Jackstraw

Had to go to Cardiologist in downtown Indy today so I drove back and kinda followed the track of that quasi long tracker from 4/2. Followed it from Brownsburg all the way to about 20 miles ENE of Muncie because, well WTH, not like I'm in any shape to go mushroom hunting lol. Disclaimer... I probably (likely) missed a lot of stuff but I tried to follow the track and damage path from the NWS best I could. It was pretty amazing how that thing dodged (dropped) the really densely populated areas. I mean, from Brownsburg up through Zionsville and into Carmel/Noblesville areas, thats some pretty crowded grounds, some of the densest in the state, and it looks like it just snipped, or didn't drop, around the edges of them (it was pretty weak but still). When it moved NE of Carmel/Nobletucky all the way through the Muncie area it , it missed, once again just barely, all of the major populated areas as far as I could see. To be honest I saw some of the worst damage between Alexandria and Muncie, mainly N of the Moonsville area and the far NW side of Muncie. That would've been just on south side of the Bookend Vortex that was the main "generator" of the second half of tornado/tornado's but was right in line also with those confirmed reports of straight line winds of 80 to 100mph. NWS had it lift between just NW of Muncie over to OH ( and dropped another EF2 into the infamous Van Wert county tornado magnet lol and and another near Toledo) it may or may not have been on the ground in IN simply because there is nothing there but empty cornfields. So, yeah, it wasn't a "major" event by any means but I again think we dodged a major bullet that evening. I remember tracking that specific cell from MO all the way into OH as it dropped tornado's all along its path. For the areas it went through it's still amazing to me how it avoided, or didn't drop, into any of those huge box cutter subdivisions that surround Indy and Nobletucky that are just waiting to be matchsticked (I hate those things, imagine that lol). Like I posted previously we were an ingredient or 2 away from what could've been something along the lines of the '74 long tracker. Sorry, no pictures, I'm an airhead and wasn't thinking about it lol. Bookend Vortex first week of April? That was kinda nuts though Note: My neighbors husband who accidently turned the shower on while he and his wife were in the bathtub covered with couch cushions and scaring her to death that the roof had blown off when water started dripping on their heads is no longer sleeping in the barn lol.

Well, if it were only occasional "showers" this April instead of near Biblical rain, I am really enjoying it temp wise. It actually feels like Springs of old for once. Maybe its just getting older or maybe I just spent too many years in the broilers in FL/SC, I'm really dreading another hot summer. I spent 25 years where it was 95/75 for 6 months a year every day in the summer. Seriously thinking about moving North in a year or 2. A majority 70's summer sounds absolutely blissful. I can handle more snow. Hell we can't even get a foot in winter here now. It was 2-3 when I first moved back lol. But man that heat, I'm dreading it.

Now that KIND has released their preliminary reports its looking like 1 Super Cell/Bookend Meso Vort spawned 19 tornadoes across 4 states, from MO to OH, in the Ohio Valley It started with 1 EF3 just SW of St. Louis in MO, then 6 tornado's in line, including that 44 mile EF2, in IL, then 9 more right along that line in IN, including 2 EF2's with 15 mile or longer tracks and ending its 4 state trek with 3 in Ohio including... wait for it... one 15 mile long 300yd wide EF1 through Van Wert county (Of course Van Wert HAS to get in on it lol). When you look at the 4 state track and the times of each tornado its hard to argue. It looked like an individual cycling SUP started in MO and moved alone through IL. Then as it began to move through IN, it started taking on a bookend mesovort look for sure (that would account for the weak spinners that paralleled just south of the tornadic track in IN) but there is definitely a track and time line to follow. Several of these moved through some pretty densely populated areas, especially in IN. Of course there were other SUP's and lines but this one, for our area, was the most prolific, and strange in its evolution. I'm used to bookends in July not April lol. Looking back we are really really lucky the powder keg was missing just an ingredient or 2 or this could of been a pretty dangerous early Spring outbreak with a 4 state stretch of what looked like 19 tornados dropped from the same SUP Meso Vort. We kinda had the setup and we definitely had the long track updrafts (not just the one I mentioned) that make some early Spring days memorable for all the wrong reasons.

I lived in SOCAL out by Apple Valley in the 60's and early 70's because my dad was working on flying saucers or some shit (still says he cant talk about it lol) out at the Air Force base and we had 0 AC out in the desert. Apple Valley had like 10 people living there back then including Roy Rogers lol. We moved back to IN and I lived there until about 88. The only people with AC were the wealthier folks in town. I moved to FL in 89 and that was my first real experience with AC, a little window unit in a beach shack. Thought it was weird, didn't like it because I couldn't hear the ocean when it was on, I mean that's why you move there right? lol. I hardly ever used it. Hell I hardly use it today. I've always found if I just get hot as the season progresses it doesn't bother me as much. If I use it a lot it feels a lot hotter when I go out. Don't get me wrong, its nice, and as I get older I tend to use it more. But even today it's gotta be up to 80-85 or higher before I crank it. A fan in a window suits me just fine.

Pummeled with rain here. Almost 4in since 9pm. The creek that's along my property has damn near got me trapped. That's never happened here. More training coming. Some of the longest hard rain I've seen since I moved back in 2012.

Just ran to the store in town. Pretty good lightning with a few CG's and some pea sized hail on the way home. A little surprised by the hail anyway. Moderate to really heavy rain. Thought this crap was supposed to stay south

Discreet Storm winding up in Southern MO currently TOR warned near Poplar Bluff. Looking pretty impressive all by itself edit: I'm blind lol

Glad you're good. My neighbors down the road are pissed off. They pulled the couch cushions into the bathroom, got into the tub and covered up, then the old man turned the water on. I'm sorry I'm still laughing, cant make this shit up. I need to edit the ending because I was laughing so hard... They thought their roof was blown off because all of a sudden the cushions were soaked lmao. He's sleeping in the barn tonight I think. Omg.

There was a big CC drop right over I69 N of Daleville IN associated with a brief strong couplet. I don't know what Semi's look like but that was a BIG semi if thats what it was. Same cell affecting Muncie

I believe there's an Amazon Dist center around there. Lots of warehouses with its location to the FedEx hub at KIND airport

That whole things got shrimp legs lol

&Sirens going off here for the first time in like forever

Yeah, you can see it on Velocity. Both the HRRR and the 3k NAM were forecasting a feature like that on the 18Z runs right in that area but I wasn't buying it. Thats why I don't play the markets lol.

Confirmed tornado near Zionsville, just N of Indy Metro

That little cluster of cells ( just TOR warned) just W and WNW of Indy are gonna go through some very densely populated areas.