VAwxman

Pretty common in energy too once you get in.

How so?

Amazing image. Crazy to see how long the track of this thing was.

You are free to your opinion and I would never say otherwise, but... This is a weather board and I and I am criticized for discussing things from a meteorological perspective? I'm not the one who brought up the 1974 stuff. I only commented on it. Sorry you are offended by weather talk on a weather board.

Ha! Still Relevant... We can quibble about the exact wind speed, but the poster criticizing me misses the main point. We know by all accounts that both Xenia and Guin were hit by a large and very powerful tornado. My point was that getting a setup conducive for tornadoes of that kind at the same time so far away from each other is hard to fathom. I think that point still stands regardless of what we knew about rating tornadoes back then and what we think we know now.

Meteorologically, yesterday, to me, still does not compare to 1974. Yes I know the deaths may, which IS more impressive given the technology of today, but from a meteo perspective, while yesterday looked like the best setup I have ever tracked, it doesn't quite measure up to something that could spawn simulaneous F5s 1000 miles apart. That is something that is even harder to fathom in my view, again just from the met perspective.

I couldn't agree more. I made the comment to a buddy of mine (sarwx here on the boards) before leaving work Monday that there was a completely different feeling... not the usual anticipation / excitement, but fear. You just knew the potential was up there. It definitely looked like the most dangerous setup I personally had ever seen a couple of days out.

Throw 1965 in there as well.

Well in that case, I up CNN's grade then. It's good they didn't have him on more if he really said something stupid like that. Kudos to them.

Maybe. I sure don't know any of them. And apparently none of my friends know any either, though to be fair there is a bias since, naturally, most of my friends are into weather.

Yeah stellar job by TWC. They acted as a weather channel should act. Really was surprised by the news channels. Big "F" for them from what I saw at least, but I didn't have them on the whole time of course since TWC was a ton better.

One positive aspect was that this was pretty obvious from over a week out, from the perspective of great potential being there, no doubt.

Yes, that is just stellar coverage. Top notch. I'm VERY impressed with those guys.

Right. I imagine they'd never roll out the 60% contour until stuff was already ongoing, which is most likely in a 20Z outlook. 45% is pretty dang stout.

Wow... only second time I recall seeing that.