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Severe Weather 4/17/26
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CheeselandSkies
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I stayed home. Was exhausted after work and would have been a wild goose chase. After damaging my vehicle on Tuesday's chase (and being lucky it wasn't worse!) on top of that I just wasn't feeling it. CAMs were lukewarm at best on the potential for long-track classic supercells and it seems that was with good reason. The prefrontals that came out of Iowa and moved into Rock/Walworth Counties were and are quite blobtacular.
Seems we got a few potentially strong tornadoes but they were rather transient, with impressive couplets/TDS's lasting no more than 2-3 scans.
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Currently using postimages.org since the upload feature on TW is still broken...
klouzek7079
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"You get a polygon, you get a polygon, you get a polygon!" For the Warsaw MO storm
Central Ohio Wx
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All fatality reports out of Lena were scanner miscommunications and were false. Happens quite often.
warneagle
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perfect example of why you wait for confirmation from media reports rather than reporting raw scanner traffic
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I love open-source software. Usually maintained by small teams of developers that actually care, and they tend to steer clear of the "you never own it" approach that defines our garbage subscription economy.
Anyhow, off topic.
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Looks like it, but I usually wait for at least three scans to come in before jumping the gun and assuming there's a tornado on the ground...
Never wanna be the boy who cried "OmG VioLENt TorNADo ON thu GROuND" when it ends up being nothing lol
WhirlingWx
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South of Columbia, MO (near Russellville) could be a strong tornado ongoing. Hate that radar hole
A possibly tornadic circulation is coming dangerously close to the TMKE TDWR near Milwaukee, WI. If the radar doesn't update for a while after it passes, it probably wouldn't be unreasonable to assume the worst until confirmed otherwise.
EDIT: The radar survived, as it's still updating.
EDIT: The radar survived, as it's still updating.
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US_Highway15
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Oh boy I cannot wait for this line of storms to arrive about a half hour away from my doorstep, just to weaken, for about the fifth time this severe weather season.
Kds86z
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206K views · 3.8K reactions | Collapsed homes and significant damage in the town of Lena, Illinois this evening after a strong rainwrapped tornado went through the town #stormchaser #illinois #disaster | Jason Weingart
Collapsed homes and significant damage in the town of Lena, Illinois this evening after a strong rainwrapped tornado went through the town #stormchaser #illinois #disaster
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Ef3?206K views · 3.8K reactions | Collapsed homes and significant damage in the town of Lena, Illinois this evening after a strong rainwrapped tornado went through the town #stormchaser #illinois #disaster | Jason Weingart
Collapsed homes and significant damage in the town of Lena, Illinois this evening after a strong rainwrapped tornado went through the town #stormchaser #illinois #disaster
Kds86z
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16 tornado warnings. Second wave lol
klouzek7079
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Felt that here in SW MO. There hasn't been a severe thunderstorm warning here for a while
This is a really strong QLCS moving through Illinois right now. Could even be a derecho.
US_Highway15
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I'm 110% gonna experience this in a few hours (definitely not).