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Welcome To The USS Powhatan NCC-1967

Part Of Star Fleet Interntional Region One Chesapeake,Virginia

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USS Powhatan NCC-1967 attended Sky Warn training class May 14,2008 and was Hosted by our Own Ruth Bigio and National Oceanic and Admispheric Administration. It is important to track and spot severe weather before it happens. The USS Powhatan are not stom chasers but storm spotters.

Define by National and Admispheric Administration sky warn is defined as

"SKYWARN is a concept developed in the early 1970s that was intended to promote a cooperative effort between the National Weather Service and communities. The emphasis of the effort is often focused on the storm spotter, an individual who takes a position near their community and reports wind gusts, hail size, rainfall, and cloud formations that could signal a developing tornado. Another part of SKYWARN is the receipt and effective distribution of National Weather Service information.

The organization of spotters and the distribution of warning information may lie with the National Weather Service or with an emergency management agency within the community. This agency could be a police or fire department, or often is an emergency management/service group (what people might still think of as civil defense groups). This varies across the country however, with local national weather service offices taking the lead in some locations, while emergency management takes the lead in other areas.

SKYWARN is not a club or organization, however, in some areas where Emergency Management programs do not perform the function, people have organized SKYWARN groups that work independent of a parent government agency and feed valuable information to the National Weather Service. While this provides the radar meteorologist with much needed input, the circuit is not complete if the information does not reach those who can activate sirens or local broadcast systems.

SKYWARN spotters are not by definition "Storm Chasers". While their functions and methods are similar, the spotter stays close to home and usually has ties to a local agency. Storm chasers often cover hundreds of miles a day. The term Storm Chaser covers a wide variety of people. Some are meteorologists doing specific research or are gathering basic information (like video) for training and comparison to radar data. Others chase storms to provide live information for the media, and others simply do it for the thrill.

Storm Spotting and Storm Chasing is dangerous and should not be done without proper training, experience and equipment.

The National Weather Service conducts spotter training classes across the United States, and your local National Weather Service office should be consulted as to when the next class will be held."

National Oceanic and Admispheric Administraion simple maps that are upto date can be found at http://www.skywarn.org/ if you are interesting in tracking and spotting storms. Please do this in the safety of your own home. We do not need Storm Chasers and Storm Spotters hurt. If need to report in an emergency always follow these guidelines

Skywarn Reporting

Reporting Format

Identify yourself:
- provide your CALL and your location including, if possible, the nearest large intersection or landmark
What have you seen:
- Wall cloud, Tornado, large hail, flooding, etc
Where you saw it:
- The direction and distance from where you saw it.
  - (example: 3 miles south of town)
When you saw it:
- Make sure you remember exactly what time observation occured
What was it doing:
- Describe the storms direction and speed of travel, size and intensity, and destructiveness. (also include any amount of uncertainty as needed. (i.e., "funnel cloud; no debris visible at surface but too far away to be certain it is on the ground))"

Reporting Criteria

Critical Priority

Any tornado, waterspout, or funnel cloud
Wall cloud (especially if any rotation is seen)
Widespread wind damage
- Trees, power lines, structural damage
Flash flooding
- streams, creeks, rivers or dam breaks
- severe street, urban, or basement flooding
  - 1+ inches in an hour in urban areas
  - 2+ inches in 3 hours in urban areas

High Priority

At least penny sized hail (0.75 inch)
Any thunderstorm wind gusts of 58 mph (50 knots) or greater
Poor-drainage urban flooding which makes roads impassable
- Distiction between poor drainage flooding and overflowing streams is crutial!
Snowfall: 1+" in an hour or less

Moderate Priority

Any size hail less than 0.75" in diameter (smaller than a penny)
Thunderstorm wind gusts of 40-57 mph or downed small tree branches
River or stream rises to near bank full
Rainfall
- Event total
Snowfall
- When accumulations reach 2", 4", and 6"
- Event total
Ice jam locations
Freezing rain or freezing drizzle
Change in the type of precipitation (example: snow to rain)

We value your severe weather spotting and appreciate your timely reports. Reports can be made from any location: home, work, school, on the road, etc. However, we do request that you spot safely...please don't risk injury (or worse) to provide us with your information. Please relay your reports as soon as it is safe to do so.

REMEMBER...the first rule of severe weather spotting and emergency communications is to protect yourself. Insure your own safety first; then and only then, communicate your observation.

Anyone who is interested in weather can also visit myweatherlive at http://www.myweatherlive.com/. There are blogs and meteorologist there members can post too. Note the radars and maps at myweatherlive sometimes are not as uptodate as National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. When viewing weather charts and maps please refer first to the maps and charts on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at http://www.skywarn.org/ and then view myweatherlive,your local online televison radars,weatherunderground, yahoo weather, the weather channel online (etc)..

