Quincy Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Pretty impressive day that lived up to its billing. Tornadoes from Iowa to Ohio with a soon to be legendary twister in Northern Illinois. Pretty damn good early Spring event Certainly an early season event. In northern Illinois, the only earlier violent tornado reported since 1962 was in 3/29/81 with an F-4. The next closest would have been Palm Sunday, 4/11/65. 2/28/12 had the Harrisburg, IL EF-4, but that was in the far southern tip of the state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vortex Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Write up by LOT http://www.weather.gov/lot/15apr09 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 fairdale.PNG He's wrong. I know several people who don't work for the weather service who have been out surveying with the teams from LOT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstorm93 Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Such an awesome shot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Heard 2 fatalities in Fairdale from a reliable source (Victor Gensini). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huronicane Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 He's wrong. I know several people who don't work for the weather service who have been out surveying with the teams from LOT. I think the main issue is if they brought in the QRT or not...and the emailing of photos to wind engineers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natester Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I think Fairdale will be rebuilt since the tornado didn't completely level the town as early reports indicated. I remember that Manchester, South Dakota was wiped off the map by an F4 tornado on June 23, 2003. Manchester was smaller than Fairdale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Whether due to randomness or something else, there had been a bit of a minimum in significant tornadoes and tornadoes in general in that area that got hit yesterday. Here's a map of significant tornadoes from 1950-2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geddyweather Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Such an awesome shot... Beautiful photo. Shows the power of a textbook supercell in the right environment. Obviously the whole area got hit hard, but it could have been so much worse if this had been a few miles to the east OR west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zestylabs Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 My video from Rochelle IL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Whether due to randomness or something else, there had been a bit of a minimum in significant tornadoes and tornadoes in general in that area that got hit yesterday. Here's a map of significant tornadoes from 1950-2014 map.png Living in Dekalb for several years, I was thinking of that map that as soon as this happened...the lack of tornadoes in that part of Northern IL.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hvward Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 A little late but here is some video from my chase in N MO & E IL. Prayers for those effected by the cells that popped to my north. I missed them by 2 hours or so driving from OKC. Caught this cell near Louisiana, MO as it crossed the Mississippi. I was on Highway 54 south of Rockport, IL looking east towards MO. It wass tornado warned at the time. Had a lot of scud and two funnel clouds but there weren't damage reports so might not of TD. http://youtu.be/q2AWVATyDck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Confirmed through daily-chronicle that second fatality was found in bathroom clutching purse. http://m.daily-chronicle.com/2015/04/10/death-toll-reaches-2-in-fairdale-tornado/aossxue/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 A few pics... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 that's the stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Just gave in interview with channel 7 so that and my video might be on this afternoon/evening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Excellent photos Joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Full edited video cut down to 8 mins or so from yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natester Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Created a playlist of all the videos of the Rochelle tornado last night. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm_yeRok75NsLU7LQz7ChfuaaoSDY0MP5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vortex Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Whether due to randomness or something else, there had been a bit of a minimum in significant tornadoes and tornadoes in general in that area that got hit yesterday. Here's a map of significant tornadoes from 1950-2014 map.png A close up from that area LOT posted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 A close up from that area LOT posted It's the windmills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Take it with a grain of salt, but I'm seeing a couple of reports of EF4 being the rating for the Rochelle/Fairdale tornado. This being one of them: https://twitter.com/laurenjiggetts/status/586629315808342017 Last EF4+ in the LOT CWA was Plainfield, quite a stretch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natester Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I saw that tweet. I think the person who posted that tweet got word from NWS Chicago about the rating of the tornado. Very high end EF4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonOH Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Do you guys think this woll be final already, or we get a preliminary EF4 like Vilonia and they look around for a couple more days to confirm or upgrade it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Here's your confirmation: https://twitter.com/gensiniwx/status/586632521439453184 EF3+ drought is over earlier than last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natester Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Do you guys think this woll be final already, or we get a preliminary EF4 like Vilonia and they look around for a couple more days to confirm or upgrade it? I doubt there will be an upgrade to EF5. The tornado was likely at it's strongest after it clipped Rochelle, when it was over open country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonOH Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I doubt there will be an upgrade to EF5. That's what I was thinking. If they would have waited longer on the prelim I might be inclined to bet on an upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Do you guys think this woll be final already, or we get a preliminary EF4 like Vilonia and they look around for a couple more days to confirm or upgrade it? Doubtful. Not like we have miles of damage/destroyed structures to review. Should have a solid rating by looking in Rochelle and fairdale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCNYILWX Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Been on one of the survey teams today, on the end of the significant damage path just northeast of Fairdale to southeast of Belvidere. The other 2 teams focused on Fairdale and near Rochelle. Sobering stuff. Saw the worst damage I've surveyed, including a large section of a home destroyed, very high end tree damage with debarking of a few trees and well over 100 hardwood and softwood trees snapped/twisted/uprooted and many of them tossed, and the complete destruction of well built 2 story barns. Thr most interesting damage I saw was the convergent scouring (or what looked to be) of asphalt pavement about 1/8" deep on the road nearest where we observed the worst property damage. Couldn't tell if it was completely caused by the tornado or debris in the circulation. Overall, having been Gino's warning assistant last night and then on a survey today, it's been a pretty emotional experience. But I'm proud to have been a part of the efforts of my office on this event. It's really a miracle that the tornado didn't hit more populated areas and create a mass casualty situation. We're lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 PNS statement: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.php?pil=PNSLOT&e=201504102054 That supercell was bad news almost from the point of initiation to the SE of the DVN/QC area storm. You could tell its updraft was stronger than the rest and it developed potent mid level rotation very quickly. This, plus the obvious wind profile improvement from 18z to 00z at ILX (plus the backing low level winds near the warm front and moisture pooling), made it clear that something was likely going to happen. That said, I'm not sure I expected a tornado of such magnitude regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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