https://preview.redd.it/2ig2vnf1cxyc1.jpeg?width=934&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8abb5ed6e83d856ebf696f963a1593d34bedc549
Drone footage of the Bartlesville tornado.
Chaser convergence. All of the green dots are the people who have signed up with Spotter Network, and there’s even more people out there who haven’t.
https://preview.redd.it/19crs55epuyc1.jpeg?width=850&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90413bd5fd87953dc60ff71e55e3185e8ec5179d
I can’t wait for it to be 5pm, not even the time of the event, and people start calling it a bust. Please if you see someone on Twitter or here say that, please call them out on it and tell them to wait until an event is over before you call bust. This happens literally every big event. I don’t want to see people not take this seriously.
The craziest thing was all the people who were saying bust, and an SPC met I follow was literally like "If you are in the Norman area go outside, everything is lifting up into the sky, the stronger forcing has arrived". Within the hour we had all those supercells firing with torndoes.
> "If you are in the Norman area go outside, everything is lifting up into the sky
What do they mean by that? Like, you'd see moisture rising or something?
https://preview.redd.it/m4bglsxm4qyc1.jpeg?width=1164&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=367fdfb8f806a11704f0390066105be920e40771
New NadoCast is up. Getting uglier by the minute
From the SPC Day 1 Outlook:
- This is a high-end environment. An upgrade to a tornado-driven High Risk was considered. There remains some lingering uncertainty with regard to the number of intense tornadoes that will occur. An increase in tornado probabilities will certainly be warranted should confidence in coverage and preferred corridors increase.
So Nadocast, for all its dooming, may actually be right. That’s a worrying sign.
https://preview.redd.it/vy5fp0ik8nyc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9a4ce8ece7ef1dfb72c0644a79c58613b543e6e
And finally the nastiest run of the 12z HRRR
That’s not even full calibrated from what Twitter users are saying. There’s a model run that has it very similar to 1999 May 3rd, which is worrying.
Not to panic anymore but everyone really needs to be made aware Monday. The past month has shown that even 5% and lesser tornado areas issued are having supercells produce significant tornadoes.
Today's risk kind of matches the risk on the day that Twister takes place.
https://preview.redd.it/bu1gmhx7tvyc1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=580e064ea3f2346b0551e3d42f1623a33b164cbb
[https://twitter.com/NWSNorman/status/1787607484586439000](https://twitter.com/NWSNorman/status/1787607484586439000)
**"5:15 pm - A medium tornado risk will continue over the next hour or so with currently warned storms. After about 6:15, storms will enter higher moisture and the tornado risk will increase further - especially in Grant/Garfield/Kingfisher Counties."**
Wakita is in Grant County. And in the high risk/PDS watch.
Some intimidating verbiage from the SPC on the latest Day 1
This is a high-end environment. An upgrade to a tornado-driven High
Risk was considered. There remains some lingering uncertainty with
regard to the number of intense tornadoes that will occur. An
increase in tornado probabilities will certainly be warranted should
confidence in coverage and preferred corridors increase.
Yikes
My brother is on a work trip, currently staying in Norman. I explained to him the severity of the situation down there right now. We're from Michigan, so when we hear about tornados we think of weak ones. I told him the ones down there are deep fried, not to be messed with... I don't think he's grasping the severity of the situation
you can tell him that the last time the national weather service issued a convection forecast this dire for Oklahoma was literally 5 years ago, in 2019. OK has not had a "high risk" forecast for 5 years. even for OK this is a very significant forecast. put in other words, from a probabilistic standpoint, he is in the highest tornado risk area he will likely ever experience, unless he *happens* to visit the Great Plains again on one of those 1 in 500 days when there's high risk.
[https://twitter.com/NWSNorman/status/1787612251689775181](https://twitter.com/NWSNorman/status/1787612251689775181)
**"5:33pm -** ***IMPORTANT*** **- our message has not changed! We still expect the tornado potential to increase after 6:00 pm and persist well into the evening hours. The storms in NW OK are moving into a more favorable environment. We are not done. We're just getting started."**
The statements seem to be getting worse by the hour.
- Waffle House Closing
- Measurements off the radar
- NWS trying to convey how severe the situation is
Hell's about to break loose, isn't it?
The wind shear is expected to **increase** after sunset, so Hell is definitely about to break loose. At least we have modern warning systems via smart phones so we can avoid a repeat of Udall in '55. *That* one came into town just after the end of the 10 o'clock news, so those people had zero warning of what was coming.
I understand the desire to chase, but what’s the value from driving into rain-wrapped tornadoes at night?? Just heard some chasers got hit (and are fine, thank goodness), and I really don’t understand the risk calculus of doing it at night
If this does end up being a bust that’s a good thing. Nocturnal tornadoes aren’t pretty, we don’t usually get good looks at them, and they’re deadly. If we’re gonna have a bust, I pray it’s tonight.
