[Strategerist]

There was NOTHING in the NWS watch for the area to raise any particular concern, unlike 1999

To be precise, in 1999 there actually was only a slight risk that morning, it was upgraded to Moderate at 11:15AM.

For today there was a moderate, I believe, beginning yesterday or the day before. But that's fairly routine 9 times out of 10 you get a few tornadoes out in some field somewhere.

[dirtboy]

I disagree. I vividly remember a High risk in 1999.

[dirtboy]

The NWS upgrade the severe risk to High at 4 pm. So there was some warning that things were going downhill in the forecast department.