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5/5-5-6 2026 severe threat

TH2002 said:
That wasn't directed at you (or anyone in particular, to be honest). I actually agree 100% with what you wrote.

I try to lead by example. You'll almost never see embedded tweets in my posts. Even if I find damage photos on nitter, I always enbed them directly into my posts.

I'm just saying that there are plenty of other areas to discuss both personal opinions and technical issues with embedded tweets on this site, and said discussions should be kept out of active severe weather threads.
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Yeah well posting pictures on this site has lead to more X posts potentially, because it isn’t working. I am not going to go through a link to post an image when I can post a Tweet of the damage etc due to tech issues. @WeathermanLeprechaun @TH2002
 
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I'm gonna stick my nose in here at the risk of it getting punched :rolleyes:

Whether or not any of us likes or dislikes anything or anyone's post, WE DON't RUN THIS BOARD. We're guests and should behave like good guests. If you want something changed contact a Mod or the Owner's and speak with them about it. Now during these 'live event' threads there's occasionally a need to inform a newbie or someone who is breaking site rules about how we behave here- that much is fine but no more. And that should be done civilly and respectfully.

As I understand things, on 'live event' threads we're supposed to avoid "Me too posts" and just use the "like button" instead which conveys the same thought without wasting the bandwidth and slowing the site down. And nobody needs to post what has already been posted.

Last night I saw several instances where 3 out of 4 new posts in a row spoke of the same new thing like "TOR warned now". Folks this ain't a race to be the first person to post something; please take a moment to read what's already here before you hit "post". And it ain't just last night- this has been going on awhile.

As to reposting stuff from elsewhere you should ask yourself whether that is going to add to the value or just waste bandwidth and disturb the sensitive among us. If you don't like what someone else posts use the "frown button" and maybe speak with that person off-board. None of the rest of us want to be involved with someone else's arguments (well at least we shouldn't want to be involved in clogging up the board).

The reason I am here is because a whole lot of the members here are very good analyzing the data, reading the radars, and offering deeper insight than you see in most places. I learn things from this and I appreciate it, but it's rare that I can add anything to the discussion so I just sit back and watch. I use the 'like buttons" to do my speaking more often than not. And if I do post during a "live event" unless it's critically important I wait till things slow down before posting. We also have some curmudgeons and hypocrites here who I'd like to muzzle sometimes but back to my first paragraph- it's not my board to control.They have as much a right speak as I do but not any more than me either. I looked for a place like Talkweather for years. Every other place I'd been online had faults and flaws and sensationalism or were "bickering boards" so bad I almost quit the game. I still think this is the best. Congrats to those who work to keep it that way and shame on those who don't.

I'm done with this subject. Punch away.
 
Sawmaster said:
I'm gonna stick my nose in here at the risk of it getting punched :rolleyes:

Whether or not any of us likes or dislikes anything or anyone's post, WE DON't RUN THIS BOARD. We're guests and should behave like good guests. If you want something changed contact a Mod or the Owner's and speak with them about it. Now during these 'live event' threads there's occasionally a need to inform a newbie or someone who is breaking site rules about how we behave here- that much is fine but no more. And that should be done civilly and respectfully.

As I understand things, on 'live event' threads we're supposed to avoid "Me too posts" and just use the "like button" instead which conveys the same thought without wasting the bandwidth and slowing the site down. And nobody needs to post what has already been posted.

Last night I saw several instances where 3 out of 4 new posts in a row spoke of the same new thing like "TOR warned now". Folks this ain't a race to be the first person to post something; please take a moment to read what's already here before you hit "post". And it ain't just last night- this has been going on awhile.

As to reposting stuff from elsewhere you should ask yourself whether that is going to add to the value or just waste bandwidth and disturb the sensitive among us. If you don't like what someone else posts use the "frown button" and maybe speak with that person off-board. None of the rest of us want to be involved with someone else's arguments (well at least we shouldn't want to be involved in clogging up the board).

The reason I am here is because a whole lot of the members here are very good analyzing the data, reading the radars, and offering deeper insight than you see in most places. I learn things from this and I appreciate it, but it's rare that I can add anything to the discussion so I just sit back and watch. I use the 'like buttons" to do my speaking more often than not. And if I do post during a "live event" unless it's critically important I wait till things slow down before posting. We also have some curmudgeons and hypocrites here who I'd like to muzzle sometimes but back to my first paragraph- it's not my board to control.They have as much a right speak as I do but not any more than me either. I looked for a place like Talkweather for years. Every other place I'd been online had faults and flaws and sensationalism or were "bickering boards" so bad I almost quit the game. I still think this is the best. Congrats to those who work to keep it that way and shame on those who don't.

I'm done with this subject. Punch away.
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I will say, the redundant posts can be slightly annoying, but when we’re in the heat of an event it can be very difficult to avoid doing that because of the rate at which people are posting. I know I accidentally contributed to that during the TOR-E’s last night. I remember one instance last night where 3-5 posts happened in between the time I refreshed the page, wrote out my post, then hit submit.

I do like it here. It’s one of the only forums I routinely engage with, especially during live events. Y’all do a great job of explaining things and helping me learn.
 
