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Significant Tornado Events

3/14/25 imo is the outbreak of the 2020s. It could be beaten unfortunately in the next few years we have of the decade but to see such a powerhouse of a jet directly nose into the warm sector, with orthogonal 80+ kt 300 mb flow, and extreme low level windfields + many discrete supercells too. And, had we no shear-parallel line on the 15th, many discrete supercells would've done the same things for hours on end instead of the 2-3 hours we got that day. Extraordinary.

We always manage to have a failure mode to dampen things a bit with most events, and even despite how wild this decade has been (4/12/20, 12/10/21, 3/31/23, 4/26 + 5/6 AND 5/25/24) we've had a lot of high ceiling misses. Remember 5/6/24. We didn't get off entirely but that was a day we dodged missiles on truly. We dodged 3/15. Unfortunately, one day, those dodges will run out in a particular area, whether the Plains or it's Dixie. You should know what I mean by that. Hopefully, when the worst case scenario truly comes to fruition, we will be prepared more than the previous times
I completely agree. 12/10/21 and 3/14/25 are the two craziest outbreaks of the decade in my opinion.
 
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