There is a major tornado research program pertaining to tornadoes in the Southeast. I would like to offer a suggestion for some serious research. I have been viewing weather radar on a virtually daily basis for 48 years. This afternoon, I saw a phenomena I've seen only one other time which was in the late 1970's in Kansas (I don't remember the date): a gigantic (as these things go) rotating mesoscale vortex that was not associated with a supercell thunderstorm that was apparently spawning multi-vortex, violent, tornadoes. I'm bringing this to research meteorologists' attention because I have not seen any coverage of it in the Mississippi media, so far. Why is this important? The answer can be easily seen in a video here . A screen capture is below. It is rare for non-supercells to cause tornadoes of EF-3 intensity which the above image suggests.  Here are some images of the radar data from this unusual storm. The "donut" centered just west of ...

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy By the way, the screen capture above is from a video of the Pampa, Texas, tornado taken by Chuck Doswell and Alan Moller. It is crossing the Santa Fe (now BNSF) busy "Transcon" rail line. The reason there is no train in the picture was because of WeatherData's (now AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions) tornado warning which allowed Santa Fe to get its trains out of the area and safe from the tornado.