[meteorite-list] Transcript from the National Weather Service about the FIREBALL and doppler radar cought by 13 wrex

[Shawn Alan]

Hello Listers,
 
Here is a copy of a transcript from the National Weather Service chatroom this evening about the fireball sighting.
 
(10:08:10 PM) nwsdvn-05: fireball observed a little bit ago just to the north of the office
(10:10:08 PM) KCRG Justin Gehrts: phones ringing off the hook here about it
(10:13:03 PM) KWWL Mark Schnackenberg: DItto
(10:13:38 PM) WHBF Ted McInerney: same here in rock island!
(10:16:39 PM) WHBF Ted McInerney: meteorite?
(10:16:47 PM) nwsdvn-05: very bright fireball
(10:17:57 PM) KWWL Mark Schnackenberg: from the North West.
(10:21:49 PM) KGAN Mace Michaels: Yeah same here as well. One of our producers outside came in and asked me about it. Pretty bright in the Northern sky
(10:26:31 PM) nwsmkx-short: Many calls to NWS offices as far west as Des Moines and Davenport about the fireball/meteorite/space debris(???). The La Crosse office said one caller reported a “boom” as it passed through. Could possibly be a sonic boom as it entered the atmosphere. County sheriff’s deputies from as far north as Portage and Winnebago counties down through Milwaukee and Rock counties have received many reports of a fireball.
(10:31:35 PM) nwsmkx-short: it looks as though the Pleasant Hill office outside of Kansas City is also getting reports of a fireball as well. This thing was visible across a large part of the region.
 
In addtion to the trascript, at 10:04pm a live doppler radar at 13 WREX News station may have picked up on the fireball over Southwestern Wisconsin. Here is a link to the doppler radar in question....
 
http://addins.wrex.com/blogs/weather/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/exactrack_doppler_348a.gif
 
 
Shawn Alan
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