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GOES-16 imagery from COD is the best that I know of. http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/exper/?parms=cenplains-07-24-0

Euro continues to show a complex of storms near the MO valley area Monday morning/early afternoon. LLJ pointing into the region Sunday night/Monday morning. Long way off but it's becoming a concern.

00z Euro showing a fat MCS rolling right into my target area for the eclipse around noon lol. Sure hope it's wrong, but if it isn't will have to head into Nebraska. Clouds/rain in areas along the path will only act to make things even more crowded in areas that will be sunny.

Best video I've seen yet. This guy explains how it was for him when he saw a total eclipse for the first time. https://www.ted.com/talks/david_baron_you_owe_it_to_yourself_to_experience_a_total_solar_eclipse?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=talk&utm_term=science#t-134500

Long vid, but pretty informative.

Just booked a room in southern Iowa (Osceola) for Sun night. Less than a 2hr drive to the center from there.

Very well done video here. The last half of it is particularly interesting.

Pretty cool 360° view of an eclipse in Indonesia last year.

Watching that made me even more excited about next month. Sad that the anchor of this segment died just 4yrs after this, and has now been gone 34yrs.

Yeah the relatively short duration of totality makes the whole drive thing sound a bit crazy if you think about it lol. It's a once in a lifetime kind of experience though, so I think a long drive is gonna be worth it. I like the idea of finding somewhere out in the country away from large cities, and even smaller towns. An area where on a normal night there is little if any light pollution from surrounding cities. I think the maximum effect will be seen in areas like that.

I'll likely be heading to northwest Missouri if clouds aren't an issue. Nebraska will be the 2nd choice, and if clouds impact both of those areas then southern IL it is. I'll likely have a gopro capturing the scene, but I'm not going to be snapping any pics other than that. Just gonna hang out and watch it go down and soak in the experience.

Yeah I've been waiting for this for years. I'm already off that day, and kind of thinking about taking Tuesday off in case I have to drive further away if needed due to clouds. It's going to be a surreal experience to be sure. Can't wait!

For two runs in a row now the EC has a relatively decent setup over the eastern Dakotas/western MN for Friday. Hopefully it's on to something as the GFS is quite different. Decent mid-level flow arrives atop a plume of deep moisture/instability. Wind profiles look pretty respectable. Something to watch anyway.

Pretty amazing radar loop from this thing. http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/index.php?type=AMA-N0Q-1-96

Thing I remember most about this day was the video from some dude's backyard. Tornado narrowly missed his neighborhood and one of the neighbor's tree blew over.

I was 15, and about to start high school sophomore year that fall. Don't remember much about that summer but do remember the way TWC used to be in those videos. Forgot about the blinking radar where the heavier radar returns were. Classic stuff right there.

Don't know if this was ever posted here, but this is pretty damn sad. Her brother died after graduating from high school just before the tornado hit.

Something interesting I just noticed for the first time. Looking at the 2234z scan you can already see the rapid intensification of the meso just off the surface. The 1.5° tilt shows over 170kt g2g, compared to a broad 100kt g2g at the lowest tilt (0.5°). The next scan at 0.5° at 2239 jumped up to about 180kt g2g. Definitely a good example of why it's important to keep an eye on the various tilts. 0.5° 1.5°

Don't know if this one was posted yet. Sort of an interesting perspective here shot at the University of Alabama. The video starts about 15min before the tornado moves past when it was still raining. It's interesting watching the updraft base/wall cloud/tornado appear out of the rain of the FFD.

Wow, that's real close. Just by looking at GE the damage just northwest of that location looks very bad.

Wonder how close this was to the EF-5 damage that occurred near the high school.

I remember looking through Tim Marshall's pics on FB awhile back from Joplin. There was a picture of a missing man hole cover in the street. I thought that was amazing in itself, but if there were 30 more instances like that, that's really amazing.

Amazing stats. It's great that the person that was rescued on Tuesday was in fact rescued, but man that had to be hell up until the rescuing. The missing man hole covers is interesting as well.

Yeah his presentation was very interesting. His perspective/evaluation of the structural failures from an engineering standpoint was quite eye opening. A lot of structures failed under relatively low wind loads. The Franklin Tech building especially. I remember seeing some before photos of that building, and it appeared to be a very strong, well built building. Tim's survey revealed some interesting/startling weaknesses in the structure of that facility. After Tim's presentation he answered a few questions from the audience. One question brought up the impact on how much debris loading had on structural integrity. Also, the extreme amount of debris swirling in the large tornado no doubt contributed to the accelerated failure of structures that may not have failed, or failed as quickly without the aid of added wind-blown debris. Such a large tornado moving over a densely populated location will no doubt lead to greater damage than would normally be expected relative to wind velocity, as the added debris will surely aid in damage/wind load on structures within the circulation. All of that could conceivably open a big can of worms on how much debris loading in an urban environment can impact EF-scale values in a positive direction, but in the end all that really matters to most is the damage the tornado does (EF scale damage).

Scary vid to be sure. What I don't get though is the same person in the above vid also posted this one..