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Svr Wx threat April 1-April 2 2024

Cookville is the most recent freak example of a violent tornado happening in a very marginal threat day.
Never will that instance not be insane.

Winterset, IA 2022 (although that only really appeared marginal in the days leading up to it, SPC did introduce a 10% contour during one of the Day 1 updates prior to the event).

One thing I'm learning is how important lapse rates and 3CAPE are.

I do wonder what it would take for the SPC to go with the dreaded 60% hatched area for violent tornadoes. I know it has happened once in 200ybut that was before the EF-SCALE started being used.

Frankly, I'm a little surprised they didn't use it on 4/27/11. Maybe simply the then relatively fresh (5 years) memory of the fact that the one time they had used it previously (4/7/2006) didn't really live up to being that bad (it was still a substantial outbreak, but would have been adequately covered by a "normal" high risk (30% hatched).
 
This storm over Perry Co. is getting better-defined.
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just went svr. nothing to choke it from the south so this one might be a little late night surprise.
Tornado possible tag on it so they're definitely watching it.
 
Couplet intensifying, it may be about to drop.
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Tornado Warning now.
 
Well we are gonna throw this right back to you bc….
Angry Oh No GIF by CBC
 
Winterset, IA 2022 (although that only really appeared marginal in the days leading up to it, SPC did introduce a 10% contour during one of the Day 1 updates prior to the event).

One thing I'm learning is how important lapse rates and 3CAPE are.



Frankly, I'm a little surprised they didn't use it on 4/27/11. Maybe simply the then relatively fresh (5 years) memory of the fact that the one time they had used it previously (4/7/2006) didn't really live up to being that bad (it was still a substantial outbreak, but would have been adequately covered by a "normal" high risk (30% hatched).
I know April 14, 2012 was very close as well. There was a 45% hatched area for violent tornadoes from S Central Kansas to like Central Nebraska. It didn't perform as well as others thought but it still was at least a high-end moderate risk or low-end high risk.
 
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