Severe Weather Threat May 17-19, 2025

[Shakespeare 2016]

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Sucker on the ground, headed to Fayetteville, AR.

Moving at 85 mph.

 

[jiharris0220]

Nice bookend vortex present.

 

[Ebaad Jaffery]

Why did the North TX threat fail to verify?

 

[Zabwxaj]

The Fayetteville TOR is right on top of the airport.

 

[jiharris0220]

Why did the North TX threat fail to verify?

Storms grew upscale too quickly. Mesoscale interaction tornadoes could’ve occurred but fortunately not this time.

 

[SmokeEater]

Huge debris sig over Fayetteville!

 

[cincywx]

live coverage from local northwest arkansas affiliate: https://www.4029tv.com/nowcast

 

[SmokeEater]

Sounds like Drake Field may have taken a direct hit.

 

[SmokeEater]

Live camera from Fayetteville possibly showing a wedge.

 

[Jbop]

Ryan has something on his stream

 

[jiharris0220]

Not good at all, hoping damage isn’t too bad.

 

[SmokeEater]

Power flashes on 4029's cam.

 

[Ozonelayer]

Debris visible 13-15 KFT+, likely strong.

 

[cg9450]

KNWA news saw multiple vortices

 

[AJS]

How can we tell 2025 to quit aiming for cities? I swear we can’t catch a break from towns getting hit.

 

[Jbop]

Looks like Max also has something

 

[jiharris0220]

Today is a good reminder that QLCS can produce substantial tornado outbreaks by themselves, if kinematics are volatile enough.

2020 Easter is a unfortunate example.

 

[AJS]

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?
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Was this relatively early on in the path? Maybe that’s why it isn’t as extreme.

 

[cincywx]

massive rainshaft with an embedded spin-up tornado approaching Fort Smith, AR, via 4029

 

[tornado examiner]

There’s your violent tree damage.