Severe WX March 30th- April 1st 2023 (South, Southeast, Ohio Valley, Upper Midwest)

[Shakespeare 2016]

I got the following response from Kevin Terry (Memphis Weather) on another forum since he's been providing updates on MEG's progress with this event.

I remember him. He and Tornado Tornado got into a debate about the April 2006 tornadoes F-RATINGS. That was on the old americanwx forum.

 

[andyhb]

Prelim data on the TN long tracked tornado is out, it went for over 86 miles...

 

[tornado examiner]

Prelim data on the TN long tracked tornado is out, it went for over 86 miles...

New longest track tornado of the year…what the heck

 

[Equus]

I saved a bunch of loops but they'd be on my laptop which I won't be able to access for a little while, will post when I can

Very interested in that nighttime Tennessee tornado - seemed to kind of be overshadowed by everything else going on but could've been one of the most violent of the day

Cycle is the second loop

 

[cincywx]

Prelim data on the TN long tracked tornado is out, it went for over 86 miles...

86 miles is bonkers for a tornado that occurred after 11pm

 

[Tanner]

The more we hear about this event-surveys and stories included-the more baffled I am about what really happened. I mean we're approaching 30 EF2's!! That's incredible...let alone the over 10 EF3+ tornadoes with surveys still ongoing throughout the week. Just a spectacular event from a scientific POV. This is a modern-day benchmark of what a high-end tornado outbreak looks like, discounting April 27.

 

[cincywx]

The more we hear about this event-surveys and stories included-the more baffled I am about what really happened. I mean we're approaching 30 EF2's!! That's incredible...let alone the over 10 EF3+ tornadoes with surveys still ongoing throughout the week. Just a spectacular event from a scientific POV. This is a modern-day benchmark of what a high-end tornado outbreak looks like, discounting April 27.

wholeheartedly agree. both the northern and southern ends of the threat would be particularly impressive events by themselves but the fact that they occurred not only on the same day, but at times *concurrently*, is just astounding. not very often you see EF3+ tornadoes over such a wide expanse of the country's real estate.

 

[Casuarina Head]

The more we hear about this event-surveys and stories included-the more baffled I am about what really happened. I mean we're approaching 30 EF2's!! That's incredible...let alone the over 10 EF3+ tornadoes with surveys still ongoing throughout the week. Just a spectacular event from a scientific POV. This is a modern-day benchmark of what a high-end tornado outbreak looks like, discounting April 27.

Most of these tornadoes weren’t long-tracked (PLs of ≥ 25 mi). Of the 38+ significant (EF2+) tornadoes, only five were long-tracked. By contrast, 4 May 2003 featured 25 F2+ events, of which 17 were long-trackers. Most of the high-end outbreaks tend to feature a higher proportion of long-tracked EF2+ tornadoes than occurred in this event. (As an extreme example, 27 Apr 2011 featured 25 EF2+ long-trackers.) Obviously, this past outbreak was still a relatively extreme event, but in terms of intense long-trackers it doesn’t stand out especially. A lot of intense short-trackers, certainly...

 

[ColdFront]

Most of these tornadoes weren’t long-tracked (PLs of ≥ 25 mi). Of the 38+ significant (EF2+) tornadoes, only five were long-tracked. By contrast, 4 May 2003 featured 25 F2+ events, of which 17 were long-trackers. Most of the high-end outbreaks tend to feature a higher proportion of long-tracked EF2+ tornadoes than occurred in this event. (As an extreme example, 27 Apr 2011 featured 25 EF2+ long-trackers.) Obviously, this past outbreak was still a relatively extreme event, but in terms of intense long-trackers it doesn’t stand out especially. A lot of intense short-trackers, certainly...

lol.

I don’t think anyone cares about criteria right now, this was a major outbreak. Period.

 

[andyhb]

Most of these tornadoes weren’t long-tracked (PLs of ≥ 25 mi). Of the 38+ significant (EF2+) tornadoes, only five were long-tracked. By contrast, 4 May 2003 featured 25 F2+ events, of which 17 were long-trackers. Most of the high-end outbreaks tend to feature a higher proportion of long-tracked EF2+ tornadoes than occurred in this event. (As an extreme example, 27 Apr 2011 featured 25 EF2+ long-trackers.) Obviously, this past outbreak was still a relatively extreme event, but in terms of intense long-trackers it doesn’t stand out especially. A lot of intense short-trackers, certainly...

