Originally Posted by
TangoAlphad
While I agree most would of been inhibited by take off it doesn't say much for the system if it didn't pick up a cell capable of putting an aircraft back on the deck during the early roll.. (assuming the cell theory)
And if the bulk of the cell was approaching from behind? The outer edge of a microburst from a cell behind the runway threshold would create a tailwind, which is what happened here. If they were flying into a cell, an increasing performance would have occurred, followed by a decrease, well off the airport boundary.