Witness Protection Program

6 minutes ago, Chinook said:

So this is the 2nd or 3rd or 4th tornado to climb the Appalachians today?  Sounds like April 3-4th 1974, when a tornado went over a mountain in West Virginia.

This appears to be running up the valley.  

8 minutes ago, Indystorm said:

What is it about Yazoo City MS and Moore OK?

Well it's in the right vicinity.  

And maybe Bly Bio Chem is a magnet.

Tor warning for Whitehouse & Kilgore, southeast of Tippecanoe & Tyler, too.

https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=fwd&wwa=tornado warning

Storm east of Del Rio has a tor warn near Bracketville.

The new(?) NWS San Angelo radar format is...not good.  Unless you live right on an interstate, it is almost impossible to find your exact location on a map.  That's a pretty big safety downgrade.

https://www.weather.gov/sjt/NationalRadar2

Perhaps I'm missing it, but I can't find an option to turn on a map layer with more detail, such as the topo most other NWS radars have.  Just two levels of zoom, previously you could zoom into to a very detailed layer of roads and often even buildings.  The new format does have less clutter for the storms, but...

There's also an annoying autostart voice message on their homepage.  Luckily if you click the radar link in the top row of text you can navigate to the old format radars.  But a lot of non-weather geeks are going to go to that page only in a severe threat and could easily miss that.

Speaking of NWS San Angelo, is the excellent former TWC met, Dr. Steve Lyons, still in charge there?

Good:  The Weather Channel is doing follow up coverage of the TN tornadoes.

Bad:  Can anyone watch for very long?  That shameless drama queen Justin Whatever is horrible.  LOL,  a lady picking up bricks kinda turned and looked at him like she wanted to hit him with one as he stood there endlessly babbling cornball cliches while she's trying to clean up.  Was like a Geico commercial.

11 minutes ago, Bob's Burgers said:

Everybody should watch this 

 

 

Starting 14:55 into the video, that's probably EF4 damage, right?  Home after home blown down to their foundation.

Um, multiple tornado warnings between Huntsville and Chattanooga.

And in SW MO, outside of the tornado watch:

https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=tsa&wwa=tornado warning

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CST FOR
SOUTHEASTERN NEWTON...NORTHEASTERN MCDONALD AND WEST CENTRAL BARRY
COUNTIES...

It kind of looks like there's  a 2nd line of storms forming from Longview to east of San Antonio.  I know they are separate Meso discussions, but some of the small popups in between seem along a line.

I see on Ms. Twitter that iMr.Cyclone made it through ok.  Still has to survive the cannibalism, though.

So still no word from Hurricane Mr. Morgerman?

Now MASH Harbour.  Cat 4 & 5's scare the heck out of me.

1 hour ago, JakkelWx said:

Cmon guys. Really? SW Wobble. Yes, SW wobble. You heard it right. SW wobble! We talkin' bout SW wobbles. How many SW wobbles will it take to will this thing to Australia? 

The Weebles model has been the best performer today.  Lots of wobbles but it doesn't fall down.

 https://www.weather.gov/images/fwd/graphicast/image_full1.jpg?7ba82bb19e61c89a8f97eadc28a28d02

"Mostly dry weather is expected, which is why this week was chosen."

It has stormed every day of this planned radar outage, with some big ones today.

Another awesome job of forecasting.

3.5 hours later and they are still getting calls for collapsed buildings with people trapped.

Just going off of where the major streets are red on Google Maps, it looks like the first Dayton tornado may have traveled about 16 miles, from near Brookville to the east side of Dayton.  The path of the 2nd tornado seems evident, too, though not as long.

Edit:  According to TWC the supercell that produced the Dora, NM tornado has been dropping tornadoes for 3 hours now, well into Texas.

Dora the Explorer indeed!

1 hour ago, OortCloud said:

I am in a Residence Inn full of families with kids and I poked my head out of my room and of course no one in the hallway was remotely aware there was anything such as tornado warning going on.  I just asked if their tv signal went out and they were like "we aren't watching TV"  so I said there was a tornado warning but it was for south of here.  They were eminently nonchalant 

Yes, it is amazing how many of the stupids walk among us.  Las year I was also at a Residence Inn one night when a bunch of cop cars kept flying up in silent mode to the store across the street over 10 minutes, more than 2 dozen LEO's getting into hidden positions flanking a door.  Ambulances and fire truck staged a block away.  I turn to some moms hanging around the basketball court with 5 toddlers and little kids and say, "Since you have your kids I thought I should mention that it looks like something bad may be about to go down across the street, the police are set up around that door."  As in, police in between us and the door, directly in the line of return fire.  "Oh, cool, thanks" and then back to watching their kids run around the completely exposed court.

Luckily the suspects froze when confronted after exiting, but the cops had 2 dozen guns drawn.  "Oh wow, did you see that kids?"

(OBTW, no tornadoes touched down within a 50 mile radius of us that night.)

Laverne?  Surely you can't be serious.

No confirmed reports of building collapses.

Just now, Floydbuster said:

Press conference now

Thank goodness.  Columbia/Jeff City's Channel 13's weather coverage was excruciating, Captain Monotone is a master of dead air and pregnant pauses.  Makes Steven Wright sound high energy.