Severe Weather Threat - May 6, 2024

[atrainguy]

Getting darn close too Bartlesville too.

 

[Brice W]

https://attachments.talkweather.com/2024/05/26645_6ddfa1b3487009f0784348a2302643bc.jpeg

Here we go..

 

[SilentShadow87]

Chasers on Ryan Hall's stream are saying Barnsdall is "devastated" and that the damage is "really, really really bad".

 

[aujerm]

It doesn’t look like it’s weakening despite the line catching it. I thought the outflow would undercut it but not yet.

37k people in Bartlesville compared to 1k in Barnsdall. Hope and pray this lifts.

 

[Evan]

1.5 miles wide according to local police

It looks massive on radar so that sounds pretty accurate to me.

 

[warneagle]

I remember something earlier where somebody asked about supercells persisting despite encountering adverse conditions.

Well, here you go.

 

[TH2002]

Deepening TDS heading straight for Bartlesville!

edit: TDS finally weakened somewhat with the most recent scan. Still, a potential major disaster about to happen.

 

[Fred Gossage]

The outflow will eventually get it with time, but this is doing similar to what the southern OK stuff did this past two Saturday evenings ago. The storm is riding up the gust front, and that gust front is reinforcing the RFD processes of the supercell. That's actually helping the tornadic processes. A more short-lived similar situation was also partially responsible for the HSV F4 in November 1989.

 

[Brice W]

This is cutting it close.

 

[Maxis_s]

Wow...

 

[Thanksgivingbrown]

Brandon copic has damage on his stream

 

[nativetoalaska]

The line doesn't look like it's having much of an effect on the tornado at the moment...If anything it looks like it's turning left a bit.

 

[Clancy]

Barrelling towards residential areas. Bad, bad news.

 

[TornadoFan]

I'm afraid the line caught up to it too late.

 

[Justin Hindman]

It looks like it’s starting to somewhat get absorbed . Praying it lifts before it Bartlesville. It has 5 minutes to do so

 

[Tempestas Tonitrua]

This is absolutely a high end tornado

 

[Bama Ravens]

Look at the debris ball on reflectivity light up as the tornado hits Barnsdall.

 

[BayouWeatherGeek]

Poor Bartlesville's gonna get walloped!

 

[andyhb]

Major tornado damage reported in Barnsdall.

 

[Maxis_s]

Downgraded the tornado emergency. Why??