The UMass X band has been performing great of late after some upgrades. Nice to have some high res looks at convection again, this far from Nexrad. You can see the shear tightening up just west of Noho. Doubt this amounted to anything but still cool.
Was full on spring the last 24 hours, birds chirping, crocus and hellebores popping along with the dews, an altogether different smell out there. Was nice.
Anyway sun's gone. We cloudy
Hard pass on a 16+hr drive to chase linear mode low topped thunderstorms with fast moving embedded tornadoes. If you even see one you're probably too close.
But take the drive out if it and of course
WWUS40 KWNS 062041
WWP5
TORNADO WATCH PROBABILITIES FOR WT 0015
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0240 PM CST FRI MAR 06 2026
WT 0015
PROBABILITY TABLE:
PROB OF 2 OR MORE TORNADOES : 50%
PROB OF 1 OR MORE STRONG /EF2-EF5/ TORNADOES : 40%
PROB OF 10 OR MORE SEVERE WIND EVENTS : 40%
PROB OF 1 OR MORE WIND EVENTS >= 65 KNOTS : 20%
PROB OF 10 OR MORE SEVERE HAIL EVENTS : 60%
PROB OF 1 OR MORE HAIL EVENTS >= 2 INCHES : 50%
PROB OF 6 OR MORE COMBINED SEVERE HAIL/WIND EVENTS : 90%
&&
ATTRIBUTE TABLE:
MAX HAIL /INCHES/ : 2.5
MAX WIND GUSTS SURFACE /KNOTS/ : 60
MAX TOPS /X 100 FEET/ : 450
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR /DEGREES AND KNOTS/ : 23025
PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION : NO
&&
FOR A COMPLETE GEOGRAPHICAL DEPICTION OF THE WATCH AND
WATCH EXPIRATION INFORMATION SEE WOUS64 FOR WOU5.