Chicago Storm Posted March 6, 2022 Author Share Posted March 6, 2022 21 minutes ago, cyclone77 said: Rockford ASOS hit 81mph awhile ago, and Sugar grove 72mph. 71 MPH DPA and 66MPH ORD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherMonger Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 Think I found the culprit, synoptic winds howling right now so doubt they try fixing it tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 8 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said: a winter 21/22 alek style bad call. That's okay, I said we'd be getting Iowa sloppy seconds a few days ago lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 It's pretty fortunate such a widespread high wind event hit while the trees are still bare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 There is virtually no SBCAPE or even much MLCAPE around Chicago metro, but there is some MUCAPE and I think that along with the deepening low/strengthening wind fields is keeping this going despite an increasingly hostile/stable environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 KGRR airport measured severe wind gust of 51 kt Quote KGRR ... PK WND 26051/0706 WSHFT 0654 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 Thunderhail! Sounded horrible against the picture window. Woke me up from a full sleep. Sirens being activated for the southern part of the county now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 Had legit 65MPH winds as it moved through. Multiple poles down in the area as well as a semi on its side on I 69. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 This sucks. Six dead and four injured. https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/midwest/official-2-people-die-as-tornado-moves-through-central-iowa/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheeselandSkies Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 6 hours ago, IWXwx said: This sucks. Six dead and four injured. https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/midwest/official-2-people-die-as-tornado-moves-through-central-iowa/ Seven, there was one fatality in the Chariton tornado as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 I believe this is the deadliest tornado in IA this early in the year in the modern era (since 1950) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 33 minutes ago, Hoosier said: I believe this is the deadliest tornado in IA this early in the year in the modern era (since 1950) Liowa is trying to lose it's rep in the chase community between the Dec event and yesterday's. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 4 minutes ago, cyclone77 said: Liowa is trying to lose it's rep in the chase community between the Dec event and yesterday's. I hadn't thought about that Dec event. So they had that event for the ages and then come quickly out of the gate in 2022. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 Des Moines officially recorded tornado in their climate summary so it's cool to see the ever elusive X (for tornado) show up in the F6. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted March 6, 2022 Author Share Posted March 6, 2022 1 hour ago, cyclone77 said: Liowa is trying to lose it's rep in the chase community between the Dec event and yesterday's. 54 minutes ago, Hoosier said: I hadn't thought about that Dec event. So they had that event for the ages and then come quickly out of the gate in 2022. Don't forget the 7/14/21 tornado outbreak either. IA has definitely been streaking. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 tornado occurred in SE Dane county last night 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlcater Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 Yesterday was hard. Storms were moving 45-50mph at a 45 degree angle to the grid, so keeping up was exceptionally challenging. Needless to say, I didn't really have time to take many good pictures, and the tornadoes I saw weren't especially photogenic from my vantage points anyway. I traded pictures for keeping up and only stopped 2-3 times the entire chase. Despite the few good pictures, I absolutely cannot complain about seeing tornadoes and a great cyclic supercell on March 5th, in Iowa. The first tornado was near corning which I have zero pictures of as it lasted 30-40 seconds and I was driving. The second tornado lasted about 2 minutes and was near Creston. It had a much more pronounced debris cloud before I was able to get a picture. The 3rd tornado was a rain wrapped wedge that tracked from Winterset to Newton and produced EF2-3 damage near winterset from what I could tell. This was near colfax, and the tornado had shrunk markedly to a cone here. And finally, the 4th tornado was an amorphous bowl near Kellogg. It had multiple subvortices beneath it and seemed pretty weak. Immediately prior to the winterset tornado. Storm was a very high contrast sculpted beauty. