Severe Weather 2024

[UncleJuJu98]

Wtc.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

This is the 1st day in recorded history that a tornado has touched down in Wisconsin in February!

Not only that, but by the looks/duration of that CC drop, one of the most significant in south-central Wisconsin in quite some time.

Edit: To your above, yup.

 

[TH2002]

This is the 1st day in recorded history that a tornado has touched down in Wisconsin in February!

In addition, only 18 (well, I guess 19 now) tornadoes have touched down during meteorological winter in Wisconsin.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

On-air met at my work relaying reports of substantial damage in the Edgerton area, although no specifics as of yet.

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[TH2002]

On-air met at my work relaying reports of substantial damage in the Edgerton area, although no specifics as of yet.

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Based on the debris ball track in GRLevel3, the Edgerton Travel Plaza probably got smacked

 

[UncleJuJu98]

On-air met at my work relaying reports of substantial damage in the Edgerton area, although no specifics as of yet.

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Should be storm chasers galore near by. Should start seeing images flood in. Hope nobody is hurt.

Still can't believe scans showed debris lifted 20k feet in the air.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Based on the debris ball track in GRLevel3, the Edgerton Travel Plaza probably got smacked

Yup. I've been by/through that interchange many times.

 

[TH2002]

I don't think it's still on the ground, but if it is, direct hit on Fort Atkinson...

 

[CheeselandSkies]

DOT camera at that junction is still streaming, so it's still intact and has power. Crazy lightning on it now. I-39/90 at US 51/WIS-73.

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[WaryWarren]

I was watching the traffic cam at the interchange where the travel plaza is located. There were very strong inflow winds visible, but I think if it was still on the ground, it passed just a scooch to the north and west of there.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Lemme just say if I had been working, we would have taken that camera on air (I'm on mornings, 3AM-noon, hence why I'm usually quite tired in the late afternoons and reserve my chases for higher-confidence setups unless I'm on vacation).

 

[UncleJuJu98]

I don't think it's still on the ground, but if it is, direct hit on Fort Atkinson...

Extended the warning

 

[UncleJuJu98]

There's actually a weak couplet near from Atkinson.

Here's video of the tornado when it was near Evansville

 

[CheeselandSkies]

I expected something a little larger based on the CC drop. Must have been small but rather strong and hit a lot of stuff.

 

[notsoencrypted]

This was a weird one for me. Went not too far to my south (I loaded the cats in their carriers just in case), but I actually saw the hook on radar before the first warning was issued.

There's another video on X/Twitter from the traffic cam near the interchange when the storm went through, and thankfully it didn't seem too bad even though there looked to be a fair bit of traffic.

Hoping that the damage is limited, but that debris signature is worrying.

 

[notsoencrypted]

Apologies if this doesn't display correctly; I'm on my phone and normally I post here from my computer.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

This was a weird one for me. Went not too far to my south (I loaded the cats in their carriers just in case), but I actually saw the hook on radar before the first warning was issued.

There's another video on X/Twitter from the traffic cam near the interchange when the storm went through, and thankfully it didn't seem too bad even though there looked to be a fair bit of traffic.

Hoping that the damage is limited, but that debris signature is worrying.

Glad you're OK! I had kinda wondered what part of the county you were in.

Can you link that video?

 

[notsoencrypted]

Glad you're OK! I had kinda wondered what part of the county you were in.

I live close to my spouse's employer, one of the bigger ones in the area. He's been there for over a decade, which makes him super old by the standard of most of their employees. That likely tells you where we are.

I should add that I was north of the warning polygon but it was close enough that my anxiety kicked in for getting pets ready, heh.

Here's the traffic cam video:

 

[MichelleH]

So, picturesque tornado that is the first ever in Wisconsin in February...nah, that's not foreboding for the spring season at all.

 

[Clancy]

00Z NAM really holds onto instability and favorable wind fields, even with preceding convection for Monday. Definitely bears watching. Sounding from East-Central AL.