tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53363152024-03-14T04:54:34.588-05:00Cyclone Road: Amos Magliocco's storm chasing blogAmos Magliocco's Storm Chase BlogAmos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.comBlogger516125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-21614649108139884662014-07-26T12:17:00.002-05:002023-06-08T14:41:22.497-05:007 June 2014: West Texas supercell<b>7 June 2014: </b>In and around Caprock Canyon State park, this was the best chase since April, with a photogenic storm that almost produced a tornado near the canyon, and later a decayed updraft twisting off the backside of the cell like a tail.<br />
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<br />Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-56469947888899937412014-07-26T11:55:00.005-05:002023-06-14T12:23:53.054-05:0011 May 2014: South-central Kansas storms<b>11 May 2014</b>: This was as far north as I made it in 2014 (at least so far). Chased with Bob and Rachel Fritchie. Obviously, no tornadoes. This was a theme in 2014 (so far).<br />
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Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-54623562512564062052014-07-21T22:20:00.004-05:002023-06-08T14:49:28.656-05:0013 April 2014: Jacksboro, Texas storm<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">13 April 2014</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">: I drove out to Jacksboro, Texas from Denton and didn't see much. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span>Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-48803409875545950042014-05-10T16:03:00.007-05:002023-06-08T15:11:02.810-05:00Chase Day: 3 April 2014 Denton, Texas<b>3 April 2014</b>: After teaching workshop, I dashed out to find the first of two severe storms west of Denton. The initial supercell produced softball hail along a wide swath north of the University Drive (Highway 380), damaging my own house such that I required a new roof, like hundreds of my neighbors. I chased that storm until Lake Lewisville and lousy vectors caused me to turn back and head for the second one. This one showed a strong velocity couplet for a few scans and seemed determined to produce a tornado as it crossed I-35 toward Denton from Krum. I stayed north of the meso following Loop 288 east and saw the wall cloud wrap in rain over the UNT campus. The storm produced tornadoes near Princeton later.<br />
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<br />Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-91944695372304819722014-05-10T15:48:00.004-05:002023-06-08T14:52:58.381-05:00Chase Day: 30 May 2013: Duncan, Oklahoma KH waves storm<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>30 May 2013</b>: Chased in south central Oklahoma. Drove solo. Met up with Bob and pursued storm from near Chickasha with big wall cloud to near I 35 at Purcell. Several attempted tornadoes but none successful, outflow dominant storm. Drop south toward Duncan storm for very photogenic, KH waves. Also ran into Ian Livingston, James Hyde, and Mark Ellinwood again. again. Dropped to next storm, with the smallest tornado warning ever, a skinny updraft with a wall cloud, where chatted with Aaron Dooley and Eric Byrnes.</span><br />
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<br />Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-85771439749578791452013-05-12T10:10:00.001-05:002013-05-12T10:24:37.599-05:00Chase Day 8 MAY 2013, Memphis, Texas storm<h3>
Chase Day 8 MAY 2013</h3>
Hoped to stay in Texas for this one, but dewpoint spreads drove me to Altus and then Mangum, Oklahoma and finally west into the eastern Texas Panhandle to this storm, south of Memphis. Later shot the backside of a storm farther south, around Snyder.<br />
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Chase day 15 APRIL 2013</h3>
I left from school without any gear but the iPhone, drove west and caught this storm somewhere near Throckmorten maybe. I don't know. I don't feel compelled to research these chase accounts so exhaustively anymore when it's a low end event. This was very low end. The photo below looks like the storm is producing a tornado, but it's not. That's scud, driven by outflow.<br />
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<br />Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-87520192785680492262013-05-11T22:29:00.004-05:002013-05-12T10:04:49.502-05:00<h3>
Chase day 30 MAY 2012: North Texas</h3>
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What I remember about this was playing around with highest possible ISO settings on the new camera, more or less after sunset. The Mark ii still rendered some color.<br />
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Chase day 29 MAY 2012 - Southwest to Central Oklahoma</h3>
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<br />Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-130306731089006062013-05-11T21:32:00.003-05:002013-05-12T10:05:07.897-05:00<h3>
Chase day 28 MAY 2012</h3>
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<br />Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-38085761025572030122013-05-11T21:14:00.001-05:002013-05-12T10:05:19.019-05:00<h3>
Chase day 27 MAY 2012</h3>
In late May some friends came to the plains and we drove around in search of better storms. With Jason Foster, Ian Livingston, and Mark Ellinwood, I intercepted this storm along the cold front on 27 May 2012. In this image, Ian and Jason are in the foreground.<br />
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<br />Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-91290215662853335872013-05-11T20:44:00.003-05:002013-05-12T10:05:31.146-05:00<h3>
Chase day 14 APRIL 2012</h3>
