[Strategerist]

It's not false. Many of the days this spring with wildly overhyped tornado totals in the Midwest had upwards of 7-8 SPC "reports" that people were counting as individual tornadoes that were clearly one tornado.

Each individual day and location of an outbreak is different; you can have an individual day somewhere where it ends up as a 20% reduction, but by and large the true reduction is a LOT more.

[Cheetah1]

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It's not false. Many of the days this spring with wildly overhyped tornado totals in the Midwest had upwards of 7-8 SPC "reports" that people were counting as individual tornadoes that were clearly one tornado.

Each individual day and location of an outbreak is different; you can have an individual day somewhere where it ends up as a 20% reduction, but by and large the true reduction is a LOT more.

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Well I know for a fast that the majority of tornado reports/outbreak numbers on the SPC page are not reduced by the number you mentioned.

They can and often are reduced but not that much.

ANYWAY we were talking about this outbreak.

If you read the reports you will see that these are actual tornadoes spotted by spotters, police, and NWS Employees.

These are not false reports today.

[grey_whiskers]

Don't know for sure, but I was up in Brainerd MN
when there was a tornado which tore up Brainerd
International Raceway.

This was a tornado confirmed by the National Weather
Service, and all the while, the local radio was
going nuts with reports of things like
"we have reports of a tornado forming in the K-Mart
parking lot"...since this was a weekend evening
we were in stitches.




PS I was camping & due to the trees, only saw the
tail end of the storm. The top rear of the storm
had what I can best describe as a "halo" or circular
rainbow; it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen
--next to my wife, that is :-)

Can any meteorological-type FReepers describe the
halo phenomonenon?