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@ousom '19/'22/'?? | Does radar stuff at @OUARRC | Remote observer of spinning things | Central Illinois native | Mostly Harmless Norman, OK Joined April 2015-
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1:06am CDT #SPC Day1 Outlook Moderate Risk: across parts of North Texas Oklahoma Southeast Kansas and Far Southwest Missouri spc.noaa.gov/products/outlo…
Not often that you see tornadoes with 110+ kt Vrot in a populated area, and even less often are those tornadoes any less than EF4+ intensity. The tornado that hit the western portions of Omaha earlier leaves little doubt as to how intense it truly was. #newx
The real power of bistatic radars is that you can do synchronous wind retrievals with every SAILS scan 🤠
Quick and dirty bistatic dual-Doppler analysis of the failed spinup west of Norman early this morning 👀
Looks like the Wichitas are doing a great job at partially blocking the low-level flow beneath the EML, check out those rolls in velocity downstream!
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One year ago today: The largest February tornado outbreak in Oklahoma's history occurred as a QLCS with embedded supercells raced across the Norman CWA. A pair of significant tornadoes occurred: a killer EF-2 tornado in Cheyenne, and a long-track EF-2 through Cole-Goldsby-Norman.
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red sharpie alert !
1:06am CDT #SPC Day1 Outlook Moderate Risk: across parts of North Texas Oklahoma Southeast Kansas and Far Southwest Missouri spc.noaa.gov/products/outlo…
One of the things I’ve seen that concerns me is the idea that “early convection will wash tomorrow out.” When the entire warm sector is sitting at 90% relative humidity, cold pools just aren’t going to be what they normally are.
12 hours? in this economy?
We've received questions about timing for severe weather/flooding tomorrow. The short story: there will be multiple rounds of strong to severe storms, so remain weather aware even if you've already had a round of severe storms pass through. The long story: is shown below.
@SteelCage_ If you look closely, you'll see I had to create my own number 4 for it.
Not even really sure what to say about today. I’ll remember it for the rest of my life. Feeling amazed by the power and intensity of what we witnessed, feeling terrible for the damage it inflicted on so many people. Harlan, IA 6:10pm CT.
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Hopefully louder for the back row: damage surveys take time. Let the system play out before throwing out ratings. It’s not a video game, people are impacted.
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Strong tornado with debris near Lincoln @NWSOmaha 3:56 pm
@tlyzawx @Rhapsodyinbrown @GoedeTDS Reminds me of the Bondurant, IA TDS on 7/19/18. It looked completely detached from the parent storm on radar and the rotation on the base scan was hard to see...but it produced EF2 damage.
@Rhapsodyinbrown @GoedeTDS It’s a TDS on an LP supercell
@ou_sams x.com/ou_sams/status…
Not often that you see tornadoes with 110+ kt Vrot in a populated area, and even less often are those tornadoes any less than EF4+ intensity. The tornado that hit the western portions of Omaha earlier leaves little doubt as to how intense it truly was. #newx
VROT of 112kt plus a TDS of ~25k feet... EF4+ using Emmerson's (@ou_sams) method.
Not only is the Omaha, Nebraska tornado the highest VROT so far this year, it's also in the top 20 VROTs of all time, with a VROT of 112.3 kts.