1992
05/01/92 CARA-LYN LAPPEN csu-atmos
At lunch on May 1, she looked around at the other lunch participants and
announced that it was the 10th anniversary of the Weather Channel!!! The looks
that some of the non-meteoheads gave her was great.
05/11/92 TERRY SCHUUR csu-atmos
for reading the comics in the Collegian and accidently referring to Calvin and
Hobbes as Wallace and Hobbs.
05/11/92 CHRIS LANDSEA csu-atmos
list moderator was turned on to the fact that the number 3 on chris' TV clicker
no longer works. how could this possibly be? (note that local cable has Weather
Channel on 33). nice job, chris.
05/22/92 WILLIAM M GRAY csu-atmos
upon hearing the date of the landsea wedding, september 11 (1993), dr gray's
only comment was "Congratulations, you're getting married at the PEAK day of
hurricane activity in the Atlantic."
06/01/92 GREG THOMPSON csu-atmos
While visiting the east coast, he called mark branson, among others, long
distance when he heard that there was severe weather in nebraska. the fact that
it was in north-central nebraska was of no concern. he just wanted to know if
someone was on it...
06/01/92 IAN WITTMEYER csu-atmos
When told that kelley was going to dentist to have mouth modelled, he said "Make
sure he integrates with an appropriate time step."
06/08/92 IAN BAKER CHARLOTTE DEMOTT csu-atmos
While trying to get hannah wittmeyer to run around in circles, baker asked if
she were enjoying some "personal vorticity". charlotte then commented that it
was "more of a personal bouyancy oscillation" as hannah was jumping up and down
more than spinning. baker then asked what her B-V frequency was.
06/08/92 STEVE HODANISH nws-augusta GREG STUMPF nssl
When videoing carlsbad caverns {on morning of storm chase} spewed forth the
following: "we're under a stalactite-free base", "stalagmite on the ground",
"we're NOT in an echo-free vault", ...and when viewing a stalactite known as
'The Lion's Tail' which has crystal-like irregularities on the end, greg
mentioned that this one "has debris on the bottom".
06/08/92 GREG THOMPSON csu-atmos
Coming home from a busted mini chase on 6/4, greg saw car-mate matt savoie twist
a wrapper into a tornado shape and greg called it 'tornado-envy'.
06/17/92 IAN BAKER csu-atmos
ian's new pickup line for female wx weenies: "it's not how big it is but how
much damage it does".
06/26/92 JASON NACHAMKIN csu-atmos
While everyone was looking at everybody elses storm pictures recently, he
suggested that people could trade pictures like baseball cards; "i'll trade you
a rotating wall cloud for a twister on the ground."
06/26/92 JASON NACHAMKIN csu-atmos
He claims that if a woman treated him the way that tornados do, he "would have
left her long ago. i mean, you drive 500 miles to see her, and she doesn't even
show up!"
07/27/92 GREG STUMPF nssl
Last week, took his date out to see the OKC channel 9 radar domes. NOW THAT'S
A DATE!!
07/27/92 KELLEY WITTMEYER csu-atmos
Upon preparing a list of things for ian baker to do while house sitting during
an upcoming vacation, she carefully included "have a beer on the back deck and
enjoy the secondary max".
07/27/92 IAN WITTMEYER csu-atmos
ian's new .signature file for his email:(your web browser may vary.....)
...................\_______________________/
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his name etc.................| /
.over here................../ /
.........................../ /....Mobile home -->
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'nuf said.
07/27/92 DAPHNE FONTENOT rap-ncar
Wants to make a deck of flashcards with notorious tornadoes pictured on them, so
the serious wxweenie can quiz his/her friends on the identification of famous
tornadoes in lieu of getting a real life.
08/21/92 JASON NACHAMKIN csu-atmos
After a discussion of the repressive regime that controls the African country of
Malawi, Jason said - "it's so totalitarian, that even the thunderstorms are
capped."
08/21/92 Steve Weygandt ou-atmos
Described greg stumpf's attempts at asking a girl out after things had faded
away a "brief spinup".
08/21/92 Paul Janish nssl
For writing the following nssl happy hour announcment:
So here it is a velumptious Friday afternoon, tough week passing us by like an
outflow boundary in the late July sky....alas, time to converge, converge into a
mass of late week festivities and libations which will surely diminish the woes
of a weeks frustrations and rapidly develop the reality of fun and frolic in thedays ahead (barring any thought of Monday naturally)......yes a rapid
convective overturning of emotions!!!
Where, oh where can we chase this convergence max, with ageostrophically
accelerated flows of brew, and enhnaced spinups of butterspank shots for
$1.25.....well, .....the high risk zone suggests the vacinity of Main street in
downtown Norman. EFF personnel have utilized the newest technology to
determine that the center of action will be at DENCO'S CAFE.
08/21/92 John Knowles csu-atmos
While all the guys were at a bachelor party, they were discussing an evening
just a few nights previous where (trying to be tactful here) - the guys were
emitting methane at a very high rate. John went on to describe how a fellow
atmos member had graciously left the room to pass, but then had immediately
returned, trailing the smell with him due to "wake capture." John then said
this kind of behavior can create a "fart line". When asked what would happen
should two "fart lines" collide, John said that something would be created - a
"supersmell".
