Hi folks, The ISP CASI uses here in town went offline at 10am this morning and just came back, partially. Here's hoping this message reaches you. This is a combination of several CASILIST postings I received today: Tonight there are several things to mention. First and foremost of course is the HUGE storm system ripping through the heart of America today and getting ready to batter the NE tonight. Here at CASI HQ winds have been extremely high today, the highest since I moved to PA in fact, with a gust of 36mph recorded this evening on the weather station, whose pole is bending like a palm tree in a hurricane (which may make the readings too low). And I'm on the North side of the mountain - people on the south side likely have it worse. The raingauge for the CASI1 Alternate Radio Shack weather station was blown off the roof this evening; I found it dangling from the roof banging against the wall about an hour ago. Other things on my porch such as lawn furniture could not be recovered easily tonight. Winds this afternoon gusted to 93mph in LaCrosse Wisconsin, and both IA and MN set new all-time lowest pressure records, the lowest today being 28.43"Hg, according to the Weather Channel. An excellent picture of the pressure field with the storm is at: http://www.ems.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wx/pressstats.cgi Updates from the CASI Weather Station overnight can be found at (ISP permitting): http://www.weatherwatchers.org/wxstation/liveobs.shtml CNN's latest report and some impressive pictures can be found at http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/9811/10/storm.wrap/ CASI Member Glenn Briggs notes from Trenton MO: " an all time record low baro. reading was set at trenton last night when the baro. fell to 29.09" wich beat the old record of 29.11" again, this is an all time record low baro. " -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In other news, Member Jess Parks sends this URL for those of you in the NC Mountains: " For an interesting perspective on Boone NC Weather and a special forecasting tool check out the following site http://mathsci.appstate.edu/u/cs/crr/snow.html " -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And finally, a report on last night's severe weather in KS by Member Joey Ketcham: Subject: KS Severe Weather Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:03:21 -0600 From: "Joey Ketcham" <joek{at}apexcorp.com> To: "CASI Mailing List Recipients" <casilist{at}weatherwatchers.org> Well, I just got back home and got done putting my reports together. At 11:21 PM CDT the NWS Office in Springfield Mo. issued a svr t-storm warning for the following counties here in SE KS: CHEROKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS As they issued the warning I went south on 69 highway, as I got to a truck stop right off 69 it began to rain. The wind began to pick up and the max. wind recording I have was 53 MPH and the rain was very heavy at times. I followed the storm eastward and I went back North on 69 until I reached Centennial Street that is right off 69 and goes east. I turned down Centennial and went east for about 3-5 miles. As I got up a little ways winds began to pick up to around 60 MPH. At this time I pulled over due to the rain making the visibility 0. The storm had let up a little and I continued east. I got about 6 miles east of Pittsburg where I ran into nickle size hail and damaging winds. Below is a report of damage. Trees knocked over, some power line damage. Small things damage such as trash cans dented ect... The storm that affect KS, OK, MO, ARK, And Texas was a squall line that reached all the way into texas. MORE REPORTS 0800 PM 2 NW DANVILLE KS- WIND DAMAGE 11/09/98 HARPER KS - ROOF OF CATTLE SHED BLOWN OFF 0832 PM 10 SW EUREKA KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST 11/09/98 0925 PM 2 S YATES CENTER KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST 11/09/98 1022 PM CHANUTE KS WIND DAMAGE - TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN --------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************* Central Atlantic Storm Investigators Mailing-List To Post: casilist{at}weatherwatchers.org To Cancel: lists-admin{at}weatherwatchers.org Archive: /members/casilist *************************************************