Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 11:42:32 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from aerosurf.net ([216.167.68.224] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1b9) with ESMTP id 2472865 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 11:27:12 -0400 Received: from ieee.org [208.252.252.82] by aerosurf.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AA2E4C4501DC; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 05:33:02 -1000 X-Original-Message-ID: <3F1028A5.3040506@ieee.org> X-Original-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 08:26:29 -0700 From: "Charles R. Patton" Reply-To: charles.r.patton@ieee.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Freak weather question References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jim Michaels wrote: > How about a "dust devil" Chas? > > These are very common in TX, OK, etc. Hi Jim, The way I remember "Dust Devils" when I lived in Texas, were things as small as a child on the playground to maybe the diameter of car and 2 stories tall that you would see as you drove through the dust plains in summer. I never saw one sustain for 5 minutes. This seemed larger in magnitude and duration, perhaps like a small weak tornado, except no apparent damage. Furthermore, I've never heard of a tornado in essentially a mountainous region or even generally in California. My thought was more like a very localized wind shear. My wife was downtown and overheard a snippet of conversation about the "windstorm" at 4 that morning. Unfortunately she didn't have the opportunity to find out where they were at that time, so we weren't the only ones to experience the phenomenon. Charles Patton LNC2 360JM