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Tuesday, May 20th 2008

3:37 PM

Thunderstorms predicted Southeastern Virginia 5/21/08 to 5/24/08

There is a gale warning off the Virginia Coast. The next three day may be chances of thunderstorms. From the national digital data base from NOAA Tuesday Hi 81° Lo 54° Chance of T-storms, Wednesday Hi 74° Lo 56°, Chance of Rain,Thursday Hi 74° Lo 54° Partly Cloudy, Friday Hi 68° Lo 56° Clear,Saturday Hi 70° Lo 56° Clear. Mild Thunderstorms and light rain are scatter now and it is damp outside... Today the wind speed is above 15 mph.Yes, It may be warmer today than over the past few days. However this means a warm front has finally reached a cold front which creates the atmosphere for thunderstorms, gail warnings, and an overcast view. Later on this afternoon 3:50 pm- 4:10 pm May 20-Well where I was this afternoon became dark and hazy fog-Severe Thunderstorm heavy rain followed by pea size hail about 4.3 miles from Portsmouth Virgina. Area is still in Sever thunderstorm Warning rt 58 closed east bound due to fallen trees. I do not know as of yet what will be the outcome of these storm fronts... Thanks

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Thursday, May 8th 2008

8:24 PM

Tornado Watch May 8th Central Virgina

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 280
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
650 PM EDT THU MAY 8 2008

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
   TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

          SOUTHERN MARYLAND
          NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
          CENTRAL VIRGINIA
          COASTAL WATERS

   EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING FROM 840 PM
   UNTIL 300 AM EDT.

   TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND
   GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE
   AREAS.

   THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 30 STATUTE
   MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 60 MILES NORTH OF RICHMOND
   VIRGINIA TO 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROANOKE RAPIDS NORTH CAROLINA.
   FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH
   OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).

   REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
   TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH
   AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
   THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
   AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

   OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 280...WW 281...WW 282...

   DISCUSSION...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE SPREADING EWD
   INTO WW THIS EVENING ALONG INCREASING LLJ. VERY IMPRESSIVE SHEAR
   PROFILES ON EVENING SOUNDINGS AND AREA VWP/S WILL MAINTAIN THREATS
   OF ISOLATED SUPERCELLS AS WELL AS SMALL BOWING SEGMENTS. POTENTIAL
   FOR TORNADOES WILL ACCOMPANY THREATS OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
   WINDS WITH THE STRONGER STORMS TONIGHT.

Thunderstirm Cloud Formation ,taken in my neighborhood in Chesapeake Virginia May 9.2008 8:00 a.m.

Temperature 72

Humidity 80 percent

Wind Speed 18 mph

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Tuesday, April 29th 2008

8:19 PM

Tornado Stories Shared By Others 4/28-4/30-2008

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/04/share-your-tornado-story

http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=News&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=IPED31+Dec+2006+18%3A35%3A05%3A397

http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=News&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=News&itemid=IPED02+Jan+2007+18%3A11%3A05%3A130

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Sunday, April 20th 2008

8:45 PM

Tornado Warning In Effect April 20,2008

TORNADO WATCH 210 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 1 AM EDT MONDAY FOR THE
FOLLOWING AREAS

IN NORTH CAROLINA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 6 COUNTIES

IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

CAMDEN CHOWAN CURRITUCK
GATES PASQUOTANK PERQUIMANS

IN VIRGINIA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 15 COUNTIES

IN EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA

ESSEX GLOUCESTER KING AND QUEEN
LANCASTER MIDDLESEX NORTHUMBERLAND
RICHMOND WESTMORELAND

IN SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA

ISLE OF WIGHT JAMES CITY MATHEWS
SURRY YORK

IN THE EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA

ACCOMACK NORTHAMPTON

IN VIRGINIA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 10 INDEPENDENT CITIES

IN SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA

CITY OF CHESAPEAKE CITY OF FRANKLIN CITY OF HAMPTON
CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS CITY OF NORFOLK CITY OF POQUOSON
CITY OF PORTSMOUTH CITY OF SUFFOLK
CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH CITY OF WILLIAMSBURG

