Severe WX May 2019 Plains Severe Event

[Gail]

 

[warneagle]

NWS confirmed an EF1 tornado in Columbia, MD earlier this afternoon.

 

[warneagle]

Two tornado warnings in PA and one in NY right now, so it's been an interesting day up this way to say the least. We've had warnings in 7 states plus D.C. today.

 

[warneagle]

Very strong signature south of Laverne, NWS Norman says large tornado on the ground.

EDIT: okay yeah they weren't kidding, huge wedge

 

[Equus]

Laverne about to take a direct hit yikes

 

[warneagle]

Thankfully they've had a lot of lead time at least, everyone should have had plenty of time to get to safety.

 

[Equus]

No CC drop. Either missed or is cycling. Incredibly strong storm in an incredible environment though; it's not done.

 

[warneagle]

Sounds like it lifted just before it got to the town, wow. Must be Laverne's lucky day.

 

[Equus]

What a day though. I had not been paying attention at all until randomly checking chats and seeing that first big wedge down. Four days straight of significant tornado activity... THIS is a classic plains outbreak sequence, the likes of which we haven't seen for a few years.

 

[warneagle]

I could've done without getting in on the action myself, but yeah, pretty crazy day both in the plains and the mid-Atlantic. I mean there were three supercells raking across West Virginia. Wild.

 

[warneagle]

Looks like it's on the ground again. Still very impressive and could definitely produce another strong tornado.

Amazing inflow going into that thing. Wow.

 

[TornadoFan]

Another area of rotation forming just southwest of Laverne. Wouldn't let my guard down yet.

 

[Shakespeare2016]

Very strong signature south of Laverne, NWS Norman says large tornado on the ground.

EDIT: okay yeah they weren't kidding, huge wedge

That tornado looks really scary.

 

[warneagle]

Jefferson City tornado traveled 19 miles and was over 3/4 mile wide

 

[Equus]

Those massive wedges did hit a few things... scary higher end damage as one would expect.

 

[warneagle]

Survey info from Columbia, MD yesterday.

 

[warneagle]

The flooding may end up being the biggest story from this event. It’s shaping up to be a historic disaster in eastern OK and northwestern AR.



As a related aside, I wonder what the record for consecutive WPC high risk days is.

 

[Kory]

The Mississippi River is breaking records for days above flood stage and now they're opening the Morganza spill way which is usually last resort for flood mitigation. Likely will cause damage down in Cajun country.

 

[Equus]

Doesn't look like the rain is gonna let up anytime in the forecast either. Bad situation

I'll gladly trade Oklahoma the bone dry record high heat ridge for some of their unneeded rain though.

 

[warneagle]

If you had North Dakota in today's tornado pool, come collect your winnings. Observed tornado near Dazey.