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May 24 Plains/MW Severe Threat


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Kudos to TWC for doing live, continued coverage into the early hours of the morning.

This time after 4/27 (into the AM of 4/28), coverage was much more focused on the stuff that happened about 8 - 10 hours earlier.

Impressed with their coverage of Denning over the last hour.

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Multiple large, chaseable tornadoes west of I-35 in OK... I must've been dreaming today. Mad props to CUmet for calling from almost 24 hrs. out that the threat would be centered along I-40, as that statement from last night couldn't have hit the nail on the head any harder.

Here are a few quick shots from my expedition:

El Reno-Piedmont-Guthrie tornado immediately after tornadogenesis 1 N Lookeba:

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(We were within a mile of this, probably more like 1/4-1/2 mi. to be honest, at the moment of tornadogenesis. The transition from a multivortex carousel with small vortices skipping around to full-blown wedge was astonishingly fast. Because of this, we spent the best/largest period of the wedge -- prob over 1 mi. wide for a short time -- fleeing to the east and I got no shots. The terrain right around here was remarkably poor for W OK, too.)

Chickasha-Newcastle tornado from near Tabler:

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Criner-Goldsby-Noble tornado from near Dibble, in the damage path (view looking N):

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Multiple large, chaseable tornadoes west of I-35 in OK... I must've been dreaming today. Mad props to CUmet for calling from almost 24 hrs. out that the threat would be centered along I-40, as that statement from last night couldn't have hit the nail on the head any harder.

Here are a few quick shots from my expedition:

El Reno-Piedmont-Guthrie tornado immediately after tornadogenesis 1 N Lookeba:

(We were within a mile of this, probably more like 1/4-1/2 mi. to be honest, at the moment of tornadogenesis. The transition from a multivortex carousel with small vortices skipping around to full-blown wedge was astonishingly fast. Because of this, we spent the best/largest period of the wedge -- prob over 1 mi. wide for a short time -- fleeing to the east and I got no shots. The terrain right around here was remarkably poor for W OK, too.)

Chickasha-Newcastle tornado from near Tabler:

Criner-Goldsby-Noble tornado from near Dibble, in the damage path (view looking N):

Excellent pictures here.

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Multiple large, chaseable tornadoes west of I-35 in OK... I must've been dreaming today. Mad props to CUmet for calling from almost 24 hrs. out that the threat would be centered along I-40, as that statement from last night couldn't have hit the nail on the head any harder.

Cool pics, Brett. Congrats on a good day of chasing.

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pretty big day. im sure i wont have fans for saying it but seemed more or less in line (at least tornado numberwise) with other larger plains outbreaks even with the unheard of percentages from spc etc. yeah it is still being counted. perhaps given some extra 2011 love in the leadup...

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You know its been a bad year when you think "we got lucky, only 13 deaths so far".....

part of it is i think there is a new hysteria in weather these days. everything is worse than ever before etc. tornadoes happen, so do big tornadoes. this has been a really bad year. but you do often get the sense that people are going a little overboard in their commentary over it all. april 27 was a huge anomaly year-to-year... yesterday not as much.

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pretty big day. im sure i wont have fans for saying it but seemed more or less in line (at least tornado numberwise) with other larger plains outbreaks even with the unheard of percentages from spc etc. yeah it is still being counted. perhaps given some extra 2011 love in the leadup...

I'd say the day was nothing over the top, but enlight of what we've seen so far this year, the High Risk was warranted. I see Dallas is still standing the AM.;)

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I'd say the day was nothing over the top, but enlight of what we've seen so far this year, the High Risk was warranted. I see Dallas is still standing the AM.;)

i think the high risk was warranted regardless.. looks like no one wins my OT poll. :(

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part of it is i think there is a new hysteria in weather these days. everything is worse than ever before etc. tornadoes happen, so do big tornadoes. this has been a really bad year. but you do often get the sense that people are going a little overboard in their commentary over it all. april 27 was a huge anomaly year-to-year... yesterday not as much.

Yeah people always let whatever has happened recently taint perception. Just like after the 2005 cane season, everyone was ready to predict the end of the world again in 2006. Zero doubt that 4/27 and Joplin helped with the hype. I do agree the high risk was warranted, but this was not an overperformer based on expectations as all, unlike some of the others this season.

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Yeah people always let whatever has happened recently taint perception. Just like after the 2005 cane season, everyone was ready to predict the end of the world again in 2006. Zero doubt that 4/27 and Joplin helped with the hype. I do agree the high risk was warranted, but this was not an overperformer based on expectations as all, unlike some of the others this season.

I should add that last night was close though. Those storms in Dallas, with lower LCL heights, could have been epically bad. Was almost the ultimate disaster setup there.

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Is it hype, though?

By any yardstick, this has been an exceedingly harsh year, tornado-wise: number of tornadoes, number of EF4/EF5 tornadoes, number of EF5s, number of deaths, amount of dollar damage, etc.

The fact that yesterday's activity doesn't even seem that newsworthy is sort of telling.

By "hype", to me, I think that a lot of folks were convinced another major city would be leveled (well, not leveled, but Tuscaloosa-esque), and yes there WAS potential for that, but it seemed to me that people were almost elevating it too high. Could just be my personal perception though. I'm okay with hyping it up to some degree though, since many people still don't heed all warnings like they should.

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Is it hype, though?

By any yardstick, this has been an exceedingly harsh year, tornado-wise: number of tornadoes, number of EF4/EF5 tornadoes, number of EF5s, number of deaths, amount of dollar damage, etc.

The fact that yesterday's activity doesn't even seem that newsworthy is sort of telling.

I did not say it was hype per se. As it's all random and a slight difference in a storm or two could have had major consequences just like a few miles of storm track difference might have meant considerably lower deaths earlier in the year. Still, some were talking like this was a setup you see once a decade or less in the Plains and just a cursory look back says that's not true. Damaging weather is a big time spectator sport these days... you gotta wonder how much that affects things in both perception and dissemination of info. I'm of the belief it's better to overwarn than underwarn but I don't know if that's actually the best way of doing things.

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