July 1st Squall Line

Circled areas = damaging wind reports, blue squares = large hail. Note the lack of reports for the last half of the animation corresponds to it being late at night. Now, here is a challenge, not to just the readers, but to the community as well. To benefit the scientific community, one needs to send in weather reports to official sources, such as the National Weather Service or the Storm Prediction Center. Information sent to Watauga Road Conditions and Avery Road Conditions also need to be sent to the National Weather Service. The more reports we have, the better quality of data we can have for forecasting for future storms.

The more reports the community can send out, the more often I will produce animations like the one below (and the one from the 06/29/12 derecho).