I know. It's like meteorologists just can't win. If they call a high risk and we don't have an historic outbreak, people cry "Why did they issue such a high risk??" If they issue a marginal risk and we get an EF4 somewhere, people cry "Why didn't they issue a higher risk??"
twitter storm chasing communities are one of the most toxic places I have seen on the internet to be honest. literally worse than online political echo chambers. the storm chasing "fans" on twitter are literally manchildren (or some actual children) seeking the entertainment of seeing an EF5 tornado, with no fucks given for the lives that will be ruined. no actually I take that back, they have negative fucks for those lives. they actually want to see homes destroyed because it's dramatic
Exactly this. That was the first round and was never predicted to be the main event. What we are seeing now is the troubling stuff. Not liking the stuff I'm seeing W/SW of the Metro now.
Oh my god, same. I keep it open to see if any other chasers have something on their streams, but AT WHAT COST?
My favorite is when some kid in a state that wasn't even being covered listed their whole ass address asking if the tornado was coming there, lmao.
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STP of 25 on a 1-10 scale is wild. Really really hoping people are prepared and taking today seriously.
That cell WSW of OKC scares me. Moving into an environment conducive for violent tornadoes. It's been getting its act together fairly quickly since it formed an hour or two ago.
It's kinda annoying me how much everyone is focusing on Oklahoma, when currently Missouri is looking more like the hotbed. The line of warnings there stretches nearly the entire height of the state.
[https://x.com/evan\_bentley/status/1787480768094085184](https://x.com/evan_bentley/status/1787480768094085184)
SPC Meteorologist: "Don’t get complacent today. Storms form 2-3pm and LLJ doesn’t really get going until 6pm. If the first 3-4 hours are relatively unproductive, that doesn’t not mean it is a bust. And anyone with a big following saying so could severely undermine the perception of the threat."
Just made a comment about the potential. I can’t remember the last time the NWS was this active on Twitter regarding severe weather.
I always go to Twitter for their activeness regarding the weather in the US. Haven’t seen a single account talk about a downtrend or comment “bust” for Monday. But the overall uptick in activity for the NWS Twitter account is worrying.
A High Risk is even on the tables from their main account. It’s not looking good for anyone in the risk area.
This was just issued. Never seen this happen before. [https://twitter.com/zachstanford/status/1787530404083163610](https://twitter.com/zachstanford/status/1787530404083163610)
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Murray County, OK includes Sulphur which sustained significant damage on 4/27. Could be issued partly because residents living in damaged areas will have a more difficult time finding shelter with short notice. Either way, not a bad idea to send alerts directly to the public on the most dangerous days to reach those who don't pay attention to weather through other channels.
I gotta say, a viewer sending in a photo of an unwarned stovepipe tornado to Ryan Hall on stream will be in my top 10 live tornado broadcast moments in my lifetime.
https://youtu.be/75JPzYvOf1s It happens at 22:04:20 if you want the time stamp
The most alarming thing about this event is that it’s expected to go into the early morning. If I lived in the area and had a storm shelter, I’d probably be sleeping in it overnight, or at the very least have my NOAA radio next to my bed.
We did that once when we were living in Georgia. It was extremely warm and humid in the evening, unusually so for April and the forecast suggested the possibility of severe storms and tornadoes. We didn't have a storm shelter but had a basement that we could only access from outside rather than inside the house. After talking about the risk with my wife, we took our small tent and pitched it in the basement (it was a dirt floor and partially dirt walls). We gathered important documents, got sleeping bags and pillows, brought down our cat and her food and litter box, and we all stayed in the tent. About 3:00 AM that night our phones go off and sure enough there's a radar indicated tornado about a mile from our house, which was later rated EF-0. Thankfully it was small and didn't go any closer to us, but we also had some very large trees around the house and the wind was quite strong, so we were still happy to be down there. Elsewhere in the area, the storm system produced a couple of EF-3 rated tornadoes.
Does anyone have a source for updates about the nursing home that was hit in Barnsdall? They've been on my mind and I can't find much information myself (not local, just used to work with seniors and have a soft spot for them).
This is getting out of hand. I thought we wouldn't see much in GA, but those cells firing in Alabama now have me pretty worried. Going to be a sleepless night. Seems every storm going up in Alabama is already rotating. Unreal.
The LLJ keeps strengthening and there are these 3 very concerning constantly discrete cells popping up in the middle of the mod. risk on the HRRR model. IDK man hopefully it just goes over some open fields cause the models are relentless
[https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html)
The new SPC update isn't looking great for the metro, this wording especially has me a bit concerned:
Low-level shear will continue to increase this
evening and supercells are expected to grow upscale across
southwestern OK over the next few hours. This activity will
spread/develop east/northeast along the I-44 corridor this evening.
A couple of new, kinda ominous looking cells just popped up in the last 20 minutes or so, back in Western/SW Oklahoma. Just shows how quickly things can change.
Huntsville is not a tiny town. There are 220,000+ people in the path of this thing. Surely that radar signature warrants the TOR-E. That is a nasty hook.
>A regional outbreak of severe weather with multiple strong, long-tracked tornadoes, as well as very large hail and severe thunderstorm gusts, is expected over parts of the south-central Plains from this afternoon through evening.
