Official Tornado and Runaway Barge Thread

Random factoid, we issued the fewest severe thunderstorm warnings at our office since it was opened...183 total. I think we average 300-400.

 

Slow year. I'm not sure we got a single Tornado watch here in Hastings

 

Watch next year go bonkers

 

Yup. I'd settle for a nice snowy winter to make up for it.

 

Watch incoming with hail the biggest threat: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md1691.html

 

First of the storms going up in Kansas now

 

Slowly starting to organize

 

Edit: Damn you lomcevak

 

sec speed

 

Low level rotation isn't great and it looks outflow dominant at this time. Not ideal for tornado

 

Probably going to be an issue for tornadoes until sundown

 

Yeah, and by that time it'll probably all be a big ass mess. We shall see I suppose

 

Outflow or the frontal boundary?

 

Outflow. Storm was trailing behind initially, but now the low level meso has kinda anchored itself on the outflow

Low level rotation has gotten more organized

 

Big ass hail. When in Kansas...

 

Here's your best tornadic potential storm at the moment just NW of Wichita.

 

Spotters already reporting tornado with this

 

And tornado warned

 

This one too

 

And it's a big linear mess now

 

Here's the frontal boundary/cold front surging southward

 

A little tornado threat today + large hail, possibly significant, the more likely threat

 

Saw this in Twitter but haven't read it yet, seems interesting

https://wxbdm.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-top-10-largest-tornadoes-on-record.html?m=1

 

SC had some nice looking storms yesterday

 

look out joplin

 

Oh hello there. Saw someone on Twitter say they like the area immediately to the northeast of Tulsa for some storm initiation

 

And just after I said that we're live

 

Tonight =

 

In other news we have our first chance for non accumulating snow tonight. Had some ice pellets earlier.

 

First time I remember having a shot at winter weather last year was Thanksgiving, so hopefully this is an indication we may have an actual winter this year. Doubt it is, but I can hope

 

Saw the panhandle got snow this morning. Not ready for winter :(

 

keep that shit away cuz harvest hasn't even fucken started here :(

 

I love snow, I'm ready to go. Been moving slowly north since about 2013 and have yet to get a good winter since maybe 2014. We didn't get shit here last year, maybe 6" total for the season.

 

Gotta be getting close I imagine?

 

no, we've had 5+ inches of rain in the last week and a half so it's pretty fucked until we get some days of non moisture

 

Ahh. Hunted in a corn field this weekend, it was an absolute mess. It'll be fantastic for ducks, but that dude isn't getting in there to harvest for a long time at this rate

 

yep heard dat

 

Tornado watch to go with your cfb viewing

 

It's been raining pretty much all day here.

 

A day 3 enhanced? Let that baby cook a little bit.

 

When I looked yesterday, I wasn't impressed with the tornado threat. Strong cold front will probably result in a big line

Now that I say that, things will probably come together for a high end event

 

That would have been pretty awesome like 5-6 months ago

 

Models today look more favorable with better shear, especially low level shear

 

It's also been weird that the bulk of the best severe weather threats lately have been on Saturdays

 

Whoever is running the haarp weather machine now is looking out for all the storm chasers