andyhb Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Second busiest tornado day of the year via filtered tornado reports (after 2/23 on the Gulf Coast). Who would've thought February and August? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Alright, everything from today has been moved to this new thread. Continue the discussion here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtrackertf Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Waiting to hear back from some family members in the Defiance area right now. From what I am hearing there is some very significant damage. Not a good situation clearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwohweather Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Intercepted the tornado earlier today! One of the best chases I have ever been on, so visible for miles. Crossing the river was a pain however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 38 minutes ago, andyhb said: Sharpsville, IN tornado video. (this is not the tornado that went through Kokomo contrary to the header) Unreal video. Wish he kept filming it looked like it hit its widest point at end of video after weakening across the highway. Was in the Tropical thread and didn't think anything would be happening tornadic wise today. Saw 9 new pages and just caught up on everything, thanks for the updates as always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwohweather Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 CBS affiliate showed a map just recently of the reports tracing back to Indiana. Hard to believe that thing was tornadic from Kokomo to Toledo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snohio Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 5 minutes ago, IthielZ said: Waiting to hear back from some family members in the Defiance area right now. From what I am hearing there is some very significant damage. Not a good situation clearly. I live in Defiance. Do you know where they live? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radionicist Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Classic structure in the wall cloud that developed a tornado in Putnam County earlier this evening: A tornado did develop from this storm and caused damage in Dupont, Ohio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 FWIW, there were only 2 F3 tornadoes in Indiana in the month of August between 1950-2015, the last one occurring in 1969. We have the Kokomo tornado at EF3, which may not be the only one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Tamland Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Praying for all those affected today by the tornadoes. Like someone said earlier, crazy that the biggest day for severe storms this year happened in February and August. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 15 minutes ago, nwohweather said: CBS affiliate showed a map just recently of the reports tracing back to Indiana. Hard to believe that thing was tornadic from Kokomo to Toledo That wasn't the same supercell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 We'll have to see what this looks like once the surveys are completed, but you can just get the general sense that today has put up some impressive tornado numbers by August standards and it will probably rank pretty high on the list of non-tropical induced tornado outbreaks in the month of August in the U.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OHweather Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 The meso on what was the Van Wert cell really tightened up as it moved close to BG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Oddly enough this is exactly 10 years to the day of the 8/24/06 tornado outbreak in MN and SD (probably the last non-tropical August outbreak of this caliber in the US). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 0z ILN sounding... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 2 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said: 0z ILN sounding... Very good low level shear, a deeply unstable atmosphere and low LCL = wedges. The low levels really dictated everything with this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 near the IN/OH state line earlier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 The warnings are still going. IND just issued their 27th tornado warning of the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 The Montgomery county, IN tornado that was the beginning of today's madness has a prelim rating of EF2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdgwx Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Wow, 41 tornado reports so far. I've been so busy paying attention to 99L and Lionrock that I totally missed this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 I was keeping in touch with my parents in Toledo as this was going on. Unfortunately I didn't have my GRLevel3 to be able to look at these storms on storm-relative velocity. Thanks to you guys I knew the tornadoes crossing into OH were confirmed. That helped a little. As per the SPC storm reports, there has been a tornado at 1 mile north of Whitehouse. That's close to my favorite park (Oak Openings) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KokomoWX Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 What a day for Kokomo/Howard County. Interestingly many of the homes affected during the 11/17 tornado a few years ago were in the path of the first storm. Very chaotic tracing multiple tornadoes on the ground. More than 1/2 the county without power.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 1 minute ago, KokomoWX said: What a day for Kokomo/Howard County. Interestingly many of the homes affected during the 11/17 tornado a few years ago were in the path of the first storm. Very chaotic tracing multiple tornadoes on the ground. More than 1/2 the county without power.... Everything is fine with your location? Was wondering when you'd check in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Wow! What a day. I've never witnessed anything close to this. I caught the first Kokomo storm east of Marion in Grant County. A tree scraping wall cloud that dropped a brief tornado. Followed it northeast into Wells County where it dropped another brief tornado, only damaging trees. Followed it to Adams County where it dropped another tornado. Law enforcement had the area blocked so I couldn't stay on it. I have never seen such violent rotation in my life. I had to get back to Huntington Co anyway since I am the Skywarn director there and another warned storm was coming in from Miami Co. A firefighter caught a brief video on a tornado on the ground in the western part of the county and I intercepted it as it was heading out of the county. This storm also had violent rotation and dropped a tornado just west of Zanesville, only staying on the ground for a minute. I then watched the wall cloud pass right over FWA with a brief funnel hanging under it. Our area was lucky that we were spared the major damage suffered in the surrounding areas. I will review my massive amount of dash cam video and post anything interesting that showed up. I not really into stopping and photographing, as my first responsibility is reporting location and direction and staying on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KokomoWX Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 4 minutes ago, Stebo said: Everything is fine with your location? Was wondering when you'd check in. My home and neighborhood is unscathed. My schools (work) are fine but without power. The big generator I installed last summer for the data center/corp office is purring away. I am so thankful. Locally we had nothing but minor injuries. Very amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Just now, KokomoWX said: My home and neighborhood is unscathed. My schools (work) are fine but without power. The big generator I installed last summer for the data center/corp office is purring away. I am so thankful. Locally we had nothing but minor injuries. Very amazing. That is great to hear considering how bad things were locally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtrackertf Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Thankfully everyone I know down there NW Ohio is fine. Not hearing anything about serious injuries or deaths, so that is definitely amazing news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 38 minutes ago, KokomoWX said: What a day for Kokomo/Howard County. Interestingly many of the homes affected during the 11/17 tornado a few years ago were in the path of the first storm. Very chaotic tracing multiple tornadoes on the ground. More than 1/2 the county without power.... Is your sense that the damage in town is worse/more widespread than 11/17/2013? I was trying to figure out where this would rank for Kokomo and was wondering if you'd have to go back to the 4/11/65 tornado to find something worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Here's another little fun fact...from 1950-2015, there were no tornadoes on record for August 24 in Indiana...until today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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