Severe Weather outbreaks

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Meat Target said:
I think they're more deadly in the south; the humid climate causes more rain-wrapped tornadoes, and there are fewer basements due to the high water tables or hard bedrock in the ground.
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Severe tornadoes in the South tend to be a lot faster moving as well, that enhances the damage on top of the rotation speed of the tornado itself. Phil Campbell back in 2011 was moving along its path at 70mph.
 
I haven't seen anything like this since I first got into weather.
The motion on those tornadoes are up there with EF5s. I think the one in Omaha may have reached that intensity too, the scans on radar were downright horrifying.
 
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Confirmed tornado now going for Des Moines, IA. Great.
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If you don't know what these words mean, VROT is Velocity Rotation (or something like that) and it indicates how much a mesocyclone, or tornado, is rotating.
A VROT of 112.3kts is strong enough to put it in the 20 highest VROT values ever recorded; on the same level as EF5-strength tornadoes.
And it went through the Omaha metro.
Absolutely fucked. And tomorrow's supposed to be worse.
 
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Numerous violent tornadoes simultaneously occurring in parts of south and central Oklahoma overnight, ongoing right now. Jesus fucking christ.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that multiple towns have been hit multiple times by violent tornadoes. This is as bad as yesterday, what the FUCK.
 
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#FF0000 said:
Numerous violent tornadoes simultaneously occurring in parts of south and central Oklahoma overnight, ongoing right now. Jesus fucking christ.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that multiple towns have been hit multiple times by violent tornadoes. This is as bad as yesterday, what the FUCK.
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Towns include Ada, Ardmore, Marrietta, and Sulphur. Scuttlebutt is that a hospital in Marrietta was hit.

There's also flash flooding on top of that.
 
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Towns include Ada, Ardmore, Marrietta, and Sulphur. Scuttlebutt is that a hospital in Marrietta was hit.

There's also flash flooding on top of that.
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Dickson just got hit by a second tornado.
 
#FF0000 said:
Numerous violent tornadoes simultaneously occurring in parts of south and central Oklahoma overnight, ongoing right now. Jesus fucking christ.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that multiple towns have been hit multiple times by violent tornadoes. This is as bad as yesterday, what the FUCK.
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Sounds like things got significantly worse since I last tuned in to the weather channel. I got up at 8PM (I work overnights/hit this site up on the job when I should be working, lol) and tuned in WC... all they had to show were rain storms, but, reading in between the lines of what the WeatherHype hosts were saying... it sounded to me a lot like "We know this is all a wet fart right now, but pleeeeeze stay tuned because it might get worse." I tuned back in at 11PM (EST) and they were saying now "...well, there is so much lightning".

I hope all the Kiwis (and non Kiwis too) in the affected areas are OK. I absolutely despise the way these assholes report the weather. They trivialize it.
 
GloryHole Stalker said:
Sounds like things got significantly worse since I last tuned in to the weather channel. I got up at 8PM (I work overnights/hit this site up on the job when I should be working, lol) and tuned in WC... all they had to show were rain storms, but, reading in between the lines of what the WeatherHype hosts were saying... it sounded to me a lot like "We know this is all a wet fart right now, but pleeeeeze stay tuned because it might get worse." I tuned back in at 11PM (EST) and they were saying now "...well, there is so much lightning".

I hope all the Kiwis (and non Kiwis too) in the affected areas are OK. I absolutely despise the way these assholes report the weather. They trivialize it.
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The Weather Channel is dogshit at coverage now. They don't do weather. You're better off tuning into livestreams or local channels.
 
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Jesus fuck. Why do these people live above ground if there's this constant risk of a mini cyclone dropping out of the sky with no warning?
 
glass_houses said:
Jesus fuck. Why do these people live above ground if there's this constant risk of a mini cyclone dropping out of the sky with no warning?
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Because exceptionally powerful tornadoes that hit Sulphur and these other cities are the rare exception and not the rule. If you look at the drone footage posted by @#FF0000, most of those buildings are 80+ years old in the downtown area. There's only ever been one F4 (in 1972) that's hit the entire county and that one missed Sulphur. Almost everyone living in the traditional Tornado Alley will spend their entire lives without being touched by the finger of God, much less even witness one.

EF0 and EF1 tornadoes are much more common and far, far less serious. I've been in an EF1 and I can honestly say I've been in worse severe thunderstorms.

The good news is that the Artesian Hotel in Sulphur looks like it was spared:

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The bad news is I can guarantee you some retiree will be calling the Sulphur, OK Post Office on Monday morning demanding to know where their social security check has gone:

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A few updates on the tornadoes.
April 26th
The tornado in Harlan, IA had windspeeds of around 224mph at ground level, recorded by a Doppler on Wheels (DOW).
For those who don't know, a DOW is just a radar mounted on a truck, and it records extremely localized but high resolution data at very high rates.
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The tornado in Harlan, IA may have claimed one life, from a man who died of his injuries about a day later. May he rest in peace.
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In Elkhorn/Bennington, NE (the Omaha metro), incredible damage has been recorded from aerial views. This includes a completely annihilated home with extreme wind-rowing for several hundred feet. The home that used to be there was likely a very large, two-story home. This is some of the most violent damage we've seen in a long time.
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EDIT: There's also some drone footage that shows absolute devastation in a neighborhood (particularly around 17:25 in the video), as well as other parts of the Omaha metro. (Original Video)
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April 27th
Numerous towns have been impacted multiple times, including Sulphur, OK. Not much more news has come out of here other than damage photos, but unfortunately, 2 people in Holdenville, OK and 1 person in Sulphur, OK have lost their lives. May they too rest in peace.

The death count is up to 4, which is expected to rise, and a total of 144 tornado reports (not individual tornadoes!) have been issued on the 26th and the 27th.
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This is one of the worst tornado outbreaks we've seen in years. I haven't seen so many constant violent tornadoes, one after another, in many years. Not since 2011. Pray for Nebraska, Oklahoma and Iowa.
 
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