DanLarsen34 said:
I will say, the redundant posts can be slightly annoying, but when we’re in the heat of an event it can be very difficult to avoid doing that because of the rate at which people are posting. I know I accidentally contributed to that during the TOR-E’s last night. I remember one instance last night where 3-5 posts happened in between the time I refreshed the page, wrote out my post, then hit submit.

I do like it here. It’s one of the only forums I routinely engage with, especially during live events. Y’all do a great job of explaining things and helping me learn.
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I always try to make sure something has not already been posted before I submit but I think the lagging of the site like last night may have contributed to things being repeated. I know there was something that had not been mentioned last night and by the time the site loaded and I submitted it there had been like 3 mentions of it.
 
After last night, I am no longer going to even half believe scanner relayed reports . Those reports or such get passed along to YouTube Ryan hall or Max velocity and there is just utter confusion and missinformed. I won’t even
repeat what locals were saying on Facebook. I had people calling me names on X for trying to share with them their own governor said 0 fatalities. Ugh. Mentally exhausted. A chaser literally confronted the one popular YouTuber saying, I did NOT say body bags.
 
Low effort and/or repetitive content sucks, but is unavoidable sometimes. It can also be exciting when these threads start going crazy. The frequency amplifies it to a whole other level, though. If one user is posting as much as 5 other users combined in a highly active thread it's a problem. When they're all Twitter links, many of which are complete and utter slop and/or ragebait it becomes destructive. Ignoring it only gets you so far when other users are still getting baited into responding, clogging things up further.

Kds86z said:
Lol , @ColdFront has me on ignore and that’s ok, I contribute greatly.
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Then, when you get called out, you gaslight the entire thread like people are being too harsh or they're derailing it into bickering. No dude, you posted a tweet from some random user with 22 followers telling the Governor of Mississippi "That's one of the stupidest & heartless comments I've ever seen." In response to him saying there were no deaths last night. I legitimately do not understand why you posted that here. This was after you posted a tweet about a tornado on the ground a solid half hour after Clancy already called it out. You've even been sharing several posts from ya'll bot of all places.

You've been directly called out for this behavior several times from several users, yet you act surprised and offended every time it happens like it's the first time. People have given legitimate, good faith efforts to politely offer feedback to improve your posts, yet you ignore it and go back to posting utter garbage within days. You seriously should consider taking all the feedback and using it to improve your posts. People are rapidly losing patience with this.
 
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Kds86z said:
I understand but that’s you , a lot CAN see.
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I mean this with respect because you're a great guy, but considering how badly you've been getting ratio'd about your posting of twitter links, I think it's pretty clear that just because the majority of users can see embedded tweets, that doesn't mean they WANT to. Quite the opposite actually... (Especially if it's garbage from random accounts with no credibility whatsoever, which I also have no interest in seeing)

Not giving my personal opinions on what you should and shouldn't be posting, with the narrow exception being obvious garbage, because I think anyone on this site can agree that garbage posts from "SuperWeatherSportsFan69" have no place in any thread. Just saying you have to read the room...
 
To kinda return to the topic, has there been any higher end damage past some vaguely remarkable forest damage? Seems like it was another case where the meso was a lot stronger than the tor itself but I still haven't seen damage from some of the more well constructed buildings it ran into.
 
Both tornadoes are on the DAT as LOW end (in the 130s kinda low) EF3s. The garden city tornado has no damage points but the description refers to EF2 damage in Garden City, and "Extensive tree damage occurred along the path, and the basis for the EF3 rating was an area of nearly complete devastation to mixed forest, including some instances of debarking, east of the Garden City community". Seeing as all the photos and videos so far seem to be from the second tornado, I'm interested to see what will come out of Franklin county in the next few days.
 
ThatGuy;P said:
Both tornadoes are on the DAT as LOW end (in the 130s kinda low) EF3s. The garden city tornado has no damage points but the description refers to EF2 damage in Garden City, and "Extensive tree damage occurred along the path, and the basis for the EF3 rating was an area of nearly complete devastation to mixed forest, including some instances of debarking, east of the Garden City community". Seeing as all the photos and videos so far seem to be from the second tornado, I'm interested to see what will come out of Franklin county in the next few days.
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I will say, at first glance, that the ratings are much more in-line with what the background environment would have suggested beforehand (STP of 2-4 suggests strong tornadoes with some possibility of an EF-3 or greater). Not saying you can’t get violent tornadoes with lower STP environments like this, but that’s more common with early-late season events where instability is lower, but insane kinematics overcome/compensate for it.

That being said, this may be one of the bigger gaps between what the radar suggested was occurring versus what may have transpired that I can recall in a while. Not only did both signatures support a higher-end violent tornado (Vrot, depth/height of CC drop, etc…), the insane debris fallout after the first one was also highly suggestive of one. You almost never see debris fallout like that for such a prolonged period time outside of high-end, violent tornadoes.
 
DanLarsen34 said:
I will say, at first glance, that the ratings are much more in-line with what the background environment would have suggested beforehand (STP of 2-4 suggests strong tornadoes with some possibility of an EF-3 or greater). Not saying you can’t get violent tornadoes with lower STP environments like this, but that’s more common with early-late season events where instability is lower, but insane kinematics overcome/compensate for it.

