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Nice lightning illuminated funnel on Mike Ratcliffs cam on Severestudios atm Now a cone tornado!

Lots of chasers stopping in Mapleton to help out. Always good to see!

http://www.chasertv.com/api/static_pages/lite/374_ben-prusia.php Definite tornado there

Was definitely very strong tight rotation on the one on Andy's cam. Never panned up so no idea where it was in relation to the overall storm and whether it was connected to a mesocyclone. From the bottom 50 feet of it, it certainly looked tornadic though I'm not in a position to confirm that obviously

Andy Gabrielson just drove into a dusty tornado for the fun of it.... amazing... Check his live stream on www.Severestudios.com

Day 2 also mentioning that is it quite possible they will upgrade for High Risk tomorrow. Not sure many people would have put the first High risk of the year all the way up in Wisconsin in early April if that comes off....

I don't read Japanese but I presume the text which appears is saying 20 metres above sea level, which would tally with the terrain imagery for that area on Google Maps. I imagine most of the concrete buildings which still standing in the video were almost completely submerged

Not seen a GFS run which breaks out precip yet. The cap is forecast to hold so far. However, there are a lot of subtle impulses which can't be forecast more than 36 hours out. Outflow boundaries are dependant on prevous evenings convection and that won't be evident until the day of the event. I certainly wouldn't write the day off based on the GFS as it is. The following day into the Tennessee Valley looks like a higher end event, although not as chaseable for obvious reasons. Cap will certainly not be an issue for such a mature storm.

Here's a damage survey of some buildings in Onagawa. 3 story Reinforced concrete structure dragged across a parking lot with gouge marks from the pilings, then just flipped onto it's side. And another video showing a drive through town. The height at which damage is evident is shocking. Not seen any videos of the tsunami itself from this town, and I can guess why given the damage :/ The surge value was 15m in the harbour. Add to that wave action and runup up the hill and it's easily 20m+ high damage path through the town

I chased in Utah one day in 2009 so I guess I'd have had a cheap day. The fact I was on my own would have made the round cheap anyways I guess

Major structural damage reported in Greensburg, PA from that warned storm Listening to a local police radio and it appears to be in the Mohawk Drive, Fosterville Road and Navajo Drive area of town. sounds like mainly houses de-rooved at the moment. It's a pretty residential area unfortunately looking at google maps. Not heard any reports of injuries over the radio so far. Picture of that tornado:

Friday looks very good on the GFS and has done for a few days. Big bullseye around the OKC area with decent CAPE, nicely curved hodographs, a solid cap early on with every indication of it breaking by early evening. Unfortunately, it seems to be out on it's own as far as model support goes and the SPC must be disregarding it as they have a no severe storms forecast for friday. Seems a little unusual given how stoic the GFS has been on this evolution that there is little mention of it in the Day3 outlook, even if the NAM and Euro tend to be more reliable in this time frame. I'll be keeping my eye on it as if the GFS is correct this could sneak up on everyone. I'd normally be less than keen about trusting the GFS but it seems to have been remarkably good so far this year at picking up on big events way before other models. If the Euro evolution ends up favoured, that only pushes the next severe outbreak into early next week, and probably looks better in the long range than the GFs for virtual chasing

Stream now seems to be down :/

Tornado on Jeffrey Gonzales cam a second ago. Dusty whirl but looking good... http://severestudios.com/livechase

The threat for tonight and the following few days has been shifted somewhat north and tornado threat is currently progged to be low (though I wouldn't rule anything out for the next couple of days- we had a report in Texas yesterday under very marginal conditions). This coming weekend looks pretty explosive if the GFS is anything to go by with a possible day before event on the Friday if cap breaks also. Something to keep an eye on although at almost a week away, nothing is set in stone...

Very strong couplet over Brookston one scan ago. The radars are scanning very high into the storm as the Paris area is an infmous radar blackspot equidistant from 3 radar sites at considerable range so hopefully for those in Paris, this is just a couplet at higher altitudes and it hasn't worked its way to the ground yet.

Tornado warned cell heading towards Paris right now up Highway 82. That's the road from Sherman so well done Paul on your chase location

Been away most of the week so wasn't aware that this was at one point hyped as a good day Not exactly a thrilling setup now but if I was to pick anywhere to chase, it would be around McAlester to Ft Smith as storm should fire south and west of hear and travel in this direction. Further north on the warm front up into MO will probably be too grungy despite slightly better shear and I think the only chance of any sort of structure will be early on and to the south west of the highlighted area and my starting location, perhaps a briefly isolated supe somewhere on a line from Ardmore to Ft Smith. Probably not going to follow this closely as it is Friday but it's still good to look at these setups as not every day is going to be a tornado outbreak come May, and sometimes, the 2% days can be the most profitable (25th May - Walsh Co and Tribune Tor's, and the Campo day for example.)

They didn't even plug Netweather.tv. Shame... :/

Oops.. Forogt to attach the radar grab from that night!

That May 23rd outbreak was an amazing day I wish i was there for, but I left 3 days earlier. Bad times... I remember staying up and watching it unfold til the early hours and going to work completely knackered the next day. Greensburg got so lucky that night with a large tornadic supercell crossing the town as it cycled as the radar presentation on that cell was every bit as good as the EF5 1 year previous. the tornado lifted at the Higway junction just west of town luckily and spent it's entire life over open terrain so only got an Ef3 rating I believe. May 24th and 25th are sure to be big days also coming up I imagine.

Tornado emergency was just issued for the storm near Lynchburg, TN. Great signature for a while though it is not anywhere near as impressive now. The southern storm is now ramping up quickly as the northern one gets choked off...

This is a great way to cure SDS Lightning ramping up. I wish I had that Pilot's job!

http://www.newson6.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?vt1=l&d1=0&ClipId1=mms://a480.l4265422479.c42654.n.lm.akamaistream.net/D/480/42654/v0001/reflector:22479&LiveURI=mms://a480.l4265422479.c42654.n.lm.akamaistream.net/D/480/42654/v0001/reflector:22479&h1=SkyNews6%20Severe%20Weather%20Video&at1=University%20-%20Alumni&LiveURITitle=SkyNews6%20Severe%20Weather%20Video&LaunchPageAdTag=University%20-%20Alumni&fvCatNo=undefined&secure=undefined&akPort=undefined&akProfile=undefined&rnd=66549466 Tornado forming Touch down on Helicam Another touchdown!

The medford storm is looking very good. Jeffrey Gonzales severestudios stream showed the RFD cutting in and a hook has appeared on radar with the couplet getting stronger. May go Tor warned soon.