EquusStorm Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 New supercell south of Mineral Wells rapidly wrapping up. Couplet and hook evident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disc Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 I believe the monster hail considering the near constant three-body scatter strikes emanating from that cell. As far as what is going on under the meso, I can only speculate, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was something big. Even without taking the highly deviant storm motion into account, SPC Mesoanalysis is showing enhanced low level shear very near where that cell is riding the outflow boundary. With the cell moving about 90* right of the Bunkers motion, effective helicities are for that cell are probably quite a bit higher even than what is shown. . Indeed. The radar is scanning at about 10-11kft at the storm's location and check out where the heaviest returns are. Pretty neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EquusStorm Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 The SW TX rouge cell is moving into an area with CAPE of 4000 j/kg. Wow. Also another confirmed tornado west of Mineral Wells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derecho! Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 EMS-confirmed tornado West of Mineral Wells Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1900hurricane Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Mineral Wells tornado reported to have gone through town and done at least a small amount of damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Building collapse reported in Mineral Wells per FWD Twitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derecho! Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Hospital is on the west side of Mineral Wells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhamps10 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 The sad thing is.. Unless you saw it coming you had little warning because dfw TV stations will not go wall to wall under any circumstances in primetime.. No crawl or anything. I pray that their lack of info giving in primetime didn't just kill someone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 The sad thing is.. Unless you saw it coming you had little warning because dfw TV stations will not go wall to wall under any circumstances in primetime.. No crawl or anything. I pray that their lack of info giving in primetime didn't just kill someone A lot of people complaining that the tornado coverage is interrupting The Bachelorette, f*cking ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhamps10 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 A lot of people complaining that the tornado coverage is interrupting The Bachelorette, f*cking ridiculous. Yup..finally fox and nbc are wall to wall but no crawl or nothing.. Makes me sick and pissed off honestly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolltide_130 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 New warning on a cell with a VERY strong couplet approaching Jacksboro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geddyweather Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Jason Cooley has a LARGE wedge tornado on the ground near Jacksboro. Appears to be partially rain-wrapped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1900hurricane Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 New warning on a cell with a VERY strong couplet approaching Jacksboro. Yeah, seeing that couplet appear all of a sudden caught me off-guard somewhat. Really unfortunate that couplet is directly behind the hail core from another cell, the three-body scatter is messing with the dual-pol products behind it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downeastnc Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Suppose to be Mineral Wells tornado retweeted by Jeff Piotrowski https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FeoJ_c2Dg8&feature=youtu.be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EquusStorm Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Yeah this will be a close call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geddyweather Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Yeah this will be a close call. May go just to the north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhamps10 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Jason Cooley has a LARGE wedge tornado on the ground near Jacksonboro. Appears to be partially rain-wrapped. AND sadly the news won't go all wall to wall for that..we're lucky to get commercial break cut ins here...praying for jacksboro that it lifts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derecho! Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Looks like it went a little north of Jacksboro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMR Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Looks like it went a little north of Jacksboro. it lifted anyways... According to the new warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geddyweather Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Sirens blaring in Jacksboro. Circulation is about 5 miles to the northwest of town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 I have never seen a confirmed tornado basically on top of a town and the news stations only breaking in during commercials. That's criminal. I guarantee they would not do that if there was a tornado in DFW proper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo762 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Saturday looks interesting on the 18Z GFS... SBCAPE/MUCAPE of 1000-2000J/KG, 500mb shear of 35-50kts in W KS/ NW OK, great low-level shear (30-40kts) and good turning in the lowest 0-3KM, 0-3KM SRH of 250-350, main problem at this point looks like lack of model agreement with GFS, and morning convection could AGAIN ruin destabilization. VBV won't be an issue at all this time basing off of the GFS, another issue is a unidirectional profile above 700mb... Once again, pessimism wins out and would pick a target south of the suspected main threat area. Like the last two (or three?) events. All this is really just off of the 18Z GFS verbatim if it verifies, but the EURO and CMC don't agree much at all and show more of a rain event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quincy Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 New Tornado Watch for the Red River Valley vicinity until 2 a.m. More heavy rain at the very least heading for central Oklahoma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonOH Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 New tornado warning for Wise and Jack counties northwest of the DFW metro. Decent rotation at the moment. Edit: CC is slightly less correlated directly over the rotation. Could be hail since it is rain wrapped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Pretty strong rain wrapped circulation NW of Dallas metro area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrasher Fan Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 One of the best tornado signatures I've seen in quite some time near Runaway Bay, TX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Gonna be close for Runaway Bay... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EquusStorm Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Another tornado warning, near Altus, but the Runaway Bay storm is far more impressive. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolltide_130 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 PDS Warning for Runaway Bay. Couplet continues to look impressive, confirmed TOG by spotters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Rotation is close to maxed out on that thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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