09/07/92 Matt Savoie csu-atmos
While piling into Dave Mocko's hail-dented auto, Keith Forman claimed he should
rename the car 'the tornado mobile'. Matt then said
"No, it should be the CAPE Crusader!"
09/14/92 Charlotte DeMott csu-atmos
While watching a baseball game at the Toronto Skydome, Charlotte felt impelled
to snap a picture of the lighted message board reporting that severe
thunderstorms had knocked out power in the city that day.
09/14/92 Chris Cornwall csu-atmos
Set his watch to beep the MOMENT fall arrived, which happened during lunch with
friends. He then commented, while turning off the beep; "oh, it's fall
everybody."
09/14/92 Meteorologist Booda den wx srvc
For the following bit of poetry in the 10/1/92 denver discussion:
FPUS3 KDEN 011529
LISTEN MY FRIENDS AND YOU SHALL HEAR ABOUT SKIES WHICH ARE BLUE AND CLEAR.
THIS MRNG NARY A CLOUD COVERS THE SKY AND TEMPS ARE EXPECTED TO CLIMB QT HI.
OVER THE SRN MTNS A FEW CLDS MAY FORM BUT THEY WL NOT LEAD TO A THUNDERSTORM.
WL MAX TEMPS BE THE HIEST IN HISTORY THAT IS TODAYS BIG UNSOLVED MYSTERY.
WHILE WE HAVE TEMPERATURES AS WARM AS TOAST A BIG LOW SPINS AND WHIRLS NR THE
PAC COAST.
WHEN WL THE LOW ARRIVE IS A QUESTION I ASK WHILE UNDER THE BRIGHT SUN I SIT AND
BASK.
NOT TODAY OR TOMORROW THAT IS FOR SURE BUT PSBLY THE WEEKEND IF THE MDLS ARE
PURE.
MEANWHILE THE FORECAST COULD NOT BE ANY FINER SO ANY CHANGES I MAKE WILL BE
QUITE MINOR.
.CO...NONE
BOODA
10/18/92 Jason Nachamkin csu-atmos
showed greg thompson a photocopied radar summary in which the only radar echo
apparent on the photocopy was in the shape of a heart. he explained "i will give
this to a valentine someday."
10/28/92 Mike Weissbluth & Eric Stevens csu-atmos
At Wesley's party, Mike was making margaritas. Near the "end of the mixing
process", Mike opened the blender top and noted, "Must be done, the flow is
nearly laminar." Eric then commented that
"ice tracers" were still evident in the flow.
10/28/92 John Pasqua non-meteo-head
David Mocko asked his friend John back in New Jersey to tape a concert that was
going to be aired over the radio. Because John was out for the night, he set
his VCR to tape the audio on a videotape. When David received the tape in the
mail, the concert was perfect on the audio, accompanied with 4 hours
of just the visual from the Weather Channel.
11/02/92 Greb Stumpf nssl
noted that george bush won all the dryline states
(north dakota to texas) in the presidential election.
11/02/92 Dr Roger Pielke csu-atmos
on the way to class during the heavy snowstorm this week, dr pielke noted to
scott denning that it was the lowest pressure he'd ever seen in fort collins.
scott wondered how he knew this until roger rolled
up his sleeve to reveal a barometer on his watch.
11/20/92 Greg Stumpf nssl
While most of us hang dramatic weather photography, posters of atmospheric
interest, phone lists, and calendars in our offices, Greg Stumpf actually has a
large section of twisted and mangled sheetmetal in his office which he has
labled "chunky debris". The truly artistic deco was procured following a severe
storm event in Norman.
11/20/92 Dave Keller nssl
Nicknamed the bunny that has a nest in the NSSL front lawn, "NEXRAB". Also, he
video time-lapsed the bunny's daily routine in preparation for storm time-
lapsing in the spring.
11/20/92 Bill Gallus csu-atmos
ian wittmeyer sent bill mail about some strange AMA obs containing an unknown
current precipitation identifier (P-). ian surmised it was either a typo for
IP- (light ice pellets) or a new precip identifier he hadn't heard of. he also
mentioned to bill that if it stood for "pellets" then that would be rather
ambiguous, so he suggested that P- could stand for any of the following: ice
pellets, uranium pellets, rabbit pellets, etc. bill replied by sening ian some
theoretical observations given that rabbit pellets were indeed falling from the
sky:
FCL 1/2 P+ TRD ALQDS, STNCH W WFTNG E.
FCL 1/8 P+U TURD 3/4
12/11/92 Dr Dave Randall csu-atmos
Made the analogy-with illustrated transparencies-that clouds are like sheep and
CAPE is like grass, such that the sheep eat the grass as fast as it grows.
12/11/92 Kelley Wittmeyer csu-atmos
Designed a screen-saver for her NEXT machine that causes an image of a roving
supercell including a rotating funnel and dust cloud that moves across
the screen.