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The bomb cyclone spawned something even more interesting Tuesday — a ‘sting jet’
By Matthew Cappucci April 3 at 1:44 PM
A “bomb cyclone” is bad enough. But a bomb cyclone accompanied by a 100-plus mph sting jet? That’s a force to be reckoned with.
The low pressure storm currently riding up the East Coast produced the phenomenon off the North Carolina shore Tuesday evening. The system was intensifying explosively, with the pressure dropping more than 25 millibars in 24 hours. That rate is fast enough to be considered what meteorologists call a bomb cyclone, which by definition is a storm that strengthens at a rate of at least 24 millibars in 24 hours.
And during its peak intensifying period Tuesday evening, the storm was much faster, at 20 millibars over just nine hours.
Among the many sights that caught weather watchers’ eyes was a pronounced tail at the apex of band of thunderstorms near the low pressure system’s core. The comma-like squalls converged to a point, resembling the tip of a scorpion’s tail. At the same time, Doppler radar measured winds above the ground pushing 120 mph.
It was a sting jet, a narrow but extremely intense burst of jet stream energy.
more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/04/03/bomb-cyclone-east-coast-weather-sting-jet/?utm_term=.9e48cc5d851b
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