Stormgasms

[Hoss]

Anyone else drive into a white out today?

I was looking at my weather software today and noticed  a blizzard warning up in the Nebraska stubhandle..amazing.

[nathanm]

Anyone else drive into a white out today?

Are you in Nebraska, or is that hail?

[Conan71]

I was looking at my weather software today and noticed  a blizzard warning up in the Nebraska stubhandle..amazing.

10 miles west of Sidney, I went to pass the car in front of me and my poor car acted like a startled cat on a glass table top.  It snowed all the way to Cheyenne, but the roads were much improved before I got to the state line. They've been battling serious wind in Cheyenne for a week or so.  The customer I went to see is building a tank farm and they had part of one of the tanks caved in by 80 to 90 MPH winds the other night.  I pointed out that's what we call a "tornado" in our neck of the woods.  He said the wind has really slowed progress on that project.  Imagine trying to run a crane in a 40-50 sustained wind.

[Conan71]

Are you in Nebraska, or is that hail?

I've got photos from FMC's house in MWC last May after a hail storm that looks like that.

Colorado Springs now.  Going for a ride out to Deckards in the morning then finally getting back to Tulsa.  How bad was the damage in the metro today?

[nathanm]

Colorado Springs now.  Going for a ride out to Deckards in the morning then finally getting back to Tulsa.  How bad was the damage in the metro today?

There may have been some minor hail damage, but that's about it in the immediate vicinity of Tulsa. There was a definite tornado on the ground up in Osage county and there has been one confirmed death and significant damage near Atoka down south, plus a bunch of other scattered damage throughout SE Oklahoma.

[Conan71]

There may have been some minor hail damage, but that's about it in the immediate vicinity of Tulsa. There was a definite tornado on the ground up in Osage county and there has been one confirmed death and significant damage near Atoka down south, plus a bunch of other scattered damage throughout SE Oklahoma.

All the text alerts from KRMG made it sound a whole lot worse than it apparently was.  I was racing down the I-25 corridor from about Ft. Lupton to the Springs with rush hour traffic and by the time I got to the Springs I had something like 8 or 9 texts from the storm center.

[nathanm]

All the text alerts from KRMG made it sound a whole lot worse than it apparently was.  I was racing down the I-25 corridor from about Ft. Lupton to the Springs with rush hour traffic and by the time I got to the Springs I had something like 8 or 9 texts from the storm center.

There were a lot of rotating storms right around 5. Most of them had previously had funnels or at least rotating wall clouds, so NWS was treating it all very seriously. I believe there were about 13 discrete supercells in a line across the state at the time, so the warnings were popping off like mad.

[TurismoDreamin]

All the text alerts from KRMG made it sound a whole lot worse than it apparently was.  I was racing down the I-25 corridor from about Ft. Lupton to the Springs with rush hour traffic and by the time I got to the Springs I had something like 8 or 9 texts from the storm center.

They don't issue those warnings loosely. All of the warnings issued last night were backed by several reports of funnels, rotating wall clouds, a couplet of opposing vortices on radar, etc. I was monitoring the direct ham radio line to the Tulsa NWS office and nearly every warning was issued after what they had seen on radar was confirmed by storm spotters on the ground. And there were a lot of them out last night. I think at one point, there were 400 storm spotters logged into the spotter network. And there are many more who weren't logged in or members of this network.

[heironymouspasparagus]

7 people killed in that round of storms last night.  Southeast OK and Arkansas.

[Townsend]

The Governor cancelled her trip to the area.  She couldn't catch a ride in her helicopter and she's got a thing this evening.

http://www.ktul.com/Global/story.asp?S=14455320&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Gov. Mary Fallin is cancelling her visit to a small southeast Oklahoma town where a tornado left two people dead and destroyed homes, businesses and the local school.

Fallin spokesman Aaron Cooper says Fallin cancelled her planned visit to Tushka Friday afternoon because winds were too strong for a helicopter flight to the area about 120 miles southeast of Oklahoma City.

Cooper says the governor also has a 5 p.m. deadline Friday to act upon legislation sent to her desk.

Officials say two women were killed and about two dozen were injured after the tornado rumbled through the town about 8 p.m. Thursday.

Thousands of area residents remain without power and utility officials say some may be without electricity for up to six days.

[Hoss]

The Governor cancelled her trip to the area.  She couldn't catch a ride in her helicopter and she's got a thing this evening.

http://www.ktul.com/Global/story.asp?S=14455320&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Wow, she's sorta turning into a Dewey-Bartlett type of governor.

[patric]

The Governor cancelled her trip to the area.  She couldn't catch a ride in her helicopter and she's got a thing this evening.

Fallin had dinner with Sarah Palin instead of visiting the disaster area.   Really.  That's the score.

As far as the weather coverage, the tornadoes ranged from EF-1 to EF-3, so I'd say the alarm was justified.

[sauerkraut]

Too much "crying Wolf" IMO. Then when a real threat pops up people will ignore it as just being weatherman hype. During the last storm they (believe it was channel 6) went to live video inside a "chase car" really saw nothing and it sounded like they were actually disapointed that no real storm formed. KRMG radio goes into "Beeper mode" when ever a dark cloud passes overhead. Totally crazy.

[sauerkraut]

Fallin had dinner with Sarah Palin instead of visiting the disaster area.   Really.  That's the score.

As far as the weather coverage, the tornadoes ranged from EF-1 to EF-3, so I'd say the alarm was justified.

I did not know that. I'm a big supporter of both Fallin & Palin, I think either one would make a good president of the USA. I also like the governer of Arizona who's name escapes me. I would not mind seeing a Palin/Trump ticket.

[swake]

I did not know that. I'm a big supporter of both Fallin & Palin, I think either one would make a good president of the USA. I also like the governer of Arizona who's name escapes me. I would not mind seeing a Palin/Trump ticket.

Wow,

Just wow. Really? I'm sure you also think Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya, the Earth is 6,000 years old and global warming is all just a conspiracy for the "new world order". You my friend should listen to some ICP:

Focking magnets, how do they work? / And I don't wanna talk to a scientist / Y'all motherfockers lying, and getting me pissed

Hey Guido,

This well informed gentleman is your average Tea Party type Republican. He's all on your side, you wanna claim him as one of your own? His mind has been bought and paid for Koch Oil and Newscorp.