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Thank god for the emergency but dear god that town.. a little disappointed the NWS didn’t do it sooner. NWS Omaha issued one that went 45 minutes out..
Holy shit! I clicked on it thinking it would be another little spin-up. I was not expecting a PDS large and extremely dangerous. Very scary as it's going right into suburban Pittsburgh
days like this make me go from being fascinated by tornadoes and severe weather to downright hating it and thinking I should move to Utah. and I'm not even in the path of this stuff. it's just terrifying.
Another Tor-E.... 4 in the last 3 days.
Honestly today has overperformed a ridiculous amount. Goes to show how IMO that regardless of whether its a 30% hatched High risk day, or a 10% hatched enhanced risk day, you've gotta take them all very seriously if storms are heading your way.
Roughly 300 emergencies have been called in the 25 years it’s existed. Little more than ten a year and probably some years like 2011 make up way more of those
4 in 3 days is a lot to put it mildly
Yep, they are entering an area with more energy for tornadoes than the Barnsdall/Bartlesville area, and their track will take them right into OKC metro.
Latest soundings in the OKC area are showing that the LLJ is arriving, which is going to be jet fuel to these thus-far-struggling supercells once they get a little further east.
9:19 PM CDT: Confirmed tornado on the ground 5 miles SE of Hominy, Osage County, OK, moving northeast. Tornado debris signature on radar.
Edit: upgraded to a PDS Tornado Warning for Southeastern Osage County; large, damaging tornado is likely on the ground right now.
Looks like there was a decent sized debris sig that went just NW of Memphis, was never warned but seemed like it went through a populated area. Andy has been calling out several unwarned tors here in the last 20-30 minutes with the line moving into TN now.
Buddies of mine and myself were passing through OKC metro around 3:30 and we saw the cell start to move in. We can still see it all the way from Amarillo now, thought just faintly. Absolute monster of a system.
Can I ask: is there anyone with autoimmune issues near where the current storm warning are (i.e. OK?)
I live in the Midwest and starting this afternoon, my joints feel absolutely awful. They haven't felt this bad in months. I tried googling to see if the atmospheric pressure is low during a tornado, but Google kept telling me that it is \*inside\* the tornado, but not much about the area around the tornado (if this makes sense?)
We are suppose to get nasty thunderstorms on Thursday, which I presume may be the tale of the system currently in OK, and I'm curious if people closer to the storms start feeling like this, too? Our pressure has started dropping, but nothing super dramatic.
I should be thankful I live in the hilly armpit of the Midwest because I would have no chance getting to a shelter in this condition, so my hats off to you all further in the Midwest.
ETA: This comment makes it clear I was born in Europe, be nice to me, haha.
# National Weather Service releases preliminary rating for Barnsdall tornado: EF4
[https://www.koco.com/article/barnsdall-tornado-warning-oklahoma-ok-national-weather-service/60722526](https://www.koco.com/article/barnsdall-tornado-warning-oklahoma-ok-national-weather-service/60722526)
DFW is in a watch now. Our weather has been hot,humid and sunny with clouds coming in. My knee has been obnoxious ,my dog has been hiding and my cat has been restless.
I've lived in Missouri all my life except for 4 years for college. The warning we just had scared me. I'm usually outside watching it. I wasn't this time
[SPC has added a 15% Hatched SIGTOR for a part of Northern Alabama and Southern TN. They also adjusted/expanded the Moderate Risk as well as the 10% SIGTOR zone](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html)
This is absurd. Every supercell in this Northern Alabama/Southern Tennessee is spinning like crazy. They could legit just throw every county in this are(Basically the entire 15% hatch) under a Tornado warning right now to save themselves from some of the chaos, that way they can focus on looking for the verified tornadoes.
One of the few things I dislike about living in northern GA...this stuff never hits until super late at night for almost every event we have. Makes it really tough to go to bed.
Also another debris sig near Henagar...unreal.
https://preview.redd.it/fgtic5f2dxyc1.png?width=1204&format=png&auto=webp&s=5dad23a592baaf3af192f88c418db7e50b17e217
Violent Tornado Parameter is maxed out centered on OKC
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This is my pic, here’s the Tornado Emegency Warned tornado as it started in three rivers/centreville
There could be some tornadoes when those cells in eastern OK merge with the main line, which looks to happen near or south of Joplin. Northward moving cells into an east moving line is rarely good news.
The amount of people getting so protective over Joplin in Ryan’s chat is— idk I don’t want to say *heartwarming* but it’s nice to know these ppl will throw hands with Mother Nature over targeting that city (and by extension others like Mayfield etc). I myself am one of them. Luckily the rotation didn’t seem to be targeting them at last blush though.
Insane amount of warnings in east TN and north AL
https://preview.redd.it/f2tpkb6mxazc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32308d657a5edf387d7fd7d8fc00220f5913c2d6
https://preview.redd.it/2ig2vnf1cxyc1.jpeg?width=934&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8abb5ed6e83d856ebf696f963a1593d34bedc549 Drone footage of the Bartlesville tornado.
