Tornado Damage (Aerial photos)

[VtSteve]

Originally Posted by wildwoodfam

We heard the lake was high - friends of our pulled their docks out??? We are visiting family near Kill Kare - heard the weather was going to be good all week but with lake level high - considering not bringing the boat up and just relyign on family (though I much prefer to pilot my own vessel.)

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Oh it's not that high by any means. Well, it has gone up over a foot this month Currently at 97 plus feet, I wouldn't worry about docks generally until 98 plus. It's usually either too high or low, never perfect. So far this year it's been from 101' down to about 96'. Perhaps we should have tide tables

[Keith]

The picture of the tornado end point is Green Mountain I believe (please let me know if it is not), it is quite a few miles from cotton mountain in Wolfeboro. (10 maybe?)

[riverat]

We live in the Merymeeting River MHP where we were hit pretty hard, dozens of homes damaged or destroyed and hundreds of trees also. I believe it was our thick tree cover which saved us from total destruction, as the tornado came across the river and ran into a thick mass of hardwoods and pine and although that area was devastated it seem to deflect the tornado upwards where it did miminal damage compared to where it initially entered the park. Scariest few seconds of my life! Unbelivable nobody was injured with all the destruction and flying projectiles. But I would love to see an arial shot of where it enterd the park, someone must have one with all the aircraft flying over in the last week. We have united into a mean lean tornado cleaning up machine and I am proud to know all my neighbors for coming together and putting or slice of heaven back together.

[Scott]

The NWS updated their webpage for the tornado. Most of the pics aren't anything new, except for one which has wowed me. It's posted below.

Full site:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/gyx/SevereWe...nado072408.php

[Scott]

I attached a little goody showing the July 24th tornado. It's the storm relative radial velocity image. What it shows is the motion of precipitation in storms. Precipitation moving toward the radar has negative velocity shown in blues/greens and precipitation moving away from the radar has a positive velocity, shown in yellows and oranges. This is how you identify rotation in storms and spot tornadoes.

Look near Barnstead and you can clearly see a couplet, which is a blue pixel touching a red pixel. Only way for a rain to be moving towards and away the radar in such a small area is for there to be rotation.

[Rose]

Originally Posted by Scott

Look near Barnstead and you can clearly see a couplet, which is a blue pixel touching a red pixel. Only way for a rain to be moving towards and away the radar in such a small area is for there to be rotation.

Thanks, Scott, for getting and posting this. I've been looking for it archived online, but anything that I found which was already processed didn't have the resolution.