April 14th was a big day with people chasing all over the place. This is the best image I captured that day, a funnel that was fully extended seconds before, but I was driving fast. That's my primary memory of that day, driving fast all over the place. This image and the next serve only to prove I did in fact participate in storm chasing activities, albeit poorly.<br />
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<br />Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-71446288562430612122013-05-11T20:27:00.002-05:002013-05-12T10:05:40.546-05:00<h3>
Chase day 13 APRIL 2012</h3>
I chased April 13th and 14th somehow, somewhere, probably nearby on the first day and then in Oklahoma on the "big day," which was, for me, a big disappointment. Here's a few from the 13th (the day before the day):<br />
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Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-37685644882417187422012-03-20T11:47:00.003-05:002023-06-08T15:05:47.300-05:0018 March 2012: Willow, Oklahoma tornadoes & structure<span style="font-size: large;"><b>18 March 2012: Willow, Oklahoma tornadoes & structure</b></span><br />
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Scott Currens, Bob Fritchie and I converged on the Shamrock, Texas Taco Bell, and tried the Doritos Locos Tacos while monitoring radar on our phones.<br />
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At McKnight, we made the fateful turn east on E1550, a perfectly fine and well-paved road but without any northern options that didn't terminate at the river. We were stuck driving east. We fell behind, but in doing so we noticed the incredible structure of the supercell. The farther we went, the better it looked.<br />
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This was quite a sight, a seemingly low-topped cell with the stable-layer, polished sheen on deeply grooved stacks. Though we were well to the south and east, far out of position for tornado-viewing, we didn't mind. As Scott Currens said later, "Being stuck on that eastbound road was the best thing that happened." At that point I considered the tornado potential marginal at best--not the last wrong analysis of this persistent little storm. But when it reached the higher theta-e air in southwestern Oklahoma, and the more supportive shear arrived, the show was about to begin.<br />
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During the last few miles of our journey to SR 34, the rotational signature on radar increased sharply and a wall cloud emerged in the distance. This was a large, dark blocky wall cloud, the kind that produce tornadoes you can't see when you're more than five miles away. We were probably ten to twelve miles south at this point. Finally we turned north on 34. Somewhere along the way we may have seen the first tornado near Reed, but I wasn't able to shoot it.<br />
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We were parked near the fork of 283 and 34, one mile north of Willow, when the elephant trunk tornado descended.<br />
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Taken 1m north of Willow, Oklahoma, 0030z<br />
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This funnel dissipated but the same circulation produced another fully condensed funnel seven to ten minutes later.<br />
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Taken three miles north of Willow about 0038z.<br />
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A great March chase with Bob and Scott, a reasonable distance traveled and an unforgettable storm. While it wasn't my first chase of the year (An extended reconnaissance to Lubbock two days earlier isn't worth writing about) it was a gratifying start to the season's opening schedule.<br />
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Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-37628264073647159422011-11-11T19:40:00.001-06:002011-11-11T19:42:45.453-06:00NWS preliminary map of November 7 tornadoes<a href="http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/?n=events-20111107">This is a link to the preliminary report</a> from <a href="http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/">Norman's National Weather Service</a> office on the tornadoes last week. I have used their early tornado track map to impose my own path during the chase, recreated from my GPS log. Click the map to enlarge.<br />
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The red circles indicate major stopping points, of which there are too many. I couldn't quit shooting the Frederick-Tipton tornado (Tornado #1 on the map) because it was doing so many cool things: changing shapes, orientations, and posing behind some very cool foregrounds. Over and over I told myself I'd crop the shots, since I was pretty far away at the beginning. <br />
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It's always a struggle to choose whether to keep shooting, since the tornado could dissipate any moment, or put the camera down for five minutes and blast west (blast being a relative term on the muddy Oklahoma backroads) another three miles to get closer. As it is, if I'd gone farther west in the beginning, I wouldn't have found myself directly between both the dying Tipton cone and the rapidly forming soon-to-be Manitou tornado. (Tornado #2 on the map). I eventually caught up fully to the Manitou-nado, meeting it at its dissipation point over Highway 183.<br />
