4/28 and 4/29 Severe Weather

[nwohweather]

1 hour ago, mnchaserguy said:

Radar loop of the Nebraska supercells last night for anyone interested. One of the crazier velocity loops you’ll ever see. Wouldn’t be surprised if that tornado was on the ground for 2-3 hours.

https://x.com/peterc428/status/1916728473755828285?s=42


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Were those other storms firing up off outflows from the main cell and then combining back into it? It was very odd

[Chicago Storm]

looks like a non-event around here.

a marginal is questionable enough as it is, let alone an enhanced into portions of the CWA.

[mnchaserguy]

Were those other storms firing up off outflows from the main cell and then combining back into it? It was very odd

Not sure. I’d have to go back and look at the surface obs. I know they fired close to a warm front. If I had to guess they fired off the cold front or dryline (can’t remember which, probably a DL) and then moved north and anchored on the warm front where there was better low level shear. An open warm sector to their south with plenty of unimpeded instability and the shear and helicity of the warm front was a perfect set up for what played out last night.

Glad it was over mostly open grassland but that also meant road network was terrible and prevented some better footage of what could end up being a 2 mile wide tornado.


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[Sydney Claridge]

Rotation seems to be tightening near/over Kimball, MN.

[A-L-E-K]

1 hour ago, Chicago Storm said:

looks like a non-event around here.

a marginal is questionable enough as it is, let alone an enhanced into portions of the CWA.

Duh

[TheNiño]

Lots of spotters reporting gustnadoes as tornadoes on the ground rn 

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Fail for the metro unless stuff fires real soon.
 

Got a decent downpour in north Minneapolis this morning but the airport only reported 0.01”