Intense lightning Storm 4-19-06 4 Am Lexington

Started off as a boring night at work... Knowing storms were expected later on that night i hoped i would be outta there before they arrived.. and WOOT yes i was...

On the drive to the home area i could see the lightning off to the west and north as i drove west into it the lightning intensity exploded. IC and CG everywhere... i approximated at least a 200 spm flash rate now my digital camera only has a 2 second exposure but i was able to capture ALOT of photos from this electrically active storm.. Bolts were crashing down everywhere around the car and this went on for about 2 hrs.. boy was i having fun LOL.. Ill have photos posted soon... im actually starting to get backed up on my image posting so gimme some time


Peace everyone and 73'

Passed The Test

On sunday I Finally got around to getting to a test session for my ham license... and passed WOOT!!!.. and with a quickness was issued my callsign the next day .. Wow Talk about speedy service.... My Callsign is KI4OQQ and is a bit of a mouthfull to say so ill prolly be going to try and get an easier vanity CS soon.. Either way its cool and i got that over with....

and again WOOT

April 7th Severe Events

On April 7th the first round of storms came into the area crossing the TN/KY line around logan county moving north east... Other Cells fired across the state but the storm in the south moved into barren county producing .75+ inch hail and numerous reports of funnel clouds. this storm eventually moved to the south of lexington. later in the evening around 9:25 Pm a lone supercell storm ahead of the main line of storms approached the county. This storm had well defined structure even seen in the dark. as the cell got into the county a severe thunderstorm warning was issued. from my location behind southern elementary school I noted what looked like a very large funnel cloud to my southwest approx 0.5 miles away shortly there after there was a breif period of .25 inch hail high winds and very heavy rains...

On further examination of the photo of the funnel there is a strong possibility it was in fact a tornado altho only slight tree damage was noted in a survey i conducted a few days later..

Image shows an extension below the funnel down to approx 100 ft with a visible debris poof directly below that.. i will be looking over radar archives to see if anything was visible on there.... I will update this when that is complete...

April 2 2006 Outbreak

A severe Weather event unfolded in the midwest on april 2nd and moved off the east coast by lat april 3rd, In all

April 2

• 64 Tornado Reports
• 380 Wind Reports (6) Very high wind
• 354 Hail Reports (28 Large Hail)

April 3

• 0 Tornado Reports
• 52 Wind Reports
• 106 Hail Reports

I will post more details and images of the events here in lexington soon.
Wind damage was numerous around the area and a wind speed of 82 Mph was recorded in Lexington