Tornado Spotted By NWS

The National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio. Have spotted a tornado on the ground. New Vienna is currently in the path of this tornado.



Update: It looks like the NWS radar in Wilmington is offline, probably due to the power being out in the region. I haven't gotten an update from that radar since 9:09PM.

Update: As of 9:55PM the NWS Wilmington radar seems to be operational again.

Line Of Storms

This line of thunderstorms extends from Indiana to West Virginia on my radar. Red is tornadoes and yellow is sever thunderstorms.

Tropical Depression #1

It's a few days until the 2009 hurricane season starts and we already have a tropical depression out in the Atlantic. It is not expected to effect any land mass, but there's a good chance that it will strengthen to tropical storm status over night and receive the name Ana.

TD One Track Map

Triple Threat

The area just northeast of Mendon was just pounded with a flash flood, sever thunderstorm, and tornado warning at the same time. The flash flood warning is still in effect at this time.

My First Filmed Lightning Bolt

I played around with Windows Movie Maker a little more and figured out how to cut down and edit my videos a little better.

Here is the edited video of the first lightning bolt that I have ever caught on film. Shown in real time and slow motion. Keep your eyes on the upper left hand corner.

Persistence Pays Off

Persistence payed off this morning when I captured my first bolt of lightning on film. The video itself is unimpressive but I may upload it later when I get better video editing software so that I can cut the video down from it's original eleven minutes and slow it down around the time the bolt appears. Until then, here's a screen capture of the frame. The bolt is in the upper left hand corner.



The good news is that this proves that my camera can capture lightning. I was beginning to worry that the FPS was too slow to accomplish this.

Tornado Warned Storm Video

This is video from the Tornado Warned storm today in Franklin county. I almost got struck by lightning and I got hit by hail. There was a lowering in the clouds and some rotation right before my phone started ringing... Sorry about my camera fogging up. I know how to correct this quickly now.

Tornado Warning

Franklin County was just under a Tornado Warning!



I shot video of the storm and I'll have it uploaded sometime soon.

Here's a news report on the storm:

WBNS 10TV Article

Sever Thunderstorm Warning

A sever Thunderstorm Warning has been issued for northeast Franklin County. This storm is capable of producing 60mph winds and penny sized hail.



More storms will be rolling through through the region shortly.