(meteorobs) A strange forest-fall in Russia

[Andrei Ol'khovatov]

Dear Jan and All,

I thought about a downburst too, but the problem is that (as reported) trees were
"twisted off".  So the shape could be sooner  a strange "play game" of more than one whirlwind.  Anyway, the data is just 
preliminary, sparsely and of second-hand, so for any serious interpretation more solid data is needed.
I am trying to obtain more data, but currently not very succusssful.  My inpression is that local authorities are not very 
interested as nobody killed, etc. Hoping than some guys (even UFO-associated) will go and investigate.  The place is about 5 
thousand miles from me...

Best wishes,
Andrei

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Verfl" <verfl.meteors at seznam.cz>
To: "'Arlene Carol'" <arlene.carol at gmail.com>; "'Global Meteor Observing Forum'" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 6:53 PM
Subject: RE: (meteorobs) A strange forest-fall in Russia


> Hi,
>
> i suppose it requires a meteorologist to look at the pictures - but if the
> area damaged now in Russia is not narrow (as in the bellow case) but rather
> circular or so (what is not known to me now), the cause can be somthing
> called "downburst" - a block of cold air falling down to the surface from
> high altitudes with high speed. It occurs usually during  t-storms (like
> tornadoes do), but perhaps even more often than tornadoes, as I've heard,
> but only rarely it produces remarkable damage (but it surely sometimes
> does).
>
> Jan
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
>> [mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Arlene Carol
>> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 7:36 AM
>> To: Global Meteor Observing Forum
>> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) A strange forest-fall in Russia
>>
>> Hi Andrei,
>>  Last year, we had an 'event' that looked remarkably similar
>> to this one. I took some photos of the damage to the olive
>> trees in the area that look like the damaged trees in the news report.
>> Local tv reported that it was a 'hortum' that did the
>> damage. In English, I think that translate more accurately to
>> a Twister...
>>  it covered a narrow area up the side of the mountain and was
>> about 2-3 square kilometers in area.
>>  i'm certainly no expert, but i'd guess this one wasn't a
>> meteor either.
>>  take care,
>>  arlene
>> south of troy, northern aegean
>>
>
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