reply to post by azzllin
I think you might have misread the article.
Cozad Witnesses Rare Weather
Trees were thrown into houses and cars but no injuries were reported. There was at least one close call. Nancy Wurst said her son just
missed injury
as a tree crashed into his car.
Trees were crashing/falling on cars.
Originally posted by hotbakedtater
How strange! What causes a heat burst?
Never heard of a "Heat Burst" before, so I did a little search,
Heat Burst - Wikipedia
A heat burst is a rare atmospheric phenomenon characterised by gusty winds and a rapid increase in temperature and decrease in dew point. Heat
bursts typically occur during night-time and are associated with decaying thunderstorms. While this phenomenon is not fully understood,
it is
theorized that the event is caused when rain evaporates (virga) into a parcel of cold dry air high in the atmosphere making the air more dense than
its surroundings.[1] The parcel descends rapidly, warming due to compression, overshoots its equilibrium level and reaches the surface, similar to a
downburst.[2] Recorded temperatures during heat bursts have reached well above 90 °F (32 °C), sometimes rising by 20 °F (11 °C) or more within
only a few minutes.
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Heat bursts are also characterised by extremely dry air and are sometimes associated with very strong, even damaging, winds.
They also list at least 9 other places where this weather event has happened in the past.
Some other links to this weather event.
WHAT IS A HEAT BURST?
THE 22-23 MAY 1996 HEATBURST: A SEVERE WIND EVENT
Some friends of mine were fishing off the coast of Florida just the other day, about 20 miles out, when they had just the opposite happen to them.
There were rainstorms and thunderstorms all over the place that day, and then, in the matter of minutes they said the temperature
dropped about 20 degrees.
I think this is more common than these "Heat Bursts" though.
[edit on 6/28/2008 by Keyhole]
