...you could see it rotating, but fortunately it never touched down (that I heard of)...it became a wicked thunder, lightning, rain and hail storm for a couple of hours... pretty scary stuff being that close...
sorry to hear about the crops and the windows....hope the rest of the growing season is a bit more peaceful.

Onepoint · July 06, 2011, 12:24:43 PM

That was definitely one to miss. We were lucky, the folks who found themselves under it were not so much. The picture above was taken when the storm was about a mile away from the folks in the story.

http://www.starherald.com/articles/2011/07/06/news/doc4e13df92e0981424722564.txt

http://www.starherald.com/articles/2011/07/06/news/doc4e13df2b11276483330763.txt

The Manvilles in the story about are about 5 miles a a crow flies North east of us, Vicki sells them eggs which they sell at farmers markets with their free range chickens. That storm was big hit on them unfortunately.