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If you're a weirdo like me, you can follow along with supercell-wx. I recommend keeping a pane open with Vertically Integrated Liquid- it measures the size of hail.
 
KCMO police had to close and block I-70 due to flooding.

ETA: pics of an EF2 that hit Ottawa, KS the other day. Thankfully no deaths.

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indomitable snowman said:
Enid Oklahoma got hit just outside of the town. Vance AFB there reported 107 MPH winds.
Scott Peake on YT- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STVsusVYXCQ
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A mesonet at Vance AFB recorded a peak wind gust of 107 mph despite only being in the very outer winds of the tornado.
The worst damage we know of is numerous homes being completely swept off their foundations, topsoil being ripped up (indicative of high-end, EF4-EF5 tornadoes) and trees being completely debarked. A mass casualty incident was also declared.
Probably the worst tornado the state has seen since Barnsdall, perhaps worse than that.
 
If I had a nickel for every time a tornado rapidly intensified as it hit an Air Force base, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

Actually, while I'm on the topic of retro tornado videos, some of the footage I've seen out of Enid today is quite reminiscent of what Tim Marshall shot on May 3, 1999 while the Bridge Creek-Moore tornado was in its dusty stovepipe phase, though I doubt that today's tornado was nearly as intense.
 
Damage is coming out of Enid now. Not as many homes were impacted as expected, but the damage is still much worse than I think anyone was expecting.
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This entire subdivision was basically leveled. Well constructed homes, some of them with their foundations swept clean, with major grass and ground scouring and completely debarked and shredded vegetation. Easily EF4-caliber damage.
Edit: I forgot to mention, but only minor injuries were reported. No major injuries or fatalities, which seems impossible but apparently it's true.
 
Exceptional damage along E Southgate Rd from the Enid, OK tornado. Damage analysis expert Nick Krasznavolgyi says that he's fairly certain that the tornado reached EF5 intensity here, and I'm led to believe the same. A metal building system here was annihilated, but it's unlikely it gets an EF5 rating, as the maximum rating those can get is around 180 mph.
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The NWS notes, in the comments of various damage indicators in the area, that extreme ground scouring occurred, with low-lying vegetation ripped out of the ground and most grass and some ground being scoured as well. The metal building system had quite the incredible description of damage:
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Yes. A 15,000 pound RV was lifted and was never to be seen again, either thrown too far to be found, mangled and shredded beyond recognition, or both. There's no doubt this had EF5 intensity.
 
The weather is weathering in the US Midwest again.⛈️
Be safe out there!
 
Catgirl Tyranid said:
Tornado warning in Texoma
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Given that I was busy needlessly panicking, I just realized I never came back to check the thread.

We got an alert letting us know to be ready for Baseball sized hail so I hastily shoved all my junk in the garage to the walls so I could bring our cars in. We then got the tornado sirens which is around when I decided to check the farms to see if anyone was talking about the storm moving through the area.

We holed up in our most interior room, but the storm went around us without a hint of rain and hit a different town so our family went back to our unscheduled day long Godzilla marathon.
 
Looks like, fortunately, the tornado threat/risk didn't quite pan out like they expected it to today/tonight, which is good, but straight-line winds can often be just as bad. Looks like about 50,000 people without power in Michigan [which hardly even got hit?] and a further 50,000 or so out in Indiana.

I've noticed now on several occasions [unlike tonight, the line fell apart right beforehand it reached my state, which is quite common] that a rip-roaring storm like a squall line can come through Ohio and you'll end up with maybe 15,000~20,000 power outages in Ohio, meanwhile the very same system even glances at Michigan or Pennsylvania and they're looking at 80,000~150,000 outages in the span of an hour. It seems like in MI or PA, if somebody fucking farts next to a power pole, half of the state is sitting in the dark for days on end. What's the deal with that? Any Michiganders or Pennsylvanians wanna elucidate me on that? Shitty grid, lack of tree-trimming, some kind of wind tunnel effect? I've always wondered about it. It must get pretty fucking tiresome to live in Michigan and have to sit in a dark house for hours every time a fucking rain cloud appears.
 
Green Man said:
Looks like, fortunately, the tornado threat/risk didn't quite pan out like they expected it to today/tonight, which is good, but straight-line winds can often be just as bad. Looks like about 50,000 people without power in Michigan [which hardly even got hit?] and a further 50,000 or so out in Indiana.

