Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120403:19:39:00
Area. the shear values are high enough that what you're getting is not only storms building up to the atmosphere but because of the change in wind direction and wind speed, that is creating a rotation in the atmosphere, much the way it would if you were to roll a pencil in between your two hands. that rotation then gets tilted into the vertical and gets these storms rotating. so that's the environment that we're at today. again, it is not the most extreme environment with a tremendous amount of wind around, or wind sheer. but it is enough to get these storms rotatinrotating. we've been looking...
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