Severe Threat May 15-16, 2025

[Clancy]

This storm NE of Chattanooga is showing some persistent rotation. Fairly far from any radar sites, so hard to know if any of it is close to the ground.

 

[Ledian]

Thunder woke me up about 20 minutes ago…and only now is the line of storms producing it starting to clear Oxford.

If this is what it’s like at this distance…oh, i’m in for a show when it gets here, aren’t i?

 

[eep]

18z NAM has a monstrous long tracked supercell on Friday initiating in MO and tracking through the afternoon into KY along the Ohio River.

Damn that's crazy.

 

[Kds86z]

CallediDamn that's crazy.

….

 

[Clancy]

Really tightened up.

 

[andyhb]

All I'll say on this for now regarding Friday: beware of zonal flow events in the Lower Ohio Valley and SE, because that's exactly what it looks like right now.

Well there you have it...

 

[Clancy]

Really tightened up.
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Just went tornado-warned. Going into yet another radar hole, so gonna be hard to tell what's going on.

 

[Kds86z]

 

[mariachi507]

This is going to be ugly in a few hours when the light comes out.

 

[Equus]

Can we stop sending 3am bow echoes through the GWX corridor into NW AL? It'd be nice to just be able to sleep peacefully with rain and thunder for once

 

[slenker]

Watching the videos of the tornadoes that touched down earlier, I’ve gotta say I was extremely impressed with the motion on them. The tornado close to Morgantown was pretty insane looking, wouldn’t doubt it if it ended up inflicting EF4 damage somewhere. The debris clouds just had that nasty, violent look to them. That single supercell lasting for 500 miles is absolutely ridiculous. I had some doubts about how discrete the 15z HRRR looked and the event ended up much more discrete than even that.

It’s pretty horrible that so many people lost their lives, though. Especially with an event that had a lot of “issues” with it initially. I’m completely mindblown to say the least.

 

[Equus]

Yeah the super clean long-lived discrete mode for that long definitely surprised me a little, started to have the sustained spacing of 3/31/23 on a day that previously suggested fairly quick upscale growth

 

[Aaron Rider]

You do know not every outbreak needs to have multiple 50+ mile tornados to be very significant, right?

And just a reminder that Jarrell lasted 5 miles

 

[buckeye05]

WOW! What a day. My local weather friends had a little pre-chase gathering at one of our houses and we ended up watching this all play out together, so that’s why I was missing in action here on the forum. Sucks that it was another deadly outbreak though. Hopefully the rest of this sequence isn’t as devastating.

Will likely hit the road and try to get in on the action on Sunday.

 

[Tomcats Forever!]

Bad news: at least nine fatalities confirmed in Laurel County KY (London area)

 

[UncleJuJu98]

Looks like I missed the somerset/London tornados. Hopefully pictures aren't too devastating there

 

[cniemczura]

Looks like I missed the somerset/London tornados. Hopefully pictures aren't too devastating there

Not to be that guy, but it looks pretty bad...

 

[southmdwatcher]

The trailer park next to the airport, south of London KY took a big hit, as did a number of businesses.

 

[AJS]

I know yesterday was well forecasted, but honestly I didn’t even expect it to be that bad.
Looks like we’re going to see some awful damage shown this morning.

 

[Kds86z]

Fatality in Linton IN and one in critical condition.