Oh would you just stop with this nit-picky nonsense.

 

[The Nino]

Most of these tornadoes weren’t long-tracked (PLs of ≥ 25 mi). Of the 38+ significant (EF2+) tornadoes, only five were long-tracked. By contrast, 4 May 2003 featured 25 F2+ events, of which 17 were long-trackers. Most of the high-end outbreaks tend to feature a higher proportion of long-tracked EF2+ tornadoes than occurred in this event. (As an extreme example, 27 Apr 2011 featured 25 EF2+ long-trackers.) Obviously, this past outbreak was still a relatively extreme event, but in terms of intense long-trackers it doesn’t stand out especially. A lot of intense short-trackers, certainly...

lol predictable response

 

[ColdFront]

lol predictable response

If it’s not the top 1% of top 1% of outbreaks, it wasn’t really an outbreak per that logic lol

 

[jiharris0220]

I mean, this is the same guy that was taking shots at the High risk potential just because the storms were “struggling”. Completely ignoring the fact that a multitude of them were already producing tornadoes but what ever I guess.

 

[warneagle]

Most of these tornadoes weren’t long-tracked (PLs of ≥ 25 mi). Of the 38+ significant (EF2+) tornadoes, only five were long-tracked. By contrast, 4 May 2003 featured 25 F2+ events, of which 17 were long-trackers. Most of the high-end outbreaks tend to feature a higher proportion of long-tracked EF2+ tornadoes than occurred in this event. (As an extreme example, 27 Apr 2011 featured 25 EF2+ long-trackers.) Obviously, this past outbreak was still a relatively extreme event, but in terms of intense long-trackers it doesn’t stand out especially. A lot of intense short-trackers, certainly...

I don’t have the data in front of me but I would guess that the vast, vast majority of tornado events don’t produce five significant, long-track tornadoes. Arguing that it’s not a major event because it doesn’t measure up to the most extreme outliers is an unreasonable level of goalpost-moving. I’m not exactly sure what point you’re trying to make here, but that’s not a good-faith argument for it.

 

[ColdFront]

I don’t have the data in front of me but I would guess that the vast, vast majority of tornado events don’t produce five significant, long-track tornadoes. Arguing that it’s not a major event because it doesn’t measure up to the most extreme outliers is an unreasonable level of goalpost-moving. I’m not exactly sure what point you’re trying to make here, but that’s not a good-faith argument for it.

It’s not meant to be. They want their role to be the rebellious user on the site, or they’re just trolling.

It’s all part of some kind of narrative being pushed by that particular person that climate change has rendered the big tornado outbreaks of the past essentially extinct.

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

Most of these tornadoes weren’t long-tracked (PLs of ≥ 25 mi). Of the 38+ significant (EF2+) tornadoes, only five were long-tracked. By contrast, 4 May 2003 featured 25 F2+ to events, of which 17 were long-trackers. Most of the high-end outbreaks tend to feature a higher proportion of long-tracked EF2+ tornadoes than occurred in this event. (an extreme example, 27 Apr 2011 featured 25 EF2+ long-trackers.) Obviously, this past outbreak was still a relatively extreme event, but in terms of intense long-trackers it doesn’t stand out especially. A lot of intense short-trackers, certainly...

What does that have to do with anything?

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

Most of these tornadoes weren’t long-tracked (PLs of ≥ 25 mi). Of the 38+ significant (EF2+) tornadoes, only five were long-tracked. By contrast, 4 May 2003 featured 25 F2+ events, of which 17 were long-trackers. Most of the high-end outbreaks tend to feature a higher proportion of long-tracked EF2+ tornadoes than occurred in this event. (As an extreme example, 27 Apr 2011 featured 25 EF2+ long-trackers.) Obviously, this past outbreak was still a relatively extreme event, but in terms of intense long-trackers it doesn’t stand out especially. A lot of intense short-trackers, certainly...

Did you also know that I haven't seen any tornadoes from thks outbreak that were 3/4+ mile-wide. So does that somehow make this tornado outbreak less?

That is so far anyway.

 

[tornado examiner]

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

Did you also know that I haven't seen any tornadoes from thks outbreak that were 3/4+ mile-wide. So does that somehow make this tornado outbreak less?

That is so far anyway.

Well the Covington tornado was 2000 yards wide. The widest tornado of this outbreak.

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

I have so far counted 8 long tracked tornadoes which includes an EF0 and EF1.