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I think I don't want to be caught in one in a car. Let alone an F4 or F5.

Calll me crazy, but at 2:48 on this video, there appears to be figure in the clouds and it looks like the spout is coming out of its head. Look the the top of the screen at that time and you can see it.  http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weather/story?id=4819080&page=1

I've never heard of a landspout type of tornado... Gary or someone, how is this different than another 'type' of tornado?

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A landspout forms from the developing cumulonimbus cloud.  Most tornadoes form from mature supercell thunderstorms that form mid level circulations before the tornado develops. 

Gary

Holy Moly! That's amazing video. The tornado didn't look huge and dark like I thought it would. Definitely didn't look like it was toss those cars like that.

WOW...thats amazing video!  It moved so quickly and didn't look that big.  

just to clearify gary, the tornado vid is from northern AL.. NOT the western KS tornadoes.

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Yes, it is from Alabama!

Gary

I don't know if you're allowed to post links like this, but this site has a good video of this tornado:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=73f_1210331889

Gary, just watched your forecast for mothers day. You made it very clear how windy and cool it would be at 7a.m. but how about later in the afternoon, when will that wind die down?

Wow!

60 Ways to get kicked out of Walmart

1. Set all the alarm clocks to go off in 10-minute intervals
2. Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official tone, "Code 3 in housewares,..."and see what happens.
3. Go to the Service Desk and ask to put a bag of M&M's on lay away.
4.Find one of the workers who is making a pyramid or a display of something and as soon as they are finished with it, ask for the    thing that's on the bottom and have a panic attack until they give it to you.
5. Get on the loud speaker and declare a "Going Out of Business Sale, All Items 99% Off"
6. Buy a $200 item and pay for it all in pennies. Lose count at least two times.
7. Dart around the store suspiciously while loudly humming the theme from pink panther.
8. Move a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.
9. Sit down and relax on the patio furniture until they kick you out
10. Set up a tent in the camping department
11. Look right into the security camera, use it as a mirror and pick your nose.
12. Take pictures of absolutely everything.
13. When a clerk asks if they can help you, begin to cry and ask 'Why can't you people just leave me alone?
14. Hide in a clothing rack and when people browse through, say "PICK ME! PICK ME!"
15. Ask someone for help with a video game and when they ask you which one you want you point to one and say "no maybe this one, or this one". repeat this at least 15 times.
16. Take at least 5 min to decide on which pack of gum you want and when you finally make a decission wen they tell you the price say "you have to pay for stuff here i thought this was the lost and found!"
17. See what you can "catch" by casting fishing poles into different isles.
18. Play football and see how many people you can get to join in.
19. Play soccer using the whole store as your field
20. Try on bras over your clothes in the middle of the store.
21. Try to get people to race you across the store.
22. Sit on the floor and watch T.V. in the electronics department.
23. Pretend to speak a different language and see how many weird looks you get
24. Superglue quarters to the floor and count how many people try to pick them up
25. Switch all the radios to strange stations suck as polka or Mexican rap and turn the volume all the way up.
26. Fill up carts and just leave them around the store.
27. When someone is behind you in a narrow aisle, walk very slowly, humming to yourself.
28. Drape a blanket around your shoulders and pretend to be superman.
29. have a panic attack whenever    you see someone pick up the last of something
30. Walk up to random strangers and say "I haven't seen you in so long!" etc.
31. Do the same thing, except ask for their autograph.
32. Play Red Rover with other customers. Except don't tell them that they're playing.
33. Test brushes and combs
34. Take up an entire toy aisle with a G.I. Joe vs. Rescue Heroes battle of epic proportions.
35. Take bets on the battle.
36. Have sword fights with tubes of wrapping paper.
37. Follow people.
38. Play with the price scanners.
39. Spray air-freshener everywhere.
40. Play with the automatic doors.
41. Make a pillow fort.
42.Test all the deoderants and ask people to sniff your armpits to see if it works.
43. Shopping cart races. Enough said.
44. Crawl into gym bags and laundry hampers.
45. Have a "heart attack" if there isn't gum in the bathroom, run screaming to the nearest person and yell, THE WORLD IS ENDING THERES NO GUM IN THE BATHROOM!!!!!!!
46. Get a bunch of friends together and take all of the electrical chair cart things. Then race upand down each aisleside by side.
47. Stand by the CD player, where you can push buttons and songs play, and just stay there for like 20 minutes pushing all of the buttons at least twice.
48. "Re-alphabetize" the CD's
49. "Re-alphabetize" the books.
50. When someone steps away from their cart to look at something, quickly make off with it without saying a word.
51. Running around the store screaming walmart sucks, walmart sucks let's go to target!
52. Buy a candybar. Eat it. Get back in line. Buy another candy bar. Eat it. Get back in line. Repeat until you get bored.
53. Drag a lounge chair on display over to the magazines, relax and if the store has a food court, buy a soft drink; explain that you don't get out much, ask if they can put a little umbrella in it.
54. Take all the carts out of the parking lot cart holder and put one in each parking space.
55. Go into the emplyoee lounge and teepee it.
56.
57. Spill clear soap down an aisle.
58. Talk to the lady at the cash register for a whole 20 minutes about unicorns.
59. When an announcement comes over the loud speaker, assume the fetal position and scream."NO! NO! It's those voices again!!!!"
60.Pretend to be a monkey and get on all fours screaming "Oo-oo-aaa-aa!" And attack whoever buys bananas.  
  61. Got get milk, cearel, spoons, pay for it then sit in the middle of the ceareal isle and have breakfast, if somebody comes say I bought it!!!
  62. Got to the kiddy rides area with tons of quarters, ride the same ride(s) for an hour at least!

