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* At 539 PM CDT, a confirmed tornado was located 17 miles southeast
of Spearman, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Damaging tornado and hail up to two inches in diameter.
SOURCE...Live storm chaser video confirmed tornado.
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR WEST
CENTRAL HALL AND EAST CENTRAL BRISCOE COUNTIES...
At 548 PM CDT, a confirmed tornado was located 7 miles northeast of
Caprock Canyon State Park, and is nearly stationary.
HAZARD...Damaging tornado and ping pong ball size hail.
SOURCE...Emergency management confirmed a brief tornado touchdown. A
tornado was reported at 5:46 PM CDT 7 miles north of Turkey.
The tornado could've very well been significant, but there's no way of knowing due to the lack of damage indicators.So, it seems the worst damage Norman could find for the Hollister tornado was "high end EF-1".
So just what made the radar go nuts like that? Feedback?
Maybe, but according to this video of the damage path, that doesn’t seem to be the case at all. I think the red flag was the CC not even being over 10,000ft.The tornado could've very well been significant, but there's no way of knowing due to the lack of damage indicators.
They were not able to access much of the path due to flooding and/or lack of safe roads. I wouldn't be drawing too many conclusions about "radar estimated windspeeds" with this one. It was in a very rural area with few structures or even trees to hit.So, it seems the worst damage Norman could find for the Hollister tornado was "high end EF-1".
So just what made the radar go nuts like that? Feedback?
Hard to tell due to the (go figure) horrendous radar coverage in that area, but a bit of a CC drop is visible on the Dodge City radar.Confirmed tornado basically on top of Spearman
Maybe, but according to this video of the damage path, that doesn’t seem to be the case at all. I think the red flag was the CC not even being over 10,000ft.
Not sure if this is shade towards me considering the quotations.They were not able to access much of the path due to flooding and/or lack of safe roads. I wouldn't be drawing too many conclusions about "radar estimated windspeeds" with this one. It was in a very rural area with few structures or even trees to hit.
Is this from the main tornado or is this from the anticyclonic tornado?Not sure if this is shade towards me considering the quotations.
But I strongly stand by what I said in that this tornado simply wasn’t as strong at ground level despite what the radar displayed, which of course was hundreds of meters up anyways.
As the video I linked above shows, there’s simply nothing that even remotely hints at significant damage, even the few trees in the path of the tornado got off easy all things considered.