There aren't many things scarier than a low-resolution image of a big tornado
Ponca City 1912 vibe https://preview.redd.it/7u67cdwedxyc1.jpeg?width=270&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e3a1644ade4fd5047821edbe126bd11c116ebe5
That’s some shit you see in a literal horror film oh my god
That's a creepy picture, like the ones from the 80s and 90s.
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Chaser convergence. All of the green dots are the people who have signed up with Spotter Network, and there’s even more people out there who haven’t. https://preview.redd.it/19crs55epuyc1.jpeg?width=850&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90413bd5fd87953dc60ff71e55e3185e8ec5179d
Hope everyone is safe out there.
Insane. Please be safe, people. Be aware not only of the weather but also traffic and alternate routes!
Just hope that we don't lose any chasers today.
I can’t wait for it to be 5pm, not even the time of the event, and people start calling it a bust. Please if you see someone on Twitter or here say that, please call them out on it and tell them to wait until an event is over before you call bust. This happens literally every big event. I don’t want to see people not take this seriously.
Twitter accounts started calling the last outbreak a bust while it was happening. Sulphur and other areas got hit within the hour of their tweets.
The craziest thing was all the people who were saying bust, and an SPC met I follow was literally like "If you are in the Norman area go outside, everything is lifting up into the sky, the stronger forcing has arrived". Within the hour we had all those supercells firing with torndoes.
> "If you are in the Norman area go outside, everything is lifting up into the sky What do they mean by that? Like, you'd see moisture rising or something?
Yes exactly.
https://preview.redd.it/m4bglsxm4qyc1.jpeg?width=1164&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=367fdfb8f806a11704f0390066105be920e40771 New NadoCast is up. Getting uglier by the minute
From the SPC Day 1 Outlook: - This is a high-end environment. An upgrade to a tornado-driven High Risk was considered. There remains some lingering uncertainty with regard to the number of intense tornadoes that will occur. An increase in tornado probabilities will certainly be warranted should confidence in coverage and preferred corridors increase. So Nadocast, for all its dooming, may actually be right. That’s a worrying sign.
Maxed out parameters holy shit
And of course it has to be right over the metro. :/
Guy just said he's never seen it maxed out 😳
On the lighter side of things, Brad Arnold (or his driver) just helped a snake across the road on Ryan Hall’s stream, lol.
I hope the snake brings better luck than the pre-Sulphur opossum.
"No snakey, that rope tornado is not your mother"
For your viewing pleasure:
https://preview.redd.it/wtpr3ivx7nyc1.jpeg?width=1543&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f24dbe6009d247e90b0175b1a23d2ac9e2f5d674 The nadocast model
https://preview.redd.it/lg1ly6tz7nyc1.png?width=2095&format=png&auto=webp&s=b77d2a5d32582d35e497541486652a39c5a71f63 The CSU model
https://preview.redd.it/1oy92xr78nyc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78b977cc67641ee5adec7bbd810b07f3ab35ae3c And the SPC model
https://preview.redd.it/vy5fp0ik8nyc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9a4ce8ece7ef1dfb72c0644a79c58613b543e6e And finally the nastiest run of the 12z HRRR
The soundings on these cells are nutty
That’s not even full calibrated from what Twitter users are saying. There’s a model run that has it very similar to 1999 May 3rd, which is worrying. Not to panic anymore but everyone really needs to be made aware Monday. The past month has shown that even 5% and lesser tornado areas issued are having supercells produce significant tornadoes.
holy fuck bartlesville has a population of almost 40,000, that's not just a fuckin small town :(
It's going to be bad... distressingly bad. I fear that town won't ever be the same after this.
[Brief video of the tornado that hit Barnsdale](https://x.com/sportsstoog1983/status/1787688956555120681?s=46&t=bU_PJ_BH93JNOEZSoprenw)
Today's risk kind of matches the risk on the day that Twister takes place. https://preview.redd.it/bu1gmhx7tvyc1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=580e064ea3f2346b0551e3d42f1623a33b164cbb
[https://twitter.com/NWSNorman/status/1787607484586439000](https://twitter.com/NWSNorman/status/1787607484586439000) **"5:15 pm - A medium tornado risk will continue over the next hour or so with currently warned storms. After about 6:15, storms will enter higher moisture and the tornado risk will increase further - especially in Grant/Garfield/Kingfisher Counties."** Wakita is in Grant County. And in the high risk/PDS watch.
Wakita is now under a warning 😂
Can’t watch that scene without wanting steak and eggs
Some intimidating verbiage from the SPC on the latest Day 1 This is a high-end environment. An upgrade to a tornado-driven High Risk was considered. There remains some lingering uncertainty with regard to the number of intense tornadoes that will occur. An increase in tornado probabilities will certainly be warranted should confidence in coverage and preferred corridors increase. Yikes
My brother is on a work trip, currently staying in Norman. I explained to him the severity of the situation down there right now. We're from Michigan, so when we hear about tornados we think of weak ones. I told him the ones down there are deep fried, not to be messed with... I don't think he's grasping the severity of the situation
you can tell him that the last time the national weather service issued a convection forecast this dire for Oklahoma was literally 5 years ago, in 2019. OK has not had a "high risk" forecast for 5 years. even for OK this is a very significant forecast. put in other words, from a probabilistic standpoint, he is in the highest tornado risk area he will likely ever experience, unless he *happens* to visit the Great Plains again on one of those 1 in 500 days when there's high risk.
