2025 Short Range Severe Weather Discussion

[CheeselandSkies]

3K NAM has been reluctant to fire convection tomorrow since it came into range, but 18Z HRRR actually doesn't look terrible parameter space-wise around the WI/IL border region, and fires storms around 23-00Z.

[SchaumburgStormer]

Storm north of Omaha def needs a tornado warning on it

[SchaumburgStormer]

Two beautiful sups in SW Iowa

[SchaumburgStormer]

#textbook

[mob1]

10 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

#textbook

Tornado emergency on that for Essex IA now. 

[SchaumburgStormer]

4 minutes ago, mob1 said:

Tornado emergency on that for Essex IA now. 

Small town, but they may have just taken it on the chin. 

[nwohweather]

Tornado emergency on that for Essex IA now. 

Sunset big dog roaring out there. One hell of a cell

[mob1]

3 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

Small town, but they may have just taken it on the chin. 

On Google Maps it seems that most of houses are on the southern side of town so hopefully it missed them to the north (though it's hard to tell). 

[SchaumburgStormer]

Storm looked like shit for a few scans, cycled, and looks great again

[Chinook]

tornado emergency earlier near Coburg/Essex IA

 

 

debris up to 20000ft?

[A-L-E-K]

nice bowing segment on tap for madison area, jelly

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HAZARD...Two inch hail

 

[madwx]

Storms were pretty intense this morning. Tons of cloud to ground lightning. Had 1” hail with the cells that formed behind the main bow

[TheNiño]

SVR warning is now destructive in Waukesha County

[Mogget]

Evansville, WI, about 15 mi south of Madison.    Credit: “Jared”

[Mogget]

Probably Evansville, WI.  Credit: “Jordan”

[TheNiño]

24 minutes ago, Mogget said:

Probably Evansville, WI.  Credit: “Jordan”

Looks like a 93-94 Camry? Fix the window and send it another 400,000mi.

[CheeselandSkies]

3 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

nice bowing segment on tap for madison area, jelly

 

 

1 hour ago, madwx said:

Storms were pretty intense this morning. Tons of cloud to ground lightning. Had 1” hail with the cells that formed behind the main bow

As per the other posts, was a pretty significant hail event by our standards. The station I work at was wall-to-wall or nearly wall-to-wall from shortly after the first thunderstorm warning went out at around 5:10, until the storms cleared the Madison broadcast market shortly before 8:00.

[TheNiño]

Brief pea size hail here. Was hoping for some decent thunder at least but we couldn’t muster that up - not a single rumble. Looked much more intense on radar so my weenie self is a little disappointed but I’ll forgo the hail damage. Oh well, back to work!

[CheeselandSkies]

12Z HRRR and 3K NAM both fire a supercell in south-central WI this afternoon, and this one has some surface-based instability to work with...

Chase mode activated? We shall see.

[cstrunk]

16 hours ago, mob1 said:

On Google Maps it seems that most of houses are on the southern side of town so hopefully it missed them to the north (though it's hard to tell). 

Luckily it did miss town to the north. Undoubtedly a few farmsteads were probably hit. Haven't really seen or heard of much damage though - yet.

[yoda]

IMOGENE-ESSEX TORNADO

Rating: EF-1
Max. Wind Speed: 110 mph
Path Length: 19.72 miles
Max. Tornado Width: 3130 yards

Summary: The stronger of the two tornadoes began southwest of Imogene. The heaviest damage occurred south of town, where power poles were snapped, homes were damaged, and outbuildings were destroyed. The tornado narrowly missed Essex to the north, where more damage occurred to structures. The tornado turned northeast toward Nyman before lifting by the Montgomery County line. The tornado was quite wide, at roughly 1.75 miles at peak width, which is officially the widest tornado in Iowa's history.

https://www.3newsnow.com/weather/weather-blog/thursdays-storms-saw-an-ef-3-in-the-omaha-area-and-iowas-widest-tornado-on-record