Superstorm93

The second video I posted is a great look at the incredible structure of the parent supercell of the Rainsville tornado (and also 3 other violent tornadoes).

One of my favorites of all time...

Who says that tornadoes can't cross large hills?

The structure is simply incredible.

Imagine how much worse this could have been if the northern MDT risk had actually verified?

All in all, good job by the SPC.

Video just put up a few days ago by James Spann.

The morning derecho that preceded the outbreak was pretty insane as well.

Many people forget about that aspect of the outbreak, but there were some here that though that all the left over convection would damper the potential outbreak.

To think that the Moore/Bridge Creek Tornado was a confirmed 318mph (possibly stronger) beast and did not leave any evidence of ground scouring like the Philadelphia tornado did, is just scary...

The appearance of the tornadoes of that day will ALWAYS stick with me for the rest of my life. The insane amount of motion in each one just showed how ridiculous the atmosphere was that day. I have seen dinky little horizontal vorts on EF3+ tornadoes before, but the vorts on these tornadoes MUST have been able to do some sort of damage with how fast they were rolling and how close to the surface they actually were.

Does anyone know if the NWS surverys found anything about this?

I remember watching this thread from the day it was started until many days after the outbreak had actually ended.

Amazing info and events are in here. Somehow, this needs to be saved for good along with the Joplin thread.

Excellent pictures. Thanks for the updates!

http://www.riverside...lor-passes-away

Police officer that was struck by lightning on May 23rd while helping in Joplin died this morning.

That's horrible.

Here's the LSR from a few minutes after it happened:

This is pretty awesome. .

Crazy...

TWCBreaking TWC Breaking

AP death toll has risen to 72, 58 of those being in Alabama alone. #severe

There must have been 30 TORE's issued today.

Usually 5-12 a year.

Wow...

That footage that TWC just showed of the Philadelphia tornado was incredible.

another crazy video...tornado of the decade

Probably some of the best tornado footage ever will come from this tornado.

I really liked how the SPC issued the PDS watches hours in advance today.

They did an excellent job...

Anderson Cooper will be talking with the Mayor of Birmingham soon...

KOUN

Are there any reports from Birmingham yet?

Haven't heard too much about it.

Go back and find the beginning of the Japan Tsunami thread on the main board (in no way, shape, or form am I suggesting the numbers will be comparable, just the trend of reports.)

That is quite a different situation.

There are crews down there right now. We'll see what happens.

You could warn an area until your blue in the face.

If it falls upon deaf ears, then there will be fatalities.

Although the death toll will undoubtedly rise, I find the report of "hundreds of casualties" really hard to believe. I mean, we haven't had a 100+ fatality tornado in decades, and that was during the pre-tornado siren days.

I highly doubt there would be hundreds dead with such little coverage or mention about it.

Getting close to the level of fatalities that the Super Tuesday outbreak caused which was 57.

Bart Comstocks twitter...

CAUTION: Unconfirmed

http://twitter.com/#!/SvrWxChaser

Check this out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Oszy_dGJY&feature=youtu.be

They showed it live on ABC 33/40.

Must have missed it.

Thanks.