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Severe Weather Threat 5/25-5/26, 2024

buckeye05 said:
My god just catching up. Another day of strong to violent tornadoes. I guess i shouldn’t be surprised, but honestly I’m getting burnt out over how non-stop it’s been. Reminds me of May 2019, but deadlier unfortunately. Hope there’s a lull after this.
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Interestingly May 2019 is still ahead on significant tornadoes 56 to 43, though I'd wager the currently unrated tornadoes from yesterday plus those from tonight will add at least 5 or 6. All 20 EF3+ tornadoes in May '19 were in the May 17-30 outbreak sequence whereas activity this year has been remarkably spread through the month, and people will mentally combining it with April 26-30.

The cumulative for the year is very similar to 2019 too, which was 826 on the 26th (if my maths is right). The confirmed count to the 26th this year will probably exceed that once all the confirmations are in but the most active day in May '19 was the 27th with 60. Neither May '19 nor this year had a day to compare with May 4 2003 (4 F4s), but I do think some of the individual tornadoes have been more impressive than those in 2019.

Another similarity between May '19 and '24 similarity is the twilight-nocturnal events. I don't think storm chasers will think this sequence to be as good as May 2003 in terms of opportunities. There's certainly been some good ones, but more on the slightly less active days that are harder to target like for the Duke or Hawley tornadoes. Chasers will be ruing the various factors that meant potential daytime opportunities Atmospheric Anti-Climax on otherwise active days (like May 6 and May 25).
 
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A Guy said:
Interestingly May 2019 is still ahead on significant tornadoes 56 to 43, though I'd wager the currently unrated tornadoes from yesterday plus those from tonight might will add at least 5 or 6. All 20 EF3+ tornadoes in May '19 were in the May 17-30 outbreak sequence whereas activity this year has been remarkably spread through the month, and people will metal combing it with April 26-30.

The cumulative for the year is very similar to 2019 too, which was 826 on the 26th (if my maths is right). The confirmed count to the 26th this year will probably exceed that once all the confirmations are in but the most active day in May '19 was the 27th with 60. Neither May '19 nor this year had a day to compare with May 4 2003 (4 F4s), but I do think some of the individual tornadoes have been more impressive than those in 2019.

Another similarity May '19 and '24 similarity is the twilight-nocturnal events. I don't think storm chasers will think this sequence to be as good as May 2003 in terms of opportunities. There's certainly been some good ones, but more on the slightly less active days that are harder to target like for the Duke or Hawley tornadoes. Chasers will be ruing the various factors that have meant the daytime opportunities Atmospheric Anti-Climax on the most active days.
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So true.. and thanks
 
That's quite a long duration watch
 
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