A Picture of a Moment of Fear

This is a picture of the radar on Weather Underground on Sunday as a tornado was hitting the St. Paul, MN, suburb of Hugo. (At the white circled cross hatch.) It is a classic radar picture of a tornadic storm in action. Even a quick look shows the "hook echo" that you hear meteorologists talk about. This picture and others are posted on Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog. There is also a link there to a 12-frame radar animation of the storm barreling across the northern Twin Cities Metro and radar pictures of the Parkersburg, IA, storm.

This has been a record setting, devastating spring storm season. They say some of it is due to La Nina. Whatever it is, may it end soon.