Severe Weather Threat May 17-19, 2025

[tornado examiner]

Unquestionably, a violent tornado. Will be very deserving of the 134mph EF2 rating that it receives.

Honestly likely lol. Probably not though a debris signature like this doesn’t happen without major violent damage being done.

 

[US_Highway15]

I’m guessing several farmsteads have been wiped out in extremely violent fashion unless it’s somehow missed everything.

Wish I could say it's missed everything, but I know for certain there was a tiny, tiny farmstead neighborhood that contained a maximum of two to three houses earlier east of Greensburg (Brenham) that likely were wiped clean of their slab. Like the tornado hit it head on directly.

 

[jiharris0220]

This TBS is something out of a nightmare.

 

[Grand Poo Bah]

If i'm in Hutchinson right now, i'm getting the hell out of Dodge.

 

[Tanner]

This is an EF5 caliber tornado, and I can say without hesitation. I just pray that peoples lives aren't being affected right now.

 

[tornado examiner]

It’s just got stronger on velocities again

 

[Maxis_s]

I wanna go to bed man, but the weather won't shut up

 

[US_Highway15]

Unquestionably, a violent tornado. Will be very deserving of the 134mph EF2 rating that it receives.

Honestly since this area of Kansas has houses that are spread out, I think Dodge City/Wichita will very, very fairly rate it, especially if the houses (hopefully not) are wiped clean of their foundation.

 

[Jbop]

Ryan Hall mentioned it will probably be a tornado emergency

 

[Maxis_s]

This is an EF5 caliber tornado, and I can say without hesitation. I just pray that peoples lives aren't being affected right now.

With this environment, I don't think that's even a surprise. 15 STP will do that to ya.

 

[Grand Poo Bah]

This TBS is something out of a nightmare.
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I think of dark blue being branches and twigs, black is whole damn trees.

 

[TornadoFan]

 

[tornado examiner]

This is likely the strongest presentation on radar this year so far. It reminds me very heavily of Chapman…but bigger

 

[Western_KS_Wx]

I’m a little late to the party, but man watching that storm ramp up and hearing the reports of a massive tornado along US-183 moving towards Greensburg, then the Tornado Emergency, legitimately had me shaken. As someone who knows what those poor people went through and the scars that are still absolutely there to this day, I can’t imagine the feeling. Heard a report that the dispatcher was quite emotional, feeling as though they’d have to deal with the same catastrophe all over again, fortunately it veered away. Several farms that were obliterated on May 4th, 2007 were unfortunately hit likely significantly south of town.

 

[US_Highway15]

This is an EF5 caliber tornado, and I can say without hesitation. I just pray that peoples lives aren't being affected right now.

I usually don't like that being mentioned, but you're not wrong at all. There's that donut hole shape again.

 

[Equus]

The environment this is going through is very high end; the only real question across KS as we got into this environment was convective coverage, would any cell be able to go up with in rather marginal low level lapse rates beneath the really juicy stuff? With this one cell managing to get going and sustaining itself, even the nighttime CIN settling over the region won't slow it down for a while

 

[Grand Poo Bah]

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now THIS is a velocity signature on par with Mayfield. Good lord that is intense. I think it might be the strongest tornado we've seen all year.

 

[Maxis_s]

NROT of 3.5, goodness gracious that's extremely high. Very violent tornado ongoing, I don't think this will lift anytime soon.

 

[jiharris0220]

Im at a loss for words.

 

[DanLarsen34]

If this cell continues to produce, we’re going to be dealing with a bigger city being under the gun in Hutchinson.