5/15(northern half) & 5/16(southern half of subforum) Severe Wx Threats

[Roger Smith]

Visible satellite showing 150 mile extension of anvil top blowoff to east of developing supercells. 40wnw BWG KY 21z would be my chase base.

 

[kdxken]

Tornado on the ground St Louis

[kdxken]

4 minutes ago, andyhb said:

Tornado down, power flashes. This is bad.

There's a debris ball

[SchaumburgStormer]

PDS warning for downtown STL

[SchaumburgStormer]

4 minutes ago, kdxken said:

There's a debris ball

Still a sizeable CC drop as it crosses the river. 

[nwohweather]

Are there any current videos? This is a large tornado that just ripped through the city

[HillsdaleMIWeather]

[SchaumburgStormer]

[Malacka11]

Dude fuck that's awful

[Amped]

The damage pics I've seen so far dont look too bad. Trees down, cars and houses still look fine.

[mob1]

Pretty good structure on the southernmost cell in MO, it'll be interesting to see if it takes off as it moves east into a more primed environment.  

 

Edit: confirmed TOG with it now. 

[HillsdaleMIWeather]

GRR has confirmed multiple long track albeit weak tornadoes 

[mob1]

The tornadic cell just south of Marion IL has a mean couplet. 

[MidwestChaser]

Wow never seen this here. 

[mob1]

3 minutes ago, mob1 said:

The tornadic cell just south of Marion IL has a mean couplet. 

TORE with it now

[pen_artist]

Crazy weather day but as others have confirmed dust storm heading north through Chicago area. Just got the warning.

[magoos0728]

1 minute ago, pen_artist said:

Crazy weather day but as others have confirmed dust storm heading north through Chicago area. Just got the warning.

Have you seen any dust or you just got the warning 

[pen_artist]

Just now, magoos0728 said:

Have you seen any dust or you just got the warning 

I can see the dust coming and sky darkening to my south. Not the best picture unfortunately since it's so fine.

[Chicago Storm]

+DS 1/4SM G60MPH at MDW.

[nvck]

Fairly aggressive mcd from earlier, with an almost maxed out watch now issued

[kevlon62]

P cool structure on the inbound SVR.

[IndianaBeachCrow]

Dust storm rolling into the Loop:

[IndianaBeachCrow]

2 minutes ago, IndianaBeachCrow said:

Dust storm rolling into the Loop:

At the height of it right here you could actually start to smell the topsoil overpowering the filters in the HVAC system.

[Jackstraw]

Hell ride omw home from the track. Got stuck on 31 around Carmel with idiots flipping out because sirens were going off. Saw one moron stop in the middle of an 8 lane 65 mph interstate.  Those drivers were safer going 240mph than I was. Somebody needs to pass Xanax out to these people for Christs sake.  Get off the freaking Interstate, there's exits every half mile for 10 miles in that area.

Stressful. Weather was cool though.

[IndianaBeachCrow]

1 hour ago, Jackstraw said:

 Got stuck on 31 around Carmel with idiots

Honestly I'd be more worried if this didn't happen around Carmel.

[andyhb]

2 fatalities in Scott Co. MO from earlier tornado. Large tornado down W of Somerset KY rn. This has indeed turned into a very significant/widespread event.

[Chinook]

Seems like this might have been a tri-state tornado warned supercell at times (not quite the same three states as the famous Tri-State Tornado of 1925)

 

 

ongoing tornado!

[andyhb]

Somerset KY tornado.

[Chinook]

Maximum rotation in St. Louis was west and north of downtown

[outflow]

41 minutes ago, andyhb said:

2 fatalities in Scott Co. MO from earlier tornado. Large tornado down W of Somerset KY rn. This has indeed turned into a very significant/widespread event.

Headed towards London Kentucky pop. 8000 it looks like the town is built mostly to the south of the city center with major business and the airport.