Severe Weather Threat May 17-19, 2025

[Kds86z]

 

[Kds86z]

80/60

 

[Kds86z]

 

[Tennie]

Today's event isn't even over yet, and already it feels like a fairly substantial event. Sometimes, if you have enough ingredients in the right places and times, not even unfavorable storm modes can put all that much of a damper on tornado activity!

 

[Kds86z]

Today's event isn't even over yet, and already it feels like a fairly substantial event. Sometimes, if you have enough ingredients in the right places and times, not even unfavorable storm modes can put all that much of a damper on tornado activity!

EF3s almost everyday minus Sat and Thursday in WI was 4 EF2.

 

[Kds86z]

Stillwell tornado still confirmed.

 

[Beachwalker]

Gonna be a couple more hours (at least). Backside still may do it one or twice as well.

 

[Grand Poo Bah]

Welp, now that we've seen the VTP verify with these QLCS tornadoes I'll point out that the Texas storms are entering into an increasingly favorable environment.

 

[Ebaad Jaffery]

Welp, now that we've seen the VTP verify with these QLCS tornadoes I'll point out that the Texas storms are entering into an increasingly favorable environment.

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They’re just heading northwards and not able to continue firing up on the dry line. Maximum I see is it spinning up into South OK

 

[tornado examiner]

I knew the scar from that monster would be impressive. Definitely a verifiable EF3.

 

[Grand Poo Bah]

I knew the scar from that monster would be impressive. Definitely a verifiable EF3.

Definitely surprised at the lack of cycloidal marks

 

[AJS]

Definitely surprised at the lack of cycloidal marks

Probably the beginning of the path. It peaked later on in it’s life.

 

[Brice W]

Definitely surprised at the lack of cycloidal marks

Might be because how wide it was if I had to guess.

 

[Tennie]

There's a TDS that's worryingly close to Prairie Grove, Arkansas:

 

[cg9450]

Sucker on the ground, headed to Fayetteville, AR.

 

[jiharris0220]

Definitely shocked by the lack of violent contextuals, the vegetation in this shot practically looks untouched. Definitely one of those wedges that lacked a violent core, or substantial meso vortices, which is what does the extreme damage in all violent wedge tornadoes. The extreme TVS isn’t what makes this confusing for me, it’s the extreme CC drop that the radar showed, what in the world was that radar picking up? Dirt?

 

[RizzenSojourner]

There's a TDS that's worryingly close to Prairie Grove, Arkansas:

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The warning for it says it's moving at 90mph? Surely that's a typo...

That storm will hit the Fayetteville metro area as well.

 

[Kds86z]

Confirmed tornado in Missouri and OK

 

[WesL]

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Sucker on the ground, headed to Fayetteville, AR.

Woooooohooooooo (not really) We are getting into our safe place.

 

[Tennie]

Woooooohooooooo (not really) We are getting into our safe place.

Please stay safe out there!