2024 Severe Weather General Discussion

[Random Chaos]

 

400 Dogwood is 500 ft north/south (perpendicular to tornado track) from 3 Holly. That’s a wide tornado track.

[mob1]

Cell north of the long tracked one also has a decent couplet (though it was far more impressive a few scans ago)

[Stebo]

Classic stovepipe tornado

 

 

 

[WxUSAF]

I’m about to get something in Columbia 

[Fozz]

Tornado warning here.

This is insane… I’m actually worried

[Chinook]

Confirmed tornado at Gamber (not from Gaithersburg cell)

[mob1]

The northern cell now has a tornado on the ground as well. Velocity scans look pretty impressive for this area. 

[Stebo]

The storm is getting the look of about to produce again. Inflows are increasing and the hook is getting well defined again

[wxdude64]

Watching from far away, y'all stay safe up there!

[Amped]

Headed for me or just south. Visibility to low to see anything.

[mob1]

5 minutes ago, Stebo said:

The storm is getting the look of about to produce again. Inflows are increasing and the hook is getting well defined again

It was really cool to see the whispy disconnected hook echo a few scans ago. Much more defined now. 

[WxUSAF]

14 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

I’m about to get something in Columbia 

We’re in our basement 

[SnowLover22]

14 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

I’m about to get something in Columbia 

Once again, radar confirmed ✅ 

 

[SnowLover22]

Just now, WxUSAF said:

We’re in our basement 

Stay Safe!

[AlexD1990]

Good God! This is insane! Not even a watch

[WxUSAF]

2 minutes ago, SnowLover22 said:

Stay Safe!

Velocity couplet looks legit south of the Columbia mall

[frd]

5 tornado warnings at this time.  First time in my life I have seen that in these partsm  even in tropical storms.   

[alexj7]

The Gaithersburg tornado passed about a 1/2 mile north of me.

Easily the craziest cloud movement I’ve ever seen for a few minutes. They were moving every which direction.

Saw some interesting rotation right as it passed Gaithersburg downtown.

https://imgur.com/a/rTvadzv

[SnowLover22]

2 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Velocity couplet looks legit south of the Columbia mall

Tornado looks to be south of Columbia proper so assuming you’re in Columbia proper, you should be fine. 

[Amped]

Rain just lifted In downtown columbia.  No tornado or damage visible from my window.

[WxUSAF]

Just now, SnowLover22 said:

Tornado looks to be south of Columbia proper so assuming you’re in Columbia proper, you should be fine. 

I’m in southeast Columbia. That couplet is going very close to downtown. 
 

>5”/hour rain rate with this storm 

[Scraff]

8 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

We’re in our basement 

Same here. Near the beer fridge. 

[Mrs.J]

Why did we not have a watch? 

[rjvanals]

What a call earlier today

 https://x.com/matthewcappucci/status/1798337643761299914?s=46&t=mT77ePKjXzTPB67-AoPUUg

[AlexD1990]

Just now, Mrs.J said:

Why did we not have a watch? 

I think that question's going to be asked quite a bit in the coming days...

[Kmlwx]

1 minute ago, rjvanals said:

What a call earlier today

 https://x.com/matthewcappucci/status/1798337643761299914?s=46&t=mT77ePKjXzTPB67-AoPUUg

There were hints of this on some runs of the NAM nest yesterday as well. I should not have written off some of the model soundings that popped on a few runs as early as yesterday. Wow. 

[Scraff]

What a huge fail today for the weather service. Unreal. Hearing rotation over Oakland Mills. 

[Kmlwx]

2 minutes ago, Mrs.J said:

Why did we not have a watch? 

 

1 minute ago, AlexD1990 said:

I think that question's going to be asked quite a bit in the coming days...

The answer that is likely going to come from this is going to be low spatial coverage overall. High impact because of the location it went through (major metropolitan region) - but overall coverage was why they didn't issue a watch. Whether it's right or wrong - that's the reasoning. Consider the STW just a handful of days ago when almost no storm activity occurred at all. Tough job to be an SPC/NWS forecaster. 

[Kmlwx]

Just now, Scraff said:

What a huge fail today for the weather service. Unreal. Hearing rotation over Oakland Mills. 

I am not sure I would go that far at all. They were warning the storms left and right. SPC didn't coordinate a Tornado Watch due to expected overall low coverage. However, given the risk, the smarter move could have been to issue a small watch given the major metro area. HOWEVER, flip side is that if they issued a watch and no storms formed or only weak ones...false alarm fatigue. I would hope that the warnings did their job. Wouldn't call it a "huge fail" by the weather service but that's just my two cents. Very easy to judge after the fact. 

[Chinook]

not sure if this is a new tornado over Columbia or if it's just a rotation