SmokeEater

A lot more then would be usually down there too, A lot are on the way back from Chasercon in CO.

Now another TW'd cell heading for N.O.

Multiple towns have been hit, including New Orleans. Amazed nobody on the forum is even talking about it. Possibly at least one long tracker too, 200 kts G2G for quite some time.

Watching a live feed from there, I don't think I've ever seen so much lightning in my life. Literally every second.

No possible, just west of Syracuse, KS. From Ryan Shepard. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There's a pic of it, gimme a few and I'll get it.

TOG SW of Auburn, NE per chaser. Not TW'd yet.

Earlier in MB. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

2 strong couplets now, one east, one west of Vilas, SD.

Wasn't he backing way off a couple days ago?

Holy hell, it's amazing how many people that day who were shooting video, were oblivious to how close they almost came to getting swept off the face of this earth.

Just to note, that cam's last image was from 1 minute after this one.

:lmao: This is ridiculous, felt it clear as day up here, damn near shook me out of bed. I can imagine what it was like down there.

Jeff Piotrowski posted a longer video of his Joplin tornado chase. It's beyond riveting.

I can almost guarantee that tree did not grow around that hose. That hose would have had to have been there for many years. And it sure wouldn't look in that good of shape. That hose is not very old at all. It would be beyond dryrotted and such. And all likelyhood, that part of the tree was a good ways up the tree, not on the ground.

Tornado was still warned, on the ground, near Joplin, so IMO the warning got out fine. Now if that warning was issued when it was 10 miles west of Joplin, that would possibly be a different story. And people in every single outbreak this year have said they didn't have warning. Even during the Tuscaloosa outbreak, where there was a huge warning time, people still said they didn't have warning. But that's just my opinion, and it doesn't mean much, lol.

Thank God man, really great to hear from you. You need anything that can be done, don't hesitate to ask. A few of us from my FD here may be coming out there in the coming weeks to volunteer, depending on whether I can get off from work or not. But I really don't think they are going to have an issue.

I went back and checked all my saved images from AE, first scan the debris ball shows up is at that time, and it's SW of the dot for Joplin, just east of Iron Gates. And the next scan, 71 dbz shows up in the debris ball, which is something I've never seen before, that high dbz at least. I really think it's down to yards, maybe even feet, of whether this thing missed him or not.

The spotter reports of damage, were not until the tornado had passed. And not one said a large wedge. They said extreme damage yes, but nothing until after it passed.

The tornado dropped literally 5-10 miles west of town, if that. Before that it was only a funnel cloud. Add in that it was rain wrapped, it was the perfect storm so to speak. Nobody even knew the extent of the damage it did until after it passed through town. It was warned since it was in KS, people had plenty of warning. The NWS did the best job they could, it dropped down so fast, they had no idea what size it was, or the need for a TE. People should have been taking shelter no matter what, whether it was a TE or not, made no difference.

It was warned before it moved into the city, it was even warned before it was on the ground.

3 story hotel reported to have collapsed with victims, near Rome, GA.