By the time it reached the Atlantic Ocean, the cyclone was a force to be reckoned with.
Satellite imagery of the"bomb cyclone" that developed off the East Coast this week. 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.
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.A cyclone offshore SC/NC has rapidly deepened -- central pressure down 20 hPa in 9 hours. Thunderstorms near its center have aided the deepening.
Diagram showing the sting jet at the center of the bomb cyclone on April 2. Observers could see the evaporation at the tip of this band of storms on radar yesterday, about 50 miles east of Ocracoke on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Within the vicious thunderstorm line, embedded supercells yielded nearly a half dozen simultaneous tornadic circulations at times. This while destructive gusts to 80 mph and large hail stirred up seas over the open ocean.
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