Severe WX May 4-8th, 2023

[Austin Dawg]

Tell me that's not a hook starting to form on the southwest side of the storm. We are now under a severe thunderstorm warning for the cell

 

[Austin Dawg]

It looks like it will be a good hailstorm in the southern parts of this thunderstorm. Here're a couple of shots of the sky just before it moved in. I know you've seen clouds like this before, but I thought I would share.

 

[TH2002]

On tonight’s episode of “Supercells with Nasty Hooks and Couplets”…

 

[rushdude]

What's the latest for tomorrow? Haven't seen anything here up in northern DFW

 

[rushdude]

Looks like today may be more of a hail/damaging wind threat

 

[TH2002]

SPC pulled back the D3 (now D2) risk area in Iowa, but interesting wording regarding today's SLGT area in the Mid Mississippi Valley (MO/IA/IL/WI):

Below-average confidence exists in the most likely evolution of
convective potential today through tonight. But conditionally, a
reasonable worst-case scenario could consist of significant severe
across all three hazards, with a best-case scenario of a lower-end
severe hail/wind threat. Have expanded the cat 2/SLGT risk by
upgrading coverage/intensity probabilities to indicate the area with
greater relative severe potential this evening into tonight.

And of course Texas is back at it again with yet another wind and hail driven ENH... owning a steel-body truck sure seems like a necessity to get through the hail season there!

 

[JBishopwx]

 

[TH2002]

Don't know what on earth is going on but literally every single model except the CIPS (the HRRR, GFS and NAM) have shifted the Iowa SigTor threat to today. Nadocast had a 5% area in the D2 but backed off to a 3% area in the D1 today. Large hail should be the main threat, and the tornado threat will be very conditional but potentially significant (eerily similar to Winterset?)

 

[Austin Dawg]

I wish I had captured a GIF of last night's storms on the radar. The Severe Thunderstorm I posted about kept moving east to the edge of Highway 183 (right by my house) and stopped dead in its tracks. It slowly dissipated and was sucked in by the thunderstorm following it from the west. They combined into one Severe Thunderstorm with a spectacular lighting display and dropped some dime size hail on the other side of the storm. It's been a long time since I saw a display of lightning like that. It was an incredible spectacle of cloud-to-ground bolts that shook the house with every blast and chains of lightning that just spiderwebbed out to cover the sky.

 

[Steel Central]

Might need a thread title extension

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Might have to expand thread to include Sunday the 7th (tomorrow). Threat areas across much of the same places as today. Pendulum swinging back for the northern area again, Enhanced risk up with 5% tornado for SE NE/SW IA.

 

[TH2002]

A surprising amount of clearing has taken place in southeastern Iowa. According to ISCN, the main severe threat should materialize after 6 PM tonight.

 

[rushdude]

I'm expecting a watch here in Central TX sometime this afternoon.

 

[TH2002]

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Watch is out now.

 

[TH2002]

A couple confirmed TOR’s decided to pop up in NE and SD for no reason

 

[CheeselandSkies]

TDWR MCI has the Conception Jct./Stanberry, MO supercell. Just went tornado-warned.

 

[Tanner]

Stanberry needs to watch-out. The meso is consolidating.

 

[TH2002]

Nebraska is going haywire with landspouts and the Stanberry, MO cell is gonna casually do this

 

[CheeselandSkies]

The SW NE landspout producer is even well outside the SPC's general thunder contour, lol.