TheNiño

EF-1 confirmed in Somers near Kenosha. Missed me by a few miles. That is the second confirmed tornado in the little town of Somers this season. https://www.fox6now.com/news/wisconsin-confirmed-tornado-thursday-061126.amp

This is from Kouts

Given how beautiful the Kenosha storm was there is a TON of pictures/videos coming in. I’m thinking the “public confirmed” tornado was actually a rotating wall cloud that never actually made it to the ground. But given the rotation a lot of people thought it was.

Confirmed tornado in northern Kenosha. Missed me by a few miles. Video here: https://x.com/kenoareaweather/status/2065212739945934931?s=46 (Not the actual tornado but just an early video put out) Absolutely beautiful storm though

My brothers tree took a lightning strike in Algonquin. Power is still out there as well

Power just went out in Algonquin

Wasn’t expecting a watch this far east. Probably won’t even get here until 4-5am and I can’t imagine it’ll stay together but we’ll see. I’ll take a few rumbles even if that’s the most I get out of it. edit: ended up being nothing as expected but some good c2g so I’ll take it

Was south of Springfield 2 weeks ago and was commenting to a friend that I’ve never seen so much dust blowing around in Illinois before. The winds weren’t even all that strong. About an hour later we got a push alert on our phones for a dust storm warning. I don’t think I’ve ever had a push alert for that in Illinois before.

Milwaukee has 35,000 without power as well

Moderate now for parts of Missouri and Illinois. I feel somewhat vindicated.

00z HRRR came in hot for eastern Missouri and central Illinois. Looking like a more limited risk for LOT but things down south are looking quite spicy Edit: No moderate risk on the new day 1. Is my weenie certificate mailed to me or do I need to pick it up in person?

No moderate risk on the day 2 so I’ll probably be wrong. But I still see high risk potential in the Springfield area tomorrow. I’m willing to take the weenie penalty if I’m wrong but at the very least there should be a moderate there. I don’t know I’m just some fucking guy.

Am I being a weenie thinking this has high risk potential around the STL to Springfield area? I know it’s still too early to tell but the models certainly aren’t backing down.

Fair response. I have a friend there and he claimed the sirens activated first before any warning was issued, then again after the threat had passed and he sent me video of the fact in real time. But I appreciate your first hand account, he’s not a weather weenie. I made a post in the banter thread about the automated system being used and how it’s working. Appreciate your genuine experience with it. I’m not trying to shit on the new system just wanting to get legit first hand experiences which you did so thank you.

Yeah I don’t mean to be sounding critical and this isn’t really on the spc, the warning was justified. This is more on my city specifically. I get it, tornado warning is issued so they sound the alarm. But then 90min (not an exaggeration) elapsed and they never sounded them again. Meanwhile Libertyville’s automated alarm system kept going off well after the threat had passed.