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3 hours ago, monsoonman1 said:

5% tornado probabilities for parts of NW TX and SW OK. I'd imagine some chasers will be out.

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.


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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.

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

Big time snows with more lifting than models are showing.

New footage of the Tuscaloosa tornado. At the 35 second mark, you'll notice that it gets dark very quickly.

After watching the video a few times, it appears that the tornado passed just feet from their house.

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

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

In this pic it looks more like the tree grew around the hose. The hose had been there for years.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-616174

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.

typo maybe???? but a typo that COULD i'm not going to blame SGF for the death of 140 some odd people... but it very well could have something to do with people saying they didn't have warning... i don't know.. that's a shocking and a bit scary find there JoMo

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.

I'm ok. My family is ok. We just got power and phone service restored. 3 blocks away is completely gone though. I'll post a more detailed account once I check in with everyone.

We know of at least 2 people we know that died. One was protecting his wife and died from injuries. She survived, he didn't. One had a compound fracture and bled to death, they couldn't give her a transfusion because they didn't have her blood type.

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.

There was a debris ball on a radar scan at 538...when the tornado looked very near him. I'm wondering if the NWS preliminary storm survey might be off by a few minutes.

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.

i totally agree. all warnings should be treated the same. take shelter. but i was just shocked there wasn't a tornado emergency when multiple spotters reported a large wedge doin damage

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.

that isn't strong enough wording. the warning should have said large and extremely dangerous tornado. and there should have been a tornado emergency.

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.

Was the Cullman tornado warned after it had already touched down? I saw a news report where they said there was no warning.

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.

Coosa County, AL.

From chaser Brett Adair.

#Tuscaloosa will be rated EF-5. Pulled bodies from the rubble today. #alwx

Here's a shot of what used to be WAFF, Channel 48 in Huntsville's Doppler. It's now just a tower. Note the building in front of it.

From KAKE Meteorologist Jay Prater "I was the Managing Meteorologist at WAFF-48 in Huntsville, Alabama when "Doppler 2000" was installed along US-72, in the late 90s. My "pride and joy"...at that time, it was the most advanced privately owned weather radar in the state. Only the tower remains today after being struck by a tornado. Thank you WAFF-48 Chief Meteorologist Brad Travis for posting this image."