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</tbody></table>Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-85301110554779265822011-11-07T22:46:00.001-06:002011-11-07T22:47:32.105-06:007 November 2011: Frederick to Wichita Mountains, OK tornadoes<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafbfc; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2837; font-family: arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>7 November 2011: Frederick to Wichita Mountains, OK tornadoes</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafbfc; color: #1c2837; font-family: arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">I'll add more narrative and photos later, but the quick & dirty version is that I observed four or five tornadoes between 2035z and 22z between west of Frederick to near Mountain Park. The first tornado began WNW of FDR, the same one which damaged Tipton I assume, and remained fully condensed (as far as from my vantage point) until around 2120z. This was mainly a symmetrical, barrel-shaped tornado which passed before so many great foregrounds that I stopped again and again to shoot and fell a little behind the storm as a result. But the pics are worth it. At one point a satellite tornado roped into an s-curve while the barrel churned away less than a mile west. Needless to say I stopped and shot this rare twin sighting.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafbfc; color: #1c2837; font-family: arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Around 2110z, a new tornado formed to my ENE when I was 6 miles west of Manitou. The first tornado was by then a tall white cylinder, and the new one was a fully condensed cone, one to my NNW and the other due east. The second tornado was impressive for how the condensation near the base articulated the rapid rotation, as a sort of curtain formed around the primary funnel and turned somewhat more slowly than the tornado, highlighting the rotation by contrast. As this tornado crossed Highway 183 a few miles south of Snyder, it was a full barrel, mostly sunlit and with a dark gray cape of condensation, and then the thing simply vanished. I wasn't all that far away, and the storm was still relatively dry and clean as it had been the entire time, but I cannot recall a tornado of that size and duration dissipating so quickly. I guess there was still a circulation on the ground; it seems like there would have to be, but the visible portion was gone. And I had just found another great foreground.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafbfc; color: #1c2837; font-family: arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">A very brief tornado formed to the east of my position about ten minutes later, probably around 2130z. I'll check the camera times. I have a photo of this though I didn't file a report for it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafbfc; color: #1c2837; font-family: arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">After that I poked along on dirt roads, picked up the next cone tornado at 22z when I was east of Snyder by about 6 miles. The tornado was north of me by 5m, likely near the intersection of Highways 49 & 54, just west of the western entrance of the Wichita Mts Wildlife Refuge on 49.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafbfc; color: #1c2837; font-family: arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Why was I on the Frederick storm to begin with? I thought I was late for the real show farther west, or that the whole event was hosed anyway from the widespread precip, uncapped environment. I followed the storm from Texas toward Frederick because I imagined it was the best way to waste the least amount of gas on a rainy November bust, and then suddenly it was a fine supercell; and just as suddenly it was one of my better storms in years. You never know. </span>Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-27734999009468444892011-05-23T13:50:00.000-05:002011-05-23T13:50:26.167-05:00How to the victims in Joplin, most deadly US tornado in 60 yearsFrom MSNBC, a comprehensive list of how to help the victims in Joplin:<br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.8em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.8em; vertical-align: baseline;">Several organizations and individuals are helping victims of the <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43132174/ns/weather/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Joplin tornado</a>. Here's how you can get involved and help those affected by the deadliest single U.S. tornado since 1953:</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.8em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.8em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Donations</strong></div><ul style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">American Red Cross</strong> has <a href="https://american.redcross.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=ntld_corpmicrosite&s_company=stateofmissouri-pub" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">set up a page</a> for Missouri tornado and flood relief.</li>
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<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Missouri SEMA</strong> has set up a <a href="http://www.sema.dps.mo.gov/recover/donations.asp" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">donation page</a>.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">A list of major non-profits that operate regularly in Missouri can be found on the <a href="http://www.aidmatrixnetwork.org/fema/states.aspx?ST=Missouri" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Make a Donation for a recent Disaster">National Donations Management Network</a> website. You can also call (800) 427-4626 for further information.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Missouri Interfaith Disaster Response Organization </strong>is<a href="http://www.umocm.com/midro.htm" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">taking donations</a> for longterm recovery efforts.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Community Blood Center of the Ozarks</strong> is in need of blood — particularly type O. A list of donation sites can be found <a href="http://www.cbco.org/?page_id=1651" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>.</li>
