ICEHOCEY77 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 STP starting to increase to the south: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocoAko Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Well, that was fun. Any damage to report in your vicinity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquatchinNY Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Couplet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Think the still lacking low-level winds may have saved Norman from a real disaster...the deviant motion clearly helped take advantage of what shear was there. Could have been much worse though if it was a few hours later after the LLJ had ramped up. Just wait, those cells in SW OK will be reaching the OKC Metro right around that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan11295 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Was a report of an apartment with the roof off. If accurate implies EF2ish localized damage. Would be in agreement with the velocity numbers reported while OTG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 KFOR streaming chopper footage from Norman. Damage looks minor to moderate...nothing severe looking yet. Is this the typical situation where OUN doesn't share their storm reports with the rest of the world?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memphis Weather Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Is this the typical situation where OUN doesn't share their storm reports with the rest of the world?? Yeah...OUN not issuing many LSRs. Most information I'm getting is from either media...twitter or NWSChat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memphis Weather Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Just wait, those cells in SW OK will be reaching the OKC Metro right around that time. Atmosphere may be worked over in that area by then. We'll have to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Was that tornado about 2104z? just curious. That's what it looks like on the TLX radar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernNJ Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 New meso looks to be trying to form on the Norman storm. Meanwhile, the Altus storm may have TOR coming soon on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 http://twitpic.com/99e18l Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memphis Weather Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 OUN about to TOR Pottawatamie. Rotation increasing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 505 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 500 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PINK...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SHAWNEE...TECUMSEH...PINK...EARLSBORO...JOHNSON... DALE AND BETHEL ACRES. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 174 AND 194. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 low level shear seems to be increasing over OK..winds have backed SE over much of the state and LLJ will be increasing plus there is a boundary over the OKC metro for that next storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 http://twitpic.com/99e18l WOW! Is that f2 damage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memphis Weather Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Was that tornado about 2104z? just curious. That's what it looks like on the TLX radar. Very tight couplet and dual-pol debris signature appeared on the OUN test dp radar at 2101z (image a few pages back)...would have been within a minute or two of initial touchdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFanatica Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Any damage to report in your vicinity? I don't see any, sounds like it hit about 2 miles north of where I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 I don't see any, sounds like it hit about 2 miles north of where I am. 2 Miles! Go take pictures!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 TDWR (1.50 tilt) view of Norman at the time of the tornado Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCNYILWX Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Focus is obviously on ongoing convection in Oklahoma, but for everyone on here that's been looking at stuff all day (I was on shift and not able to look closely), would the best bet tomorrow be Nebraska or Kansas? Planning on meeting around 5am at the NWS office and either heading west on I-80 and perhaps Lincoln as a staging point, or heading down to Topeka, Kansas and figuring things out from there. From NYC originally, so never been chasing before and pretty pumped either way. Thanks in advance for any and all advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICEHOCEY77 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Cells to the N of Altus is starting to get it's act together. Recent report of wall cloud rotation intensifying. Last 2-3 scans have a hook trying to form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memphis Weather Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Signature dramatically improving on that cell now...reports of a brief touchdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICEHOCEY77 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Focus is obviously on ongoing convection in Oklahoma, but for everyone on here that's been looking at stuff all day (I was on shift and not able to look closely), would the best bet tomorrow be Nebraska or Kansas? Planning on meeting around 5am at the NWS office and either heading west on I-80 and perhaps Lincoln as a staging point, or heading down to Topeka, Kansas and figuring things out from there. From NYC originally, so never been chasing before and pretty pumped either way. Thanks in advance for any and all advice. Consensus has been to play the warm front in NE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewxmann Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Focus is obviously on ongoing convection in Oklahoma, but for everyone on here that's been looking at stuff all day (I was on shift and not able to look closely), would the best bet tomorrow be Nebraska or Kansas? Planning on meeting around 5am at the NWS office and either heading west on I-80 and perhaps Lincoln as a staging point, or heading down to Topeka, Kansas and figuring things out from there. From NYC originally, so never been chasing before and pretty pumped either way. Thanks in advance for any and all advice. If both targets are equal, I'd pick the closer target for gas money's sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 520 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2012 OKC125-132230- /O.CON.KOUN.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-120413T2230Z/ POTTAWATOMIE OK- 520 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY... AT 519 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS TORNADIC STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SHAWNEE...TECUMSEH...PINK...EARLSBORO...JOHNSON...DALE AND BETHEL ACRES. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 175 AND 194. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Taken at west 36th and Lindsay in Norman via News 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaoPos Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Nasty looking. Rotation weak, but you can see some hooks trying to wrap up. Sent from my iPad HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowGoose69 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Focus is obviously on ongoing convection in Oklahoma, but for everyone on here that's been looking at stuff all day (I was on shift and not able to look closely), would the best bet tomorrow be Nebraska or Kansas? Planning on meeting around 5am at the NWS office and either heading west on I-80 and perhaps Lincoln as a staging point, or heading down to Topeka, Kansas and figuring things out from there. From NYC originally, so never been chasing before and pretty pumped either way. Thanks in advance for any and all advice. I had mentioned to someone 2 days ago I liked today better for OK/ S KS than I did tomorrow, my main reaason was I thought winds at 500mb were a bit stronger than I normally like to see tomorrow...now you can add in the issue of very late initiation and the possibility AM convection may screw things up (although the activity now over OK may kill any morning stuff). A big reason 5/24 was so bad in OK last year was that the activity the evening prior on 5/23 prevented AM crap from ever forming and ruining the 24th. The best idea tomorrow for you might be to position yourself somewhere near the KS/NE border, I initially wanted to say 135/70 intersection in C KS but that probably would be too far south to commit initially) you can sort of cover yourself for both DL activity in S KS or the warm frontal activity by staying in southern NE at first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikepie Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Mike Morgan KFOR stating 1/4 mile wide TOG near Shawnee, OK @ I-40 & US 177 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lester Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Large Tornado On The Ground near I-40/177 per KFOR; Debris in the Air, MultiVortex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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