Massive Radar Pulse! explosion across 1/3 US mainland

Is this TX, OK City

or what the heck is it?

This one?

reply to post by tropic


Your vid isn't working....Are you talking about this explosion, though?

The circle is not over West, TX......far to east, been there and have a friend that is from there....that is more like over Fort Polk....now what are the rest of the circles over the east US?.

Massive!!!

There are severe storms from Texas to Illinois.

Originally posted by pointr97
The circle is not over West, TX......far to east, been there and have a friend that is from there....that is more like over Fort Polk....now what are the rest of the circles over the east US?.

The other circles are the locations of doppler radars. It's common for them to give that kind of signature... I see it almost daily from the NWS station in Jackson, Ky.

Massive Explosion in West Texas Fertilizer plant!!
If you check the video I posted you will know it was Big!!
Has nothing to do with the weather!!!!

reply to post by mysteryskeptic


Kid might of had his eardrum ruptured,

Thoughts and prayers for all involved.

reply to post by tropic


It's a fertilizer plant in West Texas. MSNBC on TV is showing massive fires. They are comparing it to the Murray Building in the OKC bombing.

The blast could be felt 50 miles away, 75-100 homes/businesses are destroyed. Residents are advised to go inside due to toxic fumes and secondary explosions.

Nursing home blew away a nursing home.

These are not explosions they are only doppler radar stations picking up feedback. These often happen in the late afternoon when humidity is at its highest. Doppler picks up moisture so obviously high humidity or moisture in the atmosphere causes readings. They are in a circle because that's how the radar reads.

Doppler Radar

Are we re-living this movie from 1998, "The Siege" with Denzel Washington? It's worth a watch, especially after the events in Boston...

And the award for stupidest Dad goes to....

OP, it wouldn't look like that anyway.

Consider. A NEXRAD dish spins fairly slowly - the range is very long, there's a lot of data to munch, the dish is heavy, most NEXRADs have a sweep speed of 10 to 90 seconds depending on generation.

So, it's moving relatively slowly. A "pulse" won't show unless the antenna's main lobe or a side lobe is pointing toward the pulse source. If it's turned away, nada. A pulse will be very fast. So if you saw anything at all from a "pulse" you would see a spike, a white radial line. Not a circle, or a square. Also, the spikes from the distributed radars would all point somewhat toward the source, directly at it for a main lobe hit, but if it comes in on a sidelobe it could be a number of degrees off.

Seriously, this sincedutch dunce you're probably getting this from doesn't have the faintest clue about radar.