Central Ohio Wx
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Best week of the entire year. Probably the only time vandalizing every "M" on a public sign is legal.
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Hurricane & Tornado Anniversaries
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Central Ohio Wx
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There's something about the comfort of the southeast that I absolutely love. I only lived in Tennessee for a year but I am still a Volunteer at heart and will always be.
California's wilderness was awesome but Fresno looked like literal hell so I get what you mean. Everything is so... yellow.
Ohio is so boring. I'm getting out of here the second I get the chance; probably gonna move down to Tennessee or Alabama and get a met job there if that career field even exists when I get out of college. Slenker knows!
NorthGaWeather
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Convenient excuse!
NorthGaWeather
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To be fair, and Michelle or someone else please correct me, this forum was started by John Oldshue with ABC 33/40 in Birmingham. When I joined in the early 2000s it was rare to have anyone from outside of Alabama posting. Spann, Mark Prater, and Oldshue had a huge following even then.
CheeselandSkies
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It's the two-year anniversary of the May 6, 2024 high risk and Barnsdall-Bartlesville EF4. Part of what seems to be a frustrating, recurring pattern in recent years of a seemingly slam-dunk high end tornado threat falling flat on its face during the afternoon to early evening hours, both from a public messaging (schools and perhaps businesses closing early due to the high risk and/or PDS watch) and photogenic chase perspective; only to do something utterly stupid hours after dark, just enough to prevent the forecast from being considered a complete b**t and also result in a lethal calamity for at least one community.
As for me, I had passed through Oklahoma just the day prior as my wife and I were on our way home from a road trip to visit her aunt in San Antonio. However I had to be back home for work at 3 AM on the morning of the 7th and anyway there was something else I wanted to catch closer to home: I'm also a railfan and the historic Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive No. 2816 "The Empress" was on its tri-national "Final Spike Tour" and scheduled to pass through south-central/southeast Wisconsin on that day. So this is the only footage I ended up getting that day, and given the way things turned out I was just fine with that:
As for me, I had passed through Oklahoma just the day prior as my wife and I were on our way home from a road trip to visit her aunt in San Antonio. However I had to be back home for work at 3 AM on the morning of the 7th and anyway there was something else I wanted to catch closer to home: I'm also a railfan and the historic Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive No. 2816 "The Empress" was on its tri-national "Final Spike Tour" and scheduled to pass through south-central/southeast Wisconsin on that day. So this is the only footage I ended up getting that day, and given the way things turned out I was just fine with that:
Kds86z
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CheeselandSkies
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It's the 30th anniversary of the famous two-day northern Oklahoma outbreak that featured the devastating, nocturnal F4 that hit Wakita head on...otherwise known as the release of Twister.
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Ironically another May 10, in 2010, was a high risk day that included a long-track F3 which nearly did hit Wakita before continuing into southern Kansas. Many chasers were on it for its dramatic multiple-vortex early stages near Wakita. Further south, a pair of low-end EF4 tornadoes hit populated areas of central Oklahoma (including Moore) with three fatalities between them.
Today (May 11) marks the anniversary of not one but two notorious Texas tornadoes:
First, there was the 1953 Waco outbreak that saw several strong tornadoes in southern Texas. By far the deadliest was an F5 that went through the city of Waco, killing 114 people and tying with the Goliad tornado of May 18, 1902, for the title of deadliest tornado in Texas history. In the aftermath of this and other disasters that year, studies were done on "hook echoes" on radar and their correlation to tornadoes, which would not only play a role in better understanding tornadic storms but also help spur the development of a weather radar network across the United States.
Second, there were the 1970 Lubbock tornadoes, a pair of tornadoes that the city of Lubbock within about an hour of each other. The second tornado was by far the stronger, deadlier, and more destructive of the two, killing 26 people and becoming the most expensive tornado disaster in US history at the time ($250 million in 1970 dollars, which translates to $2.07 billion in 2025 dollars). Legendary tornado researcher Ted Fujita conducted an extensive survey of the damage, and his data helped inspire him to create the famed Fujita Scale--the second Lubbock tornado was rated F5, the highest practical rating on the scale.
First, there was the 1953 Waco outbreak that saw several strong tornadoes in southern Texas. By far the deadliest was an F5 that went through the city of Waco, killing 114 people and tying with the Goliad tornado of May 18, 1902, for the title of deadliest tornado in Texas history. In the aftermath of this and other disasters that year, studies were done on "hook echoes" on radar and their correlation to tornadoes, which would not only play a role in better understanding tornadic storms but also help spur the development of a weather radar network across the United States.
