Severe WX Severe Weather Threat: May 2-5, 2021

[Brice Wood]

These are both Doppler radar indicated

 

[Equus]

Very impressive couplet on the one near Athens, GA

 

[Equus]

Severe t'storm watch issued for most of central AL/E MS

 

[Brice Wood]

Very impressive couplet on the one near Athens, GA

Looks to be gaining strength

 

[TornadoFan]

Couplet near Athens has really gained strength.

 

[Argus]

We activated the severe weather plan. Only the fourth time in fifteen years, since I moved here.

 

[buckeye05]

I’m gonna be playing the area between Wichita Falls and Denton, TX. Today looks potentially significant, and I’m experiencing a mixture of fear and excitement rn.

 

[Jacob]

Storm that just crossed I-75 about halfway between Atlanta and Macon is pretty impressive at the moment.

 

[Flyboy70]

Screen grab from the GoPro, which is terrible in low light, near Tupelo last night. I was just south of the Arena/Elvis Birthplace exit on 45. There was very little lightning with these cells. This frame was illuminated by a power flash near downtown and you can barely make out the cone on the left side of the image. I screwed up my chase plan yesterday and went too far west in the Mississippi delta before I turned toward Greenwood. I had basically given up when the storms started dropping tors near Yazoo City then Jackson. Sat on I55/Hway 82 in Winona as that cell moved through but if there was anything it was rainwrapped.

 

[WhirlingWx]

I’m gonna be playing the area between Wichita Falls and Denton, TX. Today looks potentially significant, and I’m experiencing a mixture of fear and excitement rn.

Good luck! From what I've gathered, today is a conditional day for sigtors in the NTX/SE OK area but man it is soupy outside and full sun here just southeast of Plano, TX. I had not been expecting to be so close to a 10%# TOR in the most recent update. Hail threat looking like the real deal too.

 

[Argus]

We are out of the warning now. Mostly rain here, and not much heaviness to the rain. STill watching that storm over Athens. If it goes tornadic, we'll have to remain in the shelter. Too wet to walk back to the office.

 

[Argus]

Tornado warning for Elbert County, GA

 

[Argus]

The core of the next storm is about to pass my location.

 

[TH2002]

Screen grab from the GoPro, which is terrible in low light, near Tupelo last night. I was just south of the Arena/Elvis Birthplace exit on 45. There was very little lightning with these cells. This frame was illuminated by a power flash near downtown and you can barely make out the cone on the left side of the image. I screwed up my chase plan yesterday and went too far west in the Mississippi delta before I turned toward Greenwood. I had basically given up when the storms started dropping tors near Yazoo City then Jackson. Sat on I55/Hway 82 in Winona as that cell moved through but if there was anything it was rainwrapped.
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Will you release the footage?

 

[Argus]

We had torrential rain, and the VIL was at the top of the charts, but there was no hail. Some wind The worst of it has passed.

 

[Flyboy70]

Will you release the footage?

There's really nothing to release. Just that one short segment of frames is all there is to see.
I need to rig up a mount for one of my bigger camera bodies.

 

[WhirlingWx]

PDS warning near Lowndesville, South Carolina, and another couplet to its southwest that just got TOR warned as well.

 

[OHWX97]

PDS warning near Lowndesville, South Carolina.

Still on the ground passing just north of Abbeville, SC.

 

[TH2002]

Still on the ground passing just north of Abbeville, SC.

 

[WhirlingWx]

Debris ball visible on reflectivity now too