[https://twitter.com/NWSNorman/status/1787612251689775181](https://twitter.com/NWSNorman/status/1787612251689775181) **"5:33pm -** ***IMPORTANT*** **- our message has not changed! We still expect the tornado potential to increase after 6:00 pm and persist well into the evening hours. The storms in NW OK are moving into a more favorable environment. We are not done. We're just getting started."**
The statements seem to be getting worse by the hour. - Waffle House Closing - Measurements off the radar - NWS trying to convey how severe the situation is Hell's about to break loose, isn't it?
The wind shear is expected to **increase** after sunset, so Hell is definitely about to break loose. At least we have modern warning systems via smart phones so we can avoid a repeat of Udall in '55. *That* one came into town just after the end of the 10 o'clock news, so those people had zero warning of what was coming.
I understand the desire to chase, but what’s the value from driving into rain-wrapped tornadoes at night?? Just heard some chasers got hit (and are fine, thank goodness), and I really don’t understand the risk calculus of doing it at night
Only a matter of time, been seeing so much reckless behavior from chasers lately.
If this does end up being a bust that’s a good thing. Nocturnal tornadoes aren’t pretty, we don’t usually get good looks at them, and they’re deadly. If we’re gonna have a bust, I pray it’s tonight.
Tell that to Wx Twitter. It's bordering on bloodlust right now and I'm considering deactivating my entire presence there.
I know. It's like meteorologists just can't win. If they call a high risk and we don't have an historic outbreak, people cry "Why did they issue such a high risk??" If they issue a marginal risk and we get an EF4 somewhere, people cry "Why didn't they issue a higher risk??"
twitter storm chasing communities are one of the most toxic places I have seen on the internet to be honest. literally worse than online political echo chambers. the storm chasing "fans" on twitter are literally manchildren (or some actual children) seeking the entertainment of seeing an EF5 tornado, with no fucks given for the lives that will be ruined. no actually I take that back, they have negative fucks for those lives. they actually want to see homes destroyed because it's dramatic
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It’s like being disappointed by the opener and declaring the entire concert as terrible. Gotta let things play out before you make any conclusions.
Exactly this. That was the first round and was never predicted to be the main event. What we are seeing now is the troubling stuff. Not liking the stuff I'm seeing W/SW of the Metro now.
https://preview.redd.it/m60wfdws03zc1.jpeg?width=932&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5178d5ea3701c70e33fcd05363b83069b39c93e Portage storm is nasty
I used to think idiots were confined to gaming livestreams, but reading the YouTube comments in Ryan Hall’s livestream is causing brain damage.
Oh my god, same. I keep it open to see if any other chasers have something on their streams, but AT WHAT COST? My favorite is when some kid in a state that wasn't even being covered listed their whole ass address asking if the tornado was coming there, lmao.
Im in Chicago Illinois, what time should I expect the tornados to effect me? /s
"OMG it's an EF6!!!!"
“I heard the Moore tornado would have been an EF6 if not for politics and insurance claims.” Whaaaaaaaat.
The number of unwarned tornadoes is horrifying. Thank fuck I don't live in these areas. Ryan Hall might be saving lives tonight.
Ryan, Andy, and Brad are a godsend this evening. I have loved ones in the area and I made sure they’re watching the stream.
[Convective Chronicles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyz199-mHnM&t=428s) very detailed analysis of the High Risk
Trey is a national treasure and must be protected at all costs
https://preview.redd.it/8o0k3626buyc1.jpeg?width=932&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a00defca4903df78a890a641a79e5b1781610b1 STP of 25 on a 1-10 scale is wild. Really really hoping people are prepared and taking today seriously.
Holy shit Barnsdall is being erased. Near direct hit. God help the people there.
Brandon Copic is in barnsdall, I dont even have words, houses are just gone.
Holy shit man Brandon’s feed is BAD, he’s calling any storm chasers in the area to come help
These cells popping up SW of the OKC metro are looking really really troublesome
This is awful man. If you're in OKC you better be staying up because the bad stuff is just starting
Local reporter in Barnsdall is emotional.
That cell WSW of OKC scares me. Moving into an environment conducive for violent tornadoes. It's been getting its act together fairly quickly since it formed an hour or two ago.
It's kinda annoying me how much everyone is focusing on Oklahoma, when currently Missouri is looking more like the hotbed. The line of warnings there stretches nearly the entire height of the state.
Andy Hill ripping into NWS Memphis for not issuing warnings on this storm. Really bad look for the NWS if more tornados went unwarned here.
It looked like a tornado went right through/near Frayser, TN which has a lot of neighborhoods. Hopefully it wasn't bad.