That being said, this may be one of the bigger gaps between what the radar suggested was occurring versus what may have transpired that I can recall in a while. Not only did both signatures support a higher-end violent tornado (Vrot, depth/height of CC drop, etc…), the insane debris fallout after the first one was also highly suggestive of one. You almost never see debris fallout like that for such a prolonged period time outside of high-end, violent tornadoes.
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I do think it was also similar to the Arkansas tornado a bit ago where it had so much to pick up it was able to look really nasty. More impressive is how long it tracked IMO, tornadoes of this caliber usually last much shorter than these ones did.
 
DanLarsen34 said:
I will say, at first glance, that the ratings are much more in-line with what the background environment would have suggested beforehand (STP of 2-4 suggests strong tornadoes with some possibility of an EF-3 or greater). Not saying you can’t get violent tornadoes with lower STP environments like this, but that’s more common with early-late season events where instability is lower, but insane kinematics overcome/compensate for it.

That being said, this may be one of the bigger gaps between what the radar suggested was occurring versus what may have transpired that I can recall in a while. Not only did both signatures support a higher-end violent tornado (Vrot, depth/height of CC drop, etc…), the insane debris fallout after the first one was also highly suggestive of one. You almost never see debris fallout like that for such a prolonged period time outside of high-end, violent tornadoes.
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All those trees huh? @DanLarsen34. Did anyone think of this while It was happening in real time I wonder? I don’t think so. That is, the reason for such a big debris fallout etc.
 
DanLarsen34 said:
I will say, at first glance, that the ratings are much more in-line with what the background environment would have suggested beforehand (STP of 2-4 suggests strong tornadoes with some possibility of an EF-3 or greater). Not saying you can’t get violent tornadoes with lower STP environments like this, but that’s more common with early-late season events where instability is lower, but insane kinematics overcome/compensate for it.

That being said, this may be one of the bigger gaps between what the radar suggested was occurring versus what may have transpired that I can recall in a while. Not only did both signatures support a higher-end violent tornado (Vrot, depth/height of CC drop, etc…), the insane debris fallout after the first one was also highly suggestive of one. You almost never see debris fallout like that for such a prolonged period time outside of high-end, violent tornadoes.
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On the forest damage itself, I’ll be curious to see if Tony Lyza chimes in at some point in the next couple of days. He did a survey of the April 13, 2019 tornadoes that occurred right next to the Columbus, MS radar site. Those tornadoes were insanely violent and would have warranted a high-end EF-4 rating based off of the forest damage. I would be curious to see how that compares to these two. I’ve got the photos on my phone somewhere, but I am having trouble finding it right now.
 
We are all lifelong learners.

Whether we realize it or not, we are constantly learning about something new, if it’s pertaining to our careers or something we’re passionate about. I view redundant posts (if they are done in a reasonable amount of time, such as 2 minutes apart from each other) as a way of confirming what I am seeing it.

Weather happens at such a fast rate that redundant posting when not kept up to speed can slow the flow of conversations and staying live. I don’t want to discourage anyone from engaging on here as long at it is relevant and appropriate, but that’s just my two cents from what I’ve gathered on the topic.
 
DanLarsen34 said:
On the forest damage itself, I’ll be curious to see if Tony Lyza chimes in at some point in the next couple of days. He did a survey of the April 13, 2019 tornadoes that occurred right next to the Columbus, MS radar site. Those tornadoes were insanely violent and would have warranted a high-end EF-4 rating based off of the forest damage. I would be curious to see how that compares to these two. I’ve got the photos on my phone somewhere, but I am having trouble finding it right now.
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I do distinctly remember that the old Mississippi tornadoes he discussed were extremely high end just by looking at the damage it did in the forest (similar to Bassfield). I feel I haven't seen the everything-is-sanded-down look that the more underrated tornadoes have had. I'm not sure what they'll find but in comparison to a lot of the rural high end dixie tornadoes that have occurred the last few years these ones are honestly some of the less impressive.
 
ThatGuy;P said:
Both tornadoes are on the DAT as LOW end (in the 130s kinda low) EF3s. The garden city tornado has no damage points but the description refers to EF2 damage in Garden City, and "Extensive tree damage occurred along the path, and the basis for the EF3 rating was an area of nearly complete devastation to mixed forest, including some instances of debarking, east of the Garden City community". Seeing as all the photos and videos so far seem to be from the second tornado, I'm interested to see what will come out of Franklin county in the next few days.
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Based on everything I've seen so far, that seems reasonable. Damage was clearly intense and widespread, but I haven't glanced anything that immediately stood out as EF4+. But I've only had the chance to look at a handful of shots from MS, so there could definitely be stronger damage out there.
 
Clancy said:
Based on everything I've seen so far, that seems reasonable. Damage was clearly intense and widespread, but I haven't glanced anything that immediately stood out as EF4+. But I've only had the chance to look at a handful of shots from MS, so there could definitely be stronger damage out there.
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@Clancy all the trees? Was bass field and Tyler town worse on radar? I forget
 
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