Storm tops to FL710?!

taseal said:
could u just fly over it?
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Ha! :)

Ok, so I kinda suspected that picture might update continuously when I posted it. Oops!

We were trying to do an Appleton turn last night, and I literally laughed at my dispatcher about the prospect of going there. Wasn't gonna happen! I told some of our passengers that all flights up there would likely cancel that night and just to stay put. Some of them were going to rent cars and drive, but even that seemed dangerous. I told them to be careful and good luck. Then I bolted to for my commute home to DEN.

Ahhh....home :)
 
MQAAord said:
We've had massive flooding here in IND. Some interstates near here are shut down, and there's scads of flooding, and somewhere not too far away a dam has burst. Fun times!
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Yep, my parent's house down in Terre Haute is safe but they basically can't go anywhere because the roads were closed. My dad was down on our lake playing 'hero' clearing the drain for the dam of debris. The lake had swelled up to above a bench we have on our little dock and was seriously threatening to do some damage. So in his typical cowboy'ish ways he risked life and limb to clear the junk away and the lake is back to near normal now.

Too bad I can't be home to see it, I am sure the creek below would be cool to throw big sticks in :)
 
I saw the light show from about 200 miles South of the action at 360. Center advised of "urgent weather information containing a tornado being spotted near Chicago on HIWAS." That was the first time I had heard that from the air. It was too dark for pictures, but that storm was huge!
 
mikecweb said:
Radar isn't a very accurate way of determining the tops of thunderstorms.
I've seen storms on that website that were 74k in vermont and then 15 minutes later they were 25k. If a storm has alot of hail it can distort the accuracy of the top report.
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For us low flyers mike that's still a good way to determine how intense the storm is. Regardless of the inaccuracy of the tops it's a bitchin storm with all the hail distorting it. ;)
 
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