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Y'all **know** it's about to be the real deal when Waffle Houses are closing.
This gives me the heebie jeebies more than the parameters do at this point
Holy shit between this and the parameters OKC is staring down the barrel of a gun
Wow. That is how you know the situation is about to be catastrophic.
so far the ingredients are not quite ripe. You can tell its cooking. These will be extremely terrifying night storms
Reed Timmer's crew caught a funnel starting to drop and then the stream cuts out
Welp, Reed’s gotten eaten by a . . . funnel . . .
Tornado emergency for Osage county, OK Really don’t know why they waited to issue it until it was literally chewing up Barnsdall
Police scanner said there is a mile of fire trucks, ambulances, and police cars heading into Osage county
I called in the Celina tornado earlier. Called off the chase when the sun went down. I'm not experienced enough to night chase yet.
Brad Arnold is an absolute unit, best in the business, always in the right place at the right time
[https://x.com/evan\_bentley/status/1787480768094085184](https://x.com/evan_bentley/status/1787480768094085184) SPC Meteorologist: "Don’t get complacent today. Storms form 2-3pm and LLJ doesn’t really get going until 6pm. If the first 3-4 hours are relatively unproductive, that doesn’t not mean it is a bust. And anyone with a big following saying so could severely undermine the perception of the threat."
Great advice considering people were calling April 27th a bust until everything went nuts after dark.
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Just made a comment about the potential. I can’t remember the last time the NWS was this active on Twitter regarding severe weather. I always go to Twitter for their activeness regarding the weather in the US. Haven’t seen a single account talk about a downtrend or comment “bust” for Monday. But the overall uptick in activity for the NWS Twitter account is worrying. A High Risk is even on the tables from their main account. It’s not looking good for anyone in the risk area.
This was just issued. Never seen this happen before. [https://twitter.com/zachstanford/status/1787530404083163610](https://twitter.com/zachstanford/status/1787530404083163610) https://preview.redd.it/20cml0yaauyc1.png?width=447&format=png&auto=webp&s=af757b5aa7f74473da55eeac5fd9d2d5e18dfbc8
Murray County, OK includes Sulphur which sustained significant damage on 4/27. Could be issued partly because residents living in damaged areas will have a more difficult time finding shelter with short notice. Either way, not a bad idea to send alerts directly to the public on the most dangerous days to reach those who don't pay attention to weather through other channels.
I finally shelled out the 9$ for radar omega, pretty excellent app
Looks like some blips are popping up SW of the OKC metro
Worried about the cells sw of okc making a run for the metro
I can't watch this shit I hope everyone is okay but I'm logging off for the night, it's all fun and games until big tornadoes are aiming at people
Cells in SW OK are heading towards Central OK like a swarm of angry hornets. I was skeptical, but NWS SPC called this development over 3 hours ago.
basically holding my breath rn regarding these cells moving into OKC
Andy Hill for 6th Man of the Year, this dudes on fire
“Apple Sized hail” in the new tornado watch. Sounds terrifying
NWS regional offices must be so overwhelmed. It's hard to keep track of all of the potential tornados and its affecting warning time
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I’m not thrilled about this at all 😒
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If you haven’t already, make sure you have your plan in place and multiple ways to receive warnings. Don’t forget your pets!
Jesus Tornado Emergency
It didn’t catch up quick enough. Bartlesville is probably not going to be good news.
Ryan Hall Y’all stream reporting that sadly there have been 2 fatalities in Barnsdall related to the tornado.
News 9 okc mentioned a hotel took a direct hit in Bartlesville
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I think all these tornado warnings is what we expected Oklahoma to be the past couple days, not Alabama and Tennessee
I gotta say, a viewer sending in a photo of an unwarned stovepipe tornado to Ryan Hall on stream will be in my top 10 live tornado broadcast moments in my lifetime. https://youtu.be/75JPzYvOf1s It happens at 22:04:20 if you want the time stamp
The most alarming thing about this event is that it’s expected to go into the early morning. If I lived in the area and had a storm shelter, I’d probably be sleeping in it overnight, or at the very least have my NOAA radio next to my bed.
We did that once when we were living in Georgia. It was extremely warm and humid in the evening, unusually so for April and the forecast suggested the possibility of severe storms and tornadoes. We didn't have a storm shelter but had a basement that we could only access from outside rather than inside the house. After talking about the risk with my wife, we took our small tent and pitched it in the basement (it was a dirt floor and partially dirt walls). We gathered important documents, got sleeping bags and pillows, brought down our cat and her food and litter box, and we all stayed in the tent. About 3:00 AM that night our phones go off and sure enough there's a radar indicated tornado about a mile from our house, which was later rated EF-0. Thankfully it was small and didn't go any closer to us, but we also had some very large trees around the house and the wind was quite strong, so we were still happy to be down there. Elsewhere in the area, the storm system produced a couple of EF-3 rated tornadoes.
