Severe Weather Threat May 17-19, 2025

[CheeselandSkies]

A Facebook friend of mine knows Matt.

 

[Matt Grantham]

i think this is the first anticyclonic tornado drone intercept

man at (2:10 - 2:15) and (2:21- 2:26) and (2:40 - 2:45) and (3:25 - 3:28) it throws some objects so fast

Here is my up close and personal view of the anticyclonic tornado.

 

[Grand Poo Bah]

Here is my up close and personal view of the anticyclonic tornado.

Was pleasantly surprised to see you featured on Ryan Hall's stream a few times last week!

 

[Grand Poo Bah]

That tornado was so nuts because there was a point where it couldn't have been wider than 20 yards in diameter, but it still had little 2-3 yard violent sub vortices within it. And no condensation funnel on the ground! It seemed like almost every tornado in this outbreak had a multi vortex structure.

 

[Maxis_s]

That tornado was so nuts because there was a point where it couldn't have been wider than 20 yards in diameter, but it still had little 2-3 yard violent sub vortices within it. And no condensation funnel on the ground! It seemed like almost every tornado in this outbreak had a multi vortex structure.

I have a feeling that nearly every single tornado is multi-vortex because virtually every partially-uncondensed tornado that I've seen from videos, at the very least, have tiny suction vortices that are usually very short lived. That's not counting fully condensed tornadoes which most definitely have suction vortices we can't see. Of course, how strong and prominent these subvortices are definitely vary between tornadoes. I wonder if there's any studies on what proportion of tornadoes actually have subvortices.

 

[tornado examiner]

Arnett tornado upgraded to EF3.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Arnett tornado upgraded to EF3.

Yikes. Was not expecting that seeing as it (thankfully) dissipated before reaching Arnett proper. However as I described earlier it had the potent "drillbit" appearance suggestive of greater intensity than size alone would indicate.

However still no actual track map, and it's still not added to the Wikipedia list.

 

[Kds86z]

Arnett tornado upgraded to EF3.

Gosh I loved that tornado. Now even more..

 

[Kds86z]

So based on radar ey? Hmmm if only this happened more.

 

[Lake Martin EF4]

So based on radar ey? Hmmm if only this happened more.

Not based off radar, at least not explicitly. Maybe they found a DI that had been missed.

 

[Kds86z]

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

Almost 1.7 miles-wide.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Belated, but here's some video from my May 19 chase in Nebraska:

 

[Grand Poo Bah]

Took a few stills from some security cam footage of the London Tornado and enhanced them the best I could.




Then, I compiled all three images into one photo that shows the full structure of the tornado. Here's the beast.



I pulled the image from this clip (timestamped at 2:38). It might be one of the most unsettling tornado clips I've ever seen. Even if you never saw the tornado, the way the debris just starts falling out of the sky is so ominous. The debris may have been the only indication of what was coming, because i'm not sure the sirens were going off before it entered the town.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Don't think I ever posted any of my DSLR photos from Arnett here.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Continued due to attachment limit:

 

[Kds86z]