
Take a look at the time in the upper left hand corner. This radar screenshot was taken at 5:37 AM. Right now this looks like an average storm, right? Look at the area circled in dark blue. This shows the most severe section of the storm at the time. I will be using this shade of blue in the next photos to show severe weather areas.
So, otherwise, this storm isn't so bad ^^ Yet. Keep an eye on the lower left quadrant of the screenshots.
So now you can see that it's later, almost 8 AM. Again, I have circled the severe areas in dark blue, but now you can see a light blue circle as well. This shows where you will want to pay close attention to. This area is where things start to get really nasty.
This is the final screenshot, leading up to just half an hour before I wrote this blog.
You can see the severe areas again, and the light blue circle. Now, do you see how it looks like less? It looks like less of an issue, right?
Wrong. Just because it's smaller, it's not weaker. In my opinion, this is the strongest area of the storm, and the dBZ scale shows it.
I feel that this area was and still is the most likely area to spit out tornadoes. I have yet to check the records for any tornadoes that may have already happened this morning, and I will add an update if there are any.
Useful links
NWS' Storm Prediction Center, day one.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html
And day two.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day2otlk.html
Lawrenceville Weather's Severe Storm Reports
http://www.lawrencevilleweather.com/storm-reports/24/us
As an after note, please remember that I am only a young teen and am by no means a professional meteorologist
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