Chicago Storm Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 This is definitely my third favorite tornado video now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn4a7JMlmP0&feature=youtu.be High quality IL tornado video there. Awesome suction vorts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo762 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Looking at pictures from various news sources, the Cameron tornado (just basing off of the pictures, which may or may not show the worst damage) will probably be rated mid-EF2 to possibly low end EF3.. But more so thinking an EF2. Which is still a "strong" tornado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClicheVortex2014 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Looking at pictures from various news sources, the Cameron tornado (just basing off of the pictures, which may or may not show the worst damage) will probably be rated mid-EF2 to possibly low end EF3.. But more so thinking an EF2. Which is still a "strong" tornado. Yeah. It looked like an EF3+ in that video. Of course... visual guesstimation isn't how they rate tornadoes (thankfully) TWC has an article about this tornado http://www.weather.com/news/news/cameron-illinois-tornado-severe-damage-impacts They also link a local news site that has some pictures of damage. http://wqad.com/2015/07/16/tornado-reportedly-hits-cameron-illinois/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Someone's video from the Port Byron tornado tonight. Tornado starts around the 6 min mark. Was only about 20 miles west of here. Should have left sooner than I did lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I think the storm north of Lincoln IL needs a warning on it. Pretty persistent rotation that has gone up in the last few scans. There was a funnel cloud spotted with the storm 20 minutes ago yet no warning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattPetrulli Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I think the storm north of Lincoln IL needs a warning on it. Pretty persistent rotation that has gone up in the last few scans. There was a funnel cloud spotted with the storm 20 minutes ago yet no warning? Definatly a tornado on the ground. Debris ball plus a TVS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Severe warned now but there is a circulation with a TDS on the last scan. I don't know given the time of night and the atmosphere in place, I'd gone tornado warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattPetrulli Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Tornado seems like it lifted. Still capable of producing one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattPetrulli Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Has decent mid level rotation, circulation looks like it's trying to regain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCNYILWX Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Hearing that there was significant damage in Delavan IL. Danny Neal texted me this photo taken down there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonOH Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 That storm never got warned did it? I never saw a polygon Pop up on radar scope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCNYILWX Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 That storm never got warned did it? I never saw a polygon Pop up on radar scope.Only had a severe on it. Never was tor warned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonOH Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 That's what I thought. Hopefully people took shelter for the severe thunderstorm warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Hearing that there was significant damage in Delavan IL. Danny Neal texted me this photo taken down there. That was where the original funnel cloud report came from, looks like it was on the ground there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 That's what I thought. Hopefully people took shelter for the severe thunderstorm warning. They eventually issued a severe warning but it was pretty obvious it needed a tornado warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 They eventually issued a severe warning but it was pretty obvious it needed a tornado warning. Second time Lincoln has dropped the ball on a storm in less than a week, similar situation last Saturday with a storm in DEC with rotation that went unwarned for some time, before finally getting a severe warning as a good hook echo and rotation signature showed up over long creek. I believe the Long Creek/Mt Zion area had some significant tree damage due to that storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Short video shot from San Jose looking NE toward Delavan https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1025482890797254 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 5% tornado area was added on the 01z outlook. All this talk on Twitter/etc. of the 2% being the thing that goes crazy this year. That shouldn't have been the case from 1630z on (or at least it should've been upgraded to 5% at 20z). I don't really understand the lack of a tornado watch in this situation either since the parameter space was clearly rather favorable for tornadoes as my post earlier illustrated about the environment downstream of the storm that was near Burlington at the time (which went on to become the Monmouth/etc. cyclic supercell). 1500-2500+ J/kg MLCAPE coupled with 200-400 m2/s2 of effective SRH and low-mid 70s dewpoints isn't exactly something to play around with having semi-discrete storms in the area. There was also multi-model agreement that this type of sweet spot in west-central IL and SE IA was going to be in place this afternoon/evening. Sure I suppose hindsight is 20/20, but in this case I don't think you can really say that. Something tells me the particular outlook forecaster who released the 20z outlook had to a lot to play into this. Some of his material recently (and even not so recently) has been questionable at best. BTW, Saturday is increasingly catching my interest for the northern end of the sub-forum. That is quite a potent (especially for mid July) shortwave trough moving along the 49th parallel with the potential for strong destabilization out ahead of it. Of course, it also looks like the kind of setup that could easily get screwed up by the convection from late tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurora Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Sunday looks like a good severe threat locally. Nothing chaseable, but likely a big wind damage threat with a squall line, a la 7/15/10, 7/2/11, and 7/19/13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 i actually think we see decent storm coverage today with a couple nice wet microburst type gusts, especially southern metro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 wisconsinwx gets smoked on the 12z 4km NAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m22 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Second time Lincoln has dropped the ball on a storm in less than a week, similar situation last Saturday with a storm in DEC with rotation that went unwarned for some time, before finally getting a severe warning as a good hook echo and rotation signature showed up over long creek. I believe the Long Creek/Mt Zion area had some significant tree damage due to that storm. I don't understand why they never issued a tornado warning for that storm that hit Delevan. It had rotation on it off and on for some time before it hit the town. I don't understand how they think issuing a severe thunderstorm warning was enough and i believe that was after the storm had already hit the town. Someone saw the tornado and they tried to turn on the tornado siren, but the power was out in the whole town so they had no warning. I live a county over and they said there was a warning for Delevan's county and the southwest part of my county, but my weather radio never went off. I posted a link to a local article i found where the NWS said the tornado signature only showed up 4 mintues before the storm hit Delevan and dissipated after it got out of town. http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/tornado-damages-homes-in-delavan/article_846071e0-c0bc-5452-b61b-8a7201d56a70.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanDe680 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 FWIW a good write up with pics of the Hutchinson Tornado from Monday, along with the unfortunate damage it caused... http://www.weather.gov/ict/071315 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I don't understand why they never issued a tornado warning for that storm that hit Delevan. It had rotation on it off and on for some time before it hit the town. I don't understand how they think issuing a severe thunderstorm warning was enough and i believe that was after the storm had already hit the town. Someone saw the tornado and they tried to turn on the tornado siren, but the power was out in the whole town so they had no warning. I live a county over and they said there was a warning for Delevan's county and the southwest part of my county, but my weather radio never went off. I posted a link to a local article i found where the NWS said the tornado signature only showed up 4 mintues before the storm hit Delevan and dissipated after it got out of town. http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/tornado-damages-homes-in-delavan/article_846071e0-c0bc-5452-b61b-8a7201d56a70.html I'm not one to call the NWS a liar, but it was showing rotation long before the 4 minute window they refer to. It should have be warned, period. And not to further beat a dead horse, but the 7/11 storm which went through Macon county showed off and on rotation as it entered their county from the north. Storm was never severe warned, until after a hook echo and strong rotation had developed over Mt Zion, and only then it received s severe warning. I am beginning to wonder if they are gun shy about issuing a tornado warning for fear of backlash in the event of a bust. However two blown/missed warnings in less than a week does not speak well for any office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indystorm Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Can see lightning to my south at Fortville with storms popping in the area and SPC talking about a possible watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue60007 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Decent circulation showing up in the SE part of Tippecanoe county. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClicheVortex2014 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Decent circulation showing up in the SE part of Tippecanoe county. Tornado warned now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue60007 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Tornado warned now About time. Sirens are sounding here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Warnings starting to pop, extreme instability doing work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClicheVortex2014 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Strong rotation now http://i.imgur.com/0sjPWaT.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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