Severe Weather 2024

[TornadoFan]

Tornado on the ground near Fort Stockton.

 

[Zabwxaj]

Reed has a big tornado on his stream south of Fort Stockton, TX. Has some nice horizontal vortices on it too.

 

[cincywx]

Hard to get a great view of that storm on radar but it has had a pretty impressive couplet even from the distance its being read from.

 

[TornadoFan]

 

[atrainguy]

 

[TornadoFan]

Rotation is getting strong again.

 

[atrainguy]

Yep

 

[TornadoFan]

It's on the ground again.

 

[TornadoFan]

 

[atrainguy]

Big one again.

 

[TH2002]

KMAF picking up a debris signature.

 

[Clancy]

A loop of storm reports from our active week of Plains weather.

 

[OHWX97]

What the hail?!

 

[Tempestas Tonitrua]

Thought I’d post this Severe Storm Forecasting video series from the SPC that they did at OU. I would recommend any of the lectures by SPC Lead Forecaster Rich Thompson. He does an amazing job of breaking down complicated elements into understandable concepts.

 

[KevinH]

Something to watch for D5-D6??

 

[Clancy]

Something to watch for D5-D6??

Most definitely. I'm curious if we should split talk about this threat (which would technically fall into the May 6th-9th period) into its own thread soon, because if the forecasts are any indicator, that thread is probably going to get very long with posts for that particular day. I know we ended up coming up with a general guideline for this but I can't seem to remember what was decided.

 

[KevinH]

Most definitely. I'm curious if we should split talk about this threat (which would technically fall into the May 6th-9th period) into its own thread soon, because if the forecasts are any indicator, that thread is probably going to get very long with posts for that particular day. I know we ended up coming up with a general guideline for this but I can't seem to remember what was decided.

I can’t remember either, but this week has a HINT of outbreak sequence potential. One event, one thread???

@WesL @MichelleH SOS lol

 

[MichelleH]

I can’t remember either, but this week has a HINT of outbreak sequence potential. One event, one thread???

@WesL @MichelleH SOS lol

While for posterity's sake, it would probably be better to have two threads, it will also lead to more confusion with people (probably including me) accidentally posting in the wrong thread. I'll leave that call up to Wes or one of the admins.

 

[Fred Gossage]

While for posterity's sake, it would probably be better to have two threads, it will also lead to more confusion with people (probably including me) accidentally posting in the wrong thread. I'll leave that call up to Wes or one of the admins.

I'm not any voice of authority here, but based on how these days look to go (and how they will be separate synoptic waves), I would personally recommend separating the discussion for Monday to itself and possibly letting the Tuesday-Thursday threat be in another thread. There is at least some potential for Monday to be a High Risk day, and out of all the severe weather days this week, it is the relatively most likely one to be a full-blown tornado outbreak that we'd want to have separated to itself when we want to look back on it at a later date. Tuesday through Thursday or Friday is a separate synoptic wave in the large-scale longwave trough that sets up a multi-day threat. Wednesday is also looking like a large-scale potentially significant event, but the days surrounding it don't look as potentially high-end. Discussion with those lumped in with Wednesday wouldn't muddy things too badly or get post count too far out of control.

Just my two cents on the matter from both a meteorological and a historical archiving for the future standpoint.

 

[Tanner]

I'm not any voice of authority here, but based on how these days look to go (and how they will be separate synoptic waves), I would personally recommend separating the discussion for Monday to itself and possibly letting the Tuesday-Thursday threat be in another thread. There is at least some potential for Monday to be a High Risk day, and out of all the severe weather days this week, it is the relatively most likely one to be a full-blown tornado outbreak that we'd want to have separated to itself when we want to look back on it at a later date. Tuesday through Thursday or Friday is a separate synoptic wave in the large-scale longwave trough that sets up a multi-day threat. Wednesday is also looking like a large-scale potentially significant event, but the days surrounding it don't look as potentially high-end. Discussion with those lumped in with Wednesday wouldn't muddy things too badly or get post count too far out of control.

Just my two cents on the matter from both a meteorological and a historical archiving for the future standpoint.

I agree. Let’s separate the threads.