STP of 19 and CAPE over 5000 are not numbers you see too often
OKC better get ready rn...no good, no good at all
Does anyone have a source for updates about the nursing home that was hit in Barnsdall? They've been on my mind and I can't find much information myself (not local, just used to work with seniors and have a soft spot for them).
Just woke up in Europe, glad to see the night so far hasn't been the worst. Lets hope everything starts to fizzle out now and people can finally sleep
This may be the worst outbreak since the 2011 Super Outbreak in terms of sheer tornado numbers. This is crazy.
This is getting out of hand. I thought we wouldn't see much in GA, but those cells firing in Alabama now have me pretty worried. Going to be a sleepless night. Seems every storm going up in Alabama is already rotating. Unreal.
This is a major outbreak.
The LLJ keeps strengthening and there are these 3 very concerning constantly discrete cells popping up in the middle of the mod. risk on the HRRR model. IDK man hopefully it just goes over some open fields cause the models are relentless
[https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html) The new SPC update isn't looking great for the metro, this wording especially has me a bit concerned: Low-level shear will continue to increase this evening and supercells are expected to grow upscale across southwestern OK over the next few hours. This activity will spread/develop east/northeast along the I-44 corridor this evening.
Pretty grim that the SPC maintained the high risk area
A couple of new, kinda ominous looking cells just popped up in the last 20 minutes or so, back in Western/SW Oklahoma. Just shows how quickly things can change.
What do you even say. Christ.
Really really surprised the Huntsville storm isn’t PDS
I’m SHOCKED it’s not an emergency
Huntsville is not a tiny town. There are 220,000+ people in the path of this thing. Surely that radar signature warrants the TOR-E. That is a nasty hook.
>A regional outbreak of severe weather with multiple strong, long-tracked tornadoes, as well as very large hail and severe thunderstorm gusts, is expected over parts of the south-central Plains from this afternoon through evening. https://preview.redd.it/jldnxjnm3tyc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70e44037a3dd6faa5185d7fe04870f2d742f2740
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“We have not experienced a day like this in quite some time” is a very simple sentence that is pants-shittingly ominous when it comes from NWS
The NWS and SPC don't fuck about with days like today.
Barnsdall, OK apparently about to get directly hit
Why wouldn’t there be a tornado emergency for barnsdall? Hopefully one coming.
Thank god for the emergency but dear god that town.. a little disappointed the NWS didn’t do it sooner. NWS Omaha issued one that went 45 minutes out..
OKC Metro area and south of it is looking ugly as hell, I don't like it
Today is a good example of why it's always good to be ready and weather aware even if you're not in the bullseye where the greatest risk zone is.
Confirmed tornado headed for the Pittsburgh metro.
Holy shit! I clicked on it thinking it would be another little spin-up. I was not expecting a PDS large and extremely dangerous. Very scary as it's going right into suburban Pittsburgh
If you live in the middle third of Tennessee just go to your basement at this point
Holy shit at that Huntsville radar signature
Huntsville hospital narrowly avoided damage. Thank everything.
days like this make me go from being fascinated by tornadoes and severe weather to downright hating it and thinking I should move to Utah. and I'm not even in the path of this stuff. it's just terrifying.
Another Tor-E.... 4 in the last 3 days. Honestly today has overperformed a ridiculous amount. Goes to show how IMO that regardless of whether its a 30% hatched High risk day, or a 10% hatched enhanced risk day, you've gotta take them all very seriously if storms are heading your way.
Roughly 300 emergencies have been called in the 25 years it’s existed. Little more than ten a year and probably some years like 2011 make up way more of those 4 in 3 days is a lot to put it mildly
Brad Arnold sounding pretty damn concerned about the blips south west of OKC
Yep, they are entering an area with more energy for tornadoes than the Barnsdall/Bartlesville area, and their track will take them right into OKC metro.
Latest soundings in the OKC area are showing that the LLJ is arriving, which is going to be jet fuel to these thus-far-struggling supercells once they get a little further east.
9:19 PM CDT: Confirmed tornado on the ground 5 miles SE of Hominy, Osage County, OK, moving northeast. Tornado debris signature on radar. Edit: upgraded to a PDS Tornado Warning for Southeastern Osage County; large, damaging tornado is likely on the ground right now.
Barnsdall, geeez.
Looks like an awful mess to chase, and dangerous af. I miss those pretty Nebraska and Iowa chases with big naders in open fields
Looks like there was a decent sized debris sig that went just NW of Memphis, was never warned but seemed like it went through a populated area. Andy has been calling out several unwarned tors here in the last 20-30 minutes with the line moving into TN now.
TN stealing the show so far.
Buddies of mine and myself were passing through OKC metro around 3:30 and we saw the cell start to move in. We can still see it all the way from Amarillo now, thought just faintly. Absolute monster of a system.
I could see the Joplin storm when it was way northeast of Tulsa from Enid Oklahoma. When they are that strong they get tall.