I've noticed now on several occasions [unlike tonight, the line fell apart right beforehand it reached my state, which is quite common] that a rip-roaring storm like a squall line can come through Ohio and you'll end up with maybe 15,000~20,000 power outages in Ohio, meanwhile the very same system even glances at Michigan or Pennsylvania and they're looking at 80,000~150,000 outages in the span of an hour. It seems like in MI or PA, if somebody fucking farts next to a power pole, half of the state is sitting in the dark for days on end. What's the deal with that? Any Michiganders or Pennsylvanians wanna elucidate me on that? Shitty grid, lack of tree-trimming, some kind of wind tunnel effect? I've always wondered about it. It must get pretty fucking tiresome to live in Michigan and have to sit in a dark house for hours every time a fucking rain cloud appears.
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I'd assume it's just a shitty and ageing power grid. They've got a lot of distance between some of the inhabited areas and those older lines aren't always a priority to upgrade. I wouldn't even call where I live rural anymore in the great cesspool of illinois... but we have those issues too. Chances are that if you've got a farm field nearby you're gonna have power issues if the wind blows slightly too hard because the grid is still pretty ancient.
 
Green Man said:
Looks like, fortunately, the tornado threat/risk didn't quite pan out like they expected it to today/tonight, which is good, but straight-line winds can often be just as bad. Looks like about 50,000 people without power in Michigan [which hardly even got hit?] and a further 50,000 or so out in Indiana.

I've noticed now on several occasions [unlike tonight, the line fell apart right beforehand it reached my state, which is quite common] that a rip-roaring storm like a squall line can come through Ohio and you'll end up with maybe 15,000~20,000 power outages in Ohio, meanwhile the very same system even glances at Michigan or Pennsylvania and they're looking at 80,000~150,000 outages in the span of an hour. It seems like in MI or PA, if somebody fucking farts next to a power pole, half of the state is sitting in the dark for days on end. What's the deal with that? Any Michiganders or Pennsylvanians wanna elucidate me on that? Shitty grid, lack of tree-trimming, some kind of wind tunnel effect? I've always wondered about it. It must get pretty fucking tiresome to live in Michigan and have to sit in a dark house for hours every time a fucking rain cloud appears.
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We had a strong wake low associated with yesterday's initial line of storms weakening as they moved into the area. If you looked at the reflectivity alone nothing looked really threatening - nothing above 40 dBZ - but there were winds behind it that were above the severe threshold of 58 MPH. It was weird seeing multiple severe thunderstorm warnings for what looked like weak storms that had already moved out of the warned area. As for the high number of power outages, all our infrastructure in general kinda sucks and Consumer's Energy, the power company for the area most affected, is completely fucking incompetent. I could go on and on about them but you can just google "consumer's energy DEI" and get a pretty good idea how fucked it truly is, and it was already pretty bad before all that shit became popular. Our other major utility company, DTE, is even worse from everything I've heard.
 
jfc that line passing through Arkansas... That shit went from 0 to 100 immediately.
 
Fly in the Ointment said:
Our other major utility company, DTE, is even worse from everything I've heard.
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Oh yeah, I've actually heard about DTE being a total fucking shitshow and I don't even live near the border with Michigan, but they're in the news a lot for having infrastructure that seems to fucking crumble every time the wind gets a little spritely. I guess maybe I'm just lucky, I live in a fairly rural area but AEP Ohio is always on the ball it seems, whereas other locals who have another provider [a local co-op] are often shit out of luck after a pretty marginal thunderstorm. It's pretty sad that with how terrible infrastructure is in a lot of places now, in the fucking U.S, a first world country, in the year of our Lord 2026, a generator is basically a pre-requisite if you don't want to just live in third world conditions for a week or so every time a thunderstorm rolls through.

Even worse if you're rural and you have a well, because without a generator for your pump, you won't even have water in your house. My dad has that problem quite often to the point where he'll have to walk down to the pond on his property and just fill buckets to flush the damn toilet with. It's really quite astonishing how little we re-invest in our infrastructure, and of course part of it is the anti-nuclear retards agitating and pointing at Three Mile Island and screaming "DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM" when nobody actually died or got sick as a result of the TMI incident. It was quite literally handled exactly how it should have been and it proved very well that we can handle nuclear power safely and responsibly, but thanks to Soviet retardation everyone thinks that they're next in line for a Chernobyl level catastrophe if they live anywhere even close to a nuke plant. It's fucking infuriating how we've squandered atomic power - we should have been building nuke facilities by the dozen, starting as early as the 1960s, but instead we folded to the nuclear power panicans.

But I guess that's a topic for another day, I could fucking sit here and write a full-length thesis about nuclear power and how retarded most people are about it and I have done so in other threads, but that isn't what this thread's about so I'll leave it at that. I would like to see federal involvement in terms of the national power grid, but a lot of this shit can be easily laid at the doorstep of governors and such. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that half of Michigan loses power every other week considering who's in charge of the place.
 
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