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Well there was one in April 2010 as well (Yazoo City).

The April 27th, 2011 outbreak.

Many of the models and quite a few ensemble members have that second trough/disturbance diving into the West around the D10 period.

Snowed in Tokyo with that thing.

Screen cap of the Phil Campbell tornado going through the city/around that area, taken from the Country Road 71/Mon Dye road area on the east side of town near Little Bear Creek, looking back WNW towards the wedge tornado, likely with EF5 damage occurring right as this shot was taken.

Got TSRA right now.

Pacific NW might be in for a decent storm on Saturday, The 00z GFS, GGEM and NAM all get a ~980 mb cyclone rotating out of the large west coast trough with strong southeasterly winds around the coast/perhaps inland depending how the LLJ dynamics shape up (although a bit more of a southern nudge would be a more impressive scenario), in addition to fairly solid rainfall amounts, will check the Euro momentarily to see if trends south a bit. GGEM and GFS also have a second system around the 120 hr period, with the GGEM being much more impressive (although this might be suspicious considering the GGEM's tendency to overdue sfc cyclogenesis, the UL jet feeding this system is stronger than the one on Saturday). Edit, Euro, although stronger with the Saturday system, is further north.

Textbook cyclogenesis...

Spectacular...

Great googly moogly...

Just a sick H5 vort max associated with this thing...

Lord that is a beautiful presentation on the RH map, about as classic as it gets.

Very strong system (sub 960 mb) at 96 hrs from the OPC in the Gulf of Alaska...this may have impacts down the road for the troughing pattern over the lower 48.

Lord knows above all the drama and whatnot, Deadliest Catch has taught me something about Bering Sea weather (i.e. it's violent on an almost regular basis, sort of like the Southern Ocean).

Man, imagine if we had troughs like those swinging across the lower 48... Also, I think Josh should consider chasing storms up here while the hurricane season is quiet.

I do think the communication may lead to a false sense of security in a way, although I think people's overall idea that "It'll never happen to me" seems to override all other factors in many of these cases.

Candlestick Park tornado killed 57, just FYI.

So I just listened to that Hackleburg/Phil Campbell video with volume on full blast...holy ****

As for Alaska, be prepared for your sub-500 dm bombs during the winter baro...

Lightning pics from the other day (I was at work so these are not my own):

Series of tstms blowing through here currently, torrential rain, probably 30-50 mph winds, frequent lightning...nice.

I just hope Joplin doesn't have to deal with another tornadic event any time soon (ala Tuscaloosa, Yazoo City or Moore)...that would be absolute hell on the residents of town.

Yeah I noticed that in that video and thought it was a bit of a fail on their part, and they also seemed to not be urgent enough regarding the wording initially about what was/is obviously a huge wedge on the ground...

Got a feeling that may be taken the wrong way... That said, everyone knows about SGF's over-warning problem, its been highlighted several times over the past number of years. Then again, they have had several major events there since 2000; 5/4/03, 3/12/06, 1/7/08, 5/10/08, Joplin, etc...