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Posted on 05/24/2011 6:44:43 AM PDT by FourPeas
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PUBLIC SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0419 AM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011
...TORNADO OUTBREAK EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS AND OZARKS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY...
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS FORECASTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FEW STRONG TORNADOES...VERY LARGE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS AND OZARKS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY INCLUDE
WESTERN AND NORTHERN ARKANSAS CENTRAL AND EASTERN KANSAS WESTERN AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI CENTRAL AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA NORTH TEXAS
ELSEWHERE...SURROUNDING THE AREA OF GREATEST RISK...SEVERE STORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS THROUGH THE MID MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO VALLEYS INTO THE MID ATLANTIC AND NEW ENGLAND STATES.
A STRONG JET STREAM DISTURBANCE NOW OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN DESERTS WILL SWEEP EAST ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES TODAY...AND ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS TONIGHT...BEFORE REACHING THE OZARKS EARLY WEDNESDAY.
AS THIS OCCURS...AN ASSOCIATED SURFACE LOW WILL DEEPEN AND MOVE NORTHEAST FROM THE TEXAS PANHANDLE INTO CENTRAL KANSAS.
STRENGTHENING LOW-LEVEL SOUTHERLY WINDS EAST OF THE LOW WILL TRANSPORT INCREASINGLY WARM AND HUMID AIR NORTHWARD ACROSS THE PLAINS AND OZARKS...BENEATH UNUSUALLY STRONG WEST-SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS IN THE JET STREAM.
SCATTERED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN AN ARC FROM CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTHWARD THROUGH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INTO NORTH TEXAS AS DAYTIME HEATING FURTHER DESTABILIZES THE REGION AHEAD OF THE DEEPENING LOW.
CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR THE STORMS TO ASSUME STRONG...SUSTAINED ROTATION...AND TO PRODUCE POSSIBLY VIOLENT TORNADOES AND VERY LARGE HAIL AS THEY MOVE / DEVELOP GENERALLY NORTHEASTWARD INTO EASTERN PORTIONS OF KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA.
THE STORMS LIKELY WILL ORGANIZE INTO AN EXTENSIVE BAND THIS EVENING...EXTENDING THE RISK FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND A FEW TORNADOES EAST AND NORTHEAST INTO PARTS OF ARKANSAS AND MISSOURI BY EARLY WEDNESDAY.
STATE AND LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGERS ARE MONITORING THIS POTENTIALLY VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. THOSE IN THE THREATENED AREA ARE URGED TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES AND TO LISTEN TO RADIO...TELEVISION...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WATCHES...WARNINGS...AND STATEMENTS LATER TODAY.
..CORFIDI.. 05/24/2011
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So pretty. I really miss Michigan. I moved away in 1979 after graduating from college into the Carter economy.
“I don’t think that anyone who has ever seen the “bruised” look of a tornado cloud can forget it. The green/yellow/purplish roiling overhead is terrifying.”
True story: I’ve seen a tornado from DIRECTLY underneath one.
When I was about four years old a tornado was coming right for our neighborhood. Our neighbors had a storm shelter so we needed to get over there. My mother was getting my infant brother into a baby carrier when the weather announced where the tornado was. It was almost on top of us. She yelled at me to run for the neighbors’ house so I took off.
I ran outside and down the sidewalk. The wind was so strong I could barely move my little body against it! Then all of a sudden the wind went completely still. I stopped right where I was, thinking Huh? Then I looked up.
I will never forget what I saw. I was looking right into a funnel with swirling clouds within a roiling tube of clouds. It looked VERY MUCH like that scene in “Twister” where they show the inside of the tornado. That movie got very, very close to what it really looks like. When I saw it for the first time I thought, I’ve seen that before!
The tornado had lifted off the ground before it got to our neighborhood. If it hadn’t, I wouldn’t be making this post.
What a memory!
reminds me of Wisconsin...
Prayers need to go up.
Wow. Amazing story.
So do you remember the color of the clouds?
We saw some helicopter footage from Joplin...The damage was absolutely incredible, like a nuclear weapon detonated in the middle of the city.
Yup just about gave up on my spring garden here in S.E. Texas no rain for months and the ground is bone dry. I am only able to keep a small part of the garden alive. Next spring I am not even going to try to have a big summer garden. Hopefully the fall garden will get a little rain and do well.
So is the Rapture today?
“So do you remember the color of the clouds?”
Yes, I do. The clouds inside the funnel were white but the funnel itself was gray. In ‘Twister’ they imagined that there would be clouds within a funnel — they were right about that — but they made them long like separate vortices. The clouds I saw inside the funnel were more separated, not individual vortices, but rapidly circling within the funnel. Those white clouds were moving FAST.
The scene in Twister is about 90% accurate in details and 100% in take-your-breath-away-ness.
What I think I remember — but I have to say I’m not sure so I didn’t add it — was that at the end of the funnel tube was BLUE SKY. I could see right through it to the very top of the storm and beyond it. They say you can see blue sky in the eye of a hurricane... I think you can sometimes see the same with a tornado. But it was a long time ago, and most of my attention was on those white clouds in the funnel — the speed of rotation was just incredible. So I’m not sure about the blue sky, but I think so.
Note: The area of High Risk has be enlarged since this morning to now encompass most of Oklahoma (not including the panhandle) and parts of northern Texas.
Just notices parts of Arkansas, and possibly Missouri also look to be included in the High Risk area.
No, but it appears likely that people may indeed die as a result of the expected storms.
Winds already blowing steady 25-35 here in SE NM with gusts over 45 mph. And its still early in the day!
And this stuff is aimed directly at Indiana, too!
You get many tornados out your way Binger?
NOTA
It’s BUSHES fault!
Or by seeing your neighbor's barn roof go by overhead.
Hello!
Alarmed is the right word - it isn't panic, yet, but the window of opportunity is closing rapidly. If we can just get three or four dry days in a row, and temperatures into the 70s, we'll be fine. If not, trouble.
PUBLIC SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1156 AM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011
...INTENSE TORNADO OUTBREAK EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS AND OZARKS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY...
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