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Yeah, especially this year. Severe thunderstorms 10 out of the last 12 weekends by my count, and 5 straight.

Wound up pretty nicely. Classic hail look, similar to 8/1/11 which produced half dollars nearby. Nexrad showed 65 dBZ. This from the radar locally.

Slabs wiped totally clean Big, big CAPE day

brief but very heavy downpour with the passage of the line. No thunder.

3km had quite a few popcorn cells dropping south along the coast tomorrow. Cold air aloft, > 1k j/kg MLCape in spots. Should make for some cool looking clouds at any rate, with small hail and a low end wind threat not totally out of the question based on the weenie soundings.

nah we just built the wall

Reports were a trunk not a wedge.

This is from the DFW NBC 5 radar after the tornado moved over Greenville. Impressive stuff

A little unstable today in DFW? It's been crazy active down there...

Right from the opening bell Memorial day weekend I'd have called this stretch just about as good as it gets for early summer. Not sure what folks are looking for...

Several close strikes here and peas reported in town by skywarn. I thought I may have heard a few pings. 65dbz echoes on BOX.

Line developed fast! Like 15 mins from hardly an echo to a strong batch.

Maybe an hour ago we had an ofb blow through Btown from the earlier storms to the north. You can see one further east on BOX radar now. Seems like we'd have needed something to fire Pike south to get anything substantial, aside from a few limbs down in the hills and a smattering of peas. Running out of time unless that ORH cell can keep strenthening.

Linear segment forming over the east slope now.

June 1st!

This was the multi-Doppler data from the Saginaw EF0. Click to animate.

8 confirmed in N TX. Canton, the biggest, got an EF2 rating.

A couple from earlier that resulted in tornado warnings

Hamden F4 that you mentioned could have been thrown into his list. Still hard for me to believe that the Springfield tornado in Brimfield wasn't F4 intensity at its worst, based purely on those horizontally spiralling little vortices on video that you rarely see except in the real biggies

Wallingford in the 1870s

Fresh jjjjjjulius and doubleganger though, 3 can limit

Very solid storm through here. Lightning, rain blowing sideways, winds shifting.

I think the worst of it stayed to your west, through Ashfield, Conway, and Goshen. Observing low end severe winds on radar at 2500' , and evidence of updrafts in the line that could be producing peas or something. Weakening a bit as it drops S. Thunder in Btown.

Well it certainly was a beastly cap on the FWD special sounding. Wasn't so obvious at OUN, but it's possible the smoke was still driving north up I35 when the balloon went up. Anecdotally, I've seen quite a few lines/linear segments approach the DFW metroplex this year with the primary tornado risk being with any cells that popped out ahead, but remarkably little has popped. And this is even with the backdrop of a ton of surface moisture for whatever that's worth. Certainly no lack of overall convection, but the cap has seemed to hold until the main forcing has arrived.