Amped

Been at work the entire day, I can't think of any creative ways of saying Holy ****.

I wonder if any storm chasers got hurt or killed in this. I would think at least some of the deaths were do to with curious weenies who wanted to watch and photograph it with thier Iphone instead of running from it. Yeah there's an EF4 in your area, but if it's a matter of life and death you may have to settle for a quick glimpse. I know I'd make the wrong choice.

The prototype phased-array radar in Norman scans a 90 degree sector and can scan a volume in ~30 sec., but that's a long way off from going national.

It does make for some cool images when the outbreak is in Oklahoma. I wish they could make that semimobile. It would have been nice to gotten it to Alabama this week. Maybe I'll write in a suggestion to NWRT.

However I've never seen the thing and I don't know how hard to would be to move and reassemble.

Can't wait to see this outbreak

You know what struck me (besides the obvious devastation down the middle) were the strips of damage that most likely were associated with vorticies rotating around the main funnel. We know these were occurring from the various videos out there, and the damage seems to confirm that these were also very strong, to no ones surprise.

I had a nightmare a couple of years back that I was in a super cell with a large tornado at the center with multiple smaller tentacle tornadoes orbiting it. The videos of this storm actually reminded me of that dream.

EF4s and EF5s account for <1% of all tornados and >67% of all tornado deaths.

I think modern warnings may have made this percentage even higher. Less people are dying in the small tornados but there is still little that can be done to save yourself in 1/2 mile wide EF5.

would be interesting to find out how far/long this storms lasts

Going to be close for the south part of Rome, GA

Warning people means nothing if people don't heed the warnings.

The speed of these storms plus the strength of the tornadoes sometimes catches people by surprise.

And if it takes out the hospital. People are probably still bleeding to death right now.

Side note tornado warning for south DC

This says a lot, from the NWS met who worked the Greensburg tornado.

Mike Umscheid This is the greatest Delta-V I have ever seen on wsr-88d.

The base velocity is maxed out, so it has to be

DCH medical center destroyed in Tuscaloosa

very very bad if that was a primary hospital

The first rule of winter is, you do not talk about March 2001

The second rule of winter is, you do not talk about March 2001