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Severe Event March 25th 2021


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3 minutes ago, ALweather said:

I mean, the area it's in is sparsely populated so it's not like it's going through Tuscaloosa or Bham. Probably will damage some chicken houses and not much else, lol.

Like Spann said earlier today, just because it misses you doesn’t mean it misses everyone.  Like that retired couple who live a little farther out than you.

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9 minutes ago, ALweather said:

I mean, the area it's in is sparsely populated so it's not like it's going through Tuscaloosa or Bham. Probably will damage some chicken houses and not much else, lol.

Was your purpose of signing up here just to try to find any possible way of minimizing the event?

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1 hour ago, Moderately Unstable said:

There's no specific requirement not to discuss ratings--I think it's reasonable to expect somewhere along path you'll see EF4+ reports...but remember that radars, unless they're DOWs are not measuring the wind AT THE GROUND. That's super critical and why you can't take "wow look at this gate to gate shear" stuff verbatim--that's what's happening a few k feet up. Friction is real, yo. El Reno was an EF5 according to DOW...it's rated EF3. Why? No structures were hit that verified EF5. Same for the Bassfield tornado. Had an EF5 signature at times and would be super easy to believe a monster that big, on the ground that long, produced EF5 winds in a sub vortex somewhere...but clearly didn't do so over a place for which EF5 criteria could be applied. This long track, fatality producing tornado...seems rather clearly destined for EF4+ status with a special wikipedia subsection dedicated to it within the discussion about the overall event. EF5 could have verified if the tornado had gone straight through Brent...looked particularly nasty around then. It may still verify...that's what damage surveys are for. In general though..remember that velocities do not tell you what's happening at the ground unless you're right next to the radar site like now, or using a DOW. It's useful to know what the G2G is, but really the better measure is how high up debris gets lofted. There's a somewhat direct correlation btwn debris height and strength of the tornado. 

This is an A+ post. As always, thanks

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PDS Tor for Summertown, TN.

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR EASTERN
LEWIS...NORTHEASTERN WAYNE...NORTHERN LAWRENCE AND SOUTHWESTERN MAURY
COUNTIES...
        
At 739 PM CDT, a confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado was
located 9 miles northeast of Waynesboro, moving east at 50 mph.

This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW!

HAZARD...Damaging tornado.

SOURCE...Radar confirmed tornado.
 

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