Severe Weather outbreaks

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Caught this screenshot on Max Velocity's stream, it's not super visible but looks like it's a giant wedge
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Edit: Seems like it occluded northwest of Knox, they got very lucky.
 
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potato in mah painus said:
That laughably low chance is why.... lightening kills more then tornadoes yearly on average in the US. You don't really get much lower then that for natural disasters.
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Lightning isn't even scary. If you don't fuck around outside when thunderstorms are about your chances of getting struck are reduced immensely, almost zero. Tornadoes just decide it's your time. Asleep at home, at work, in the grocery store? Unless you are in a high quality storm shelter, the experience will range from scare the hell out of you to render you permanently missing and there's nothing you can do about it.

t. floridian
fuck tornadoes. Scary SOBs.
 
Just made a beer run. We're only in the slight risk zone overnight and tomorrow but I don't think I want to be going out. Last spring we had plenty of 'slight' risk days that had multiple tornadoes zooming within a few miles of where I live.

Even the temperature forecasts are enough to make me think tomorrow is going to be nasty in my neck of the woods.
 
God's drunkest driver said:
Asleep at home, at work, in the grocery store? Unless you are in a high quality storm shelter, the experience will range from scare the hell out of you to render you permanently missing and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Weather radio, cellphone that goes bonkers with alerts, and local sirens. You usually get 10-15 minutes before SHTF. You should have at least one of the first two at all times.
 
My outlook on tornadoes has changed significantly over the past few years, I don't have a basement so I used to drive somewhere else whenever a warning went out or shit looked like it was going to get froggy, but anymore I just kind of say 'fuck it, if it's my time, it's my time', besides, I don't really want to survive in the timeline where my old lady, my place and all of my shit [and my pets] gets taken out by a twisty boy anyway. If shit's gonna go down I guess I'd rather go with it.

Although sometimes I do go drive around trying to spot one, I've only ever seen one in person and it was pretty fucking far away.
 
Pretty insane that nearly all of the tornadic activity came from a single supercell.
From what I've seen, it produced at least three violent, wedge tornadoes, and an unconfirmed amount of satellite tornadoes. The damage I've seen out of the areas hit are really bad. Definitely EF4-caliber damage (although I'd conclusively say that it's not EF5-caliber). Not all the impacted areas have full reports of damage and/or photos, however, and I fear the more rural areas have worse damage.
 

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Hanamarle Bougainvillea said:
No mention of this yet? I know I'm late, but-
The SPC has put out a MODERATE (4/5) risk of severe weather, driven by both tornadoes + damaging winds (but mainly damaging winds) for the 16th. While moderate risks in a vacuum are relatively uncommon, the placement of tomorrow's outlook is what makes it rare.
Read more here. More information will likely come to light within the next outlook (~2.5 hours).
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There also hasn't been a 60% hatched wind risk in over a decade
 
I'm gonna tentatively say that today was kind of a "bust", which is a good thing because some of the most densely populated portions of the U.S were under the gun. With a 60% hatched risk of significant wind I was expecting millions of power outages, and it doesn't look like there were too many tornado warnings either. I'm going to assume the squall line remnants moving through in the morning/mid-day probably limited discrete supercell development, which I suspected might happen. Normally when there's a MDT section on the convective I'm expecting some serious shit, but it looks like it was unwarranted now. PA's got quite a few outages as well as Michigan but those are both states that seem to lose power when someone farts near a power pole, so that's nothing particularly new.

Hopefully the onslaught of fucking wind in the midwest is over now, I'm surprised my power didn't go out on Friday, we had 72mph+ non-severe [just regular wind, no associated thunderstorms or even rain] wind gusts. My internet did go out for a while, though.
 
The wind on Sunday knocked over a ton of big tree limbs in my town. On the way home from church we had to stop the car so I could get out and yank down a rather large limb that was hanging into the road so we could get past. I'm honestly surprised there weren't any power outages that I'm aware of.

The limb was in front of two empty houses so I drug it home to use as fire wood.
 
The Arabian peninsula and the Persian Gulf were hit by a very rare supercell that spawned massive thunderstorms, tornado risk included (but apparently none developed).

 
Green Man said:
Another enhanced risk day that was unwarranted - that system was a fucking wet fart. One of these days though we'll probably get fuck-smacked and nobody will be paying attention when we do because of the tremendous number of false alarms.
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I call it the Midwest effect... PDS declared? We might see a little hail because the last 10 times nothing remotely serious happened so just go about your day like usual. Tornado sirens? Fuck em. Let's go stand outside and watch because there hasn't been a real tornado here in the last 20 years despite multiple forecasts claiming we're super extra triple fucked basically every month since the last one hit.

Don't even get me started on the fucking sirens... They sound those things for absolutely fucking everything so much near me that I honestly don't notice them anymore. Like they'll seriously do it for high winds or hail even if there isn't anything remotely tornadic in the area. I know they're technically only supposed to be a warning for people outdoors that severe weather is in the area but how do they expect people to take sirens seriously if they're constantly going off for essentially nothing?
 
Don't let them lie to you. Global temperature are sharply falling. They won't be able to dismiss 10 years of years like this. All life on earth is about to stop.
 
It's popping off today. Tornadoes in Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas right now.
 
Southeastern Wisconsin has been getting it this week, had a touchdown 20 miles east of home on Tuesday. Madison had reports of 2.75 inch hail, some vehicles totaled, and a spin up without a touchdown over a field that did some damage to the north. In my local county a roof was half ripped off by the wind Monday night. Wednesday was a stormy night with no substantial risks, but today we received tornado watches several hours prior. Currently we are monitoring the cell that dropped a tornado in the northwest area of Illinois moving towards us.

As I was writing it sounds like another tornado has touched down in Cream, Wisconsin in the Western side of the state. Very eventful week, and will continue to be an eventful night here in the plains/great lake area.

Edit: they issued a PDS tornado warning for the previously mentioned tornado, 2 1/2 mile radar scan debris signature.
 
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