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Severe Weather Threat May 17-19, 2025

Kds86z said:
And don’t forget Moore. Hit twice by ef5. That was crazy to watch in 2013..
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I remember reading about a guy living in or near Moore whose house was damaged in the October 1998 F2, damaged again in the May 3, 1999 F5 (after which he had a concrete safe room installed), then destroyed (and the safe room saved his life) in the May 8, 2003 F4. I would hope he'd have gotten the h*** out of there by 2013.
 
OH-IOan said:
Oh, and it gets a lot better! Here’s a 113 mph EF2 DI to the north they just added:
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Is it safe to say Goodland is the most unreliable NWS office when it comes to ratings?
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I remember seeing this home and was particularly impressed at how the only sizeable debris was large appliances, much of it was granulated finely. In person certainly seemed like a violent candidate, and certainly no shortage of contextuals. Interesting is all I have to say.

Also I forgot to post these I took on the southern side of Grinnell near a farm, some pretty impressive stuff. This was right after it crossed I-70.
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New drone vid has released, clearly shows one of the most prolific ground scouring we've seen in a while, this is the tornado that hit Grinnell KS, one can even find the ground scouring was evident on two kinds of land(grassland and plowed farmland), which is extremely impressive
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Realized with all the ado about Sunday, I never said much about what I saw Monday the 19th. Woke up in Pratt and got to Lincoln, NE by lunch time, and was hungry after not having eaten since lunch the previous day, failing to find anything local (and I was sick of fast food) open in Alva, OK after 9 PM on a Sunday. However I was a little too leisurely and found myself about 20 minutes out from the intercept when the tornado warning went out on a cell approaching the Silver Creek/Genoa, NE area. I finally got visual of a promising looking wall cloud with a dual tail cloud structure off NE-34 north of Silver Creek.

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However this seemed to be the cycle's peak both visually and on radar, and the tornado warning was allowed to expire. I quickly got confused/frustrated by the convective evolution as a bunch of new updrafts blossomed in a solid band to the south, and it appeared on track to become an upscale-growing mess. Thus I abandoned this group of storms, costing myself the tornadoes which later occurred near Schuyler/North Bend.

I dropped south to a severe-warned cell that was all by itself, after calculating I could intercept it somewhere near Sutton in about an hour. Approaching the exit for US 6 at Fairmont, the storm revealed itself with a photogenic LP "barber pole" structure and mammatus under the anvil.

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I watched for a while and took some tripoded video to timelapse, but this storm soon began to shrivel and die both visually and on radar, and I started the long haul home.
 
eric11 said:

New drone vid has released, clearly shows one of the most prolific ground scouring we've seen in a while, this is the tornado that hit Grinnell KS, one can even find the ground scouring was evident on two kinds of land(grassland and plowed farmland), which is extremely impressive
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No word of a lie, that is genuinely some of the most impressive ground scouring i’ve seen in quite some time.
 
Okay, that was single-handedly the worst damage survey of all time. Up there with Chapman, Bakersfield and Vilonia. I really hope another office comes up to them and tells them how badly they screwed up.
 
OH-IOan said:
Okay, that was single-handedly the worst damage survey of all time. Up there with Chapman, Bakersfield and Vilonia. I really hope another office comes up to them and tells them how badly they screwed up.
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No Vilonia still holds the record for "worst survey of all time". Chapman and Bakersfield were bad but they didn't screw up ratings for years to come like Vilonia did.
 
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