LOL Juba. that is hilarious. I loved #24!!

Must be a slow weather day....

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Where were you today?  The pot needed to be stirred.

Gary

For those wanting a laugh and looking to see why anything past three days on the GFS is challenging at best, check out this link and note where the 540 line is...

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/namer/gfs/18/fp0_348.shtml

Scott that is interesting thanks for the link.

Geez, and I was feeling guilty about asking if anyone wanted my computer desk, but at least it was short :)

Gary, do you think that eeven though we wont have a severe weather outbreak tomarrow, small hail and gusty winds are possible? Juba

60 Ways to get kicked out of Walmart

1. Set all the alarm clocks to go off in 10-minute intervals
2. Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official tone, "Code 3 in housewares,..."and see what happens.
3. Go to the Service Desk and ask to put a bag of M&M's on lay away.
4.Find one of the workers who is making a pyramid or a display of something and as soon as they are finished with it, ask for the    thing that's on the bottom and have a panic attack until they give it to you.
5. Get on the loud speaker and declare a "Going Out of Business Sale, All Items 99% Off"
6. Buy a $200 item and pay for it all in pennies. Lose count at least two times.
7. Dart around the store suspiciously while loudly humming the theme from pink panther.
8. Move a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.
9. Sit down and relax on the patio furniture until they kick you out
10. Set up a tent in the camping department
11. Look right into the security camera, use it as a mirror and pick your nose.
12. Take pictures of absolutely everything.
13. When a clerk asks if they can help you, begin to cry and ask 'Why can't you people just leave me alone?
14. Hide in a clothing rack and when people browse through, say "PICK ME! PICK ME!"
15. Ask someone for help with a video game and when they ask you which one you want you point to one and say "no maybe this one, or this one". repeat this at least 15 times.
16. Take at least 5 min to decide on which pack of gum you want and when you finally make a decission wen they tell you the price say "you have to pay for stuff here i thought this was the lost and found!"
17. See what you can "catch" by casting fishing poles into different isles.
18. Play football and see how many people you can get to join in.
19. Play soccer using the whole store as your field
20. Try on bras over your clothes in the middle of the store.
21. Try to get people to race you across the store.
22. Sit on the floor and watch T.V. in the electronics department.
23. Pretend to speak a different language and see how many weird looks you get
24. Superglue quarters to the floor and count how many people try to pick them up
25. Switch all the radios to strange stations suck as polka or Mexican rap and turn the volume all the way up.
26. Fill up carts and just leave them around the store.
27. When someone is behind you in a narrow aisle, walk very slowly, humming to yourself.
28. Drape a blanket around your shoulders and pretend to be superman.
29. have a panic attack whenever    you see someone pick up the last of something
30. Walk up to random strangers and say "I haven't seen you in so long!" etc.
31. Do the same thing, except ask for their autograph.
32. Play Red Rover with other customers. Except don't tell them that they're playing.
33. Test brushes and combs
34. Take up an entire toy aisle with a G.I. Joe vs. Rescue Heroes battle of epic proportions.
