Stebo Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Thanks....I will try to be a better person for you Stebo Keep your snide comments to the OT where they can fester please... It's unneeded here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Maybe people's perceptions of things would have been different with a little bit more active moderation by the staff? Maybe then we wouldn't have had 6 pages of OMG. A stickied thread was made and the weenies (many of whom I've never seen in an outbreak thread) rushed in...of course that's going to tilt the expectations in an unreasonable direction. i think in an outbreak situation there needs to be a seperate commentary thread.. there was definitely a time where it was hard to talk weather here. i would not have announced people should come to this thread myself. the goal should never be to pack 400 people in one spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 i think in an outbreak situation there needs to be a seperate commentary thread.. there was definitely a time where it was hard to talk weather here. i would not have announced people should come to this thread myself. the goal should never be to pack 400 people in one spot. lets try it and so how it goes http://www.americanwx.com/bb/index.php/topic/19044-chit-chat-and-other-banter-may-25th-severe-weather/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k*** Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 i think in an outbreak situation there needs to be a seperate commentary thread.. there was definitely a time where it was hard to talk weather here. i would not have announced people should come to this thread myself. the goal should never be to pack 400 people in one spot. Let's see how that concept goes today....I think it might work, especially if the taggers work to shepard people in the right direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 This crap should be split out into an OT thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 http://fxn.ws/jqECzA Nice vid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 http://fxn.ws/jqECzA Nice vid Mobile home gets ejected from vortex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettjrob Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Here's a quick round-up of some of the better videos I've found from each event. Blaine/Major Co. tornado (Canton-Fairview): Caddo/Canadian/Logan Co. tornado (Lookeba-Calumet-El Reno-Piedmont-Guthrie): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettjrob Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Grady/McClain Co. northern tornado (Chickasha-Newcastle): http://video.foxnews...hrough-oklahoma <-- have to sit through ads, but worth it for the absolutely SICK close-up view of tornadogenesis... very violent motion Grady/McClain/Cleveland Co. southern tornado (Criner-Washington-Goldsby): http://www.youtube.c...h?v=gpKUm9n2kus http://www.youtube.c...h?v=4I47sFEEYvk http://www.youtube.c...h?v=qIL6O3lknPw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huronicane Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Survey results for some of the Oklahoma tornadoes: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/oun/wxevents/20110524/05241625-PNSOUN.txt Storm 2 should be a 4, and not just because ELRE mesonet site took a glancing blow and recorded a 151 gust. I think the same for Storm 4. That storm wiped the houses right off the foundations, but I'm not sure that they were built strongly enough for it to be a 5. I didn't see a lot of Storm 3, but after seeing video of a whole trailer home being flung from the tornado...Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewxmann Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Ah nice. Pretty much as I expected... at least two ought to get EF4 in later updates. The 75 mi path length is pretty impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewxmann Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Denning is EF3: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=tsa&storyid=68709&source=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aslkahuna Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Any weather side trolling isn't needed. Don't matter how long it lasted or not.. I agree and in fact I thought that it was grounds for 5 posting at least (unless one is one of the perfumed elite). Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettjrob Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Just saw this posted on FB of what was a brand new two-story home in Goldsby (just SW of OUN): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huronicane Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 It looks like those may be anchor bolts in the bottom plate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 9 tornadoes confirmed in the DFW Metroplex last night. Granted it wasn't the apocolypse some were saying, but for the people that tried to play it off as your basic severe storm? http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/North-Texas-cleans-up-after-overnight-storms-122629084.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 9 tornadoes confirmed in the DFW Metroplex last night. Granted it wasn't the apocolypse some were saying, but for the people that tried to play it off as your basic severe storm? http://www.wfaa.com/...-122629084.html This really shows how lucky DFW area was all things considered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFanatica Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Storm 2 should be a 4, and not just because ELRE mesonet site took a glancing blow and recorded a 151 gust. Should probably be a 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewxmann Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Should probably be a 5 For you to say that, that's actually pretty amazing. Do you have any pictures of the damage that would support an EF5 rating? If any one of the tornadoes is rated EF5 (from their assessments during 5/10/10, it would appear OUN is pretty liberal with ratings), two different systems would have spawned two EF5's within two days of each other, and there would be five EF5's this year. Given that we saw two EF5's in the ten years between 2000 and 2009, that would be impressive to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFanatica Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Would love to get into details, just can't at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewxmann Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Would love to get into details, just can't at this point. Sounds titillating, looking forward to additional survey details that will come out later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huronicane Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Sounds titillating, looking forward to additional survey details that will come out later. You and me both. I was more focused on the radar and NWS Chat yesterday when I was at the station, so I didn't really pay attention to the damage much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cory Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 I'm not trying to downplay it at all, which I'm sure would be expected by some given my bust of a two weeks out there (I may be the only person not to see a tornado this year)... There was just some hyperventilating in the leadup IMO. It could be that we were one small shift away from a much more disastrous situation--and as you note, it did really start off big. Had that continued into the evening in OK and the stuff in TX produced a bit better this might not even be a discussion to have. My "weather job" is heavily tied to communicating to the public, so I tend to look at things in that light. I just think in many situations over recent years the hysteria has grown to a level that is not helpful in many cases. Shoot, we had 400 people in this thread with 6 pages of OMG as a tornado was ripping up a field with a few houses here and there. That's a pretty common occurrence whether or not yesterday was as a whole. Maybe a common occurrence but it's not always witnessed in such clarity live on television with people crawling out of the wreckage. I think the surprise and awe of that was totally warranted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Maybe a common occurrence but it's not always witnessed in such clarity live on television with people crawling out of the wreckage. I think the surprise and awe of that was totally warranted. not when it's six pages of one word crap posts. though honestly i hate "the crowds" anyway.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFanatica Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Sounds titillating, looking forward to additional survey details that will come out later. You and me both. I was more focused on the radar and NWS Chat yesterday when I was at the station, so I didn't really pay attention to the damage much. I don't have any info on damage surveys, I should also clarify I don't think it will actually be upgraded to EF-5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLMKA Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 http://c580804.r4.cf2.rackcdn.com/2011.0526.1000.pdf Official list of 232 missing persons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewxmann Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 I don't have any info on damage surveys, I should also clarify I don't think it will actually be upgraded to EF-5. Well in that case, I dont think it will be upgraded to EF5 either, since I didn't see any evidence of EF5 caliber damage. Goldsby on the other hand... that might be close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettjrob Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 I heard rumblings around here yesterday that Goldsby and Chickasha were both *possible* candidates for EF-5, but nothing even close to official. FWIW. It sounds as if at least EF-4 is likely for both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 The Chickasha tornado near peak intensity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFanatica Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 I heard rumblings around here yesterday that Goldsby and Chickasha were both *possible* candidates for EF-5, but nothing even close to official. You heard correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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