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Severe Weather 2025

Cyclonic Paracosm said:
the hype fest tis upon us, run while ya still can:eek:
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Im trying to scrounge up a couple of memes for this tornado season lol, there's one of James spann in his video where he was interviewed making fun of teenagers hyping up tornado events where he goes "mega super tornado outbreak ; look at those updraft helicity swaths" but I can't find it anymore. I may make it myself haha. And there's also the high risk broyles video where it's a ai edited video where they put broyles face over a dancing guy coming out on a stage. I think I will make it my projects to find these before tornado season kicks off so I can have them ready lol.
 
Timmer has competition now. That Connor Croft dude and Brandon Copic are both all over the place. So now Timmer has to step the show up to compete for views.
 
pritchlaw said:
Timmer has competition now. That Connor Croft dude and Brandon Copic are both all over the place. So now Timmer has to step the show up to compete for views.
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To give timmer credit though, the criteria for tornado outbreaks is actually incredibly low. I think it's like 6-7 tornado reports. Which any QCLS Event in the winter in the south gives you that EASILY. Last QLCS event went over 20 tornadoes on a enchaned risk.
 
KevinH said:
I wish there was a clear definition of outbreak :/
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Me too. Seems everyone has their criteria and I've honestly never came across anything that officially defines a outbreak. Like for me, a outbreak is the combination of all forms of severe weather (tornadoes, hail, and damaging winds). From what I've gauged over the years, others seem to focus more on # of tornadoes that occur. Which annoys me to death
 
JPWX said:
Me too. Seems everyone has their criteria and I've honestly never came across anything that officially defines an outbreak. Like for me, an outbreak is the combination of all forms of severe weather (tornadoes, hail, and damaging winds). From what I've gauged over the years, others seem to focus more on # of tornadoes that occur. Which annoys me to death
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how many times have you heard of a hail storm or damaging winds outbreak? Or a flash flood outbreak? lol You know tornadoes get sensationalized the most ha ha

I would not be surprised to see an increase in SVR WX in the future. I also would not be surprised to see the earth do things it has not done before (in terms of natural disasters).
 
KevinH said:
how many times have you heard of a hail storm or damaging winds outbreak? Or a flash flood outbreak? lol You know tornadoes get sensationalized the most ha ha

I would not be surprised to see an increase in SVR WX in the future. I also would not be surprised to see the earth do things it has not done before (in terms of natural disasters).
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wildfire outbreak, I heard that term used for Great Chicago/Peshtigo fires, and I still use it
 
JPWX said:
Me too. Seems everyone has their criteria and I've honestly never came across anything that officially defines a outbreak. Like for me, a outbreak is the combination of all forms of severe weather (tornadoes, hail, and damaging winds). From what I've gauged over the years, others seem to focus more on # of tornadoes that occur. Which annoys me to death
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I think a tornado outbreak should be classified as 3+ super cellular parent storms with each having atleast 2-3 tornado reports on each one.
 
UncleJuJu98 said:
I think a tornado outbreak should be classified as 3+ super cellular parent storms with each having atleast 2-3 tornado reports on each one.
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Like with so many things, you quickly run into various problems when you try to strictly define the bounds of something, especially natural events, and I think that's probably a big part of why there isn't a more formal classification for outbreaks. Weather nerds face exactly this problem when it comes to EF-scale discourse. That being said, it would be cool to see some of the field's smarties come together and discuss more about what makes an outbreak. Grazulis has an Outbreak Intensity Scale, which he mostly uses to rank the historical significance of outbreaks; I generally quite like that approach - defining by intensity.
 
Clancy said:
Like with so many things, you quickly run into various problems when you try to strictly define the bounds of something, especially natural events, and I think that's probably a big part of why there isn't a more formal classification for outbreaks. Weather nerds face exactly this problem when it comes to EF-scale discourse. That being said, it would be cool to see some of the field's smarties come together and discuss more about what makes an outbreak. Grazulis has an Outbreak Intensity Scale, which he mostly uses to rank the historical significance of outbreaks; I generally quite like that approach - defining by intensity.
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yeah, I heard an outbreak is when at min 8 tors occur, I say more like 10, but at least 8 makes sense cuz its several nadoes, not just like 2
 
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