35. Take bets on the battle.
36. Have sword fights with tubes of wrapping paper.
37. Follow people.
38. Play with the price scanners.
39. Spray air-freshener everywhere.
40. Play with the automatic doors.
41. Make a pillow fort.
42.Test all the deoderants and ask people to sniff your armpits to see if it works.
43. Shopping cart races. Enough said.
44. Crawl into gym bags and laundry hampers.
45. Have a "heart attack" if there isn't gum in the bathroom, run screaming to the nearest person and yell, THE WORLD IS ENDING THERES NO GUM IN THE BATHROOM!!!!!!!
46. Get a bunch of friends together and take all of the electrical chair cart things. Then race upand down each aisleside by side.
47. Stand by the CD player, where you can push buttons and songs play, and just stay there for like 20 minutes pushing all of the buttons at least twice.
48. "Re-alphabetize" the CD's
49. "Re-alphabetize" the books.
50. When someone steps away from their cart to look at something, quickly make off with it without saying a word.
51. Running around the store screaming walmart sucks, walmart sucks let's go to target!
52. Buy a candybar. Eat it. Get back in line. Buy another candy bar. Eat it. Get back in line. Repeat until you get bored.
53. Drag a lounge chair on display over to the magazines, relax and if the store has a food court, buy a soft drink; explain that you don't get out much, ask if they can put a little umbrella in it.
54. Take all the carts out of the parking lot cart holder and put one in each parking space.
55. Go into the emplyoee lounge and teepee it.
56.
57. Spill clear soap down an aisle.
58. Talk to the lady at the cash register for a whole 20 minutes about unicorns.
59. When an announcement comes over the loud speaker, assume the fetal position and scream."NO! NO! It's those voices again!!!!"
60.Pretend to be a monkey and get on all fours screaming "Oo-oo-aaa-aa!" And attack whoever buys bananas.  
 61. Got get milk, cearel, spoons, pay for it then sit in the middle of the ceareal isle and have breakfast, if somebody comes say I bought it!!!
 62. Got to the kiddy rides area with tons of quarters, ride the same ride(s) for an hour at least!

Juba, truly, once was plenty.

Scott

For those of us who find the maps challenging, could you explain what you mean?  I've tried and tried to get these maps, but they just won't cooperate and soak into this brain of mine.

Just an update on the weather radios available at Price Chopper Stores- the stores in the northland have been sold out after the storms last week. The store in Parkville has them back in - I went and picked one up for our son and daughter in law as they live close to the Gladstone area of damage.  The point that I wanted to pass along- this particular radio has a jack that you can plug in a strobe light - perfect for hard of hearing or those who "sleep through anything". Thanks for making these available for those who need that feature.

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I am going to be at the store in Parkville on the 24th!!!

Gary

Once is enoguh Juba. No 1 in the blogs will try to get kicked out of WalMart.

hey gary this is Steven from gladstone,Mo i talked to you last friday and gave you the video of the tornado that hit gladstone and a little north i was wondering if you where going to come to the wedding and if you still had some books left over let me know here is our number 816-468-1675 talked to you latter Gary the best Meteorologist in the world talked to you soon..

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Make sure to email Gary:  lezak@nbcactionnews.com