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Indiana is on the board for a tornado as a survey revealed an EF-0 in Cass County, although there were reports of stronger straight-line winds in the area than the tornado produced. However, it did damage a house. PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 709 PM EST SUN MAR 6 2022 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0205 AM TORNADO 4 SW ROYAL CENTER 40.82N 86.55W 03/06/2022 CASS IN NWS STORM SURVEY NWS SURVEY CONFIRMS A BRIEF, EF-0 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF W CR 400 N AND N CR 925 W. THE TORNADO TRACKED NORTHEAST FOR ROUGHLY A HALF MILE CAUSING DAMAGE TO TREES AND A HOME BEFORE DISSIPATING. WINDS ARE ESTIMATED AT 70 MPH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 DVN confirmed 3 birdfart naders so far. The Des Moines office has confirmed 3 so far, including an EF-3, but they will be adding many more in coming days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 2 EF3s, Winterset actually may have a shot at EF4 based on some of the damage I've seen. That was a nasty tornado. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheeselandSkies Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 You'd think one of these years I'd learn to throw climo out the window and just pay attention to the damn 3km CAPE map. Even so, sounds like it was a tough chase for most and with few exceptions, the best/clearest footage of the tornadoes came from local yahoos who had way too close calls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted March 7, 2022 Author Share Posted March 7, 2022 PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 1203 PM CST MON MAR 7 2022 ..NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 3/5/22 TORNADO EVENT - UPDATE #3 UPDATED STATEMENT TO INCLUDE DAMAGE SURVEY INFORMATION FROM THE TORNADO THAT TRACKED THROUGH MADISON, POLK, WARREN, AND JASPER COUNTIES. - THE EF-RATING HAS BEEN FINALIZED HOWEVER TRACK INFORMATION IS STILL CONSIDERED PRELIMINARY AS STORM SURVEY INFORMATION CONTINUES TO BE GATHERED. - THIS IS THE FIRST EF-4 TORNADO IN IOWA SINCE OCTOBER 4, 2013 IN WOODBURY AND CHEROKEE COUNTIES. - THIS IS THE SECOND LONGEST TORNADO PATHLENGTH IN IOWA SINCE 1980. THE LONGEST OCCURRED ON JUNE 7TH, 1984, WITH A PATHLENGTH OF 117 MILES ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN IOWA. WINTERSET THROUGH NEWTON TORNADO RATING: EF-4 ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 170 MPH PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 69.5 MILES PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 800 YARDS FATALITIES: 6 INJURIES: 5 START DATE: 3/5/2022 START TIME: 426 PM CST START LOCATION: 2.2 MILES NORTH OF MACKSBURG END DATE: 3/5/2022 END TIME: 601 PM CST END LOCATION: 3.1 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEWTON EF SCALE: THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE CLASSIFIES TORNADOES INTO THE FOLLOWING CATAGORIES. EF0...WEAK......65 TO 85 MPH EF1...WEAK......86 TO 110 MPH EF2...STRONG....111 TO 135 MPH EF3...STRONG....136 TO 165 MPH EF4...VIOLENT...166 TO 200 MPH EF5...VIOLENT...>200 MPH . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hlcater Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 1 minute ago, Chicago Storm said: . Strongest tornado I've seen so far. Bummed I wasn't in front of it while it was still visible near winterset but oh well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted March 7, 2022 Author Share Posted March 7, 2022 Strongest tornado I've seen so far. Bummed I wasn't in front of it while it was still visible near winterset but oh well. Something is still better than nothing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Close call here the other night I guess lol. DVN found an Ef-1 had tracked pretty close to town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted March 9, 2022 Author Share Posted March 9, 2022 Close call here the other night I guess lol. DVN found an Ef-1 had tracked pretty close to town. So the below did produce… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted March 9, 2022 Author Share Posted March 9, 2022 Another view of the cycloneville tor... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 4 hours ago, Chicago Storm said: Another view of the cycloneville tor... I drove around after work and found some areas where the trees were twisted up and broke, and several farm fields had sheet metal and other debris strewn over them. There's some very large fields with very little trees for long stretches otherwise there may have been a lot more damage to look at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 On 3/7/2022 at 12:25 PM, Chicago Storm said: . Pretty scary how close this was to a near worst case scenario event for Des Moines. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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