[PaulKn]

RAYPEV, on 10 May 2012 - 19:09, said:

Hi Tony and any others with an input.
Yesterday the Daily Blither had a nearly full page photo of the funnel cloud seen near Bicester?
The newspaper then grandly announced that the 'giant hail and tornado' were from the supercell that was in the area and backed up the story with an alleged quote from a professional meteorologist wh supplied the sort of general info' you could get from Wikipeadia if you looked up 'tornado' or 'supercell
my question is - was this a supercell? because when the papers start producing such articles it's usually a load of tosh and I would like to know what actually was the situation on that day
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Cheers
Ray Pev

Several things - Bren knows his stuff with regard to storms, and the quote was spot on. The info you can get on Wikipedia is excellent these days - well worth a read if you want to understand supercells. And yes, all the available evidence suggests it was a supercell.

[Tony Gilbert]

Here is a nice YouTube clip of the storm and tornado. Attention to this link courtesy of Helen R from TORRO

http://www.youtube.c...&feature=colike

Enjoy

[stormy sam]

u tube clip about a guy reviewing it http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

[ChaserUK]

http://ukasf.co.uk/storm-forecasts/166

interesting really - when you consider how far this cell had to travel to attain supercellular characteristics - this cell had one of the longest paths over the UK landmass possible! Obviously one reason why we don't get as many supercells as the USA - our landmass is just not big enough.

[smartie]

Result of a preliminary test simulation at 250m grid spacing.
7.5-1.5 km 'operational' run initialised with the GFS final analysis at 06 Z. A 100x100km domain with 250 m grid spacing and 48 stretched levels was then initialised at 14 UTC. Model set up has a full treatment of rain, ice, snow and graupel (but not hail) and 3D LES type diffusion. 3D view at T+30 min into the simulation looking north from the south, box 10km high. Cloud water-cyan, cloud ice- white, rain- blue, vertical vorticity- red. A number of interesting features are highlighted. Even at this time a substantial nr surface circulation is present.

David

This post has been edited by smartie: 14 May 2012 - 08:52

[stormy sam]

really good vid into the rotation and storm core without any presipation? http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

[Dave Hancox]

Confirmed By TORRO Site investigation - More details to follow.