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Severe Weather Threat 5.22-5.24.24

Unless the storm appendages in front of it's own inflicted outflow boundary, it looks to be primarily a damaging wind and hail producer.
Yeah it's sort of turned into its own little squall line.
 
Thank GOD it didn't hit anything other than trees. Absolutely absurd tornado.
Except it did cause structural damage.
 
Except it did cause structural damage.
Dangit... Hope it wasn't damaged too badly.
 
The DOW measurements of these tornadoes this year almost all have recorded winds in excess of 200mph.

Really is doing nothing but driving home the fact that tornadoes in general are underestimated to kingdom come.

Of course this isn’t bashing the ef scale despite its flaws, just merely pointing out that the original scale had a much more accurate grasp on tornadic wind speeds.
 
The DOW measurements of these tornadoes this year almost all have recorded winds in excess of 200mph.

Really is doing nothing but driving home the fact that tornadoes in general are underestimated to kingdom come.

Of course this isn’t bashing the ef scale despite its flaws, just merely pointing out that the original scale had a much more accurate grasp on tornadic wind speeds.

To be fair, the tornadoes that were scanned by DOW this year were MUCH stronger than your average tornado, and definitely had a distinct presentation on radar.
 
To be fair, the tornadoes that were scanned by DOW this year were MUCH stronger than your average tornado, and definitely had a distinct presentation on radar.
Not really, most of the tornadoes were rated ef3 or lower, not exactly uncommon.

This year has been exceptional in terms of luck and placement of DOW, so it looks like every tornado was extremely strong.

Though it’s becoming apparent that in reality, 200+mph winds occur in tornadoes far more often than thought.
 
Not really, most of the tornadoes were rated ef3 or lower, not exactly uncommon.

This year has been exceptional in terms of luck and placement of DOW, so it looks like every tornado was extremely strong.
No. Every tornado sampled had winds capable of EF3 or greater. It doesn't take a human to determine that.
 
No. Every tornado sampled had winds capable of EF3 or greater. It doesn't take a human to determine that.
That’s why I said rated, my point is that tornadoes in general regardless of being rated Ef1 or higher all likely contained wind speeds greater than 200mph at one point.

If we had DOW present with every tornado that touch down I bet my bottom dollar this is true.
 
Here's a loop of the RAXPOL data. I've been refraining from bringing up the comparison, but the similarities to El Reno 2013 are getting hard to ignore.

Man, THIS is the tornado of the year. Maybe not in terms of impacts, but from a storm chasing perspective? Absolutely.
EDIT: Wait, both DOW6 and RAXPOL were on it? Good lord, the data we're gonna get out of this...
 
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