Severe WX April 1-2 (overnight) Severe Weather Event

Wind shear is massively overperforming what models were showing and there is far less convection in Arkansas right now than what was forecasted. We're in for another long day I fear.
 
This damage out of Lake City, Arkansas is extremely impressive. Extraordinary damage to forested areas, ground scouring, vehicles mangled and thrown hundreds of yards, multiple structures completely leveled. Very clearly a violent tornado, probably the most intense of the year so far.

 
This damage out of Lake City, Arkansas is extremely impressive. Extraordinary damage to forested areas, ground scouring, vehicles mangled and thrown hundreds of yards, multiple structures completely leveled. Very clearly a violent tornado, probably the most intense of the year so far.


That debarking in forested areas is legitimately absurd.
 
Looking at first videos from Selmer, and wow. Extreme contextual damage, easy EF4 and definite EF5 candidate. Slabbed homes, debarked / denuded trees, ground scouring, granulated debris all appear evident.
Not a chance. Even if there wasn't an apparent lack of photographed slabbed homes, this is in the Memphis CWA, whose survey team famously missed likely EF5 damage from not one, but TWO different significant tornadoes (New Wren 2011 and Holly Springs 2015). In fact, I doubt they'll even go EF4.

But that's trivial right now.
 
Before it really gets cranking again, what was the consensus? Keep today and tomorrow's threat in this thread or no? Personally, I don't think they need to be added to the weekend thread either, so should we have a thread just for today and tomorrow? Trying to determine what's less confusing and easier to look back on for history's sake.

Edit - In the words of Gilda Radner, "never mind."
 
Okay. This video of the Lake City Tornado remind me a lot of both the 2011 Tuscaloosa Tornado and the 1999 Bridge Creek/Moore tornadoes. Just an incredibly violent tornado.

I'm not afraid to say that the Lake City tornado absolutely had EF5 intensity. I've only ever seen that level of motion in the more infamous F5/EF5 tornadoes.
 
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