Severe Threat May 15-16, 2025

[Ozonelayer]

I am just speechless at the LP supercell tornadoes we saw this evening. Felt like a plains outbreak.

Yeah, the HRRR and Broyles absolutely nailed today.

 

[Tennie]

Things have transpired a bit further south and west of this event, but some of the earlier footage reminded me of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1990_Lower_Ohio_Valley_tornado_outbreak

After this outbreak is done, I would highly recommend watching this video about the 1990 outbreak (runtime 33:25):

 

[Kds86z]

 

[Kds86z]

Man Missouri .. just keeps getting it. More fatalities than any state this year tornado wise.

 

[Clancy]

Has there been much in the way of damage media from STL? Clearly sounds pretty serious with the number of casualties. Came across a handful of pics/vids but not sure what else is out there.

 

[Tennie]

Chicago, IL, was hit by a large dust storm just a little while ago. This post and the one immediately after it over on the AmericanWX forums show just what that storm looked like, and man is it surreal to see:

5/15(northern half) & 5/16(southern half of subforum) Severe Wx Threats

www.americanwx.com

 

[TornadoFan]

Tornado watch coming for Tennessee.

 

[Kds86z]

Tornado watch coming for Tennessee.

Not over time its over..

 

[AJS]

Storm SE of Owensboro bears watching.

 

[Grand Poo Bah]

I thought there were at least a few more than that.

It definitely feels that way, but that's probably due to the fact that (if this sequence breaks 100) the 2020s have had the most 100+ tornado outbreaks than any other decade and we're only halfway through the 2020s.

2019 was one I believe.

May 17th-30th 2019 was the 2nd largest tornado outbreak sequence ever recorded (400 tornadoes), and it was only two tornadoes shy of the record. Good memory! I'll post the chart in the Severe Weather thread later.

 

[Kolle]

I command SPC to give Broyles a raise.

Broyles made roughly 130k in 2023. The highest paid federal employee in Oklahoma is a physician, who makes $430k a year. Broyles saves at least 560k per outbreak, so yeah, he's due for a nice raise.

 

[Jbop]

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Broyles made roughly 130k in 2023. The highest paid federal employee in Oklahoma is a physician, who makes $430k a year. Broyles saves at least 560k per outbreak, so yeah, he's due for a nice raise.

Broyles, is that you posting ;p

 

[Kds86z]

Texas wants to join..

 

[Tanner]

Easily in the top echelon of the most violent roar from a tornado I've heard. Jesus Christmas.

 

[Grand Poo Bah]

Princeton storm might be trying to drop something

 

[DanLarsen34]

The St. Louis tornado causing fatalities is really sad. I’m not sure it was as high-end of a tornado as some of the ones we just saw over the past 2-3 hours, but that doesn’t matter in situations like this. I wonder if the roof collapse mentioned earlier in the thread is where some of those fatalities took place?

 

[Kds86z]

 

[Kds86z]

The St. Louis tornado causing fatalities is really sad. I’m not sure it was as high-end of a tornado as some of the ones we just saw over the past 2-3 hours, but that doesn’t matter in situations like this. I wonder if the roof collapse mentioned earlier in the thread is where some of those fatalities took place?

Yeah the timing could not have been worse for short lived tornado in the worse possible place..

 

[Brice W]

Easily in the top echelon of the most violent roar from a tornado I've heard. Jesus Christmas.

Also noteworthy how violent it got so fast.

 

[Atlantic]

This cell is also in Texas and it looks interesting…