Severe Weather Threat - May 6, 2024

[TornadoFan]

Those cells in SW Oklahoma certainly don't look linear.

 

[warneagle]

They extended the warning for a bit longer at least.

 

[Tempestas Tonitrua]

Wasn't it that cell that produced the Old Kingston, AL EF3 in January 2023 that continued producing strong tornadoes for quite some time after it got munched by the line, into western Georgia? The Keota, IA cell of March 31 was similar; the initial "catch-up" of the line induced a cycle that produced the Amish-Frytown EF0, then it became fully embedded yet produced 2 EF2s across and northeast of the Iowa City metro.

Yep! I want to say it was the Selma storm too. I remember us marveling at the way it kept going after the line swallowed it

 

[Brice W]

The classic route.

Saved the infamous towns for last it seems.

 

[Jpgood97]

Brad Arnold will be on the storms headed towards OKC in twenty minutes

 

[Brice W]

Those cells in SW Oklahoma certainly don't look linear.

The one by Carnegie is titled..

 

[warneagle]

KTUL is reporting homes “flattened” with SAR ongoing in Barnsdall.

 

[Clancy]

Another image of the tornado shortly before it entered Barnsdall.

 

[SilentShadow87]

The classic route.

A classic system following a classic path. Why not?

 

[NorthGaWeather]

We’ll see. It was much weaker than it was 20 minutes ago.

There’s no we’ll see about it. It may be weakening, but it can also re-intensify. You weigh the risk and err to caution in this scenario. Hopefully, it did weaken in time.

 

[Brice W]

The one by Carnegie is titled..

And the one by Olustee has premature supercell look too.

 

[TornadoFan17]

Barnsdall reportedly has a shortage of necessary EMTs.

 

[Muwx]

There’s no we’ll see about it. It may be weakening, but it can also re-intensify. You weigh the risk and err to caution.

That is not the point of a TORE. A PDS warning was perfectly acceptable.

 

[Clancy]

OKC folks ought to be on their toes for the next few hours.

 

[SilentShadow87]

There’s no we’ll see about it. It may be weakening, but it can also re-intensify. You weigh the risk and err to caution.

Honestly, when you've already had several strong to violent tornadoes in a day, it's probably better to be too bullish than too conservative when issuing warnings. Especially when you already have EF3+ damage reported from the same tornado you're warning for, and the tornadoes seem to be following the worst possible paths.

 

[Maxis_s]

That sure is some VTP

 

[Brice W]

OKC folks ought to be on their toes for the next few hours.
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The environment hasn’t even been brushed down here. I’m worried.

 

[TornadoFan17]

That is not the point of a TORE. A PDS warning was perfectly acceptable.

In hindsight, the PDS is the probably right call, but it goes against what basically every other TORE does, which is they don't cancel the TORE until the tornado is confirmed to be off ground.

 

[SilentShadow87]

That is not the point of a TORE. A PDS warning was perfectly acceptable.

A tornado emergency means a strong tornado is going through (or expected to go through) a populated area. This meets the criteria.

 

[TornadoFan]

We'll see if those storms in SW OK can stay discrete.