CheeselandSkies

You're thinking of 4/25/11... 4/27/14 is the date you're looking for.

...and hail was supposed to be a minimal threat today (5%)!

Well in that case it was understandable since the morning round of storms did so much infrastructure damage. Additionally Cullman tornado took out a weather radio transmitter if I recall correctly, Hackleburg tornado took out a TV station's radar as well as cutting power to most of northern Alabama that hadn't already lost it, etc...

I was just commenting on another weather forum - some serious radar data accessibility issues with the two recent events. Last Friday it was GR Level 3.

Latest HRRR shows the line breaking up a bit into potentially semi-discrete supercells over eastern Iowa in a couple hours, with some strong UH tracks.

They just amended the 20Z outlook to expand enhanced probabilities southward into MO, but left the maximum risk at moderate.

NASTY TDS near Neola, IA.

Strong couplet over Weston, IA.

Snow squall warnings going out for portions of north-central Nebraska/south-central SD.

Power outage reported in Johnston, IA (Des Moines area) due to non-tstm wind damage. Meanwhile, DMX issuing severe thunderstorm warnings what looks like about 100 miles ahead of the line...but that's only a little over an hour lead time.

Semi blown over at Fremont, NE per photo shown on that KETV stream.

What month is it again? https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md2030.html

Tornado tracked north of West Point, NE around 12-15 minutes ago, pronounced TDS and couplet. Heading towards Winnebago/Homer where I reached the former Pilger cell just in time to watch it die.

Wasn't Rochelle also pegged right at 200 MPH?

After the initial few, haven't seen any clear TDS' on radar for a while. Of course, storms of interest are currently about equidistant between Hastings and Omaha NEXRAD, with the 0.5 tilt hitting above 4,000'. That says these tornadoes, if they are on the ground, aren't lofting debris particularly high. At least, not like what was seen last Friday night (to be expected). However, I wonder if that might also be due in part to the environmental straight-line winds being so strong that they are scattering the debris before it can rise in a relatively concentrated area that would be picked up by the radar. Edit: Very possible TDS over Columbus, NE on the 2105 UTC scan, but NWS didn't pick up on it (no TORR). Edit 2: Apparently a TORR did go out, but my GR Level 3 didn't display it in real time. It shows up now when I play the loop back.

Tornado warned cells within NE line screaming northeast, will threaten the Pilger/Wisner/Stanton area. I can't look at those towns on the GR Level 3 map without feeling a little stab of pain for botching that chase in 2014.

I noticed that in the HRRR forecast soundings from this morning.

Even so...I just stood on my porch in a T-shirt, on December 15th, and felt only slightly chilly thanks to the wind. Clouds flying south to north.

Report of 80-90 MPH winds estimated by emergency manager at Giltner, NE just popped up on my GR Level 3. Looked like a TDS went over them.

TDS just went over Doniphan, NE.

>70dbz reflectivity returns in the line near Hastings...on December 15th.

Wow. I passed through there on my busted storm chase on May 26th. Glad I am not there now.

It's beginning to look a lot like...April. https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md2027.html

As an aside, my employer once had a meteorologist with the surname Waterman. He was super stoked to end up in your town on a storm chase back in June of 2016.