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Severe weather threat 4/23/26 (Central/Southern Plains)

andyhb said:
Oh hey it's the Tuscaloosa tower cam shot from 4/27/2011 but in Oklahoma instead. Ridiculous.
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in keeping with that analogy, the news9 helicopter chaser had some clear horizontal vortices in his shot of the tornado when it was close to peak strength. reminded me a lot of the tower cam shot of the Cullman tornado.
 
warneagle said:
in keeping with that analogy, the news9 helicopter chaser had some clear horizontal vortices in his shot of the tornado when it was close to peak strength. reminded me a lot of the tower cam shot of the Cullman tornado.
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I’ve been trying to remember the last time we had a “tornado coverage for the record books” event, because yesterday certainly was. Also had that classic Oklahoma aesthetic to its coverage that a lot of us 1990s storm stories nerds remember.
 
joshoctober16 said:

bad timing and area for a bug to happen or the strongest wind speed on earth....
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That reminds me of an incident a number of years back where the ASOS station near the Memphis, TN, radar recorded some ludicrously high gust value (I unfortunately don't remember how fast it was offhand, but I do remember it being something like tornado-force or greater), and the NWS office had to put out a statement saying that the reading was erroneous because otherwise the radar station and the surrounding area would've been utterly devastated, which clearly wasn't the case!
 
Tennie said:
That reminds me of an incident a number of years back where the ASOS station near the Memphis, TN, radar recorded some ludicrously high gust value (I unfortunately don't remember how fast it was offhand, but I do remember it being something like tornado-force or greater), and the NWS office had to put out a statement saying that the reading was erroneous because otherwise the radar station and the surrounding area would've been utterly devastated, which clearly wasn't the case!
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Every faulty reading that I can remember always occurred outside of any tornado. I think this is the first case that I know of where a faulty reading of this proportion was caused by the presence of very high winds (a tornado, in this case)
 
Assuming that the home in the tweet is what they have rated so far as EF-3, the home pretty clearly has interior walls and it's just the exterior walls that collapsed.

On the EF-scale, this would be between EXP and UB, or straight up UB (We don't exactly have a released value to my knowledge, so it's the best guess we can make). If the other homes were similar in construction quality then I have 0 doubt of an EF-4 rating. Maybe even HE EF-4.

 
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andyhb said:
I'm saying that anyone who complains about yesterday's tornadoes being in a 10% CIG1 should really focus their priorities elsewhere and yes, are not really thinking very critically/intelligently. You're saying it was obvious that an EF3+ would happen yesterday? Well, no it actually wasn't. IMO the thermodynamic environment was in question especially regarding LCL heights in some models and even some observations in N OK.

Now, if you're criticizing the overuse of CIG1 with more marginal threats, that I agree with.
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I guess that last part is the key. You can’t put CIG1 on crashing cold fronts and on yesterday and expect people to understand what the heck the reasonable ceiling is. If you put the same reasonable ceiling on both, it’s even worse than the old system was.
 
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