Second, there were the 1970 Lubbock tornadoes, a pair of tornadoes that the city of Lubbock within about an hour of each other. The second tornado was by far the stronger, deadlier, and more destructive of the two, killing 26 people and becoming the most expensive tornado disaster in US history at the time ($250 million in 1970 dollars, which translates to $2.07 billion in 2025 dollars). Legendary tornado researcher Ted Fujita conducted an extensive survey of the damage, and his data helped inspire him to create the famed Fujita Scale--the second Lubbock tornado was rated F5, the highest practical rating on the scale.
SpotlightForRareTornadoes
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Two days ago marked 10 years since the Katie-Wynnewood/Sulphur, OK tornadoes. This here is the video that also led me to Pecos Hank.
CheeselandSkies
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Several years later, Joe Exotic TV's footage of that tornado surfaced to a wider audience when the infamous "Tiger King" series was released. The Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park was southwest of the town proper along OK-17A near I-35, and the tornado passed just to the south of it.
However that is not to be confused with the "Tigernado" that occurred in Grady County, OK the year prior.
Aaron Rider
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Missed the anniversary of the 2000 Lake Whitney tornado. Here is an interesting post about it.
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Today in 1825, eastern Ohio and western PA seem to have been struck by supercells. The Ravenna Courier of Portage County, Ohio mentions hail-stones of 7 to 8 inches in circumference. "In some places," the report goes on, "The hail was attended by a heavy gale of wind" - enough to "literally destroy" one barn, which was broken down into "fragments" - all of this was thrown half a mile by the wind.
Farther to the east, the Chambersburg, PA paper reported complete destruction of whole fields of rye - in 1825, rye was a SIGNIFICANT crop in PA, the nation's leading distiller state until Prohibition. 10 to 20,000 panes of glass were thought to have been broken in Chambersburg proper, and the cloud's breadth was estimated at 2 miles.
Mill-dams were destroyed back to the west in Washington County, PA.
Of greater interest to me is that Tornado Archive reports a large and violent tornado in Butler County, PA: " A very violent tornado touched down in the southwestern section of Butler County, passing toward the northeast, passing 6 miles from Butler. It was a mile wide and appeared as 'a huge volume of smoke, arising from a tremendous fire.' It passed within six miles of the town of Butler, leveling everything before it to the ground, including houses, barns, orchards, and woods."
This would certainly be among the largest and most intense tornadoes in Pennsylvania history, but I am unable to find the source or others like it. Bear in mind that while western PA was pretty well settled by 1825, this is still 1825...if there was a newspaper in Butler then, and I'm sure there was, I can't seem to find one. I did email the Butler Historical Society to ask if they have any information.
Farther to the east, the Chambersburg, PA paper reported complete destruction of whole fields of rye - in 1825, rye was a SIGNIFICANT crop in PA, the nation's leading distiller state until Prohibition. 10 to 20,000 panes of glass were thought to have been broken in Chambersburg proper, and the cloud's breadth was estimated at 2 miles.
Mill-dams were destroyed back to the west in Washington County, PA.
Of greater interest to me is that Tornado Archive reports a large and violent tornado in Butler County, PA: " A very violent tornado touched down in the southwestern section of Butler County, passing toward the northeast, passing 6 miles from Butler. It was a mile wide and appeared as 'a huge volume of smoke, arising from a tremendous fire.' It passed within six miles of the town of Butler, leveling everything before it to the ground, including houses, barns, orchards, and woods."
This would certainly be among the largest and most intense tornadoes in Pennsylvania history, but I am unable to find the source or others like it. Bear in mind that while western PA was pretty well settled by 1825, this is still 1825...if there was a newspaper in Butler then, and I'm sure there was, I can't seem to find one. I did email the Butler Historical Society to ask if they have any information.
CheeselandSkies
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5/18/95 - Anderson Hills, AL F4.
One year ago, Arnett day otherwise known as "May 4, 2007 All Over Again."
Given the moderate risk and PDS watch in effect, 5/18/2026 may very well come to have its own "tornado anniversary."
One year ago, Arnett day otherwise known as "May 4, 2007 All Over Again."
Given the moderate risk and PDS watch in effect, 5/18/2026 may very well come to have its own "tornado anniversary."
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BayouWeatherGeek
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Though overshadowed by the Moore EF5 and the 2.6 mile wide El Reno EF3, the Shawnee tornado was noteworthy in its own right.
KWTV's coverage of the Carney tornado along with the beginning of the Shawnee tornado.
The Shawnee tornado near Dale, OK. Video by Jim Bishop.
Damage from around Shawnee. Note the crumpled and mangled SUVs in the first two photos.
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Today marks 13 years since the 2013 Moore EF5.
It's also the anniversary of the 1957 Ruskin Heights F5 tornado, which killed 44 people in the Kansas City area.
NWS Summary of the tornado
Photo of the tornado taken from the Ottawa, KS airport.
It's also the anniversary of the 1957 Ruskin Heights F5 tornado, which killed 44 people in the Kansas City area.
NWS Summary of the tornado
Photo of the tornado taken from the Ottawa, KS airport.