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...AVALON...AYDLETT...BARCO...
BARTLETT...BAVON...BEANES CORNER...BEAZLEY...BELCROSS...BERTHA...
BISCOE...BLAKES...BOWERS HILL...BROWNS STORE...BRUINGTON...
BURGESS...BURNT MILLS...BUSCH GARDENS...BYRDTON...CALLAO...
CAMDEN...CAPE CHARLES...CARDINAL...CARVER GARDENS...CENTERVILLE...
CHERITON...CHESAPEAKE AIRPORT...CHINCOTEAGUE...
CHRISTENSONS CORNER...CHUCKATUCK...CLANCIE...CLAREMONT...
CLEOPUS...COBBS CREEK...COINJOCK...COLONIAL BEACH...COROLLA...
CRITTENDEN...CROAKER...CROUCH...CURRITUCK...CITY OF NORFOLK...
CITY OF PORTSMOUTH...DEANES...DEEP CREEK...DENDRON...DIASCUND...
DIGGS...DIXIE...DODLYT...DOWNTOWN SUFFOLK...DRAGONVILLE...
DRIVER...EDENTON...ELIZABETH CITY...ELWOOD...EWELL...EXMORE...
FENTRESS...FORT NONSENSE...FRANKLIN...GATESVILLE...
GLOUCESTER POINT...GOOSE CREEK...GRANDY...GREAT BRIDGE...
GREENBRIER...GRESSIT...HAMPTON...HERBERTS CORNER...HERTFORD...
HICKORY...HORSESHOE...INDIANTOWN...KEMPSVILLE...KILMARNOCK...
NASSAWADOX...NEWPORT NEWS...NORFOLK INTERNATIONAL AIR...
ONANCOCK...POQUOSON...SMITHFIELD...SURRY...TAPPAHANNOCK...
URBANNA...WARSAW...WHITE STONE...WILLIAMSBURG...
WINFALL AND YORKTOWN.

Hazed Rain Storm April 19th,2008

Taken in my Neighborhood

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Saturday, April 12th 2008

12:08 AM

Possible Thunder Storms Saturday April 12,2008 Eure County NC 50.2 miles from Chesapeake Virginia

Photos taken in my neighborhood Of Saturdays Afternoon Storms Chesapeake, Virginia- Pictures Showing Part of A Thunderstorm Squall Line April 12,2008

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Wednesday, April 9th 2008

5:40 PM

High Surf Advisory

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD

CITY NC  406 PM EDT WED APR 9 2008    NCZ103-101000-  /O.CON.KMHX.

CF.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-080410T1000Z/  /O.CON.KMHX.SU.Y.0009.

000000T0000Z-080410T1000Z/  OUTER BANKS DARE-  406 PM EDT

WED APR 9 2008    ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT

 UNTIL 6 AM EDT  THURSDAY...  ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS

IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EDT THURSDAY...    A HIGH SURF ADVISORY

REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EDT THURSDAY. A  COASTAL FLOOD

ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EDT THURSDAY.

WINDS AND SEAS WILL SLOWLY DIMINISH TONIGHT...BUT LINGERING

LONG  PERIOD EASTERLY SWELL AND CONTINUING HIGH ASTRONOMICAL

TIDES WILL  BE ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN THE THREAT OF MINOR BEACH

EROSION AND OCEAN  OVERWASH AROUND THE TIMES OF HIGH TIDE.

THE BEST CHANCE FOR MINOR  COASTAL FLOODING AND BEACH

EROSION WILL BE AROUND THIS EVENING`S  HIGH TIDE AT 11 PM.

MOTORISTS TRAVELING ALONG HIGHWAY 12 LATE  THIS EVENING

SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POTENTIAL FOR OCEAN OVERWASH

IN SPOTS. CONDITIONS WILL RAPIDLY IMPROVE THURSDAY

AS THE SWELL AND  ASTRONOMICAL TIDES BOTH DECREASE.

THIS WILL END THE THREAT FOR  MINOR COASTAL FLOODING

ALONG HATTERAS ISLAND.A HIGH SURF ADVISORY MEANS

THAT HIGH SURF WILL AFFECT BEACHES IN  THE ADVISORY AREA..

.PRODUCING RIP CURRENTS AND LOCALIZED BEACH  EROSION.

  A COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY INDICATES THAT ONSHORE WINDS

 AND TIDES  WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE MINOR FLOODING OF

LOW AREAS ALONG THE  SHORE.

High Surf Advisory 4/9/08

Effect for Dare County, NC. 89.61 miles away from Chesapeake, Virginia

Dew Point will drop less than 5 degrees f and fog will surround the area

between Dare County to Southeastern Virginia

______________________________________________________________________

Photo taken of fog within a street lamp showing dewpoint about 55

degrees F on Thurday April 10th,2008 3:00 am Chesapeake Virginia.

Notice the denseness in the small raindrops as visability is poor.

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Wednesday, April 9th 2008

3:11 AM

Weather

Chesapeake, VA

54°F

Cloudy

Feels Like: 54°F

Humidity: 92%

Wind: N 8 mph

Hour-by-hour 10-day

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