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Severe Weather Threat May 17-19, 2025

Kds86z said:
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Man. I was way closer to the start of that EF3 west-northwest of Pratt than I realized or intended to be. Pitch-black on those back roads north of 54/400 out there and most of the lightning was anvil crawlers, not illuminating anything under the base.

This was as I turned north of 54/400 and crossed the same railroad line where the train had just been derailed by the tornado off to the west a short time earlier:

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CheeselandSkies said:
Man. I was way closer to the start of that EF3 west-northwest of Pratt than I realized or intended to be. Pitch-black on those back roads north of 54/400 out there and most of the lightning was anvil crawlers, not illuminating anything under the base.

This was as I turned north of 54/400 and crossed the same railroad line where the train had just been derailed by the tornado off to the west a short time earlier:

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Epic pics @CheeselandSkies and thanks for sharing.
 
Had to do some cross-referencing with Google Street view since it was either too dark or if they were in my headlights, too much glare in my video to read any of the signs, but I figured out the road I turned north on was 90th Ave. at Cullison. I went north to NW 10th St., turned right (east), then it T'd out at 60th Ave. where I turned south to get back to 54/400 and go back to Pratt.

Honestly if I'd have been smart I'd have just gone straight north from Pratt when I got there and waited near Iuka instead of trying to intercept the storm right away, but I was already kind of amazed that it was still going after I'd spotted it on radar while in I was in Alva, OK considering my chase day done an hour and a half earlier.
 
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Looking closer at this one, I think I might actually have the silhouette of the tornado here. Just right of bottom center, ahead of the vehicles in front of me. Really wish the lightning had lit up under there better, or there had been some power flashes.

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6th month anniversary extended edit of my Arnett footage. Found 30 seconds of footage I'd accidentally omitted from the original edit for no real reason, and tweaked a few other clips to get every possible moment of tornadic bliss.

 
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Kds86z said:
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Wrong thread, there's a separate one encompassing the London day:

CheeselandSkies

Thread 'Severe Threat May 15-16, 2025'

I'll do the honors since a big chunk of Thursday's risk area is in my back yard.

There are some pattern recognition fundamentals that suggest Thursday has a better chance of verifying a tornado event than 4/28 did. Namely a pronounced negative tilt and a potent LLJ with a more southerly component. Consistency on the general pattern between the GFS, Euro and now NAM has been relatively good. Still some details yet to iron out mainly with timing, which held SPC back from pulling the trigger on a 30% zone.
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CheeselandSkies said:
Wrong thread, there's a separate one encompassing the London day:

CheeselandSkies

Thread 'Severe Threat May 15-16, 2025'

I'll do the honors since a big chunk of Thursday's risk area is in my back yard.

There are some pattern recognition fundamentals that suggest Thursday has a better chance of verifying a tornado event than 4/28 did. Namely a pronounced negative tilt and a potent LLJ with a more southerly component. Consistency on the general pattern between the GFS, Euro and now NAM has been relatively good. Still some details yet to iron out mainly with timing, which held SPC back from pulling the trigger on a 30% zone.
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Raised the wrong thread from the dead!
 
Since we're here, I'll post yet another frame grab from my GoPro footage during my brief flirtation with the nocturnal Kansas beast.

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Pretty confident I have the left edge of the Cullison-Iuka tornado here, toward the bottom right behind the irrigation pivot. This was while I was eastbound (view to the north, camera clipped to my partially rolled down driver's side window) on NW 10th Street north-northeast of Cullison at about 10:55-56 PM.
 
CheeselandSkies said:
Wrong thread, there's a separate one encompassing the London day:

CheeselandSkies

Thread 'Severe Threat May 15-16, 2025'

I'll do the honors since a big chunk of Thursday's risk area is in my back yard.

There are some pattern recognition fundamentals that suggest Thursday has a better chance of verifying a tornado event than 4/28 did. Namely a pronounced negative tilt and a potent LLJ with a more southerly component. Consistency on the general pattern between the GFS, Euro and now NAM has been relatively good. Still some details yet to iron out mainly with timing, which held SPC back from pulling the trigger on a 30% zone.
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Thanks no idea WHY I get these 2 outbreaks mixed up. Close in date I guess.
 
Kds86z said:
Thanks no idea WHY I get these 2 outbreaks mixed up. Close in date I guess.
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Fair enough. I think it was originally thought that it all would be one big outbreak sequence; but the 18th-19th ended up being driven by a distinctly different system. I'm not really sure where the 17th actually belongs as it kind of ended up in the no-man's land between the two and only produced two weak tornadoes; but quite a lot of hail and wind reports.
 
CheeselandSkies said:
Since we're here, I'll post yet another frame grab from my GoPro footage during my brief flirtation with the nocturnal Kansas beast.

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Pretty confident I have the left edge of the Cullison-Iuka tornado here, toward the bottom right behind the irrigation pivot. This was while I was eastbound (view to the north, camera clipped to my partially rolled down driver's side window) on NW 10th Street north-northeast of Cullison at about 10:55-56 PM.
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Wow, that looks like a daytime shot!
 
Lake Martin EF4 said:
Wow, that looks like a daytime shot!
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Thanks! Unfortunately it was the ONLY moment (literally one frame of video) that lightning lit up under the base that well while I was following it along that road.
 
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