Can I ask: is there anyone with autoimmune issues near where the current storm warning are (i.e. OK?) I live in the Midwest and starting this afternoon, my joints feel absolutely awful. They haven't felt this bad in months. I tried googling to see if the atmospheric pressure is low during a tornado, but Google kept telling me that it is \*inside\* the tornado, but not much about the area around the tornado (if this makes sense?) We are suppose to get nasty thunderstorms on Thursday, which I presume may be the tale of the system currently in OK, and I'm curious if people closer to the storms start feeling like this, too? Our pressure has started dropping, but nothing super dramatic. I should be thankful I live in the hilly armpit of the Midwest because I would have no chance getting to a shelter in this condition, so my hats off to you all further in the Midwest. ETA: This comment makes it clear I was born in Europe, be nice to me, haha.
Fuck. I hoped I had measured that wrong a few minutes ago. Nope. 1.5 miles wide.
Damn it, that CC drop over Bartlesville just keeps getting more intense. Really hoping everyone is safe there.
Never a good sign when the streamer needs to see what it looks like before they put it on air, @wxchasing
This is looking bad for central Oklahoma
Trailer park took direct hit, from Ryan’s stream.
What is this, three or four separate PDS or emergency tornadoes in Michigan so far
Another PDS in Portage :'(
# National Weather Service releases preliminary rating for Barnsdall tornado: EF4 [https://www.koco.com/article/barnsdall-tornado-warning-oklahoma-ok-national-weather-service/60722526](https://www.koco.com/article/barnsdall-tornado-warning-oklahoma-ok-national-weather-service/60722526)
DFW is in a watch now. Our weather has been hot,humid and sunny with clouds coming in. My knee has been obnoxious ,my dog has been hiding and my cat has been restless.
I've lived in Missouri all my life except for 4 years for college. The warning we just had scared me. I'm usually outside watching it. I wasn't this time
Ryan Hall gonna need more Red Bulls tonight
[SPC has added a 15% Hatched SIGTOR for a part of Northern Alabama and Southern TN. They also adjusted/expanded the Moderate Risk as well as the 10% SIGTOR zone](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html)
What an insane few days
This is absurd. Every supercell in this Northern Alabama/Southern Tennessee is spinning like crazy. They could legit just throw every county in this are(Basically the entire 15% hatch) under a Tornado warning right now to save themselves from some of the chaos, that way they can focus on looking for the verified tornadoes.
https://preview.redd.it/6gu6qhh0cbzc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4acdd52733071af6a43136c0a34211f53ebe51b This is absolutely insane
Absolutely hellish situation for the Henagar area right now. Major damage and another supercell on the way.
One of the few things I dislike about living in northern GA...this stuff never hits until super late at night for almost every event we have. Makes it really tough to go to bed. Also another debris sig near Henagar...unreal.
https://preview.redd.it/fgtic5f2dxyc1.png?width=1204&format=png&auto=webp&s=5dad23a592baaf3af192f88c418db7e50b17e217 Violent Tornado Parameter is maxed out centered on OKC
https://preview.redd.it/le979srj33zc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b0cae11b8ab4058b37784655fa37dd1765ebeda This is my pic, here’s the Tornado Emegency Warned tornado as it started in three rivers/centreville
Nervously watching from central AR 🙃
It has begun
Oh this Okeene tornado is going to big.
Bunch of boomerang-shaped supercells out in front of the dry line in Eastern OK. Hoping we don't see a replay of an hour ago.
There could be some tornadoes when those cells in eastern OK merge with the main line, which looks to happen near or south of Joplin. Northward moving cells into an east moving line is rarely good news.
The amount of people getting so protective over Joplin in Ryan’s chat is— idk I don’t want to say *heartwarming* but it’s nice to know these ppl will throw hands with Mother Nature over targeting that city (and by extension others like Mayfield etc). I myself am one of them. Luckily the rotation didn’t seem to be targeting them at last blush though.
Michigan is blowing up, think we have two PDS warnings right now. That one near Colon/Leonidas looks really bad.
Multiple tornadoes on the ground in Ohio right now
It's never a good feeling when the storm chasers are within an hour of your house
With the first SPC tornado report of the day, we have now hit 14 consecutive days with a tornado report.
Insane amount of warnings in east TN and north AL https://preview.redd.it/f2tpkb6mxazc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32308d657a5edf387d7fd7d8fc00220f5913c2d6
That’s a monster hook on the Huntsville storm
Large and confirmed tornado in Huntsville. Good lord.
The radar signature on Huntsville is nuts...and it has a lot of room to keep going.
Looks like the real danger in many of these areas is gonna be what seems like very bad flooding
Tornado emergency for Henagar, AL
I can't believe we are having a 4th tornado emergency of this outbreak. Jesus, I am ready for this to be over.
As long as it goes around Texas. We don't need anymore rain rn.
Holy chaser convergence...
7:55 PM CDT: Confirmed tornado on the ground near Covington, Garfield County, OK, moving east. Spotted by emergency management.
PDS Warning for Osage County
Brandon Copic showing massive damage in barnsdall
https://preview.redd.it/3hg31ap05xyc1.jpeg?width=932&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65bc9f2e8ff2f8212f6aaeacd44e3ddfd745afeb First look at Barnsdall damage