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Lots of damage in the Olive Branch area.
Lots of damage in the Olive Branch area.
Tornado pics from up here yesterday.
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this is one that tried to form right over my head the other day at the research park. The bright spot is the center where everything was rotating. Lucky for me, no flying monkeys.
I have been a weather geek my entire life and have still never seen a tornado that well defined. Anybody know what neighborhood that damage was in. Road names?
That bright hole in the sky would be a RFD (Rear Flanking Downdraft). Within a minute or two of this forming, it is common to get a tube right beside it.3000lbchicken said:this is one that tried to form right over my head the other day at the research park. The bright spot is the center where everything was rotating. Lucky for me, no flying monkeys.
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The WxChallenge is a weather forecasting competition between colleges in North America. The competition is run by the University of Oklahoma. In its first official semester, fall 2006, there were 1,262 participants from 53 institutions. A similar competition, the National Collegiate Weather Forecasting Contest, recently ended, partially due to this competition. <a id="Organization" name="Organization"></a></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[edit]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Organization</span></h2>
Entrants in the contest must be affiliated with a college or university, but they range in age and knowledge from undergraduates to professors. Each semester, 5 cities are picked for forecasting; the current city changes every 2 weeks. Contestants forecast 4 days per week for the following day's high temperature (in Fahrenheit), low temperature, maximum sustained wind speed (in knots) and precipitation (in 1/100ths of an inch).</p>
One "error" point is given for each degree of error on temperature, 1/2 an error point is given for each knot of wind speed error.</p>
Precipitation is scored as follows:</p>
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Entrants in the contest must be affiliated with a college or university, but they range in age and knowledge from undergraduates to professors. Each semester, 5 cities are picked for forecasting; the current city changes every 2 weeks. Contestants forecast 4 days per week for the following day's high temperature (in Fahrenheit), low temperature, maximum sustained wind speed (in knots) and precipitation (in 1/100ths of an inch).</p>
One "error" point is given for each degree of error on temperature, 1/2 an error point is given for each knot of wind speed error.</p>
Precipitation is scored as follows:</p>
- 0.4 points for each .01 inch of error in the verification range from 0.00 to 0.10 inches inclusive
- 0.3 points for each .01 inch of error in the verification range from 0.11 to 0.25 inches inclusive
- 0.2 points for each .01 inch of error in the verification range from 0.26 to 0.50 inches inclusive
- 0.1 points for each .01 inch of error in the verification range over 0.50 inches
<a id="Winners" name="Winners"></a></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[edit]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Winners</span></h2>
- 2006-07: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2007-08: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2008-09: Mississippi State University
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