Severe Weather Threat 4/27-4/28, 2024 - (Saturday, Sunday)

[Zabwxaj]

Game on already? South of Waco.

 

[TheSuckZone]

Practically perfect probs for yesterday vs the 20Z SPC outlook.
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They did a fantastic job yesterday

 

[Clancy]

Two TOR-warned storms in TX now.

 

[Fred Gossage]

KOCO-TV is reporting that the Oklahoma death toll is now up to four.

 

[TornadoFan]

 

[tornado examiner]

Holy…I used to live in groesbeck…

 

[cincywx]

Pretty impressive hook heading into the Hammond, TX area

 

[TheSuckZone]

 

[Tempestas Tonitrua]

Anything from Dickson or Spaulding yet?

 

[Fred Gossage]

Anything from Dickson or Spaulding yet?

Not yet, but here was their mapped out survey plan:

 

[tornado examiner]

I’d just like to point out that there is evidence of extreme low level debarking in sulphur…make of that what you will…extremely powerful narrow suction vortices

 

[Tempestas Tonitrua]

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I’d just like to point out that there is evidence of extreme low level debarking in sulphur…make of that what you will…extremely powerful narrow suction vortices

I can’t really make heads or tails from this photo and will let others that are more knowledgeable on damage aspects than myself draw conclusions.

 

[KCweatherboy]

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I’d just like to point out that there is evidence of extreme low level debarking in sulphur…make of that what you will…extremely powerful narrow suction vortices

This is quite an interesting observation. Looking at that level of tree damage on the right, I'd expected the rest of the damage in the photo to be even more extreme.

 

[Tempestas Tonitrua]

This is quite an interesting observation. Looking at that level of tree damage on the right, I'd expected the rest of the damage in the photo to be even more extreme.

yep. Good post.

 

[UncleJuJu98]

 

[TornadoFan]

When did Oklahoma last have a EF4+ tornado? Was that in 2016 with the Katie tornado?

 

[OHWX97]

When did Oklahoma last have a EF4+ tornado? Was that in 2016 with the Katie tornado?

You're correct about it being the 2016 Katie tornado.

 

[Tempestas Tonitrua]

You're correct about it being the 2016 Katie tornado.

That has to be some kind of record doesn’t it? 8 years?

 

[cincywx]

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0563
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0347 PM CDT SUN APR 28 2024

AREAS AFFECTED...A PART OF EAST-CENTRAL TX

CONCERNING...TORNADO WATCH 158...

VALID 282047Z - 282145Z

THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR TORNADO WATCH 158 CONTINUES.

SUMMARY...A FEW SUPERCELLS SHOULD CONTINUE TO POSE A PRIMARY THREAT
OF TORNADOES ACROSS A PART OF EAST-CENTRAL TEXAS INTO EARLY EVENING.

DISCUSSION...THE TWO INITIALLY SUSTAINED SUPERCELLS IN EAST-CENTRAL
TX BOTH PRODUCED REPORTEDLY BRIEF TORNADOES EARLIER THIS HOUR. A
THIRD SUPERCELL IS TRYING TO INTENSIFY UPSHEAR OF THE MIDDLE ONE (IN
ROBERTSON COUNTY), BUT APPEARS DISPLACED NORTHWEST OF CONVECTIVE
OUTFLOW FROM THE LEAD STORMS. IT IS PLAUSIBLE THAT THE MIDDLE OF THE
TRIO WILL BECOME THE MORE DOMINANT/LONGER-LASTING OF THE SUPERCELLS
GIVEN ITS MORE EAST-NORTHEASTWARD MOVEMENT AND BROADER ACCESS TO
UNINTERRUPTED INFLOW EMANATING NORTHWARD FROM SOUTHEAST TX. WHILE
LOW-LEVEL SHEAR IS MORE MODEST WITH SOUTHWEST EXTENT, IT WILL REMAIN
ADEQUATE FOR MULTIPLE TORNADOGENESIS CYCLES INTO EARLY EVENING.

..GRAMS.. 04/28/2024

 

[A Guy]

I'm pretty sure the Sulphur reports of the downtown being destroyed were coming from an EMS scanner. I don't necessarily disagree with those reports based on what I'm seeing this morning. Many of the buildings in downtown look like total losses.

I realise it's not appropriate to argue semantics in a situation like this, but 'gone' implies absence. Much of the town has minor damage at worst and while many buildings in the major damage core are write-offs, they're still there. I never saw what's wrong with saying 'bad damage' or 'major damage' etc.