Such a strange day for February. I've honestly never seen the shear parameters we've seen today with storms. I mean, 0-6km shear of 100 kt only happens with colder air, right?
possible tornado at the TX/OK border (same cell with the 114mph wind gust measured a while ago). The SPC mesoanalysis now has 1000 m2/s2 of 0-3km storm relative helicity here. confirmed tornado announced at 724pm central time
Here is radar right now, near the start of the severe weather event. Some non-thunderstorm wind gusts of 55mph-80mph have been in the region. I'm assuming some blowing dust is the reason that some stations report haze.
Behind the cold front and in front of the cold front. The colder air really does have a warmer part of the profile at 500mb that looks like a nose. It seems like winds could be 60kt-70kt just above ground in the Texas Panhandle.
wow, since 2002. Crazy. Which day of 2002? Excellent pics, although I'm sorry to hear this was so damaging. They had a couple of bits about this on the news here, and even said that upwards of 68% of Lenawee County is without power (or Hillsdale)?