SmokeEater Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Taken from Mr. Reimer's page...655PM: Getting reports of small debris from Canton tornado falling 30-50 miles downstream. This was a major, major tornado... #txwx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo762 Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 1 minute ago, SmokeEater said: Taken from Mr. Reimer's page... 655PM: Getting reports of small debris from Canton tornado falling 30-50 miles downstream. This was a major, major tornado... #txwx Not surprised at all given how high debris was lofted into the air per CC... NBC 5 in Dallas had reported 2x4s falling from the sky near Fruitvale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo762 Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Cameron, OK tornado last night rated an EF-2 with winds estimated to be 110-120mph per Tulsa NWS on twitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattPetrulli Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Looking really bad in Canton. Hearing reports of a lot of injuries and a triage being setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstrunk Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Circulation area between Canton and Van, heading east-northeast, will pass very close to or north of Van, TX. Van was hit by an EF-3 a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 tweet from NBC 5 Dallas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Martin Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Canton supercell tornado warned again for Smith and Wood Counties in NE Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo762 Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Reed Timmer with his typically stellar videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaggy Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Big tornado for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Natester Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Just curious, where there any reports of fatalities from the tornadoes in Texas today? Hopefully there aren't any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo762 Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 2 minutes ago, Natester said: Just curious, where there any reports of fatalities from the tornadoes in Texas today? Hopefully there aren't any. Yes. One, believe they were inside their vehicle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlcater Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 3 minutes ago, Natester said: Just curious, where there any reports of fatalities from the tornadoes in Texas today? Hopefully there aren't any. There was 1 reported fatality so far when the tornado crossed I-20 and threw a vehicle 200 yards(feet?). Hoping we don't see any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natester Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Just now, NWLinnCountyIA said: There was 1 reported fatality so far when the tornado crossed I-20 and threw a vehicle 200 yards. Hoping we don't see any more. That sucks. I was hoping that wasn't the case. I presume this was from the second Canton tornado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calderon Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 8 minutes ago, NWLinnCountyIA said: There was 1 reported fatality so far when the tornado crossed I-20 and threw a vehicle 200 yards(feet?). Hoping we don't see any more. It was on TX 64 just southeast of Canton, near a salvage yard. The car was tossed so far beyond a line of mostly stripped and denuded trees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santa Clause Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Just catching up, sad to see it hit a populated area. Looked like a fairly significant tornado for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo762 Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 1 dead, 47 injured per Fox News from the Van Zandt/Henderson county tornadoes. Imagine most of these were from the damaging long-track tornado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tater Tot Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 One of those freaky wedges where it looks like the whole meso is on the ground. Also one of the best inflow jets I've seen on video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1900hurricane Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 On 4/28/2017 at 1:35 PM, thewxmann said: I have zero doubt that I cursed this setup by coming out to the Plains for this. As is starting to become tradition. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk Meh, you did alright as far as chasing goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Naturally that happens on the day I leave. No way I could've stayed though regardless so can't complain. Also coming up on that scene in Canton certainly would've dampened my opinion of the whole thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drz1111 Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 I'd love to hear a postmortem on how the Van Zandt Co. tornados happened today. It didn't look like there was nearly enough bulk shear for strong rotating updrafts in the midlevels, and visually the updrafts looked barely sheared when everything was in the towering cumulus stage, so notwithstanding the good low-level shear I was completely skeptical of tornados literally until the first tail end storm started spinning up. Then all of a sudden that starts strongly rotating; then it's flanking updraft starts to rotate (that turns into the Canton storm) and so on for the next 2 or 3 updrafts. So whatever was happening there, it was repeatable and not a fluke. Also, I was out with Silver Lining Tours thanks to a tip from someone on this forum back in 2016 and obviously today was a home run for me, so thanks to whoever dropped that recommendation back when. They were great and professional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Reimer Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Outflow boundaries in North Texas are very evil. Storms late morning in far east/southeast Texas pushed an outflow boundary west. That's why we ended up with multiple tornadic supercells from near Gun Barrel City northeast to Emory. Winds back near and just east of that boundary, thus turning a fairly typical severe threat into an outbreak of tornadoes. Canton just ended up being the unlucky bullseye for at least three of them. Not the first time an OFB has turned a 'normal' SVR day into something much worse. April 3, 2012, May 15, 2013, and now April 29, 2017. When it comes to thunderstorms, expect the unexpected as the late Al Moller constantly said. First light tomorrow will reveal just how bad things are in Van Zandt county. We've got a Facebook group put together to help disseminate and communicate needs of those impacted. https://www.facebook.com/groups/texasdisasterrecovery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo762 Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 10 minutes ago, Drz1111 said: I'd love to hear a postmortem on how the Van Zandt Co. tornados happened today. It didn't look like there was nearly enough bulk shear for strong rotating updrafts in the midlevels, and visually the updrafts looked barely sheared when everything was in the towering cumulus stage, so notwithstanding the good low-level shear I was completely skeptical of tornados literally until the first tail end storm started spinning up. Then all of a sudden that starts strongly rotating; then it's flanking updraft starts to rotate (that turns into the Canton storm) and so on for the next 2 or 3 updrafts. So whatever was happening there, it was repeatable and not a fluke. Also, I was out with Silver Lining Tours thanks to a tip from someone on this forum back in 2016 and obviously today was a home run for me, so thanks to whoever dropped that recommendation back when. They were great and professional. Believe the boundary put out by that HP supercell--turned compact MCS-- in Louisiana earlier on in the day played a significant role in storm intensification. The 00Z SHV RAOB was fairly impressive to begin with in the low-levels (ESRH of ~400 m2/s2), but that ambient environment coupled with the boundary and extreme instability in Texas made it all come together... Well all that and very low LCLs. Just another reminder that the 0-1km/0-3km layer are really what matters the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drz1111 Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Thanks guys - super helpful. I was so focused on worrying about the cold front undercutting the storms (which had happened to the first batch back on Gainesville) that I totally forgot that the big Shreveport supercell probably pushed ou a boundary. That makes a lot of sense. FWIW, I did notice that when we got down into the rotating storms, temps were slightly cooler, air slightly moister, winds more backed and, of course LCLs were insanely low (watching the inflow screaming in seemingly so close that you could reach up to touch it was very cool). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlcater Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 2 hours ago, Calderon said: It was on TX 64 just southeast of Canton, near a salvage yard. The car was tossed so far beyond a line of mostly stripped and denuded trees. Really, my source(twitter) had it wrong then. Go figure. Thanks for correcting me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 2 hours ago, shaggy said: Big tornado for sure That had to be over 1 1/2 wide at one point. Unreal video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santa Clause Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Just...wow. unreal footage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo762 Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 2 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said: That had to be over 1 1/2 wide at one point. Unreal video :50 to around 1:55 reminds me a lot of the Wynnewood/Sulphur, OK tornado last year... insane. Meteorologically, and chasing-wise a true diamond-in-the-rough, otherwise a tragic event that changed many lives forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radtechwxman Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Whose video is that? From stormchasingvideo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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