</ul><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.8em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.8em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Volunteering</strong></div><ul style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.211missouri.org/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="211 Missouri Web site">211 Missouri</a> is helping organize volunteers in the affected areas. More information can be found by calling (800) 427-462.<b style="font-weight: bold;"><br style="font-weight: bold !important;" /></b></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nurses or doctors looking to help can call (417) 832-9500 for the Greater Ozarks chapter of the Red Cross.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Health professionals can register to volunteer through the <a href="https://showmeresponse.org/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Show-Me Response website</a>. </li>
</ul><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.8em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.8em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Animal rescue</strong></div><ul style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">For those in the Joplin area: <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Emergency Pet Center</strong> of the Four States at 7th & Illinois near the Sonic is OPEN and accepting found/injured animals. Its phones are down at this time.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Animals-Lost-Found-from-the-Joplin-Mo-tornado/185768248141000" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Animals Lost & Found from the Joplin, Mo tornado"</a> Facebook page is tracking lost and found pets.</li>
</ul><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.8em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.8em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Safety Information</strong></div><ul style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Americorp Volunteers</strong> are setting up a national hotline for residents to call to check on loved ones. The number is (417) 659-5464 and should be active later today.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">American Red Cross</strong> has <a href="https://safeandwell.communityos.org/cms/index.php" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">set up a site</a> on which you can check in, report on the safety of others, or look for information on loved ones.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joplin-people-accounted-for-after-the-storm/213004115400930" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Joplin people accounted for after the storm"</a> Facebook page is helping people track loved ones who fell out of touch during the storm.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/St-Johns-Health-System/159874181147?sk=wall" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">St. John's Health System</a> has been updating its Facebook page regularly with information relevant to the aftermath of the storm.</li>
</ul><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.8em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.8em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Other efforts</strong></div><ul style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">The recently organized <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joplin-Volunteer-and-Outreach-Station/121858791230579?sk=wall&filter=2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Joplin Volunteer & Outreach Station"</a> Facebook page appears to be focused on aiding relief efforts.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joplin-Tornado-Citizen-Checks-neighbors-helping-neighbors/173486139376210" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Joplin Tornado Citizen Checks (neighbors helping neighbors!)"</a> Facebook page appears to be a gathering place for a lot of Joplin locals who are in need of aid or able to provide aid to others.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <a href="http://www.facebook.com/joplinmo?ref=ts&sk=wall" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Joplin, MO Tornado Recovery"</a> Facebook page is one of the bigger ones dedicated to aid efforts and contains a great deal of up-to-the-second information on where help is necessary.</li>
</ul><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.8em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.8em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some words of caution</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.8em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.8em; vertical-align: baseline;">While giving is good and your intentions are great, be aware that there are individuals who might attempt to take advantage of your kindness. Read up on the charities or organizations to which you are donating funds or supplies. You can use sites such as <a href="http://www.charitynavigator.org/?gclid=CKS65_6d0acCFQsFbAodI0OgEw" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Charity Navigator</a> — a service run by a non-profit organization that has information on more than 5,000 charities and evaluates the groups' financial health — to confirm that everything's on the up and up.</div></span></blockquote>Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-50903279176106733102011-05-23T12:52:00.000-05:002011-05-23T12:52:48.465-05:00four chase days in May, so I don't forget themJust a place-marker update so I don't forget these chases, which as you might guess means they were fairly forgettable.<br />
