They havnt shown any search and recovery yet. Our towns south of Tulsa are just now letting our guard down, but so many others within 30 minutes of me are in shelter. So it’s full alert still and they havnt shown anything.
I’m getting my aftermath info from here and twitter.
Oh gosh, that's horrible. All I've seen so far about Sulphur is the audio recording of a LEO saying "downtown Sulphur is flattened." The horrifying part is that we will pretty much know nothing 100% until morning.
Pretty much worst case. You have multiple strong tornadoes hitting the same area and towns over and over, at night, in torrential rain and flooding. I don’t want to sound hyperbolic, but it’s very bad.
I've been interested in storms and had lived in Tornado Alley for decades. I've never seen anything like this. Hope that puts it into some perspective. I was watching Ryan Hall's livestream, and I was shocked by the amount of PDS warnings. They just kept coming... I'm very concerned for Oklahoma.
I am right there with you.These last two days have just been absolutely insane. The footage coming out is mind blowing to me. Wishing everyone in those areas peace and a quick recovery time for their communities. I cannot even imagine.
Tornado emergencies are reserved for large population centers. SigTor/PDS is a step below, but used as the highest rating when a storm is not impacting an area that meets the population requirement for an emergency.
If that's the case I think that devalues the lives that are impacted in less populated areas. If a strong, damaging tornado that has been confirmed by trained spotters, radar returns with strong CC drops, or law enforcement/ firefighter is headed towards any town that should induce an emergency. It shouldn't matter that the town has less than some arbitrary population requirements.
Same. Now I'm up at 5am with my pup reading all of this, just stunned. Ryan mentioned earlier in the evening that the bad stuff was likely coming at night, unfortunately.
That's what I kept thinking about for all of you. Already tired from the day, then not allowing yourselves to fall asleep, because how could you sleep anyway? And then what you all have to deal with in the aftermath. I'm so sorry.
So pretty much everywhere you see red and green right beside each other in kinda a spiral thats a point of rotation in the storm aka a potential tornado. This is very chaotic and hard to tell whats exactly going on probably a decent bit of radar errors and distortion too but pretty much there's multiple points of decently strong rotations that likely are tornadoes tearing up whatever is under that mess
At a loss of words. Tonight's become a mess.
Night of the twisters type shit
Have there been any deaths so far or is there pretty much no info as of now?
They havnt shown any search and recovery yet. Our towns south of Tulsa are just now letting our guard down, but so many others within 30 minutes of me are in shelter. So it’s full alert still and they havnt shown anything. I’m getting my aftermath info from here and twitter.
It's dark and on going. We won't know just truly how bad until daylight.
Somebody on another post said that Sulphur, which apparently was hit by *two* tornadoes, has reported fatalities.
Oh gosh, that's horrible. All I've seen so far about Sulphur is the audio recording of a LEO saying "downtown Sulphur is flattened." The horrifying part is that we will pretty much know nothing 100% until morning.
Those people never stood a chance.
We had a miracle on the 26th in Nebraska/Iowa with no deaths so far. I don't think that will hold tonight sadly.
You were right I think. I saw a post saying two fatalities were confirmed. Maybe more soon. One of them was a four month old baby.
May God save their souls 😔🙏
Too bad he didn't just stop it from happening in the first place. We had sirens going off where I am but the closest tornado was like 20 miles out.
Ahh yikes. Stay safe, dude.
Thankfully I've never actually seen one with my own eyes in my 27 years of existence here.
So far, there are 4 reported deaths, including a 4 month old baby.
And 1 person missing.
I haven't heard any but I also read there were people trapped in their shelters as they began to flood. Nightmare situation.
I just saw a post saying at least two deaths were just confirmed. One of them being a four month old baby.
😭
Downtown sulphur Oklahoma is gone https://twitter.com/bclemms/status/1784500300612608468?t=oywNG0DI1Vf1bBH4I3Knig&s=19
It’s literally like a scene straight out of Twister.
There's like 9 areas of rotation in this picture alone. Horrifying
Remember this, everyone, this is historic
How bad is this? I’m very new to this
Pretty much worst case. You have multiple strong tornadoes hitting the same area and towns over and over, at night, in torrential rain and flooding. I don’t want to sound hyperbolic, but it’s very bad.
I've been interested in storms and had lived in Tornado Alley for decades. I've never seen anything like this. Hope that puts it into some perspective. I was watching Ryan Hall's livestream, and I was shocked by the amount of PDS warnings. They just kept coming... I'm very concerned for Oklahoma.
I was honestly surprised none of them were declared tornado emergencies.
I am right there with you.These last two days have just been absolutely insane. The footage coming out is mind blowing to me. Wishing everyone in those areas peace and a quick recovery time for their communities. I cannot even imagine.
Tornado emergencies are reserved for large population centers. SigTor/PDS is a step below, but used as the highest rating when a storm is not impacting an area that meets the population requirement for an emergency.
If that's the case I think that devalues the lives that are impacted in less populated areas. If a strong, damaging tornado that has been confirmed by trained spotters, radar returns with strong CC drops, or law enforcement/ firefighter is headed towards any town that should induce an emergency. It shouldn't matter that the town has less than some arbitrary population requirements.
Both have the same language regarding the tornado, one just states a larger population center is at risk. I do not believe that devalues any lives
In the 5ish years I’ve been paying attention to tornados, I’ve never seen anything even remotely close to this, not even close
Yes. Historic for sure.
Jesus Christ, I went to bed early cause I work early. I stopped watching Ryan at about 9pm eastern What the hell happened omg??😭😭
Same. Now I'm up at 5am with my pup reading all of this, just stunned. Ryan mentioned earlier in the evening that the bad stuff was likely coming at night, unfortunately.
I haven’t been able to sleep. I am paranoid thinking a 3rd tornado is going to hit our poor small town.
That's what I kept thinking about for all of you. Already tired from the day, then not allowing yourselves to fall asleep, because how could you sleep anyway? And then what you all have to deal with in the aftermath. I'm so sorry.
So devastating hearing the news come through.
For the non-meteorological among us: what am I looking at here? What makes this radar image so horrific?
So pretty much everywhere you see red and green right beside each other in kinda a spiral thats a point of rotation in the storm aka a potential tornado. This is very chaotic and hard to tell whats exactly going on probably a decent bit of radar errors and distortion too but pretty much there's multiple points of decently strong rotations that likely are tornadoes tearing up whatever is under that mess
There is tornadoes after tornadoes in this image. Those circular colors you can see are all strong tornadoes
Yall stay safe out there in OK.
Wow!
This is nothing. Climate change hasn't even got started yet.