Severe Weather Threat May 17-19, 2025

[RandomBlue]

Latest scan has it at 210mph g2g. Hope this misses Hutchinson.

 

[US_Highway15]

This is literally a tornado you're just waiting and waiting to weaken and it just won't.

 

[treypops]

Radar signature still impressive as hell.

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

Yeah, I have been to Hutchinson a few times before and it is a nice community. It has the cosmosphere which is a space museum.

 

[US_Highway15]

Tornado Emergency for Plevna

 

[tornado examiner]

This thing, if it’s producing scouring…is gonna have a wicked damage track

 

[Equus]

Plevna's population is just 85, but that is far from zero

 

[Maxis_s]

They issued a TOR-E for a town with less than 500 people. That's how indescribably violent this tornado is.

 

[jiharris0220]

Another photo just now.

 

[Western_KS_Wx]

Tornado Emergency now, second time this cell has garnered that. Unfortunately this time it appears a near miss is becoming increasingly unlikely. Praying everyone in the path of this is doing the right thing.

 

[Grand Poo Bah]

Here's the two towns currently in the direct path.

Plevna



And Abbyville

 

[tornado examiner]

It has a debris ball on reflectivity.

 

[Zabwxaj]

Plevna is in big trouble here with the latest wobble. Hopefully we get lucky and splits the uprights between there and Abbyville.

 

[US_Highway15]

I had velocity clocked at 215 for a scan.

 

[DanLarsen34]

is it already hitting structures? The CC drop is getting absolutely insane and it hasn’t even directly impacted these communities yet

 

[172556]

Not to be this person, and it probably doesn’t matter much, but I find the language in this discussion to be too conservative given we’ve seen them use violent tornado language before in similar situations.

The environment this cell is in is as high-end as April 27, 2011, and the signature on radar suggests a possible EF-5.

They would be well within their right to say that violent tornadoes are possible or even likely over the next hour or two.

Agreed. "an EF3+ tornado could occur"? An EF3+ tornado is currently ongoing.

 

[Grand Poo Bah]

Hutchinson has a population of 40,000 people.....

 

[jiharris0220]

Me personally, if I saw this living here, I would drive away.

 

[Sluggerwx]

Correlation coefficient has literally been maxed out (.2) for debris for an ungodly amount of time. I can only imagine the kind of damage and ground scaring happening under this thing.

You're right. I've never seen a debris signature this large for 30+ minutes. This will be a historic tornado, without question.

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

Another photo just now.

MY GOD THAT IS A MONSTER!!!!!