We had a "micro-burst" in town last night, both Kenneth and I were at work.
Very high winds which lasted about 15-20 minutes. The weather man said we had winds of at least 100 mph. These are when warm air front merges with a cold air storm and the moisture in them dries very quickly, which causes the storm to basically drop the bottom out of the storm.
It uprooted trees or broke them in half, torn down electric lines, blew down huge billboards. About 15,000 people were without electricity in the beginning. I was worried what we might find when we got home, we had left Dusty outside and I had watched the path of the storm on, www.intellicast.com, from work and knew it had gone right over the house. Luckily everything was fine, the garden was still in tacked and Dusty was just a little damp.
If you would also like to track storms at home - when you go to "Intellicast" type in your zip code. Once you see your daily temps (if your having a storm), click on the "Storms" label, from the drop box click on "Severe Weather" then "1K Storm Watch", It not only shows you the direction of the Storm, but if it could have hail (blue box) or tornado activity (red box).