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<b>May 11, 2011</b>: A big, over-hyped Wednesday chase led me all the way into northeastern CO for two storms near Burlington. Cannot believe I drove that far when I hadn't intended to go much north of I-40. Met up with Scott Currens along the way and we checked out the weird, northwestward moving storms as one of them produced a modest wall cloud directly over the city of Burlington.<br />
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<b>May 18, 201</b>1: A bust near Norman, Oklahoma. Shouldn't have left the house at all, between the intense CIN and more intense pain in my sprained knee, which I didn't begin treating until a few days earlier.<br />
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<b>May 19, 2011</b>: I was convinced this was the last day I'd see a tornado in 2011, because I'd planned all spring to chase with a research project from the 19th to the 24th, and the project's goal was other than documenting tornadoes. So I planned to poke my head up around Interstate 40 and turn back. I wound up near Woodward, Oklahoma but never saw a storm worth shooting. Scott Currens zipped past me on the road out of Camp Houston, headed west for the storm. He was in the process of hooking up with the aforementioned project, too, but had some equipment issues and chased solo.<br />
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<b>May 22, 2011</b>: I'm fairly confined to local chases now and spending less than seven hours at a time in the car. I targeted Jacksboro and chased two supercells, one a small LP that morphed into an interesting structural presentation and produced a rapidly rotating wall cloud. The second supercell, again firing near Jacksboro, was a HP/Classic hybrid with two distinct and fairly interesting mesocylconic cycles, the second of which produced an organized and rotating funnel near the town of Bridgeport. Took several shots of both storms on Sunday and I hope to process those later in the week.<br />
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No tornadoes observed on any of the above chases. Between my teaching schedule and the knee issue, Chase Season 2011 is almost certainly going to be my worst. I'd say it's second behind 2000, but despite not seeing anything much of interest that year, 2000 was much more fun. This chase season has been, thus far, a real drag with the exception of a few great days. Anyway, enough whining. Two good/great days in a row coming up for chasers between today and tomorrow and wish them all happy hunting and the best of luck.Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-42021553427665843672011-05-01T13:30:00.000-05:002011-05-01T13:30:13.808-05:00reports for 25 April 2011 & 30 April 2011, nothing severe observedThe first thing I heard this May was thunder.<br />
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Seriously, last night I woke up about 3:00 am to the sounds of an elevated supercell rolling over Denton. We were north of the front so I imagined the tornado potential to be nearly zero and drifted back to sleep, but it was quite a satisfying debut for the chaser's favorite calendar page.<br />
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Two quick chase reports to log before they're lost forever:<br />
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25 APRIL 2011: A frontal zone was draped over North Texas and I drove east to McKinney, observed rain, turned back for Denton and on through to Decatur, where a supercell produced a marginal wallcloud. This feature rotated slowly as it rolled eastward and through Denton. I followed it until the wallcloud dissipated east of town. Then it was time to head home to prepare for the work week, wasn't able to drop south and catch the nice storms and tornadoes near Glen Rose and Itasca.<br />
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30 APRIL 2011: With friends Scott Currens and Bob Fritchie, I chased a supercell east southeast of Dallas, which produced an ominous lowering and broadly rotating wallcloud as it exited the metro area. Weak surface winds and poor low level shear really mitigated what might have been a fairly interesting storm, given the anvil level flow and ambient instability. We ate oysters at S&D Oyster Bar on McKinney Street downtown, and a good time was had by all.Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-91944996573477283352011-05-01T12:45:00.001-05:002011-05-01T17:14:56.101-05:00REMEDY WHEEL is semifinalist in Amazon's Breakthrough Novel Contest<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi27CJn9Bok2Xl_K103jp3nnmcNCgbAa9hyGbXN4Tzv8qCf_Xh7qEGpl8dGcnjY4OgN4FnCPdLaptzxNx_I7j2HdMhV_hYnTn0tyKP24_lFD3joCBj0ms2WSOULxdK9-u4VHz9zcQ/s1600/sandor-chicago-world-s-fair-1934.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi27CJn9Bok2Xl_K103jp3nnmcNCgbAa9hyGbXN4Tzv8qCf_Xh7qEGpl8dGcnjY4OgN4FnCPdLaptzxNx_I7j2HdMhV_hYnTn0tyKP24_lFD3joCBj0ms2WSOULxdK9-u4VHz9zcQ/s400/sandor-chicago-world-s-fair-1934.jpg" width="298" /></span></a></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">My novel <a href="http://amzn.to/k0qkME">REMEDY WHEEL</a> is a semifinalist in Amazon's Breakthrough Novel Contest! Pretty exciting. The big surprise for me was a review by Publishers Weekly, who called the book, "a highly literary tale... a grand old story." You can see the full review on the full <a href="http://amzn.to/mHr3ov">editorial review page</a>.</span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Amazon page I've linked includes a free excerpt of the book for the Kindle and Kindle-based apps, such as for iPhone. Please download (and write a review!) if the spirit moves you. I believe the excerpt they've posted is the first 50 pages of the book.</span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In a month, three finalists will be chosen and then, in June, a winner selected by Amazon customers. I'm still learning how all that works, but the final result is a book deal with Penguin, an outstanding house.</span></div><div><br />
