Wednesday will be a sneaky active weather day for much of Kentucky. A big complex of storms looks to develop and roll from west to east across the state.
Heavy rain and gusty winds will likely show up. #kywx
44 million birds crossed Kentucky last night. Another 42 million crossed Tennessee.
A lot of y’all said those radar blooms couldn’t be birds.
They were.
Radar sends out two signals, one horizontal and one vertical. Rain reflects them almost the same. Birds don’t.
That’s why storms in South Dakota showed up purple, while the birds over Kentucky showed up orange.
And the reason the blooms hug the radar sites? The beam gets higher the farther it travels. Most migrating birds are only a couple thousand feet up, so radar sees them best nearby.
I deeply saddened to hear the Academy of Natural Sciences museum, the oldest natural history museum in America, will be shutting its doors for good at the end of the month. A massive loss to both the scientific and local communities
🚨 More details emerging from the devastating storm damage in Lynndyl, Utah.
The National Weather Service has received reports of widespread wind and hail damage across the area, including trees snapped and uprooted, power lines down, homes damaged and railroad cars overturned.
At this point, there are no directly measured wind speeds from the storm, so we don’t yet know exactly how strong the winds were.
However, the damage pattern is providing some important clues. Videos and photos show numerous trees knocked down in the same direction, which is consistent with strong, straight-line winds. There is currently no obvious convergent damage signature suggesting a tornado in the areas documented so far.
That said, the investigation isn’t over.
The National Weather Service has a survey team heading to Lynndyl to assess the damage firsthand. They’ll be looking closely at the damage pattern, vegetation, structures and other evidence to determine how intense the winds were and whether anything more significant occurred.
So for now, the big question remains:
Just how strong were the winds in Lynndyl?
We should have a much better answer after the survey is completed, weather permitting.
This was an incredibly powerful storm, and the damage coming out of Millard County is remarkable.
📍 Lynndyl, Utah
📷 Mike Frandsen