Archive Severe Potential 4/3-4/4

[warneagle]

That Poplar Bluff cell has me concerned.. that's definitely the look of one trying to do something significant.

Yeah and that one and the Cape Girardeau cell are really moving into a prime environment

 

[buckeye05]

Decent couplet between Cape Girardeau and Scott City.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Cell north of Marion, IL is trouble as well. More in eastern AR headed toward western TN.

 

[buckeye05]

 

[SilentShadow87]

New tornado warning for Jackson County, Arkansas and a severe thunderstorm warning for Craighead and Poinsett Counties in Arkansas.

 

[buckeye05]

String of 7 tornado warned supercells from Indiana to Arkansas. Wow.
Confirmed damaging tornado near Veedersburg, IN btw.

 

[buckeye05]

 

[CheeselandSkies]

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I'm surprised there hasn't been a TORR with that storm.

 

[SilentShadow87]

Near West Frankfort, Illinois a few minutes ago, possible rain wrapped tornado. At the very least it seems to be thinking about dropping one. Tight rotation on the stream.

 

[buckeye05]

 

[buckeye05]

Tornado headed right towards Galatia, IL. That town was hit by a damaging EF2 in 2013.

 

[Equus]

Judging by the storm report page alone this is already shaping up to be a SIGNIFICANT event and things have yet to really move into the MDT area.

 

[warneagle]

I count nine tornado-warned storms at the moment.

 

[Bama Ravens]

NWS Memphis needs to fix their tornado warning text. For the last three or four events, going back to early March, every warning they issue says a “severe thunderstorm producing a tornado” instead of “capable of producing a tornado.” This has been happening on storms that have showed no indication of producing a tornado, and the text says nothing about any sort of confirmation.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Really surprised there has not been a big-time CC drop with this.

 

[SilentShadow87]

NWS Memphis needs to fix their tornado warning text. For the last three or four events, going back to early March, every warning they issue says a “severe thunderstorm producing a tornado” instead of “capable of producing a tornado.” This has been happening on storms that have showed no indication of producing a tornado, and the text says nothing about any sort of confirmation.

I agree, it confuses the issue and could end up having a cry wolf effect on some people. Saying that it's capable of producing a tornado is for most people, very different from saying it actually is producing a tornado.

Another issue I've noticed is that when a PDS warning or an emergency is issued, some NWS offices say "large and extremely dangerous tornado", and others say "destructive tornado". I personally prefer the second, since strong/violent tornadoes can be pretty narrow (Niles, Pampa, and Elie come to mind).

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Funnel cloud reported with that storm coming through the MO bootheel about to cross the MS.

 

[SilentShadow87]

 

[MichelleH]

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0213.html

New meso discussion out (can't copy and paste well on this tablet)

 

[SilentShadow87]

Crittenden County storm went tornado warned a few minutes ago.