TORNADO DYNAMICS Tornadoes happen shortly after geomagnetic storms when the interface between the polar air mass and mid latitude air mass is across the US midwest. The sudden increase in charge density in the sector north of the interface powers a high velocity shock wave which increases barometric pressure, wind speed and powers tornadoes along the interface. WEEKEND CME STRIKES: Over the weekend, a pair of CMEs hit Earth, one on May 18th 2013 (0100 UT) and another on May 19th (2250 UT). The impacts, especially the first one, rattled Earth’s magnetic field and sparked Northern Lights visible as far south as Colorado. Some of the brightest appeared over Cape Cod, Massachusetts. TORNADOES KILL 24 & INJURE 212 IN OKLAHOMA: On the afternoon of May 20, 2013, an EF5 tornado ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, and adacent areas, with peak winds at 210 miles per hour. The tornado was part of a larger system which had produced several other tornadoes across the Great Plains over the previous two days, including five that struck portions of Central Oklahoma on May 19. Tornadoes are ion electric currents powered by a dipole field along the tornado rotation axis attracting cloud ions toward the ground and conducting counterflowing currents of ground charge up field lines which transform the momentum of spiralling charges into moments which increases the attractive force of the dipole field directly as the current amperage increases. Storm cells trap electrons on cloud surfaces which cycle in the same instant and induce repelling forces between like charges on field lines of twin phase electrons draping cloud surfaces between cycles which compress high density storm cells which float close to the ground and repell ground charge from rainshadow surfaces inducing a voltage potential attracting cloud electrons to rainshadow surfaces. ****************** ****************** ****************** SOLAR FLARE & EXTREME UV FLASH: Dec 8th 2023 ************** ************** **************
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