</div><div>Well, since I have plenty of room here on my own blog (how does one post without character limits??), I'll post the full review from Publishers Weekly:<br />
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</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"It’s the spring of 1934 in Southside Chicago, a mostly black area hit hard by the Depression, a little before the opening of the World’s Fair. Haley Mitchell, 19, and white, is running numbers for the Kings, a gang too ornery and peculiar for the Capone operation to trouble with. Haley, like every character in this sprawling, highly literary tale, needs a remedy—in Haley’s case, for her possibly brain-dead father. Black store owner Thomas Harris, a strong family man, wants to get out of his neighborhood and away from the Southern blacks, or “migrants,” and move to an all-white enclave near the university, but the most moving scene in the novel portrays the death of his sweet young son, after Thomas has made the move. Sorrow, and muted triumphs take over the novel therafter. Young Oscar Candelero, new to the city, naive and shrewd at once, saves the day. Impressed by the healing ministry of Elder Lucy and seeking the love of Haley, he invents a brand-new game, bringing together both ministry and numbers on the neutral ground—outside Chicago’s jurisdiction—of the Fair. From a souvenir of the 1893 Fair he fashions the remedy wheel, and remedies result, sort of, for everyone. A carefully researched, slow-moving, old-fashioned, and grand old story."</i></span></div>Amos Maglioccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003693837202697129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336315.post-8309610570364917052011-04-25T01:05:00.002-05:002011-04-25T10:44:33.527-05:00Tornado near Baird, Texas 2011 April 24<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhowpxG1BMJdwGgHyo9KDXxLxcoarppP6Py4CDvrgdz-U4hCISZotp2kwbsGaLhdewLSkDe5q94ZVD6U0mK8qhe4wRLmGPNTXptkNckYmIBiJxz9V5aMJaFm_KoTZR-TgxEErIS/s1600/_MG_6298.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhowpxG1BMJdwGgHyo9KDXxLxcoarppP6Py4CDvrgdz-U4hCISZotp2kwbsGaLhdewLSkDe5q94ZVD6U0mK8qhe4wRLmGPNTXptkNckYmIBiJxz9V5aMJaFm_KoTZR-TgxEErIS/s1600/_MG_6298.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Bob Fritchie and I observed the first tornado north of Baird, Texas around 3:30 pm. We followed the storm 90 minutes before we turned back west for the next storm in the line, but missed the second and third tornadoes of the day, also very near Baird.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In the early afternoon it seemed a surface low and weak triple point had formed south-southwest of Abilene. This was indicated in the surface observations, and the cu field evident by 17z showed what appeared to be an outflow boundary from previous convection draped along the interstate. With stronger midlevel flow than any previous setup in this regime, I assumed that if even half the RUC-forecasted CAPE was realized, the storms should be more intense than the last two days. When I left Denton, I planned to stop at Graham, but this setup and the RUC / HRRR convergence on the solution compelled me to to go much farther west. I only hoped I wasn’t too late.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I met Bob in Graham and he agreed. This target jived with his forecast from two nights ago. Soon a small shower formed near Abilene and we turned south at Throckmorten to check it out, though we held little hope for this initial cell since winds at ABI were northerly, and in the prior few rounds of obs, the surface low had become ill-defined. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Five miles north of Baird, we noticed elevated rotation in an otherwise unimpressive, almost HP-ish base. But soon this tightened up—just south of another large and rotating wallcloud. The rotation near us gathered rainbands and a clear slot cut behind the circulation. Moments later, a lowering descended, a funnel pointed straight down. It rotated a long time before fully condensing and then stretched and curved, attached to the back of the meso—the back of the entire storm, actually, like a tail. Behind it were clear skies. In the field ahead, the circulation barreled through the grassland.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">After the tornado we dropped south and east to race out ahead of the storm. It developed several more wallclouds until it was clear the boundary magic was in the past. We turned back west for another storm approaching Baird, which also produced tornadoes almost in the same spot as ours, but these appeared before we regained sight of the notch. We followed that one also, another hour or so, before a third turn back west ended unsuccessfully. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We finally headed home around 8:00 PM, met with Denton chasers Robert Hall, Mike Mezeul II and his friends, for Italian food at Pasta Fina in Weatherford. Bob mentioned to me in a text a moment ago how much fun it was to see tornadogenesis at very close range in such detail. He’s right. Quite a spectacular phenomenon.</div><br />
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